A Meteoric Rise

What Wang Chuan cared about even more, however, was the game's rating on the official platform.

"A perfect score is ten, and The Stanley Parable is rated 9.9?"

Although Wang Chuan knew the score would drop as more players came in later,

it was still incredibly high.

It made him feel as if he were dreaming~~~

Below the game was the comments section:

"Shocking! Shocking! Shocking! Important things must be said three times."

"Strong warning: this is not an ordinary game. Its content is utterly mind-blowing!"

"I came after reading Game New World's recommendation article. I thought it was just a sponsored ad, but I never expected this game to be so groundbreaking."

"My God, I thought Game New World had been exaggerating. Looking at it now, they weren't exaggerating at all—they were actually being cautious."

"I have a feeling The Stanley Parable is going to blow up. It'll definitely become a dark horse, and we're all witnessing history~~"

"I have to say, being able to play a game like this is truly wonderful."

"Damn, I just realized this game only costs five yuan? Five yuan can't even buy a pack of cigarettes. This is ridiculously generous."

"Seriously? Aren't you guys praising it a little too much? With graphics like this, are you sure it can be fun?"

Wang Chuan entered the editor's Backend and carefully read through every player comment.

There were naturally both positive and negative comments, but the positive ones vastly outnumbered the rest.

As for the negative reviews, most of them focused on the graphics.

Wang Chuan could only feel helpless about that.

The unique nature of this world meant that while game design concepts lagged behind, visual art had developed rapidly.

And with his limited funds, this was the best he could manage.

In his opinion, the current visual quality was already better than it had been in his previous life.

But some players were die-hard graphics fanatics.

No matter how interesting the gameplay was or how good the story was, if the visuals were even slightly lacking, they would refuse to accept it.

In this world, aside from money, there was probably nothing everyone could love.

So Wang Chuan did not feel discouraged. He understood.

Just as Wang Chuan was immersed in the game's data, a storm swept through the indie game circle.

And at the heart of that storm was The Stanley Parable.

First, the official platform increased its promotional efforts for The Stanley Parable.

What was worth mentioning was that after other game platforms saw The Stanley Parable's terrifying results, they also approached Wang Chuan for licensing without prior coordination.

They lowered their revenue cut to forty percent, only ten percent higher than the official game platform.

Wang Chuan was happy to accept.

After all, getting onto more game platforms would promote his game more widely.

It would also bring in much more profit. There was no reason for him to refuse~~

Of course, even though the third-party platforms had lowered their cuts so much, they were still making money.

Once a game became hugely popular, it brought player traffic with it.

If every other game platform promoted and recommended it while yours did not, wouldn't that just force players onto other platforms?

Thanks to recommendations from multiple game platforms, The Stanley Parable entered the new games chart for the first time.

Though its ranking was quite low, Wang Chuan was already very satisfied.

Unlike the other games on the new games chart, The Stanley Parable had received no substantial promotion at all.

Its biggest source of traffic had still come from Game New World's article.

That was why other games' first-day figures could be considered their peak—they had been heavily promoted before release.

Although The Stanley Parable lacked promotion, it had one advantage: it had strong staying power.

"If it keeps up these results, completing the system mission and earning the Game Producer title should be no problem at all."

After reviewing all of The Stanley Parable's data in the Pangu Editor Backend, Wang Chuan let out a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, in a certain chat group, a group of indie game developers was discussing something nonstop.

Their topic was none other than The Stanley Parable and its creator, Wang Chuan.

"My God, where did the creator of The Stanley Parable even come from? Is he an alt account of some industry giant?"

"Isn't he insanely good? Does anyone know The Stanley Parable's exact figures? I can only see the numbers on the platform."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Only the developer and the website can see those figures. If he doesn't post them himself, where do you think you'll find them?"

"Is he really a newcomer? Could the data be fake?"

"Enough, enough. Try faking data on the official platform. If the official platform doesn't deal with you, I'll never touch games again."

"Game New World really struck gold. They must have made a fortune from this round of promotion. Still, they were right—this game really overturned all my ideas about game design."

"There's one thing I'm worried about. I was originally planning to upload my new game tomorrow, and I've already announced it. Should I delay it now?"

"Who's even waiting for your game? If you release it while this one's hot, won't it crush you? Hurry up and delay it."

Messages kept popping up in the group one after another.

Then someone suddenly sent a message along with a link, and everyone immediately fell silent.

"Holy shit~~ Go read Game New World's article! The Stanley Parable exploded—over six thousand paid purchases in one day. The link's below."

"Holy shit, holy shit, is this guy even human? Is he some kind of monster?"

"Over six thousand in one day? If the game were priced at ten yuan, wouldn't that mean more than ten thousand in revenue in a single day?"

Everyone in the group clicked in, and all of them were stunned by the data inside.

The article published by Game New World was naturally about The Stanley Parable.

It contained some of the latest figures.

Of course, the reason they had those figures was that they had contacted Wang Chuan beforehand.

Wang Chuan had no intention of hiding the data.

After all, none of it was really a secret.

Besides, Game New World had helped him before, so this was also a way of returning the favor.

Of course, he also had his own little calculation.

Despite The Stanley Parable's current results showing the momentum of a meteoric rise,

if possible, he still wanted to push that momentum forward even sooner.

And throwing out those real yet exaggerated figures to spark discussion

was the most correct choice.

After all, nothing spread farther than gossip.

And just as Wang Chuan had expected, once Game New World released those figures,

they attracted not only fellow developers, but also major media outlets.