What should Heavy Heart's final value be?
Added 2025-04-11 13:47:07 +0000 UTCIf you are a backer and have already supported the game to it's final value, you will get a steam key. Knowing this, and being as honest as possible, what do you believe the be the full Steam cost for Heavy Hearts?
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I looked up some games and their prices on Steam in terms of hours only. I know that it does not provide any further info like: how fun it is, does the gameplay become stale after few hours and so on. And now itch is better for smaller dev teams but you pay more as a customer Steam takes 30% which is a lot, but it is easier for both sides and steam could advertise it better. On itch it's 20 dollars which means that people would go only on steam unless they care about discretion. Yes you got me on the sale part... it could actually be 20 to 30 dollars, but I also don't know how long will the game be in terms of content. Sooooo.... A lot of porn games are just visual novels, but this one is one of the few exceptions. So I would not mind higher price. Just hope that the game is not short, cuz' a lot of people would be mad I imagine and/or many people would just skip everything, finished it and then refund it. So comparing other games prices, itch to steam price for HH, how fun it is. I am voting for 20 dollars. But could see it up to 25 dollars.
TheMoonLantern
2025-04-12 14:36:41 +0000 UTCI became a paid Patron just to be able to make this comment. Software takes time, energy, passion and skill to make. We don't expect a race-to-the bottom pricing for a good story with a great art style. Unless this whole game takes like 3 hours or less to play through, I think you're selling yourself short. $30 isn't an unreasonable ask for all the effort that goes into it. Having a sale is a lot better marketing than the negative reviews around an increase in price later. We need more people making enough from their games to keep creating more in the future!
Bionyx
2025-04-11 20:34:33 +0000 UTCWould a "Final Content List" help make your decision?
Dammit213
2025-04-11 14:41:20 +0000 UTCHonestly, I would have to know how much content will be in a final product. But considering that steam takes more money than itch.io, its worse for indie devs/smaller studios. In my opinion range 15-18$ is good. Hope everything works out for you guys!
TheMoonLantern
2025-04-11 14:11:54 +0000 UTC
