Should've started with this..

[Morlan]

..but it wasn't around or I didn't know about it. I found the puzzles of the first Snakebird immensely enjoyable because of their difficulty and cleverness. Most likely I won't invest in this installation as the developer said it's quite easier than the first.
But are there any thoughts about of levels of similar difficulty, either added later or in another game in this series?
Cheers for a wonderful game, in my view, maybe among the top13 puzzlers of all time..

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Having played the original game first, I found there to be about 5 to 10 levels out of the 70 or so in this game that challenged me a bit. Ultimately this game only took one tenth (1 / 10) of the time to complete as the original but if you're a big enough fan of this game, I'd still recommend it.

The amount of playtime it gives anyone who completed the original is a little disappointing (even more of the easy puzzles would help keep the experience of just roaming around as a fun creature called a snakebird, going) but it's not an empty experience.

[Morlan]

Thanks for the info, I have it on the list to get eventually, but based on what I knew and your input it's rather pricey for what it offers so I'll wait for the winter to come..

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Leave a review too, if you get it!
Currently, it is in what is called by some, "not a real game" status, which means it can't have any Steam emots, cards, badges, and it isn't counted in your total game count or Achievement stats.

I don't know if it will get badges and emots once it reaches "real game" status (if the devs have any planned or not) - but leaving a review helps them reach that status.


I do agree that it seems a bit too much. It costs even more than the original! ...but maybe I'd feel the other way around about which one was more worth the money if I was less adept at the puzzles. Personally, I think, having easier content, this game could have benefited from having more levels than it did, even though it's already nearly twice as many levels as the original. Easier puzzles are a lot less difficult to make so... I could have seen it being larger.

[Morlan]

To be fair though it costs slightly less than the original. I would leave a review if I had it, but winter sale is away.. I can wait..

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Primer is actually $1 more.

[Morlan]

Originally posted by Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at:

Primer is actually $1 more.

That's quite interesting, I see 6.99 coins for Snakebird and 6.59 for Primer

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Huh... in my region of the world, the prices I am shown are $7.99 for Primer and $6.99 for Snakebird.

Regional store pricing & availability differences are very odd.

I guess they expect my people to be worse at puzzles and thus for Primer to be in higher demand here - which is probably a correct assessment for most of my people given that they can't even tell the difference between a security camera and a smoke detector.

[Morlan]

I cannot find a good enough reason for this discrepancy. Different prices with the "regional" excuse, I understand. This makes no sense..
..or well, that ^^^ does sound plausible!

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Well, I'm used to different regions simply charging more or less across the board due to varying levels of currency inflation and taxes but this one is new to me. I don't know where you're at but I'm in the middle of the USA.

I don't understand WHY the price would be different like that but... did they just think no one would notice? People talk about these sorts of things. (Now that I know about this, I'd really love to hear the story of the thought-process behind it or whatever Steam / Valve voodoo may be going on in the background)

I could post a screenshot if you want. I'd probably attach some emot art to it to justify uploading it to my artwork feed. ...or maybe a drawing... hmmm...

[Morlan]

There's a nice site that keeps historical records and whatnot from games on the platform.
https://steamdb.info/app/357300/ and https://steamdb.info/app/1014140/ respectively for Snakebird and the next. You can check all prices there. And from what I see there, it's not that Primer is cheaper rather than Snakebird being MORE expensive (in Europe only) compared to the other regional prices (i.e. if it followed Prime, it would be around 8% cheaper than US but its in fact 11% more than the base price, which is US. )

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Very cool! I didn't know about this. Thank you for showing me.