Coromon is on sale right now for $5, but I’m hesitant to purchase it after discovering that they have microtransactions and a cosmetics store embedded into the game. Like, I love and try to support indie developers as much as I can, so I have a growing list of indie games on my wish list on Steam that I often purchase. I was shocked and honestly confused. Why would any Indy developer do this their game? It seems counterintuitive and honestly just stupid. I mean, look at any other successful indie game out there. Stardew Valley, undertale, Celeste, cassette beasts, just to name a few. None of these have any sort of microtransaction or cosmetics that you can buy in the game that I’m aware of. A soundtrack, sure.

It just kind of makes me apprehensive to buy any sort of game like that, like why couldn’t you just develop a new DLC for 10 or 15 bucks that has a bunch of additional cosmetics included in it and label it as character customization additions included? When you hear Mike or transactions or cosmetics, you think of cash shop bullshit like EA, Activision, Fortnite. So strange to me!