Creator of $2,000 Steam game says don’t buy it if you can’t afford it

WTF?! There are some costly objects on the market on Steam, although most of them are items of {hardware}, such because the Valve Index VR headset and the Steam Deck. It is not such as you’ll discover equally priced video games. That is technically true as a result of ‘The Hidden and Unknown’ is much more costly at $1,999. Even its creator warns towards shopping for it.

Created by indie dev ProX.staff, based by somebody utilizing the alias ThePro, The Hidden and Unknown is text-based and described as a “story-based recreation, that goals to widen the notion of its viewers within the areas of psychology and philosophy.”

PCGamer performed the title, noting that it begins with an eight-minute-long Star Wars-style scroll describing an imbalance between masculine and female power that is turning Western males infertile resulting from testosterone depletion. It is also inflicting ladies to change into more and more masculine, which is able to in the end result in the tip of humanity. There’s additionally a time-traveling AI entity in there someplace.

The Hidden and Unknown is primarily a visible novel, although solely the areas, not the characters, are proven, and so they seem to have been created utilizing an AI-powered picture generator.

In all equity to ThePro, who’s initially from Slovakia and now residing in Switzerland, he did inform PCGamesN that they do not imagine anybody will purchase their recreation, and even desires to “discourage anybody from shopping for it if they can not afford it, I do not wish to trigger bother.” It is also lots shorter than the two-hour playtime restrict Steam permits for video games to be returned, so anybody who does resolve to spend two thousand {dollars} on The Hidden and Unknown ought to have the ability to get a refund as soon as they full it.

As for why they determined to cost a lot for his or her recreation, ThePro stated a lot of it’s based mostly on their very own life story. “I would not wish to simply promote my very own life for pennies, as to me, the story means greater than only a pure ‘recreation,'” they stated. ThePro added that the venture initially began life as a e book earlier than evolving right into a recreation.

Charging $1,999 for a recreation is actually bringing loads of consideration to The Hidden and Unknown, so kudos to ThePro for what has turned out to be a intelligent advertising technique. I’ve not performed it so cannot touch upon the standard, however judging from different opinions, apparently your enjoyment of the sport could possibly be measured by how a lot you want Andrew Tate.