Sputnika Game Goes Paid on Steam September 23
The paid switch is a small developer pricing a game to match the platforms it already sells on, with the Steam release becoming a paid product roughly two years after it launched free there.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Developer egunan announced on September 15 that the merge puzzle game Sputnika Game becomes paid on Steam on September 23, priced at $2.99. Anyone who adds it to their library before then keeps it for free. The game has drawn about 680 Steam reviews at 89% favorable, a Very Positive rating, and already sells on Nintendo Switch for 460 yen and runs free with ads on iOS and Android.
The Steam version has been free since February 2024, when it arrived after a November 2023 demo on itch.io. Updates since then added gamepad support and adjustments to the game-over judgment timing.
New content is planned for the near future, and Steam profile features such as trading cards, restricted on the free version, are also planned. The Switch version sells for 460 yen, and price unification with other platforms is cited as one reason for the change. The mobile version stays free because it carries ads.
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