Where do you release your games?

Just curious as to what platform/websites everyone builds for.
I have a game i'm developing and I'm wondering if anything is stopping me from exporting to every platform I can think of and whether it's worth it.
At least mobile and then maybe steam and online web based games? Good strategy?

 

More platforms sounds theoretically worth it, but you have to consider stuff like this
- You'll may have to update controls (e.g. mobile to pc)
- You may have to optimise it (PC to web)
- You may need to write another backend for the stores API (e.g. Steam leaderboards to GameJolt leaderboards)
- Everytime you update the game, you now need to do build and update it to the new platform
- Etc.

It essentially becomes a question of whether you think x store front is lucrative enough to be worth the additional time requirements

 

As to where I release
For Subsideria I'm starting with steam and GameJolt
Xbox one port is coming later next year
And I may see about a switch port
Nothing else so far seems worth it

 

Steam

 

Mobile and steam is a bad combination. You need to write different games to succeed on each platform. A successful steam game won't even fit on mobile, let alone run. A successful mobile game will be dismissed as a low effort port on Steam.

Better to do one platform well then to half ass it on three.

 

PUBG mobile seems pretty popular, cant understand why, wouldnt play a game like that on mobile

 

Hasn't prevented Spiderweb Software from pulling it off. That said they never were fancy games.

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/

You can see from their latest games too that they haven't made any obvious changes between the platforms.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/691830/Avernum_3_Ruined_World/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avernum-3-ruined-world-hd/id1353224552?ls=1&mt=8

 

A) It's free
B) Kids can play it at school now too

 

Custom Client and on my website
Use standard marketing get the word out

 

True. Twice the effort either way.