Stepico Games

🤔 Ever wondered why Spider-Man's Spectacular feels like Cyberpunk's Normal?

Difficulty labels are marketing. Difficulty design is math, psychology, and a lot of watching playtesters suffer ☠️

✍️ We just published a deep dive into how challenge actually gets built and unbuilt, when it goes wrong, and threw in the books worth reading — including the Witcher 3 team going door to door removing sausages from famine-stricken Velen: stepico.com/blog/video-game-level-design-and-difficulty-how-to-challenge-players-without-losing-them/

What's the game that made you swallow your pride and switch to Easy? No judgment. (Some judgment 🌚)

Stepico is proud to be building Mane City on mobile together with the Loaded Lions 🦁🍾

Meet tycoon where every city block is an opportunity. Build businesses, upgrade properties, manage resources, and grow your empire from a single plot into a thriving metropolis 🏙️📈

📱 Mane City Mobile pre-registration is LIVE! Sign up now on iOS or Android and be ready to jump in the moment the game launches.

🍎 App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6768579581
🤖 Google Play: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedlions.manecity

🐭 It has barely been a week since Mina the Hollower released on May 29th yet already became MetaCritic’s must-play. Looks like Yacht Club Games did it again 💅

The top-down action, gothic atmosphere, and digging mechanic are giving us strong Game Boy-era vibes in the best way possible.

Have you tried it yet? And what does it remind you of more: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Shovel Knight, or something else entirely? 👇