Anyone who works in games development or publishing can tell you that the success of any given game is largely down to luck.
It’s perfectly possible for a dev to make all the right decisions and still lose, and in fact that’s what happens the majority of the time.
Yes Hollow Knight is a great game, but I guarantee there are dozens - if not hundreds - of games that are just as good but only sold a handful of copies and are doomed to languish in obscurity in the dusty corners of Steam.
Anyone who works in games development or publishing can tell you that the success of any given game is largely down to luck.
It’s perfectly possible for a dev to make all the right decisions and still lose, and in fact that’s what happens the majority of the time.
Yes Hollow Knight is a great game, but I guarantee there are dozens - if not hundreds - of games that are just as good but only sold a handful of copies and are doomed to languish in obscurity in the dusty corners of Steam.