{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0f5a77b55fc14716bb25eb09","clusterId":"c_19934cfe9d4c39bc2174c934","slug":"the-king-s-surveyor-passes-2-500-steam-wishlists-three-days-after-page-launch","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"The King's Surveyor Passes 2,500 Steam Wishlists Three Days After Page Launch","summary":"Analog Dream Dev reported on October 31 that its first-person action game The King's Surveyor passed 2,500 Steam wishlists three days after the store page went live on October 28. One developer built the game and its engine from scratch over a year. The engine simulates how a CRT assembles an image, leaving afterimages from bright moving objects. The release date is undecided and the game supports English only.","whyItMatters":"The wishlist count is a small number for a Steam page, but it puts attention on a project whose selling point is a year of solo engine work and a CRT display simulation rather than content scale, and the developer plans a demo after expanding the valley and adding surveyor's tools.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe developer wrote the display simulation to reproduce, on current monitors, how the televisions he watched as a child showed images. Bright objects leave afterimages and light lingers on the screen. The game itself has no experience points and no skill tree: the player becomes Sebastian, a surveyor in service to the king, and improves by observation. He climbs, jumps, and slides through an old valley, strikes old stones to find hidden passages, and fills in a map of where he has walked. His left hand handles the sword or staff, climbing, and stone strikes; the right holds a torch. Enemies dislike light and wait in places the light does not reach.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The King's Surveyor's 2,500 wishlists say less about interest than about how cheap it is to wishlist a game with no release date. Analog Dream Dev has no date and English only to convert those clicks into sales.","twitterPost":"The King's Surveyor's 2,500 wishlists land with no release date set. A wishlist costs a click; a purchase needs a date.","threadsPost":"The King's Surveyor cleared 2,500 Steam wishlists, but Analog Dream Dev has no release date and English only, so the number measures curiosity, not demand. The CRT afterimage engine is the draw; the store page gives buyers no date to plan around.","newsletterBlurb":"The King's Surveyor, a first-person action game from solo developer Analog Dream Dev, passed 2,500 Steam wishlists three days after its store page went live on October 28. The developer wrote the engine from scratch over a year, including a display simulation that reproduces how a CRT assembles an image, afterimages and all. The release date is undecided, the game supports English only, and a demo is planned after the valley is expanded and surveyor's tools are added.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261102d\",\"title\":\"First-person action game \\\"The King's Surveyor,\\\" made solo from scratch over a year including its engine, passes 2,500 wishlists in 3 days; reproduces how old TVs displayed images, with bright objects leaving afterimages\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":5268,"outputTokens":810,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1793575648,"createdAt":"2026-11-01T23:21:35.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-11-01T23:26:24.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-01T23:26:24.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_19934cfe9d4c39bc2174c934","canonicalTitle":"1年かけてひとりでゼロからエンジンを作った一人称視点のアクションゲーム『The King’s Surveyor』が3日で2500ウィッシュリスト突破。明るいものが残像を残すなど、昔のテレビの映り方を再現","representativeArticleId":"a_616900a0c00fa69000f3ad2a","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"The King's Surveyor\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-11-01T22:42:10.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-11-01T22:42:10.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-01T23:26:25.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/261102d","title":"1年かけてひとりでゼロからエンジンを作った一人称視点のアクションゲーム『The King’s Surveyor』が3日で2500ウィッシュリスト突破。明るいものが残像を残すなど、昔のテレビの映り方を再現"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["The King's Surveyor"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":["Analog Dream Dev reported on October 31 that The King's Surveyor passed 2,500 Steam wishlists three days after its store page launched on October 28.","The King's Surveyor is being made by a single developer who wrote its engine from scratch over a year.","The engine includes a display simulation that assembles images the way a real CRT does, leaving afterimages from bright moving objects.","The release date is undecided and the game supports English only.","The developer plans to expand the valley, add surveyor's tools, and release a demo once preparations are complete."],"pageLinks":{"healthSlugs":["the-king-s-surveyor"],"storySlugs":[],"entities":[{"slug":"the-king-s-surveyor","supported":0,"disputed":0,"contradicted":0,"unverified":3,"overall":"unverified","story_count":1,"has_dossier":false}],"stories":[],"entitiesOk":true,"storiesOk":true}}