Valve made a lot of fake games for sale on Steam this summer

This year’s Steam Sale has endedSo, goodbye to all deals. But say hello to some rad art! With the sale concluded, the artist at Valve can now share all the major artwork and covers of the fake video games she helped create that were hidden inside Steam’s large digital catalog as part of the sales process. Sure, the games are fake, but I really want to play most of them.

This non-existent video game art was created by Valve developer Claire Hamill. I have previously worked in games like Half-life: Alex And the Westworld Awakening VR. And now, with the Steam sale over and the associated time travel event coming to an end, Share Hummel on Twitter All the cool covers I made for a variety of fake toys covering different genres.

For example, here’s what looks like a fishing game about failing to catch fish. I would play that.

Here’s some basic game art about helping a very important king get to the bathroom. Yes, I will play that too.

According to Hamel, the idea behind this art was to make it look “relatively convincing” so that it would blend in with thousands of other games on Steam. However, the art and game titles are weird enough that you might notice something “a little weird on second glance”.

Different game names and ideas Created by Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton, LED book long ago. Once Hummel got a fake game name, she went to work making art for it.

“I just tried to match their energy to the final art,” Hummel explained on Twitter. “Super fun trying to create reasonably polished logos in a whole range of different styles/types.”

This process has led to some strange and intriguing fake video games. For example, who doesn’t want to at least watch a trailer for Small Claims Court Custard Castle?

On Twitter, Hummel shared that creating all these fantasy video games from the future “ended up being a lot of work” but still fun to do.

“I hope everyone is starting to find both of these things as much as we did.”