I think the $20 price tag makes complete sense if you're the most wishlisted game on steam. They knew it would sell a jillion copies.

I have a huge backlog of games and I'm not spending more than $20 on anything until I've cleaned it out.

Charge what you think your game is worth. Consumers will pay what they think it is worth.

I don’t think guilting other developers into charging more just so you don’t look bad is going to work the way you hope it is.

Leaving any money on the table is viewed as an ethical problem. At least to those in systems made to extract wealth.

$20 is a great price point. Good for them, I hope they sell 10 million copies

Team Cherry are just out there doing the damn thing. Didn't read the comments. Didn't cultivate or feel pressured by the hype machine. Didn't pay for a $500,000 exclusive trailer from Geoff Keighley. Just a team of three doing their own thing. Amazing that it's even possible in this day and age.

I think nothing about it, I pirated it

Great game with pro-consumer pricing.

Sounds like some sort of scheme to cultivate a loyal fan base that wants to happily support and buy your stuff.

Every other developer, independent or not, should pay close attention to this strategy.

Terraria costs half the price, Stardew Valley costs a third less, Hollow Knight costs a quarter less, Celeste costs the same, Minecraft used to cost the same
I havent played silksong yet, but there are so many examples of good indie games that cost the same or less

Due to Romania not having localized pricing, games cost so much more than for people living in other countries. Hollow Knight: Silksong costs 59 loaves of bread

Most games aren’t just overpriced, they are grotesquely overpriced. $20 feels good for a game like this. I didn’t have to think about it or budget anything, I just bought it.

Nah. Team Cherry’s situation is totally unique.

They said the same thing about Hollow Knight being so cheap. I remember when Nine Sols dropped for $40, people were saying it’s so much more expensive but it was a huge success nonetheless

Honestly, if indie developers ask reasonable prices I am willing to pay that, even a little more. Because I know the struggle, knowing that many solo devs basically exploit themselves for their big dream game. AAA on the other hand can straight go fuck themselves.

i think, if they want me to play them, they need to be priced appropriately. unless I’m going to find a year of joy and replayability, I’m not sinking 60+ into a game. I have a limited budget, don’t pirate games, and want to know I support devs when I can.

25 is the perfect “i got paid today lemme try this” price for me.

15 is the perfect “I’ll get this, and maybe it’ll stay in my lib, but it supports a new fellow dev. cool.”

I think people making decisions without giving half a fuck about "the market" is awesome.

I've never understood why there are standard price points for computer games. There is a wide spectrum of effort that goes into them, so it seems strange that all should be priced the same.

I dont think anyone sees a $20 dollar game, and goes this should now be the price of games. Its weird that they even think that and kind of selfish to try and make it appear as a bad thing.

Yeah, I'm not paying more than $20 for an indie game. If your indie game "needs" to cost more than that (it doesn't), I will just wait for a sale.

Edit: LOL @ the downvotes 😂 so entitled "b-b-but you HAVE to buy my hobby project at full overpriced price that is a carbon copy of literally hundreds of identical games' premise, art style, and mechanics, don't you want to SUPPORT me???"

I would have paid $60 for silksong because of its incredible quality. For me it has nothing to do with whether it is indie or not. I won't pay anything for triple A games most of the time, they seem very mid (quality wise but also isn't interesting to me).

I don't understand the concept of "not being able to afford selling at that low a price" for something that's purely digital. Like I get if you're selling a chair and the wood and tools you used to make the chair cost you $100, you need to sell that chair for more than $100 to not lose money on the whole transaction. But for a video game, the costs have basically all been realized by the time the game gets released, right, assuming you don't have to worry about producing physical copies or pay for servers every month? So if that's your situation, your main concern is to find the sweet point for the price at which the most people will buy your game, yes? If you can sell ten times as many copies by cutting the price in half, you would be losing money if you didn't go with the lower price.

Never pay more than twenty bucks for a computer game.

Yes, they should be afraid. Seeing just how well things work, when you are honest scares the dishonest and manipulative. Also it comes from IGN, so yea.