The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter

• The game Sausage Legend: Arena has gained popularity among 3.5 million players despite its mobile game roots.
• The game’s simple premise involves dueling with other players’ sausages and winning.
• Despite its simplicity, the game is plagued by bugs, which detract from the player experience.
• The developers behind Sausage Legend: Arena are hoping a Steam launch will help take the game to the next level.
• The game’s unexpected success has led to a surprising blow for one of its players, who lost to four gyoza on a skewer in a duel.

Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last one against four gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, who could have expected me – a springy, respectably proportioned hot dog – to lose against a seemingly inflexible spear of small, unassuming dumplings? This is my struggle in Sausage Legend: Arena, a mobile game with a very simple premise: duel with other players’ sausages and win.

On the surface, it looks like a garden-variety mobile game riddled with bugs (it is). But the difference between Sausage Legend and a fleeting idea you had after overdoing it on edibles is that 3.5 million people have played Sausag …

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