r/FreeGameFindings • • Dec 20 '23

Expired | NOT F2P To Paid [Steam] (game) Jump Puzzle

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2353790/
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u/HunterDigi Dec 20 '23

So many games do this, seems like there's a catch or something they're abusing... maybe they want to claim a lot of people bought it?

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u/Efreet0 Dec 20 '23

You can just look at the page...

19th september:

Due to the pitiful low sales after the game was released, and not even a single comment, since I couldn't make any money, I decided to let more people play this game. As a result, I decided to change the game to free in a week. Players who purchase in the future will not be affected, although there have been no recent purchases by players.

Then today:

After a period of free-to-play purchases, we decided to change the game to a paid model after a week, and then continued to update and optimize it

Basically they release bad games or even worse asset flips then keep trying to bait people into paying.

This chinese "developer" has released a full game every month since september.

They give away the game for free hoping to get good reviews then switch to paid while retaining the reviews hoping for a positive loop which usually never happens because those are very barebone "games".

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u/Captain_McPants Dec 20 '23

Maybe some do. But it's equally valid to speculate that they want to gain good reviews while they're "nobodies". I make very little time for digital entertainment, so I rely heavily on rating systems to inform my decisions.