HERE COMES NIKO! REVIEW – The Gist of Games

Nikos a girl

A young what ?

Well this looks friggin adorable! Discovered it today because Super Rare Games are releasing a limited physical for Switch sigh opens wallet

“A young “enby”…. “

I’ll sit this one out.

I want to buy the game but when ever I look for it in the Eshop, it’s not there. And I don’t have a PC or Steam

whats with it with really damn good indie games and their leads being innocent non-binary kids named niko

Wow such a wonderful game, and Niko! They are so cute. Wouldn't have found this one without u Connor thanks

I love the artwork and the concept behind this game. I would consider getting this

I played through it today, great game, 100% agree with the review, I hope that more people vibe with it

Might check it out never really seen any games with non binary characters.

if someone misgenders niko, we will nico nico break their kneecaps

it's a game you can play casually

speedrunners: is that a challenge

Thanks for this quick review of a game I've been looking forward to, maybe the first on Youtube? A nice review in general, letting us know how you felt playing the game, but I have a couple of critical comments:
– Most importantly, you keep talking about A Hat in Time like this game is made by the A Hat in Time team. It is not. Gears for Breakfast is merely the publisher of this game, and the dev team who made the game is Frog Vibes from the Netherlands. From what I can tell this is their first game. Those looking for a polished product like A Hat and Time is today (after many version updates and patches) will be disappointed.

– You mention that the game is coming out for Steam and Switch, but viewers should know that the Steam release is today (Aug 3), but the Switch release is coming "soon after" this Steam release. We still have no Switch release date.

– I'm baffled by your comment that the game's $25 price is "about what you should be expecting to pay for indie games bare minimum these days". Do you buy many indie games? I've bought so many indies for Steam and Switch in the last few years, love to support indie devs, and follow indie sites all over the web — but I am very surprised by this $25 price. Similar games usually sell for $15-20 or less, and out of the several hundred indie games I've bought that are similar in scope to Here Comes Niko!, I would say I've paid $25 or above for only five or ten of them. For me, $25 is the bare maximum that we should expect to pay for such games when they are digital-only. (By the way, I would be happy to pay $30-35 for this game on a physical Switch cartridge.)

Some goty-level indies like Dead Cells or Hades open digitally for $25, but Here Comes Niko does not seem like a goty-level indie (though I really want to play haha!). Foregone opened at $30, immediately realized their mistake because no-one was buying at that price point, so in less than three months their standard price (not sale price) was reduced to $20 … plus occasional sales. A Hat in Time has managed to do well priced at $30 (with very frequent $15-$18 sales, which is when most of us bought it), but they are the exception to the rule. I imagine that publishers Gears for Breakfast encouraged this high price-point, and are already planning the same kind of frequent $15-18 sales. I don't encourage people to pay $25 and up for overpriced digital-only indie games, when there are so many great games out there to play. I really want to play Here Comes Niko! But if I can be patient, I am going to wait for Switch, and wait for the first sale price at $20 or less.

What a cute looking game

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