The thing about the 2D market being "oversaturated" is that anyone can pump out garbage, so there's a lot of it. But that's been true since the 90s. There are loads of bleh games out there, but that just means that you make something quality, and it can stand out from the crowd.
No fan of 2D platformers goes "Oh, there's just too many games. Guess I won't play this new one that looks really good!"
You know I'd forgotten about how bad old games were too until about a year ago I dug out an old CD case I'd really not touched since the early 2000s. The vast majority of it being things I'd copied from friends from the late 90s era. I had a couple of those old shareware CDs full of junk too. The garbage on those is deservedly lost to time. I'm sure they can be found, but no one looks back fondly to playing it, well, ever.
The thing about the 2D market being "oversaturated" is that anyone can pump out garbage, so there's a lot of it. But that's been true since the 90s. There are loads of bleh games out there, but that just means that you make something quality, and it can stand out from the crowd.
No fan of 2D platformers goes "Oh, there's just too many games. Guess I won't play this new one that looks really good!"
You know I'd forgotten about how bad old games were too until about a year ago I dug out an old CD case I'd really not touched since the early 2000s. The vast majority of it being things I'd copied from friends from the late 90s era. I had a couple of those old shareware CDs full of junk too. The garbage on those is deservedly lost to time. I'm sure they can be found, but no one looks back fondly to playing it, well, ever.
It won't stand out from the crowd unless you have a big publicity fund.
Eh I don't know about that. Look at souls likes. There's way too many out now that even good shit is getting burned out.