No, it’s not about population (well, everyone who played games in the 80s and 90s knows it at least by name!), and it’s not about curiosity either…
Curiosity was the game where you had to dismantle elements of a cube to win a mysterious prize if you got inside. Molyneux (who started this strategy during Fable…) promoted this (also) last year, and as it turned out, the prize wasn’t that big: the winner could become a god in Godus, because the life Molyneux was originally promised—turns out Changing the prize is nothing like that…
Godus was quickly neglected, and then in 2016, Peter Molyneux’s studio 22cans came along and released a new game called Godus Wars. The gameplay is a bit different, and it’s also been neglected in terms of support. But both games remained on Steam for years… but that’s over, as the studio announced on Valve’s digital front that it would remove both games from available titles. (A few days ago, the crew did this, and we also reported on this!)
“22cans would like to share some important news regarding Godus and Godus Wars. Unfortunately, due to an upcoming technical change in Amazon Web Services that will affect how the necessary game files are presented to new users, we will have to pull these titles from the Steam store. We can assure you that existing players They will continue to enjoy these games without interruption. “We sincerely appreciate the incredible support our players have provided over the past decade and thank you all from the bottom of our hearts,” the statement read.
We looked at the number of players on the Steam charts. In September 2013, at the time of release, Godus was at its peak with an average of 1,116 players and a maximum of 6,473. This was halved in one month. Today there are less than five (5!!!) players on average, the maximum was 13 last month. Godus Wars details haven’t loaded, but at the time of writing, literally no one is playing it, and the average over the last 30 days is 0.1 players…
source: PCGamer
