The influence of slay the spire on east asian indie developers cannot be overstated
slay the spire's first 2 weeks of sale were like. mediocre at best, it was Not taking off
but they had worked with some random "send game keys to a bunch of streamers" company
and some massive, massive chinese streamer with like 1 million followers played the game, and the game blew up in china to the point they were rushing out translations
it's arguably why the game became such a success (along with it being one of the great games of our time)