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Comment by dylz | Hacker News Reader

I hope you will be picky curators - I hate how so much of steam EA/ex-GL/etc is literal trash when it comes to indie games. Not talking about one person pixel art games, but talking about what's effectively cruft autogenerated rubbish to try and profit for $0.99 a copy.

I would love to subscribe if so.

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You can see our catalog here right now: https://dropleaf.io/Catalog

We're actually adding a couple more games today including one I'm super excited about, Redout: https://34bigthings.com/portfolio/redout/

Our goal is to have a wide range of games, so that there's something for everyone to fall in love with, but we absolutely plan to be quite selective with what we allow in. If we have a game, it's because it's either great, incredibly compelling in some other way, or very interesting to the gaming nerds out there

In your opinion do you think those games should be omitted entirely from Steam? Or, do you think platforms like Steam need to organize their storefronts better from their front pages?

50-50 IMO

One example: http://store.steampowered.com/app/581200/Nash_Racing/

This is literally just the demo for https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/advanced-tuning-car... being sold for money. It's unmaintained and runs like crap.

Some of the ones that are obvious beginner games that aren't really polished have their place in EA/ex-GL, with people actually passionate about it and trying to build a product. Kudos to them for trying and good luck. This is a great thing, provides visibility for these creative minds, and all that.

And then you have http://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Tero%20Lunkk...

This publisher deserves to be removed from Steam completely. It is not beneficial to the platform or to the players, and would probably cause increased refund request support load / chargeback or dispute load.

I more or less agree. I feel as if Steam is starting to look like the Android app store. It's at the point where legit games have to worry about SEO. That being said I think it's really hard to define super simple games that deserve a place to be seen and played vs. super simple copies and exploits.

Steam offers refund? Last time I bought a game that I can't play due to technical reason, they refused to refund.

I have definitely had multiple refunds done on steam easily.

They do, but it's hit or miss when it comes to actually getting one. Personally I wish it just wasn't necessary.

They have for a while now. If you've played for less than two hours, and aren't requesting multiple refunds in a short period, it's automated now AFAIK.

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