{"id":77344,"date":"2026-05-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77344"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:36:27","slug":"how-the-team-behind-sniper-elite-uses-a-few-stupid-tricks-to-stand-out-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77344","title":{"rendered":"How The Team Behind Sniper Elite Uses A Few &#8220;Stupid&#8221; Tricks To Stand Out On Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">When you&#8217;re a self-funded, self-publishing studio like Rebellion, the team behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/sniper-elite-resistance\/\">Sniper Elite<\/a> series and last year&#8217;s breakout new IP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/atomfall\/\">Atomfall<\/a>, you have to find a few ways to stand out from the pack. Steam has ballooned in size in recent years. <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/stats\/releases\/\">In 2012, Steam would see about 30 new games per month<\/a>, or an average of one per day. In March of this year, 2,472 new games hit Steam, or an average of <em>more than 80 new games every day<\/em>. Between tiny indie teams of as few as one person and mega AAA studios, there are studios like Rebellion trying to survive in the middle, and by many accounts, it&#8217;s getting harder. But Rebellion has some battle-tested ways to push out of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The key, I think, is controlling budgets and controlling ambition and having a very focused idea,&#8221; CEO Jason Kingsley told me. &#8220;So a lot of our games are named in a way that would allow people to guess what they&#8217;re all about. Sniper Elite is about being an elite sniper. Zombie Army is&#8211;guess what&#8211;about an army of zombies, you know?&#8221; This sort of simplicity, Kingsley believes, helps consumers quickly make up their minds as to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a self-funded, self-publishing studio like Rebellion, the team behind the Sniper Elite series and last year&#8217;s breakout new IP, Atomfall, you have to find a few ways to stand out from the pack. Steam has ballooned in size in recent years. In 2012, Steam would see about 30 new games per month, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":77346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77347,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77344\/revisions\/77347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}