Indie dev thought their puzzle game “would just die out,” but “a weird sales curve” and TikTok virality led to “great” success a year after launch

After a bumpy launch period and initially lukewarm reception, one indie puzzler found “great” success through the nebulous power of social media algorithms.

Storyteller is the excellent puzzle game where you essentially need to mix and match comic tiles, settings, and characters on a tea-stained book to build your own stories. You can experiment to make non-canonical and sometimes hilarious remixes of classic stories like Frankenstein or Dracula, but the goal is to meet the brief of the given titles.