Thanks again for your input.

The number of reviews is irrelevant if a publisher becomes known for bundling away all games after few months.

You misinterpret the term "more reviews". More reviews means more appreciation and not more sale/profits.

1. Taxes aren't so high that "hardly anything is left"

Actually "it is" if you consider the manufacturing cost of a quality game (including replacing the old hardware, electricity bills, and other bills during the work hours). Yep, for most indies (even for small/ average studios) there is hardly anything left.

2. Taxes aren't the same all over the world. Governments actually compete in that regard.

Well, it is nothing to feel proud about. Still, they are more than enough in every country, if you consider that they are receiving lion's share in something they made no contribution in.

3. Those with higher taxes actually DO contribute and support creative arts, including game development.

Okay. how much contributions do government make towards development of the indie projects. If governments really did anything for indies, there wouldn't be any need for kickstarter or patreon. Unless you have a political affiliation personally, you can forget any financial backing for anything.

If at all, it's actually the opposite. And if they fail, they usually quit the industry.

Actually, most people working for profits usually quit an industry when they have earned enough dough and there is no more possibility of dough to be earned. Nonetheless, unlike what most people think, most people belonging to the creative class do the things they are best at, rather than the things from which they can earn most profits. If everybody worked for profits, you wouldn't have open source software or sites like archive and Wikipedia.

That's not even true for "communist" states, such as Cuba. And tax heavy Europe ends up with 45-55%, not 100%.

You seem very pleased that some entity takes 45-55% of your earnings without doing anything. You forget you purchase stuff too and pay tax for that too. If you total that and compare that with the return you finally receive from your work hours, you will realize that you are actually working under losses and not profits.

And yeah, posting nonsense while using labels such as "world governments" is giving your contribution a conspirational touch. "Pyramid scheme"

Actually I was being generous (and primarily brief although intentionally slightly inaccurate) when I called the mechanism of world governments a pyramid scheme. It is far worse if you compare the modus operandi of governments and that of a pyramid scheme.

Let's begin, shall we:

1. In case of pyramid scheme a person sits at top of the pyramid and recruits 10 second-tier people to the level directly below him, where each newbie must issue him a cash payment for the privilege of joining. Your place in a particular pyramid is determined simply from the fact that how early did you join the pyramid. While in case of governments (democratically elected) you have to pay taxes even when you don't get privilege of joining the government. You are only entitled to choose the group of people who tax you and such elected representatives can increase taxes as they deems fit. Only heirs/ relatives of people who already had been the part of the government or some extremely influential folks, become next batch of elected representatives.
2. In pyramid scheme each member of second-tier people bring in 10 more people and each of them must pay fees to the two tier members and these two tier people send a percent to the person sitting at the top. While there is no requirement of making members in the governments, even those people who don't vote for the said elected representatives are required to pay the taxes to the said group.
3. In pyramid scheme loss which occurs to the lower tier is one time only whereas in case of governments it is cumulative.
4. People have option to decline the pyramid scheme and they are through with it. While even if you refuse to vote, you will be taxed.

Now the Big Question: why a pyramid scheme collapses while the governments don't?

1. Pyramid scheme requires you to pay upfront cost for membership while governments tax you when you have earned something. It is easy to steal from people if they have something rather than when they don't.
2. In pyramid scheme when people pay a particular sum, they are done with it and the relationship ends. While governments keep draining you of your resources whether you buy stuff or sell it (you have no escape).
3. Relationship between the person on top tier of the pyramid and that of the people in lower tiers is that of a virus and a host (When the virus affects each cell of the body, the person dies i.e., the system fails) Relationship between the governments and the people is like that of a parasite and a host (you have enough food to be alive but not enough for you to be healthy).

Heh. I wonder if and how many bundles I bough for 1 euro don't looking about change. As did not noticed it is not 1 euro.... Good to know for future.

Edit: probably not many or none as I checked other recent game bundles. It looks like very recent change.

For my curiosity I checked a few bundles.

Game bundles:
The July 7 and July 14 Steam bundles still use 1USD=1EUR. ❌❌

Non-games:
July 13: /books/programming-for-makers-make-co-books - 0.89 EUR T1, but rounded numbers afterwards ❌

July 16 : /books/pathfinder-second-edition-paizo-inc-books - rounded numbers ❌❌

July 20: /books/raspberry-pi-raspberry-pi-press-books - 0.88 EUR in T1, but rounded numbers afterwards ❌

July 22: /software/javascript-web-development-software - this one uses 0.86 EUR T1, 21.59 EUR T3, so it's fair ✅
July 22: /books/incal-and-more-humanoids-books - same! ✅
It seems only these two (chart below is for the first) are as nicely priced as the Daedalic.
They're also noteworthy for pricing in Chinese yuan, I guess.

Anyway, we should keep an eye on that for the next game bundle, especially the next AAA publisher one. Let's hope prices stay fair, then such price charts won't even be useful to anyone (making for more concise threads).