In the early access section of ‘Best of Steam 2021’ selected by ‘Steam’, the world’s largest PC game platform, the domestic indie game ‘Skull’ has acquired a platinum rating and is a hot topic.
‘Best of Steam’, held at the end of every year, is an event that selects the major games that received the most popularity from users during the year. For 2021, ‘Top Sellers’, ‘New Releases’, ‘Most Played’, ‘Early Access’ Grads’, ‘Best VR’, and ‘Controller Friendly’ were divided into six categories.
This year, unlike any other year, while domestic games are playing prominently, Krafton’s ‘Battleground’ in the Top Sellers and Most Played categories earned a platinum rating for 5 consecutive years since its release, and South Four Games’ in the Early Access Grads category. ‘Skull’ acquired the Platinum rating and announced the high status of the domestic indie game to the world.
In particular, ‘Skull’, which earned the highest Platinum rating in the Early Access Grads, in which a total of 12 games were selected, sold more than 100,000 copies in five days after the official release on Steam on January 21st. As of the end of December, as of the present time, it is a popular work that is receiving favorable reviews from users around the world every day, with 27,883, or 93.8%, of a total of 29,726 reviewers giving it a ‘positive’ rating.
‘Skull’ is a 2D rogue-lite action platformer game with a unique setting in which the main character Skull replaces 100 heads and transforms into a new character. It was also released in console versions such as Xbox.
