„It's just a 30-hour tutorial.” Father of a Steam's hit challenges most modern RPGs

I am a fan of RPG and jRPG games. There's been some big AAA RPGs that came out in the past few years where I felt I was truly having fun with the combat of these RPGs only when I reached the end. I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial for the game. And then when I finally started to have fun with all the different skills and abilities, the game suddenly ends.

I see a lot of publishers I don't like. And I think that's my way to define what a good publisher should be, probably. I see a lot of publishers that try to exploit the platforms just to make money, basically, because the video game industry is very obviously an industry that makes a lot of money. There is a lot of money to make. I see that these publishers will try and just exploit platforms for money. Put out games that are incomplete or in early access that actually never get completed, games that are put out there and left to die, basically. Does not make money, left in a broken state, and so on.

So my point of view for what a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games, genuine products, something that has some real value, and then understand that not everything can be a breakout hit. For me, it's very important that we keep supporting games post-launch, regardless of how the game would go, just because once you put the game out there, you have an audience, and as big or small as it is that audience deserves to be treated fairly. So post-launch support is definitely a big thing from my point of view that publishers should be able to offer.

Basically, we got very lucky with Vampire Survivors. The game has been so successful that – we definitely made some mistakes when it comes to putting the game out there, but we learned a lot, and wanted to try to sort of share what we learned with other indies. It was a way to try and give something back to the indie community, share the luck.