I didn't really care that the Steam "shmup sale" was mostly non-shmups, but hearing that actual traditional shmups from small indies got rejected from the sale is boiling my blood. Indie shmup devs are hustling every single day to get attention, and getting rejected from the one sale in years that bears their genre's name in favour of games that aren't even part of the genre is insulting. God.
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in reply to @dog's post:
OOF that sucks 😬 Since when was Steam picky about who got to appear in their big sales, anyway?? I feel like a good quarter or more of the games aren't even actually on sale 🙄
The place I'd seen it was on the shmups forum, where the Shmup Creator dev mentioned that it was initially rejected as not part of the genre, and mentions several traditional shmups they know were rejected. https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?p=1535691#p1535691