Solo dev stunned as his "first ever video game" sells 100,000 copies in 5 days on Steam while 97% "overwhelmingly positive" reviews pour in
I'm now perhaps overly self-conscious about when I use a certain word starting with "f" and ending with "riendslop," but casual co-op, low-fi visuals, and proximity chat is clearly a winning formula. The latest hit in that space is Sledding Game, which reached 100,000 copies sold and overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews just days after launch, and nobody's more surprised than the mostly solo developer who brought it to life.
We'll put the usual caveats on "solo" here – you will see the credits for music and the logo on the Steam page – but the bulk of Sledding Game is the work of a single developer who identifies himself as "Max," and says this is his "first ever video game." The title is pretty self-explanatory, as the game has you hanging out on a mountain resort and sledding around, tossing snowballs, making snowmen, and other appropriately wintery activities.
Sledding Game launched on April 30, and by May 5 had already sold over 100,000 copies. "Thank you everyone for playing," Max said in a Steam post announcing the news. "It means the world to me that I have the support to continue making games full time off of my first game on Steam. It’s a dream to reach this large of a number, and you all made it happen in 5 days. Couldn’t be more grateful."
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Sledding Game is currently in early access on both Steam and Xbox – including Game Pass – and expected to remain there for up to a year, as Max continues to add "more cosmetics, more minigames, and more ways to hang out." Here's hoping the good times continue to roll.
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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