Game demos

Bonkies Demo Free. Deadly Days Demo Free. Tetragon Demo Free. Mythic Ocean: Prologue Free. Arietta of Spirits - Demo Free. Trigger Witch Demo Free. The Riftbreaker: Prologue Xbox Free. The Eternal Cylinder Demo Free. Wunderling Demo Free. Metamorphosis Demo Free. Rising Hell Demo Free. Georifters Demo Free. Clea 2 Demo Free. Ghostrunner Demo Free. Speed Limit Demo Free. Curved Space Demo Free. Zombies ruined my day Demo Free. Hello Guest: Hello Neighbor 2 pre-alpha Free.

Tools Up! Hypnospace Outlaw Demo Free. TechSpot Downloads Gaming Search. AcidFreecell v1. AcidSolitaire v1. Xeno Assault II 1. Age of Empires III demo. This Age of Empires 3 singleplayer demo includes two campaign missions and two skirmish maps which you can play as the British or Spanish empires.

Serious Sam 2 Demo. This demo contains the complete Seriousopolis Uptown level from the game, which can be played solo, or over LAN or online by up to four people. Griddlers Deluxe 5. Gish 1. Crazy Minesweeper 2. Solitaire City 2. Cellblock Squadrons 2. Tanks Evolution 1. BreakQuest 1. Bonez Adventures: Tomb of Fulaos.

Elite Sudoku 1. Indigo Prophecy Demo. Strictly speaking, demos never went away, they just fell out of fashion. New ones still crop up every week for smaller indie games, but only recently have they returned in a big way for higher-profile releases outside of multiplayer betas.

The jury's still out on why demos lost popularity in the last decade. It could have to do with the extra development time required to develop a new build just for a demo. The rise of Early Access surely had an impact. We don't consider them in the same way, but sometimes an Early Access game begins small enough that it's effectively a demo that comes with your preorder. Another theory is that people stopped playing demos because they found faster ways to gauge interest, like watching a YouTuber play a game instead.

I did this a lot around For a long time, a ten-minute Let's Play had a larger impact on my purchasing decisions than actual hands-on time with games. Influencers continue to have a major impact on what games catch fire , though I'd argue that as YouTube culture evolved to favor heavily-edited montages of "funny moments" over straight-up presentations, the value of a Let's Play as demo replacement diminished. Regardless of the marketing motivations driving our little demo resurgence, it's definitely a good thing for the average player.

Demos are an invaluable perk of playing games especially on the PC. Be they downloads or the physical discs that we used to package with our magazine, the ability to try out games for free is a tiny miracle that no other visual medium can match. I can't watch the first 15 minutes of a movie unedited or taste test everything on the menu at Red Lobster they threw me out for insisting I could.

We have '90s shareware like the original Doom demos to thank for establishing the free vertical slice. I don't want to take that for granted anymore. I'm making it a habit in to check in on Steam's demo catalog , and not just for the big stuff. Worst case scenario, I know what not to buy. Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since , first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer.