Is this game coming soon to GOG? or am I going to have to buy it on Steam?
I don't want to buy it on Steam

That's awfully expensive for a game that's that short.

Thanks for the heads up, I will probably buy this game right now from Humble and mark this as a solution.

Wow, no kidding $8 USD for a 90 minute game seems like a huge ripoff. I wouldn't even buy a game that was only 90 minutes long, but if I would consider it, I'd only pay like $0.20 for it which would be very generous considering what I played for my 650+ hours of Skyrim for the price paid.

It's not right or wrong though, each person individually finds interest in things using their own metrics. I'm just honestly curious what value one sees in terms of enjoyment from a 90m game for that price. TBH, I don't think I'd even pay $8 for sex that lasted 90 minutes either though, so clearly such games are not written targeting me as a customer either. :)

That just sounds like the "race to the bottom" talking. :P People payed $20 for ~4 hours of Outlast, and many felt they got their money's worth. (Just as an example)

Agreed. A base price of $10 for a 90 minute game seems a bit outrageous to me. $2 would be fine, but $10 is just ridiculous.

Well, clearly there's a certain amount of opinion involved, there are people out there that are willing to pay, I just can't imagine a game that short being worth that kind of money.

For example, $60 got you Fallout: New Vegas on release and that's a minimum of 40 hours for the first run through. Obviously, assuming you're not using hint manuals to speed run through, that's just playing on your own. That's roughly $1.5 per hour for that first run through alone with the possibility of many more runs.

This game is about $5.33 per hour of game play.

Yes, I know that's a completely unfair comparison, but there's many other games that would be similarly discounted comparatively speaking.

The only thing I can think of here is that this game is marketed towards people who don't have a whole lot of time on their hands and have plenty of money.

Not that I like comparing videogames and movies all that much, but in this case I actually think the comparison is apt. A movie is often between 90 and 210 minutes in length and costs around €15 to €20 when new, why would a game of similar length not be able to offer a fairly similar enjoyment value?

Yeah, I agree. Sure, it looks expensive when you try to compare the length/price ratio to some RPGs (a genre that is a notorious time sinker, especially the "open world" ones). But if those 90 minutes are real good, it doesn't sound like such a ripoff to me. After all, I've got quite a few 20-60$ games on my Steam and GOG accounts that bored me to tears after 2 hours, and some other very short games that I remember fondly after several years because I fell in love of their story or artstyle. In fact, as I grow older, I have a harder time enjoying longer games like "New Vegas", nowadays.

Sometimes, it's not about the length of the game, but the strength of the experience :)

The price/hours ratio makes sense. The rated length of the game is an indicator of how long your wallet will rest before you need to buy another game!

All right, fair enough.

I respect that P.O.V., but going to the movies or to a concert, dining at a restaurant (even in the "greasy burger and pizza" categories)... Those are activities within this time format, and they often cost quite a bit more than that.

At the end of the day, the question could be : Is a game something that can be enjoyed as much as going to the movies or eating with friends, or should it always be low cost entertainment?

(And if you say "Low cost time sink", I'm cool with it, really. I sometime enjoy long/grindy games to pass time. I just happen to think that, sometime, it can be a little more than that.)

According to some logic here, Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors should be one of the greatest games ever, or have the best value , due to the Desert Bus minigame...