Length of game influences buying?

[rinari]

I’m not sure you’ll find a useful average word count per chapter just because the chapter lengths of games varies so greatly: also a “good” story is so subjective that this is a hard question to answer! I think there is no real average and that word count per chapter should be dictated by the needs of the story.

I do recommend checking out this thread for a list of popular COG and HG games listed by word count; dividing by the number of chapters in each title might give you an answer, but again, I’m not sure how useful it would be because some chapters in those titles are very short and some are very long!

[Pyrouge]

Honestly, if the theme of a game is enticing enough (looking at you, Rent-a-Vice) I’m willing to pay up for a shorter game. But I will always, always prefer games that are longer. I don’t have a hard and fast rule for buying and length, but if I’m on the fence and the game is short I usually won’t even bother. I like my games to have some meat to them!