For a small developer, even a poorly curated Steam Direct beats Greenlight

Valve recently announced that the fee for submitting to Steam Direct will be $100 per game. That’s right. For $100, anyone will be able to put a game on Steam.

This is a huge relief for many indie developers. Before this announcement, the only information we had was that the fee would be anywhere in the range of $100-$5,000. Somber Dawn just became a studio this year, formed by myself and a small a group of friends. That was an incredible degree of uncertainty. Speaking as an indie dev who literally started this year, the $5,000 price tag per game would have been a huge kick in the teeth for us before we even got started. The announcement of the rock-bottom $100 fee is nothing short of amazing for us.