Oblivion Buries Indie Games

I loved (when younger) and still absolutely love Oblivion and I’m personally excited to see it get a breath of new life and being introduced to a whole new generation of players. But from the perspective of indies and indie publishers, this is the problem with these sort of massive shadow drops. Everything more or least gets buried. We don’t have the cash nor muscle to throw around, so everything is carefully planned. Including when to release, based on other releases etc – to try to maximize the chances of getting attention. Love the game that dropped but feel the pain for our team and especially the developer we’ve worked with for years – who has poured his heart and soul into his game. Thank god Post Trauma was the only notable release of today and nothing else happened!

A screenshot of a post by Jonas criticizing the impact of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered’s surprise release on indie games. The embedded Post Trauma account post sarcastically claims that Post Trauma was the only notable release that day, making fun of how Oblivion overshadowed smaller games and buried their launch attention.

• @sbunem / 102218 2025-05-02