Well, so far we are not allowing any sites to review Tidalis, as the game is not yet done; so it's previews and other advance coverage only for the moment. But, in general it is very hard to get reviews for indie games because there are so many indie games that come out every year, and there's a big time investment for the reviewers in doing even just one review. Mostly they want to have the reviews that will drive the most eyeballs to their site, and which thus help them stay in business through advertising revenue, etc.
That said, AI War was among the top-reviewed games of 2009, indie games or otherwise, so clearly these sites also make exceptions for games that they hear good things about, or know about the developer of via past games. So we'll see what happens with Tidalis -- which is in the over-saturated puzzle genre, which makes reviews even harder to get to some extent -- but based on our success with AI War, and all the connections that I've built up through that, I think we'll do okay. We just aren't even soliciting reviews until the game is done, for obvious reasons.
