Checked 16 October 2026 · Netherlands prices

A weekly play look beside a paid install

Three prices, one afternoon

Slay the Spire asked for €9.99. Stardew Valley asked for €4.89. Dead Cells asked for €8.99. I am lining them up because the homepage filter hides them as a group, and a group deserves a paragraph that is not only a chip. All three are paid before the first launch, on the Netherlands card, on 16 October 2026. A sale tomorrow is not in this note.

The two free cards are not a control group I designed. They are the other two links. Comparing a €9.99 deck game with a free desert runner is slightly absurd, and I am fine with that absurdity as long as each sentence stays tied to its own card.

What the price did not settle

Price did not predict the purchase line. The most expensive card was quiet about in-app purchases. The middle price said, in the description, that there were none. The €8.99 card printed In-app purchases anyway. If you use price as a proxy for a closed shop, these three cards will not support you.

Price also did not predict stars. The 4.8 card was not the cheapest and not the dearest. I am writing that down so I do not slide into a story where a higher price bought a higher average. The averages are the store's, from different numbers of reviews: 30.1K, 203K, and 135K.

Age marks on the paid rows

PEGI 7, PEGI 12, PEGI 16. The paid set contains both the mildest paid mark and the strictest mark in the whole five. Dead Cells is the one I would not hand over on the strength of a star line. The age mark is on the homepage facts row for that reason, in the same run of text as the price.

None of the three headers gave me a file size. A paid game is not automatically a large game, and I do not own a measurement. The phone will show a size on the store before it downloads. That screen is the one that matters, and it is not a screenshot I took.

How to use this beside the list

Read the paid filter, then open the three notes. The notes repeat the price on purpose. A homepage can be skimmed. A note is where I say what the price does not mean. Then use the store button if you want the charge to be real. This domain never shows a payment form.

The studios are Good Games Group, Inc., CONCERNEDAPE LLC, and PLAYDIGIOUS. I have no contract with them. The names are how you match a row to a card.

A paid install on this page is still their install. I only typed the amount the card showed.

Review counts are not a weight I applied

203K reviews on Stardew Valley, 135K on Dead Cells, 30.1K on Slay the Spire. A larger count makes an average harder to move. I am not weighting the rank by that. NO. 2, NO. 3, and NO. 4 are still the arrival order. The counts are here so a reader who trusts a small sample less than a large one can see the sample sizes the store printed, in one place, next to the prices.

None of these three is a free install with a purchase line. That pattern belongs to Vampire Survivors and Alto's Odyssey, and it is easy to smear across the whole list if I get lazy. Paid means the card showed a euro amount above zero. It does not mean the same thing as no further charges. Only the Stardew Valley description said no in-app purchases. I will keep typing that sentence until it is boring, because boring is harder to misread.

A fourth paid card is not hiding

There is no fourth paid listing in the five. Vampire Survivors and Alto's Odyssey were free to install. If a later link arrives, it does not get squeezed into this note. This note is about the three euro amounts I saw on one afternoon. Adding a sixth app in silence would break the rank and the filter at the same time.

Currency is part of the fact. Euros, not dollars, because the storefront was the Netherlands. I will not also print the US dollar amounts I glimpsed, even as a helpful conversion. Two prices for one app on one page is how a reader pays the wrong one in their head. The live card on their account is the price that can be charged.

The studios do not share a genre label. Card battler, farming simulation, action platformer. Paid is the only column they share for certain. That is a thin column, and it is still the one the homepage chip uses. Thin is fine if the notes refuse to pretend the games are siblings.