To clarify for the people questioning the price: it’s $74 for the version with free upgrades for one year. The “Lifetime” version with updates forever is $494.

You can get a free open source alternative like Whisky

https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky

No longer maintained as of very recently: https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice

FWIW it still works and I doubt it'll stop working any time soon. Maybe for games released a year from now it won't be feasible

Whisky is now unsupported.

Crossover is $USD74? Does the joke woosh me?

huh? It says $74 all over their website.

Per year.

To be fair – when your license is set to expire you do get a limited window (2 weeks before and after it seems per my 2023 copy) to renew at 50% off.