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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3h

Noticing a certain recurring theme to the Earth Must Die Demo reviews

Steam review: "If they tried to get this game to ooze more charm they'd need to give it new orifices"

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20h

Earth Must Die is playable as part of Steam Next Fest!!

Hour-long demo, featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Starr, Tamsin Greig, Matthew Holness, Mike Wozniak, Stevie Martin, Don Warrington, Alasdair Beckett-King... *breath*

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20h

Earth Must Die is playable as part of Steam Next Fest!!

Hour-long demo, featuring the voices of Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Starr, Tamsin Greig, Matthew Holness, Mike Wozniak, Stevie Martin, Don Warrington, Alasdair Beckett-King... *breath*

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Getting MEGA reviews on the Earth Must Die demo ahead of Next Fest

If anyone hasn't tried it yet, please do! When we get to 50 reviews we get an extra visibility boost, so every single review is unbelieveably huge to us at this point

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

oh dang, that IS fucking neat

also hello fred, we never speak anymore, I don't like that

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable response to a negative Steam review haha

The reviewer was so embarrassed, they literally deleted the review

Kyle Schmitz @kyleschmitz.bsky.social · 1d

Now these morons are suggesting that @nomorerobots.io *forced* me to put represention in the game. Bitch I came up with the characters myself! And Noor is a treasure!

A section of a Steam review that reads: "A Game Marred by External Decisions

This adventure is also, and most importantly, spoiled by the publisher, No More Robots. Their forced DEI, seemingly to collect more money, comes at the expense of narrative coherence and the original developer's vision. The inexplicable presence of a character wearing an Islamic headscarf in a universe where it doesn't fit is a glaring example that shatters immersion."

The developer response to the review that reads: Hello! It's me, the dev! Like the actual person that wrote the code, almost all 97,000 lines of it, as well as all the characters, dialog, cutscenes, and storyline. The publisher did in fact make a singular character suggestion to me. You know which character it was?

The dog.

The rest? All me! You are making up completely unfounded conspiracy theories.

Oh, and that "surveillance"? It's called a log file. Unity makes them by default. Scary stuff, I know.

Take a hike man.

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Getting MEGA reviews on the Earth Must Die demo ahead of Next Fest

If anyone hasn't tried it yet, please do! When we get to 50 reviews we get an extra visibility boost, so every single review is unbelieveably huge to us at this point

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Donovan [Megahammer Studios] @megahammerstudios.bsky.social · 1d

Little Rocket Lab - Original Soundtrack
Out now on Bandcamp and Steam
megahammerstudios.bandcamp.com

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 1d

One last push: if you HAVEN'T reviewed the EMD demo yet please do, as it'll massively help us out with Next Fest tomorrow. Downloads and reviews get us prominence, apparently.

If you HAVE reviewed it, you're a shining example of the very best type of Terranoid, well done. Big star ⭐

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

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Steam review: This game doesn’t merely ooze with charm — it secretes it, thick and slow, from pores that shouldn’t exist. Each surface trembles as if beneath it, something vast and unseen squirms and breathes. The charm is alive here, a sentient fluid that remembers older, wetter worlds. It seeps between pixels, whispering through the code in languages not meant for lungs.

It pulses beneath the menus like veins beneath translucent flesh, its rhythm too steady to be human. Sometimes the charm glistens with a light that isn’t reflection, a phosphorescent shimmer like the soft wink of something watching from the dark. When you play, it reaches back — not maliciously, but hungrily — tasting you through the buttons and wires.

And when you close it, you’ll feel it still. In your fingertips. In your teeth. In the soft, wet corners of your dreams.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 2d

The Steam reviews for the EARTH MUST DIE Demo have certainly taken an unusual turn. We get an altogether better class of reviews here at Size Five Games

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 4d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the most obvious copy is the best!

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

IT FUCKING DOES

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Listen

This demo has Alex Horne, Joel Fry, Martha Howe-Douglas, Tamsin Greig…

If you give a fuck about comedy, you owe it to yourself to play this demo

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 3d

SATURDAY. Stop doomscrolling and do me a quick favour please:

🔽 Download the Earth Must Die demo
🕹️ Play it, have a lovely time
✅ Review it
🌟Wishlist the full game
♻️ Share

This is all FREE and *massively* helps us out with Next Fest/ launch/ keeping the company afloat, so please do. Thanks!

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks dude!!!!11

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 4d

Classic Steam reviews

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Oh I would love to see that thread on FB if you have a link haha

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

Have you played the Earth Must Die demo?

It went live yesterday, and already has a 100% rating on Steam <3

store.steampowered.com/app/4057540/...

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 4d

Play Earth Must Die NOW!

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 4d

WAIT WHAT'S THIS?

💿There is a demo live for EARTH MUST DIE!

🕹️This gives you (most of) the tutorial section for the game! Have fun, and if you haven't wishlisted the full game yet DO THAT NOW PLEASE it really really helps us out.

Enjoy!

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Earth Must Die Demo on Steam

These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

It's a good Friday night

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 3d

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