Steam closed it doors to independent developers on July 17, 2020. One of the final games published before this deadline was a truVR first-person shooter called Sigurd Morrison’s Bug Hunt. No one knew who Sigurd Morrison was before the game’s release, and afterward no one cared.

Bug Hunt was met with mixed to negative reviews and was generally regarded as a symbol of the Steam platform’s failure to properly curate anything vaguely resembling a playable end product.

A month after its release, everyone had forgotten about Bug Hunt. It lived on only in a few privately-hosted servers, where a small, insular, and fanatical community soon rose.

They were a strange bunch.