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I've definitely seen some games get a big boost long after they were released. Could be they're boosted after a period of interest.

Do you think that happens because of insite stuff? Or maybe it's just the case that people promoted their games somewhere else and simply got more people to click on the game link wherever it was posted?

Probably the second one- or maybe some streamer drew attention to it.