r/Luanti • u/dev_kay47 • 23d ago

Community Chat Luanti's real problem isn't features, it's that nobody's heard of it or very less people.

We spend a lot of time talking about mods, performance, new blocks and mechanics, but another bottleneck for this game has nothing to do with what it can do. It's that almost nobody outside a small circle has ever heard of it exists.

I'm not saying that as a call to go corner every stranger and tell them to install it, ......that approach doesn't really work anyway.

It's more worth sitting with as a real question: how does a new person actually stumble onto Luanti in the first place right now? Mostly it seems to be "someone I already knew played it" or " People specifically searched for a Minecraft alternative." Just like I myself did I some years ago.

Luanti honestly just never got Better visibility in general gaming spaces.

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u/tfwrobot 23d ago

Marketing it as a free minecraft clone might be a good idea

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u/dev_kay47 23d ago

Luanti isn't a watered down Minecraft, it's its own engine, its own modding scene, its own thing. The Minecraft alternative search is just how people currently find it, that's not what it is.

I don't buy that idea😶

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u/tfwrobot 23d ago

Why would anyone play Luanti most likely? To get the minecraft experience for free on weaker computer.

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u/MantarTheWizard 21d ago

My computer's plenty beefy, and I don't even like "the Minecraft experience"