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Austin Wood

Indie dev discovers nuclear fusion of Steam marketing, flies up wishlist charts thanks to bashful anime girl with freckles who parries machine giants with a chainsaw

Motorslice heroine making peace sign.

A few years ago, developer Regular Studio was exclusively known as the creator of Togges, a 3D puzzle-platformer that received 169 "mixed" user reviews on Steam. Regular Studio is now much better known as the maker of Motorslice, a promising 3D platformer channeling Mirror's Edge and Shadow of the Colossus, which is due out May 5 on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. But I suspect Motorslice is known to many players as that parkour game with the cute anime girl in it.

According to SteamDB, Motorslice is the 150th most-wishlisted game on Steam. That's not an extraordinarily high ranking, but in the grand scheme of Steam, and for the second game from a very small (seemingly one-person) developer, that's also a pretty damn good number. For context, Motorslice is within spitting distance of My Time at Evershine, the latest in a long and hugely popular franchise of life sim RPGs. Innumerable indies would kill to have this many wishlists, and I have a theory on where some of them came from.

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