The true game lies in managing limited action points for intermissions between bouts of fighting - improving the tank's weapons and armour for immediately visible returns, building bonds between crew-mates and tending to the physical and mental wounds of the injured and depressed to name a few.

Bonding scenes (with the occasional ship-tease here and there, mostly straight) forged with camaraderie under intense fire or relaxing conversations during lulls in the fighting show more nuance to these children while laying the foundations for future character development or lore spoilers for entries set far into the future of the Tail Concerto setting. Its characters are simple yet lovable, with each and every one of them having an obvious main shtick or quality that is prone to caricature.

But more importantly, it teaches us that hope should never be given up, even in our darkest times. Not to mention that the game also came out on consoles, which each company usually takes around 40% of the earnings instead of Valve/Steam's 30% cut.A game with hand-drawn illustration sand a deceptively cosy and warm aesthetic, Fuga: Melodies of Steel forces its main cast of anthropomorphic children to reckon with the costs of war in addition to the psychological toll of losing loved ones as well as sustaining battlefield trauma. And since a lot of sales were from countries like that and during sales, I don't think they have earned a lot from it. Yep, in countries like Argentina Fuga costs the equivalent to 5 dollars and have gone on sale for only around 3 dollars. To be fair, differences in regional pricing mean it's actually worth a bit more in USD than yen - although it's worth less in some other regions - but the best case scenario is still that it's just barely profitable. In reality, it's probably a bit less than that due to the game going on sale a few times. This is fairly rough math, but if all of those 100k sales were at the retail price of 4180 yen, after you take out the 30% cut that Valve takes on all sales, that means Fuga has made about 293M yen. Just for reference, Fuga's development budget was 327M yen: That would mean it's coming close to making back its development cost, but it still hasn't turned a profit. Originally posted by Digimonk:I was under the impression that it has since managed to do fairly well for itself after the initial sales run considering it's niche? Fuga: Melodies of Steel Sells 100,000 Units Worldwide Sequel Release Date Arriving 2023, Development Final Phase.

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