Tuesday 4 December 2012

IndieGameStand results for November 2012

As you might know IndieGameStand offers a new indie game every fourth day for a very flexible price, pay what you want. Since data for each game is presented on the site I have put together the results for November here.

The following games were on display throughout November:
I put Fotonica in November even though technically it was offered two days in November and two days in December. (If you think this was presumptuous, please let me know.)

First the results are shown as number of purchases (units) and then as total payments (money). The clear bestseller of this month is Gimbal, a pure multiplayer game as I understand it.

Number of purchases


 

Total payments





This time around the results in both lists were less correlated. Some games had more payments and some sold more copies. I don't know which is more important for games offered on IndieGameStand. What do you think; payments or units?
 

Saturday 3 November 2012

IndieGameStand October results with Desura, Steam and GOG keys

I got a request whether GOG or Steam keys increase the sales on IndieGameStand. So here is an updated version of the lists with the availability of Desura, Steam and GOG keys added.


Number of purchases


Total payments



Thursday 1 November 2012

IndieGameStand results for October 2012

I only started to look deeper into indie gaming not that long ago. I love the idea of smart and creative people being able to produce innovative, edgy and even crazy games on their own terms, having only to answer to the actual gamers who on their part express love by buying the games they like. (I really hope they do buy the games they like.)

A month ago IndieGameStand opened and offered a new indie game every fourth day for a very flexible price, pay what you want. Since data for each game are presented on the site I have played with them to see if there are any useful statistics to be found. Let's start with the results for October. 


The following games were on display four days each through October:

Here are the results both as number of purchases (units) and total payments (money). The lists are ordered by volume and the barplots as published. 

You could say the winner this month is Gnomoria with The Geneforge Saga on second place.

The most fortunate game sold 6 times as many units as the least fortunate one and earned 8 times as much. Gamers are indeed voting with their wallets.

Number of purchases

Here are the results when it comes to the number of purchases:


The same info as a barplot (ordered as published):


Total payments

Here are the results when it comes to total payments:


The same info as barplots (ordered as published):


Two games are well ahead of the others. Apparently a Linux-version doesn't increase sales. Not in October at least.

Are these numbers typical? Will sales increase? Let's see what happens next month.