what can I say? People talk and they love dwarves.A little over a week after Bay 12, news was shared that Dwarf Fortress sales skyrocketed (opens in new tab)Ghost Ship Games came out and said Deep Rock Galactic has sold an impressive 2 million copies (opens in new tab) Only in 2022. What are gamers, dwarves and miners?
That’s not to say I’m surprised. Deep Rock Galactic is a very good game and he boasts one of the few player communities across the internet that has consistently chilled. In fact, the game’s burly ore merchants recently spent time rolling out his carpet, which is incredibly welcoming to fans of Hololive VTuber Shishirō Botan. (opens in new tab) (via GamesRadar (opens in new tab)). call me cynical But you wouldn’t generally expect the Venn diagrams of “anime cat girl fan” and “grizzledwarf mining game player” to overlap.some wholesome memes (opens in new tab) In commemoration.
The Hololive community has noticed how welcoming DRG players have been. Commenters on a highly upvoted Reddit post highlighting the fanbase crossover were delighted with how warm their welcome was. one of the gaming communities,” wrote AsaTJ. (opens in new tab)“They are so bright, enthusiastic and welcoming.” Another, H4LF4D (opens in new tab)“I swear the community itself wanted to try the game.”
Shishirō Botan’s recent streaming isn’t the reason Deep Rock sold so many copies last year. However, I believe that having a trusted, welcoming and open-minded community is essential to keeping players engaged and discussing the game with friends. Anyway, even if the community had nothing to do with it and people were flocking to Deep Rock for highly customizable beards, it’s nice to see some kindness succeeding in the world That’s it.
We rather enjoyed the game when we reviewed it in 2020. Phil Iwaniuk gave him a score of 79% in his Deep Rock Galactic review. (opens in new tab)emphasizes its thoughtful “asymmetric class-based cooperation”, but notes that much of the player experience relies on “watching and, most importantly, learning from better players”. Be careful. I have to imagine that the positive atmosphere in the community helps with that.
If you’re interested, you can check out the full range of Ghost Ship’s weird and wonderful Deep Rock Galactic stats here. (opens in new tab)Judging by the number of fall deaths, it seems that someone needs to install a safety rail there.
