Your question was is distribution enough and Armor Games highlights that it's not because they have tons of traffic + transparency on the plays and ratings + n

Your question was is distribution enough and Armor Games highlights that it's not because they have tons of traffic + transparency on the plays and ratings + new games are given an equal opportunity. As far as succeeding without a huge platform behind you... that's kind of a different argument, it happens a lot to a limited extent, a little to a significant extent, but most of the time games just fail. Same as startups.