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u/Izzy248 8d ago

Im either starting to feel like Crytivo is a scam publisher, or they just have an unfortunate string of partnerships under their belt.

I noticed they mostly "fund", and publish games that have been on Kickstarter, or already had a successful Kickstarter. With the exception of Trench Tales, who I was following before they even started a Kickstarter, and have been very active with public updates and communication, most everything else they are connected with has been in limbo.

One of the most recent examples that feels a bit fishy to me is some game called Farm Folks. It was brought to my attention from one of the recent Steam Fest events, and so I checked it out. Once I started digging into its history though things seemed a bit off. When you look at it, there are 2 games called Farm Folks, and both being published by Crytivo. The 1st Farm Folks had a successful KS campaign ran by Overgrown, but then it went dark around 2018. Now its 2024, and this 2nd version of Farm Folks that looks very different to the first one is about to launch a Kickstarter of its own, and you would think maybe its a different game with the same name, but the evidence doesnt seem to point in that direction. When you look at Crytivos Twitter page, they are of course marketing and promoting the new Farm Folks and linking its pages. When you look at the 1st Farm Folks games KS page, if you click the links, it sends you to the very same updated Farm Folks page as the new one with Crytivo.

So all of that just seems strange and a bit shady. A game has a successful KS, goes dark, pops up years later and shows up an updated visuals version of the same game and is about to start another KS campaign. And you could say, well maybe Crytivo probably doesnt know, but again, theyre publishing/funding other already successful KS campaigns that have publicly gone dark.