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'Star of Providence' is a small little known roguelike bullet-hell shooter that originally launched in 2017 under the name 'Monolith'. It never really found any traction, Steam CCU peaked at 133 in December 2019, and as recently as January 2025 was basically dead peaking at 22 CCU.

Last year, Bigmode Games (of videogamedunkey fame) announced they'd be publishing a new version of it on Switch that contained a major update, also coming for free to the Steam version. That launched yesterday and the game has seen a huge jump in players, as of writing seeing a CCU around 1,100 players, a 50 times increase from January!

https://steamdb.info/app/603960/charts/

Dunkey's video on the game:



Pretty cool to see this little game getting a new lease on life. I picked up the Switch version myself and am enjoying it. You may remember Bigmode Game's first release last year was Animal Well, launching to major critical acclaim and success. Happy to see Dunkey's publishing adventure doing great things so far, excited to see what's next.

 

[Wildebeest]

I said when Bigmode was announced that it was smart business. Influencer gets a % of game sales or whatever, and an indie game developer with a basically finished game gets effective marketing from someone motivated to promote their game.

 

[Fbh]

Almost 1,6 Concords is pretty good for a re-release of a single dev indie game!.
Glad to see Dunkey's publishing project has been working out well for him so far.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

This looks fucking awesome and is exactly my kind of thing. Bought!

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I love it so far. Despite the “playable” rating it runs perfectly on Steam Deck. Just have to go in the options and switch it to controller input, it defaults to mouse/keyboard for some reason.

 

[UniformDeliverance]

I’m loving it, music is incredible.

 

[drotahorror]

Loved this when it originally came out as "Monolith". Great game. Was shocked to see it had a crazy update as well as Bigmode publishing it.