Developing the development development by repeating repeated refunds with STEAM-Indiorororor Summer of '58 development studio announces [UPDATE]

From July 22, 2021 Indie Horror Summer of '58 has been released at STeam. This work has been posted 500 review evaluations at the time of writing articles, and about 85% of them are well received. The notation in the STEAM store is very popular. However, Emika_Games, a development studio in this work, is an official Twitter on August 27 announced **.

Why did you express to leave the game development despite developing and distributing works that are well received from the community? The reason was that the play time of this work and the refund policy of Steam. In STeam, if the play time is less than 2 hours from the date of purchase, there is a system that can be refunded regardless of reason.

This work is written as approximately 90 minutes in the game summary field of the store, and it is made not to reach 2 hours even if you play the game to the end. This was designed in the intention of making it to be cleared within 2 hours to play without getting tired to the end.

However, STeam accepts a refund request if it is within 2 hours, even if you clear the game. It is unknown whether or not a refund from the player who exploits this system, but at the moment the refund of this work is a huge number, and the personal studio EMIKA_Games with one developer is to make a new game Because there is no funding, it announced that it will leave the game development indefinitely. In addition, From day to day planned as the next work is held in the near future.

According to official Twitter, it seems that emika_games and Summer of '58 are many opinions in SUMMER OF '58. It is said that the content is not only to affirm this announcement and supporting developers, but also a fraud or a PR that is made by a black rumor.

Summer of '58 is distributed by STeam and the price is 930 yen. We are doing special promotion until September 4, and can be purchased at 716 yen off by 23% more than normal.

※ UPDATE (2021/08/30 15:58) : Some of the contents of the summary were fixed. Thank you for pointing out with comments.