Make it indie!
Skip · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.30/hr
- Reviews▼
- 47% of 1,284
- Genre rank
- Top 97% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.3h
- To 100%
- 0.7h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 9
Price and sales
- Sales
- 119 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 June 2015
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 92% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
8% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 119 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer (free, scores 5) beats it on value, while it beats Deadliest Catch: The Game ($19.99, scores 0).
More about Make it indie!
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 294 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.3 hours; clearing it takes 1, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I mean, I think it's cute. For $1 you really can't go wrong. There isn't much here, most of the enjoyment is from the videos rather than the minigame itself. I hope the dev had fun making this.
1 more review, not recommended
Where do I even start? Firstly, the game tells you virtually nothing about indie game development, There is barely any gameplay either-you simply click a few times, and that's about it. It hardly even qualifies as an FMV game, as there are practically no meaningful choices to make. To make matters worse, the store page mentions over 30 minutes of footage, yet I was able to unlock every achievement and see both...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Claw your way through the abyss of the mind and survive the horrors that stalk you as you attempt to survive seven days as... an Indie Developer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB Dedicated Memory, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Make it indie! scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/357900/make-it-indieReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.