StormEdge: Wind of Change - Why is this game F2P?

its the first chapter appreantly

I played it not long after it showed up on steam and it was a fun little game with easy steam achievements. And yeah it's just a typical "prologue" or demo version like for other games.

The blurb: "Wind of Change is the first chapter of StormEdge, an action roguelite adventure."

The first line of description on game page:

Join Lily, one of the first mages to sense the onset of the Elemental Storms, in StormEdge: Wind of Change, a prologue chapter to the StormEdge.

And just above that, a link to the main game page.

Not sure how you missed all that.

This really reminds me of Wizard of Legend with how the gameplay looks.

Since no one has linked it yet, here's the upcoming full game ^^:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2321350/StormEdge/

this game reminded me of Mageseeker

"I'm thinking this may be a sneaky way to release a demo, without calling it a demo."

It is. The new trend on steam is to release the demo as a whole separate game, call it a "prologue", "first chapter" or something to indicate it's not the whole game,, then eventually release the actual game and delist the prologue and then list it again as the demo on the actual games page.

I mean it's free, but I do think it creates useless steam appid's and technically you could list 100 demo's like this just to get the game out, except you'd have to pay the steam fee that many times so about 10k, but then your game would show 100x more than another.

It is only the first chapter. So it is a demo for me.