Limbo out on Steam and PS3

$10? I’ll maybe get on sale for $5, but I already learned my lesson with Amnesia; never pay more than $10 for an indie game.

Amnesia was well worth $20, if not more.

Well, I am not going to tell you how to spend your money. But do understand that even an indie game dev needs to sell a huge amount of copies at the $5 dollar point to run a healthy business.

If we allow indies to charge $15 – $25 dollars for their games, an indie can bring you the unique gameplay you don’t find in most AAA games AND they can actually match production value pretty well.

If an indie can only charge $5 then only the big hit indies will be able to bring you quality products, and that is only a handful of studios a year, and if these small indie studios can’t repeat their success even once, the studio is dead. So in the end it will result in a very weak indie scene that will target a big demographic (less risky, less innovative), or cut many production corners to get out products faster.

I’ve learned a different lesson the hard way: Never pay more than $10 for a AAA game. And I don’t, because they’re almost always boring as hell.

What makes you say this, exactly? I mean, you’re posting on an indie games website, you’d think you’d have a bit more than a passing interest in indie games. Honestly, I’m much more willing to pay 20 bucks for an indie game than 20 for most AAA titles.

…wouldn’t you think your work is worth more than $5?

By my thinking, if I bought Amnesia at $10 and didn’t like it, I’d sooner say there’s a problem with Amnesia than the whole of indie development. I got VVVVVV for $5 and it was worth far, far more.

I usually dont pay more than 5$ for a singleplayer game. Games like World of Goo, Braid, or SMB are excellent but just too short.

On the other hand, I dont mind paying 20$ or more for a nice multiplayer game.
(check out Altitude)

Why would I spend 5 bux on this game, if I can just play cave story again. I mean they’re exactly the same! 

seriously, stop spamming everything with the cave story crap. you’re making an amusing joke become irritating.

The game is totally bugged, when finished, it just starts anew, at the same place! I tried to complete it a second time, but the game wraps around itself.. want my 10 bucks back!

A brilliant game and in almost all regards exactly the kind of thing I aspire to work on.  I just need to feed my artist and sound designer a whole bunch of amphetamines so we can make all the content.  : P  (Fun fact: the most precise reason the engine I’ve been working on for two years was started was the image of grass blowing in the wind.)

But honestly.  Very ambient, very very flowy, and a really lush experience throughout.  Lots of moments with surprisingly strong emotions about them, such as the last scene with our old friend Mr. Spider.  I took my time with the game but according to steam beat it in about four hours.  (I’m good at puzzles.)  Good for them for not watering down the experience for the sake of length.

Yes, but my games up to this point have all been freeware.

This game is probably the best game I’ve played in a long time.
If you think Portal 2 is worth it’s price, then don’t even question paying 10$ for this masterpiece.

Don’t take me wrong, I’m not a casual gamer, I generally get bored with games before finishing them, and I hate that, but this game has taken me by the nuts.

Just buy it. Seriously. If you don’t have the money to buy it, download it, you’ll buy it afterward to support the developers. But not playing this game because you can’t spend 10$ is ridiculous.

Very nice game for all KnyttStories or Machinarium lovers BUT MUCH TOO SHORT. One and a half hour for ten Euros… that s…ks Should have waited, but couldn’t ;-)