Itch.io – Marketplace for Indie Games
I'd love to support this service. They do everything right - they take 0% of the game and give the entire amount to the devs. In contrast Steam takes 25% (earlier 30%). The tools itch offers to devs to package/upload their game are considered to be best-in-class in the industry and they're all open source [0]. There's an excellent article that talks about the difficulties in creating a competitor to Steam, and the kicker is "the service you're thinking of already exists - it's called itch.io" [1].<p>And yet when I think of an indie game I want to buy, it's not there. Just today I saw an excellent review [2] for a game called Hollow Knight. I couldn't find it on itch, ended up buying it on Steam instead. FWIW, the game is also available on gog.com, the Humble store and all consoles, so it's not like the devs haven't taken the effort to make their game accessible.<p>[0] - <a href="https://github.com/itchio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/itchio</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-steam/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksexEs7FKf4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksexEs7FKf4</a>