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Should I have a certain price for my game, or should I make it free?

A topic by CornPop Games created Oct 13, 2022 Views: 1,913 Replies: 7

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I'm wondering how I should go about selling my game. On one hand, I wanna make money, on the other hand though, no one would care about my games unless they know it's good first. What should I do?

No Time To PlayModerator2 years ago

It depends on the game, but in my experience a pay-what-you-want game earns more than a game with a minimum price. People are often generous. Try it and see, you can change at any time.

822FU2 years ago

The pay what you want seems like a great idea or maybe you can do a limited free demo version to get people interested.

EddGames2 years ago

I also think that the best thing is to do the full game for a fee, and a separate free demo.

VerzatileDev188 days ago

If its first pay what you want and they download, when you make it paid will the previous consumers get locked out ?

redonihunter2 days ago

Only if "individually priced files" are used.

Payment of any amount puts a game as a owned game into your library. If the price changes later, this ownership does not change. It is bascially the same as getting the game in a sale. After a sale the price is higher and you still get to keep it.

Kador2 days ago

As developers who have released full length games for free - and announced and advertised as such - that paucity of price aspect alone does not guarantee a higher download rate. Connection with the content does indeed appear to come first.

redonihunter2 days ago

More than enough free stuff available. Genuine free stuff, pay what you want, free with in-app purchases, and so on.

Plus, many players have a huge library of unplayed paid games from all the sales.

So, yeah, "connection with the content" is a must. If you are established as a developer, that one gets easier.