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It's "free as in speech", not "free as in beer". https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

• AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  No, it is also "free as in beer": https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry
  • infogulch 4y ago
    It's free as in "you have free time to build it yourself". Seems like a fair tradeoff to me.
    • heckelson 4y ago
      The zip files on itch.io are compiled already! Just download and play!
    • mmis1000 4y ago
      Actually, the link in your parent comment is a freely available playable binary. You don't need to build it yourself. The only different with steam version is you need to update it yourself because it does not include an auto updater (Steam one neither, but steam itself is). The only platform you need to pay to play is ios. Because… Apple tex. You need an expensive mac and yearly paid dev account just to submit anything to appstore. It's not reasonable to ask anyone do it for free (let alone time consumed on maintenance)