Posted by Jennifer Asencio | Published
1348: Ex Voto it will be a lesson in humility for years to come. For those who don’t know this game yet, consider yourself lucky. Before the launch of the game, the social media page of 1348 Ex Vote has been running on X, it says it now has 250,000 wishlists on Steam. It was released digitally on March 12, 2026, on Steam and PS5, with a planned release later this year. Those numbers ultimately didn’t pan out, with the game peaking at around 420 players on launch day.
Quick play problems
The latest update from Sedleo Games, the game’s producers, was on March 18, 2026, with a public announcement that they had heard feedback from those who played the game and were working on fixes to solve some of the game’s many problems. For a company that talked a lot about its game, the silence that has followed after the game’s lack of success or acclaim is a fitting and sweet ending.
It shouldn’t have scared anyone. Two weeks before the launch of the game, the demo was released, it did not go well. At the time, the total wishlist was around 100,000, with only a few hundred playing. Criticisms include clunky combat, poor animations and blurring, NPCs getting stuck during combat, and multiple button presses for the character to perform an action. Analysts began to question whether the game was ready for release at this point, floating the idea that the digital release should be delayed until the portable edition was released.
Many feel that they have taken it upon themselves after taking to social media to wage war on an upcoming topic, The way of the Knight. The show, from an independent studio, said it will have good actors, actors can only play men, and will not include a “modern agenda”. For a company like Sedleo Games, this crossed the line intolerable, and the infamous social media feud between the two companies took place in front of the viewers of both games.
Needless to say, it divided the fans into two very different groups. I 1348: Ex Voto The social media account asked its audience to put the game’s launch date on their “modern agenda”. It seems that their target audience got their agenda wrong as they didn’t show up at all during the game’s launch, as evidenced by the poor launch numbers and ratings. Its activity on social media has dropped to zero, except for posts that they have been working on fixing the game.
The Great Extraction
The game’s poor performance has led to widespread debate about the use of Steam charts and other public-facing metrics to criticize game performance. There have been several high-profile incidents of journalists and promoters calling players “chuds” and other less flattering terms to disapprove of the slop placed in front of the players, who are expected to mindlessly eat it and praise it liberally.
This argument was made for the newly released as well Marathonfrom Bungie Studios, creator of Halo. Game journalists are mad that the Steam charts have been used to criticize the game to support comments that the game isn’t as good as they say it is. They do not tolerate differences of opinion; Only toxic positivity, no room for criticism, as usual.
Not only in sports but also in the wider entertainment industry. In a bad way Star Trek: Starfleet Academy it’s playing, journalists and reviewers keep telling us it’s great and everyone loves it. And in both gaming and TV, we’re told that negative reviews are “bad on social media” and will get those games, movies, or shows canceled.
Toxic Positivity (noun) – the compulsive persistence of positive hopes without reality, where negative feelings are dismissed, repressed, or remade into compulsive compulsions, which often invalidate real human experience.
If that’s what it takes for these companies to take their fans seriously, then more companies need to lose more money than they already have before this lesson is learned. The makers of 1348: Ex Voto I just found out the hard way.
