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Shape of Dreams

They Built a Game to Get Hired. It Sold 1.5 Million Copies

2026-11-112026-11-11 by SeolNotes
The WASD keys, the controls players demanded in Shape of Dreams' very first build

Two Korean CS students made Shape of Dreams as a job portfolio piece and hoped for 3,000 sales. It sold 1.5 million in a year after two years of brutal demo feedback.

Categories App Development Tags App Development, Hades, Indie Game, Korean Indie Developer, Lizard Smoothie, MOBA, Neowiz, Roguelite, Shape of Dreams, Steam, Steam Demo, Steam Next Fest, Supergiant Games Leave a comment

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