Android version with Steam key?

[Proțap]

If I buy this game on Steam, will I also get access to the Android version?
I'm quite reluctant to buying things on the Play Store and I'd much rather buy it here where all my other games already are

I'd like to play this on both PC and mobile. Steam already provides access to all OSes like Windows Mac and Linux, so I've got that covered since I have all three. But that leaves me with the question of whether the developer offers access to the Android version if I bought the game somewhere else. Kinda like some devs give Steam keys to people who bought the non-Steam version.

If I buy this game on Android and then I also get a Steam key that would also be good. I'd just like not to buy the same game twice when there are literally thousands of different games out there.

[Dohi64]

you have to buy it both on steam and and for your phone.

[Rando]

Would be nice to get a discount on the PlayStore if you bought it from the Steam store, and vice versa.

As much as I love the devs and their work, I really won't buy the game another time at full price just to play it on android.

[Zalias]

I found this for anyone who is wondering about the price.

Yo, Kim! Basically, the rationale is this. We believe Crashlands to be a $20 game, but we have to sell it separately on each platform (because Valve and Google don't bundle things together). But we figure people who buy the game on PC will also want the mobile version, and vice versa, so it seemed excessive to charge $20 on every platform.

We basically view the mobile + the PC version as "one copy" of the game, especially since your save transfers from one device to the other. This way, you can pay $5 for your mobile copy and $15 for the Steam version and have the game everywhere, while still paying just the $20 that we originally wanted to charge for the game.

The reason the price is a 3:1 ratio (and not a 50/50 split) is just that people generally refuse to spend money on mobile. $5 is a HUGE ask for a lot of mobile gamers, so $10 would be even more insane. So we have to accommodate what the market demands. It's kind of like how XCom was $60 on PC, which nobody minded, but the iPad version was $20, and there were tons and tons of articles about that "outrageous" $20 price tag. They're just very different markets, and we have to adapt.

In answer to your statement: "It just feels like being sold a mobile game on my pc for triple the price" -- It's the opposite. You're getting a PC quality game on your mobile device for 1/3 the price.

Still, if you want to play only on one platform, that's fine by us! You do what you gotta do!

Source: Reddit[amp-reddit-com.cdn.ampproject.org]

[Proțap]

Hmmm, but is there really no way to sell the game only once and have it available on all platforms? Hmmm...

[Angry Muffin]

unfortunately, there really truly is no way to do this. The stores are owned by different companies. Google does not care if you bought the game on Steam and Valve got a cut of that sale. Google wants their cut of the Play Store sale since they have costs associated with hosting the content there. There are no actions the devs can take in this area. It is just how those stores work.