If you’ve been curious about Broken Age ($4.99), Double Fine’s point-and-click adventure game that set off a whole Kickstarter furor that rages on to this day, well, now is a good time, as the first episode is on sale right now for $4.99. The second episode is still in the works, and will be available as a separate in-app purchase, but you can nab the first episode for half-off the normal price right now – and the game as a whole is $24.99 for the whole shebang on desktop, so hey, you’re saving more money.
The first episode of the game, in my review, was noted as being somewhat incomplete of an experience, though with a compelling cliffhanger. Episodic games are always tricky to judge because they’re by design incomplete parts of a greater whole, but this game is a unique case, as it is meant as the first part of a whole game. The plan on PC was to sell the entire thing up front to fund the second half, but on iOS, you just buy the first half and then pay for the second half later. Well, if you’re interested enough in the first half of Broken Age, then now’s as good a time as ever to pull the trigger.