[alstonite]

I wonder if there's room for some kind of 'video game YC', where a company would shotgun invest in a bunch of promising indie titles in the hopes of finding the next Stardew Valley / Factorio?

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I don't know, but I wish it was a reality.

I always end up having more fun with indie games (with some very rare AAA exceptions)

[yencabulator]

Historically, Valve has acquihired promising mod makers or smaller game companies and told them to take their ideas and make a full game out of that. Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, TF2, Alien Swarm, DotA, I might not even know of them all.

[Shish2k]

Given how reliably VC investment leads into the cycle of enshittification, I’m not sure games like stardew / factorio would survive investment :(