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In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)
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After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Went to the steam page. I had no idea what this game was. Never heard of it and the title doesn't really do anything for me. So, a minus there. Reviews: Mixed. Minus there. The hero is named Jack and it's high fantasy. That is the most generic name. Minus there. He looks like every other cookie cutter generic white guy main character. The only time he looks different than a movie star clone is the last second of the trailer. Nothing positive there. The hip hop music with high fantasy is not a good mix, IMO. It's published by EA. Minus there. The dialog is very "I'm so edgy with my quips." Minus there.

The villain designs are pretty good. The cinematic trailer is well done.

Reviews say it's really demanding on hardware. Minus there.

Tons of negatives, a few neutrals, one or two positives. Yeah, this ain't worth it.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The hero is named Jack

Worse. His name is Jak.

[–] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jak from Jak and Daxter? Oh, no, boring milquetoast Jak from the soooper with-it-and-hip new wannabe-hit videogame, Immortals of Aveum™

Actually I don't remember whether that other Jak was any good either. Haven't played that since it was new 😅

[–] FracturedEel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont even think Jak talked I'm pretty sure it was all daxter

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i think they gave him a voice in the second one

[–] Paranomaly@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear, every third white male protagonist is named Jack.

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Well, when the protag isn't the important part, you try to make him less attention grabbing. Thus white male jack.

This can really work well, but holy fuck can it fall flat.

[–] meant2live218@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know this existed until I saw the Nextlander guys playing it, and even then I didn't catch the name of the game.

Zero marketing means that unless the game is absolutely amazing, there will be no word of mouth and no buzz, leading to no one noticing the game at all.