I just picked up the highly hyped Blue Prince. On the other hand reviews have also called it a very niche game. I like puzzle games to a certain extent and roguelikes, but these are subjective experiences.

Anyways, I was hoping to get the gist of it and get into a groove and decide if I like it within the refund period.

The game mechanics are explained through notes in the game at it took me 80 minutes to reach a point where an important mechanic is explained.

This could have been done much earlier, I wonder why the developer delayed the explanation when it's just useful information

Other games also front load the prologue with long tutorials and cutscenes. So by the time you get into the meat of the game the refund window is out.

The other elephant in the room is if steam refunds are meant as a demo for everything or just to check technical issues like FPS and network connection issues

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[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I love Steam but I've always felt like the refund policy was a bit of a joke. I feel like the time limit should be flexible, being a bit longer for games that have long tutorials or a bunch of intro cutscenes.

[–] mohab@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

I agree. Like, you know what's gonna happen if I'm close to the 2-hour limit and haven't decided yet? I'm gonna refund and move on.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Alternatively you can have Sonys policy of did you boot it? Yes? Fuck you

[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, I know it can be worse. I just think it could also be better.