Game News Forbidden Unit, a turn-based dystopian cyberpunk RPG, now on Kickstarter

Thanks, Freddie and DeepOcean for your tips... We are trying hard. You're right about that marketing stuff. We will try to improve that.
Apart from other things, we are currently trying to contact bigger and also smaller developers and ask them if they can spread the word about us...

 

Maybe HBS and/or Whalenought might be forthcoming since they share your target audience with their cyberpunk games. Sadly, HBS has not been too forthcoming with shoutouts (e.g. didn't do one about Copper Dreams).

 

We are just about to send email to Whalenought right now...

 

Great, they are awesome people.

 

Overall, it does look interesting. I'm rarely for KS, buy the game afterwards, but I wish the devs luck.

 

Note that I am roughly in the same boat, but it seems you slacked off even more than me on this PR thingy:

Don't forget to spam niche titles like wargamer.com or indieRPGs.com.

Have you written to Czech gaming news sites and posted on Czech forums? It is usually easier to reach people from your country, and it would help building PR momentum.

Regarding the lack of overall coverage, it is pretty hard to get any nowadays, sadly, but launching KS on August makes it even worse:
Game journalists are either at Gamescom or in vacation.

Regarding forums, it is tough. There are no "centralized" turn based strategy game forum (aka, nothing like RPGCodex for strategy games). Quarter to Three might be a good place, but I don't visit much. Reddit and steam forums for other games might be good places to start, but it is a bit risky, as posting about your own game there can be considered bad manner if you don't do it gracefully.

You should contact some youtuber if the build is playable enough, but they too might need to be spammed (I don't have a list of youtubers to spam).
Don't just aim for the stars. It is usually easier to get streamers that specialize in a small niche to broadcast something about you.

I think your game site also lacks a blog and a newsletter (ok, I don't use these enough myself, but I know I should!).

 

Hey, thanks for tips...

I'll try those sites.

Today we have done another round of sending press releases... We have some responses and hopefully, there should be some new articles about the game soon.

Youtubers are not the choice for now, even that the idea is good, current version still needs some polishing and more content, before it can be sent somewhere...

Also, I agree with things about with our site... Unfortunately currently, despite the fact KS looks nearly dead for now, I don't know what to do first.

Btw nice game, this Zodiac Legion (thumbs up)

 

What are the chances of the game seeing a release without a successful KS?

 

Chances are good, however, the release date will be uncertain... But it doesn't have to necessarily mean it will be like years later than it was planned... We just don't have the answer to this question yet.

 

We have received the response from Whalenought Studios and they will mention us on twitter possibly this week. They are really very friendly and awesome people.