they have the whole list on their site, they use the term "boutique" instead of "notable" to make devs feel less bad I think
games
Monday, October 20, 2025
their tracking cutoff seems to be anything more than 20k wishlists
let me check, I forget who put out the klombak game
It was Panic
good publisher, really bad at pricing
all of their games are $10-$15 too high
apparently Herdling was their most expensive project to date
Spooky estimate, they spent ~$5M making this game
dev team of 15 for 3 years (2.5 years full-time) + some outrageous overhead and a lot of pay-for-play
It would have been better as a brick break game imo
it sold very well, 300k copies so far
but I'll be curious if it's well liked more broadly, when all's said and done
Ball x pit is not brick break
Its fine
I've played versions of the concept
what's the worst early pop-cap game
I feel like that's more interesting than arguing the best
which is PvZ
is bejeweled worse than Chuzzle though?
since Bejeweled was secretly just chuzzle 2
bejeweld is a match 3 which is a good genre
I played so much popcap (that was like the first 2 years of my early internet access before I started actually using things like youtube)
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak bejeweld is a match 3 which is a good genre
That's fair, but what's worse than it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
My brother owns that one
I remember making fun of him for it
