Marketing a Game Made with Godot – What's Working in 2025?

ArDanZ11

Well, a good place to start is the Godot Forums. Lay out the idea and see if people like it. Keep the catchphrase Made in Godot, powered by curiosity. It is really good. Any way, if you chose this method, I am exited to look at the finished product.

The best place to advertise it without spending much money would probably be Itch and PRWeb, but I really have no idea, since I have never tried to advertise games before.

JusTiCe8

This is quite an endless topic !

There are a few videos on youtube on how to make an itch.io page looks more appealing, which will most likely help a lot, there are plenty of indie websites to promote our games like indiedb.
Another complement strategy is to have your own youtube channel and made promotional video, gameplay samples, etc and use youtube algorithm strategies to let people know about your game. Here again, plenty of videos on this topic (TubeBuddy channel for instance)

Finally, popular selling "gateways" like Steam, app stores, Epic store, GOG, ... can be use as marketing on their own just because they have millions of customers/users. Good reviews there & curators reviews could boost a game, then it spirals itself without any effort I guess.

kuligs2

One trick someone could use is to sell big box copy of the game (limited), The USB is practically on all computers, so you just package the game on usb stick and add some paper explanatories.

If i get to that point i might do it 🙂.

People are far to comfortable buying digital that they dont own, and can be taken away at any point.

Now if you sell a launcher app on in that flash drive, then thats scummy... dont do that.

xyz

The OP is clearly a spam. With nice "ai" generated profile pic and everything.

Tomcat

xyz The OP is clearly a spam. With nice "ai" generated profile pic and everything.

And on the fifth day, Sighted Eye noticed that there was no fourth wall in the barn. 😸

Aetherpunk

xyz Now that you mention it - sus. Those emojis are tell tale.

Toxe

This. 👆️

ArDanZ11

Tomcat Yeah, that took us long enough. We should have opened the profile to see that there was only ONE post.

ArDanZ11

And that he joined exactly when he posted this one post.

kuligs2

ArDanZ11 you think people will join forum, dont post for a year and then post something?

JusTiCe8

ArDanZ11 I see this behavior on at least another quite specific forum, there is dummy account, reply to an old (many months old usually) topic, with at least a link promoted directly ("try this new app/game, it's amazing...") or indirectly in the text ("I came accross the same issue blablabla... and use this.amazing.crap.com it's finally solve all my issues at once... blablabla bs")

Toxe

Yeah, that happens all the time. New people join, ask their question and then you won't hear from them ever again.

kuligs2

On topic,

kuligs2

JusTiCe8 TLDR of the GDC is that you release the early access game along with the demo of the game, as well other steam shenanigans..

But the best way is to get close to some stremer/youtuber that would play it on stream to get it popular.. or maybe just make fun game?

xyz

Aetherpunk xyz Now that you mention it - sus. Those emojis are tell tale.

The irony is that some chatbots plant such emojis into their output to make it appear more "human like" 🙂

kuligs2

xyz so you are not actually human afterall.. i knew it! you know too much for a human

MikeCL

I'm locking this discussion as I suspect the OP is spam.