Title. I just beat the main story, and as a cosmic horror fan I absolutely love how the devs took a game with no story and turned it into a lovecraftian meta-commentary on the game’s development cycle. The way I interpret it each update that gets implemented is a canon event in which the Atlas introduces a new element into it’s universe, bringing us further along the sixteen minutes. This also heavily implies that the sixteen minutes will only end when the game stops being developed and updated. It’s wild how such a simple premise has been transformed into this introspective, existentialist story that left me with that same bittersweet feeling other of my favourite media gives me.

Bravo, hello games.

And I’m so sorry Artemis ;_;

The title says it all. This game has received 7 years of free updates; this game is near unrecognisable from it’s launch. But how do they make money?

Most games that I can think of that provide free content updates are:

Live service games (fortnite, halo infinite)

AAA studios with big revenue sources (minecraft)

For a limited time (sonic frontiers)

But hello games is small, the game not live service, the game is not big enough where I can see new sales alone funding the game, and the updates do not seem to be slowing down, I do not see people buying merch in droves), and they do not have other popular games to make money elsewhere (Joe Danger and The Last Campfire are not exactly money printing machines).

Edit: The updates are great, just curious about funding