Anyone have any tips/common practices for pricing commercial visual novels? 🤔 What do you base the price on? #VNDev #indiedev #gamedev - ThreadSky

meiri.itch.io • 86 days ago

Anyone have any tips/common practices for pricing commercial visual novels? 🤔 What do you base the price on?

#VNDev #indiedev #gamedev

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ingthing.dev•86 days ago

Be sure to check if Steam/Itch will take a cut due to your country’s trade arrangements with the US as well! Pricing too low will mean you don’t get much at all after fees in general

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

Yeah, the 30% tax is... oof. Thank you for reminding me 🤔

ingthing.dev•86 days ago

We have 30% here too 😅 I think I see most newer VNs are 15-20USD as a baseline but shorter ones at ~10USD and even more is taken out during sales periods when prices are marked down

zamius1306.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm from Finland and since I planned to release my first VN as an individual, Valve gave me 0% fee, surprisingly 😲👀
No idea how or why, but cool! 🤣

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

owgh you're lucky, both steam and itchio take 30% of everything i sell 🥲

zamius1306.bsky.social•85 days ago

It's another story, though, if my country's taxman will take some cut later 😂

kigyo.itch.io•86 days ago

For short games, I would start around $3-$5. After that, I think a general rule of thumb is 1 hour of playtime = $1. When the game is really long, then it usually caps off at $30.

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

how short is short? 🤔

kigyo.itch.io•86 days ago

1-2 hours, I'd say!

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

thank you, that's very helpful!!

npckc.net•86 days ago

you can try looking at vns similar to yours & comparing prices (also if releasing on steam, most purchases will happen during sales so maybe keep that in mind when choosing your price)

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

onedavidic.bsky.social•86 days ago

Help in📌

sumideod.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'd say 5+1,9(Playtime in hours)€ is a good metric

arimiadev.com•86 days ago

I start at $9.99 & go from there. Canvas Menagerie is 135k words & 14+ CGs so it'll be $14.99, meanwhile something like Asphodelium will probably be 65k~ so I'll keep it at $9.99. If I ever released something under 50k I'd price it under $10 but that's just me. I go off of other games & gut feeling

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

very helpful, thank you!!

venuswrites.bsky.social•86 days ago

Minhas VNs atuais são de graça, mas com Desire eu to pensando em ser tipo... 3$ por capítulo no mínimo?
(Totalmente sem certeza no momento)

meiri.itch.io•86 days ago

🤔 Quantas horas são cada capitulo?

venuswrites.bsky.social•85 days ago

~2 horas o capitulo 1!

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