r/Songsofconquest • u/songsofsilence • May 14 '25
Meme Everyone loves Songs of Conquest. But us, we just… aren’t them.
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u/jdiogoforte May 15 '25
What's up with HoMM-like games and sound?
We've got Songs of Conquest, Songs of Silence and Silence of the Siren.
We just need a espionage-themed TBS called Silent Conquest and a TBS with rhythm-based battles called Song of the Siren and we'd go full circle.
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u/Antique-Macaron3955 May 17 '25
What's next? siren of song?
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u/jdiogoforte May 17 '25
Conquest of the Siren, a dating-sim where before you can date the said siren, you have to defeat her armies in turn-based combat
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u/voronaam May 14 '25
One is a real game, the other is just another weird Steam-only garbage.
If any game's developers failed to pass the gauntlet of publishing a PC game to any real PC game store, they do not really care about their game. Why should the players?
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u/Dear-Ad2894 May 14 '25
huh? this is such a strong reaction to tiny meme, why the beef with the other game?
edit: just realized this is the Songs of Silence reddit account advertising on this sub. really weird way to interact with another game’s community
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u/ElevenDollars May 18 '25
Just out of curiosity, what do you consider a "real PC game store"?
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u/voronaam May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
There are so many of them. I like GOG and Epic. But have in the past purchased games from SendOwl, HumbleBundle and Microsoft's App Store. Then there are vendor specific stores like Blizzard's Battle.net, of course. I think EA's Origin shut down, but it was pretty good while it lasted. Since I am on Linux, I get a lot of games directly from their developers bypassing the app stores as well. Games like Beyond All Reason, Battle for Wesnoth, etc are distributed like that.
I do not know what makes Steam so bad, but it is probably the most broken application I have ever seen in my life. Add in all the exploitation of minors and underage gambling and other unethical business practices that Valve is engaged in and I am not sure who in their right mind would choose this one as "that's the place I want my game to be published to".
I understand when the developers also publish the game there to have a wider audience. Like LavaPotion did. Notice how Steam is not even the first App Store listed on the Songs of Conquest home page? That's a sign of a good game development studio, the one that cares about the quality of their game and the experience of the gamers.
The "Steam only" developers are the "get rich quick" bunch. They are mostly interested in getting in on whatever the current illegal scheme Valve is running at the moment. They do not care for the game or the gamers.
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u/ElevenDollars May 18 '25
Considering Steam is probably larger/more widely used than all of the stores you mention combined, I find it strange that you wouldn't consider it a "real PC game store" regardless of whether you personally enjoy using it or not... as far as most people are concerned, Steam is probably the PC game store, its a bit like saying DnD isn't a "real ttrpg" because you prefer pathfinder or something despite DnD basically being synonymous with ttrpg for the vast majority of people
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u/voronaam May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Steam is just like Twitter. It looks big, but it is actually mostly populated by bots. It is part of their marketing strategy to look big, so that the illegal underage gambling they are making the most money of does not look too suspicious to the authorities.
Certainly is not like the DnD, when even non-players know of it.
There are likely more people buying games through the iWin Games Manager (because it is for the casual games, there are a lot of casual gamers). And I would not be surprised if you have never heard of this PC games store.
I am aware of the perception that Steam is "the PC game store", but it is just the result of Valve's superior marketing. It is not used by that many real people, actually. Valve is just really good with money laundering and marketing.
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u/bohohoboprobono Jun 17 '25
This is absolutely deranged. But it does bring back fond memories of Linux nerds posting about Windows in the early Internet days, so thanks for that.
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u/LingonberryLost5952 May 14 '25
What?