Before Jordan Morris of Mister Morris Games became known for Rusty's Retirement, an idle farming sim that catalyzed a wave of similar bottom-of-your-screen interactive toys, he made 2022's Haiku, the Robot, a lovely little 2D Metroidvania that had taken inspiration from Hollow Knight. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Morris says he struggled with how to price Haiku, in part because Hollow Knight, still regarded by many as an exemplar of the genre even as we continue the multi-year wait for Hollow Knight: Silksong, was criminally underpriced.
"So Haiku, I felt like I took a bit of a risk, because I just felt Hollow Knight was so underpriced, like €15 or $15," Morris tells me. "In fact, I bought it multiple times because I'm just like, take my money, please. I've got it on Xbox, Switch, and PC. So yeah, I felt like that's too cheap, and for the time that it released versus the time that I was releasing mine, obviously the economy had changed. And you have to keep in mind discounts, how you discount your game.
