The Xbox One's first sub-$10 game, puzzle game Nutjitsu, will be available this Thursday, independent developer NinjaBee (A World of Keflings) told GameSpot this afternoon.
The game launches May 8 for $6.49. It is a lso the second game ever from Microsoft's new indie publishing program, ID@Xbox, to be released, following last month's Strik e Suit Zero.
Nutjitsu was originally released last year on PC as a free (but ad-supported) game for Windows 8. So why is the Xbox One version not free?
"The Windows 8 version allows users to purchase the 'acoins' currency used to buy upgrades and consumables. We were experimenting with a free-to-play model. We didn't like what it did to game balance and the user experience so much, so we decided to can the F2 P approach, and allow users to get ALL the content with the base game purchase," a company respresentative told GameSpot today. "It just ended up making more sense to monetize the old fashion way than trying our hand at F2P on the console."
In the top-down, arcade-style game, you play as a squirrel who is out to retrieve stolen (and sacred) acorns from enemy foxes.
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