Steam Next Fest is back and underway with "hundreds" of playable PC demos
Steam Next Fest is back and underway with "hundreds" of playable PC demos
If it's demos you want, today's your lucky day; Valve's thrice-yearly Steam Next Fest event is back for another outing,…
If it's demos you want, today's your lucky day; Valve's thrice-yearly Steam Next Fest event is back for another outing,…
Alright. What should I check out?
The Homeworld 3 demo is impressive and I'm really enjoying Lightyear Frontier as well. Definitely going to buy both when they come out in March. I've been hooked on the Homeworld universe since I started playing it in the 90's (25 years ago! lol I'm old) so it's been quite a long wait but it looks like BBI have done a great job. I've loved them since Hardspace Shipbreaker so I knew this would be something special.
If you're the type who wants to unwind from the hyper-realistic art style of most mainstream games nowadays, while also exploring modern Filipino life and culture through the eyes of a young adult student, the Until Then demo might be up your alley. Aside from the pixelated art style coming from the devs themselves, who are also wholly Filipino themselves, there's quite a substantial attention to detail when it comes to the greater Metro Manila and the suburban locations around, including our local circuses. Oh, and there's also quite a bit of mysteriousness and some philospophy to it, as vaguely evidenced by its Playstation 5 trailer.
Yay!
I will check out Paradox' Millenia as well as Homeworld 3A demo has never once sold me on a game, going all the way back to shareware days.
However, I can think of countless times a demo has convinced me not to buy a game.
You’re definitely the outlier
Nah, demos largely disappeared because they not only took a bunch of resources to make but also had a far better chance of convincing you not to buy a game than to buy it, especially if you had other means of marketing it. Many people even enjoyed the demo but felt that they got their fill and therefore didn't want to keep playing, or maybe they didn't want anything out of the game beyond what the demo offered.
Factorio's demo absolutely convinced me to buy it.
Demos only really work well if the game is fantastic and able to convey that in a small slice of the game, though.
Really?
Doom's shareware sold Doom for me. Most recently the Tekken 8 demo sold itself. In between there have been a ton of games where the demo was helpful in deciding whether or not to play something.
I'm just surprised that in all that time there wasn't a single one that at a minimum confirmed a game was what you were expecting if you were on the fence.
I believe it, just surprised.
Holy shit, I had no clue they were making a new Tribes. It's been so long.