I just got this neat little $5 game from Steam, and it's some good fun. It's a third-person shooter where you have to defend a base for ten minutes from waves of enemies. Points rack up for how much blood you're able to spill at once. It's a decent challenge to keep your base save for ten minutes, and at $5 it's exactly how much I'd pay for it.

i like it a lot too, plus i can play it on all of my computers
it's one of those games that you play to unwind after some really intense, in-depth rpg, or some other game where you need to think too much

There's a lot of people bitching about it on the Steam forums, but I too have been really enjoying it. Reminds me of lego for some reason =)

Yeah, the smooth textures remind me of Lego, too. What kind of complaining are they doing about it? The 360 controller is poorly managed in this, but it works perfectly with my mouse and keyboard.

Just finished playing a bit of this.
Definitely isn't a bad game for when you want mindless action. I was a bit disappointed at only having one level.. I think GOG has spoiled me, I expect a lot more out of my $5!
It's not all bad though, hopefully they release some free DLC.

I think the basics go something like, "waah waah! It's too short!", "waah waah! It's not TF2" and so on. Or in otherwords, if it isn't a sucky Valve game, it must be crap, and so forth.

It could be worse it could be £5 in the UK which is nearly $8... oh wait that's exactly what it is.
I had a look and had it been the right price (eg £2.99 tops) then I may have taken the punt but in the UK atleast they priced themselves out of it.

Don't be so ready to blame the devs on that one, it's very likely that Valve forced that on them. While Valve claim that publishers set the prices, the reality is (at least for indies) that Valve "suggests" prices to them. Valve have also been known to overrule pricing suggested by indie devs, implementing a higher price of their choosing.

The screenshots remind me of a 3D Cannon Fodder :P

I've always wondered if Steam is handled exclusively by Valve or if they have some agreement with another company that has the two managing the service cooperatively. I can't imagine Valve doing it alone, since it's about the only thing they put out that isn't 100% flawless. Even with their screw-ups, Steam is still a great service, and I use them regularly.

I haven't bought it (not sure if I will), but the devs said that they plan to add free DLC later.
We'll see if they deliver.

That's good news.. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a sordid Eternity's Child affair.

I can't imagine Valve doing it alone, since it's about the only thing they put out that isn't 100% flawless.
No, it's most certainly a Valve only affair. The problem is that while they may know how to make games (and that's a point I would dispute at times, especially looking at L4D), they know very little about managing a shop - and even less about web based services.

I have it on good authority from the guys who made Zeno Clash that Steam suggest a price point and they wanted the game to come out world wide at a relatively similar price which it did. I just get the feeling that American devs without a proper european publisher just plain forget about us and tell valve "yeah 10 bucks sounds good" and Valve just say 10 pounds is about good enough. Either way you cut it something either shady or lazy is going on with alot of stuff on steam happily GoG aren't so selfish/ignorant.

MY guess would be that the bigger devs get a bit more of a voice in the discussion, but a new indie group is pretty much going to be told what their price point is.