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When Gold Charges are added into the game, and perhaps when more talents are added, the game seems like it will be more or less mechanically complete. The only thing that will be coming after that are new story dungeons, new monsters, new NPCs and new loot.
Early Access games on Steam are heavily mechanically incomplete, you're buying the potential for a game. All of the groundwork hasn't been laid, all there is is a vision for what's to come.
By the way I see it, though, SoG appears to have episodic or chapter-based content along the lines of TellTale's many games - which are never listed as Early Access on the Steam store despite the full game not being finished in advance, just episodic content.
You have Chapter 1: Making The Grade. Chapter 2: Cloudy Investigation. Chapter 3: Seasoned Adventurer.
With two more dungeons and a final area left, that's a total of 6 chapters of content assuming no diversions get in the way of artifact hunting. The game is about 50% complete, isn't it? Or 40%, if Pillar Mountains -> Gigaslime aren't big enough to be a chapter.
I'm wondering what would be best to describe SoG as, once those Gold Charges are in. An episodic game you return to every once in a while for the next chapter like TellTale games, or an Early Access game?
And depending on which it is... why isn't it the other, and why aren't TellTale games EA?
Early Access games on Steam are heavily mechanically incomplete, you're buying the potential for a game. All of the groundwork hasn't been laid, all there is is a vision for what's to come.
By the way I see it, though, SoG appears to have episodic or chapter-based content along the lines of TellTale's many games - which are never listed as Early Access on the Steam store despite the full game not being finished in advance, just episodic content.
You have Chapter 1: Making The Grade. Chapter 2: Cloudy Investigation. Chapter 3: Seasoned Adventurer.
With two more dungeons and a final area left, that's a total of 6 chapters of content assuming no diversions get in the way of artifact hunting. The game is about 50% complete, isn't it? Or 40%, if Pillar Mountains -> Gigaslime aren't big enough to be a chapter.
I'm wondering what would be best to describe SoG as, once those Gold Charges are in. An episodic game you return to every once in a while for the next chapter like TellTale games, or an Early Access game?
And depending on which it is... why isn't it the other, and why aren't TellTale games EA?