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Austin Wood

Dev says Steam bug ruined "more than 10 years" of work and tanked their game's 1.0 launch, Valve says oops and offers a Daily Deal slot "to help make up for lost visibility"

Planet Centauri smoking crashing space ship.

The developers of an indie space sandbox game say a rare Steam bug butchered their long-awaited 1.0 launch out of early access, leading to startlingly poor sales that a make-good from Valve has seemingly done little to offset.

As Polygon spotted, Laurent Lechat, one of two developers on Planet Centauri (who I've been unable to reach for comment) recently shared their plight with the gamedev Reddit community. "This is how Steam can ruin more than 10 years of your work," Lechat wrote.

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