Steam Next Fest is a week-long celebration featuring hundreds of FREE playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats. Players try out upcoming games on Steam pre-release, developers gather feedback and build an audience ahead of their Steam launch, everyone wins!
This Next Fest runs until October 20, 10 am Pacific.
I love those demo’s, but it’s on purpose! They want you to play enough so you get hooked enough to want to buy it once it ends. A few hours into an rpg is nothing, but once you invested that much, there’s probably a higher chance you buy it to continue playing.
I feel like demos have become longer recently than they used to be. It used to be that you could only get through the equivalent of a level or two, now it’s more like they last up to 2 hours - the same period you might play and steam refund a game to demo it that way.
I love those demo’s, but it’s on purpose! They want you to play enough so you get hooked enough to want to buy it once it ends. A few hours into an rpg is nothing, but once you invested that much, there’s probably a higher chance you buy it to continue playing.
That’s literally the entire purpose of a demo
I feel like demos have become longer recently than they used to be. It used to be that you could only get through the equivalent of a level or two, now it’s more like they last up to 2 hours - the same period you might play and steam refund a game to demo it that way.
Seems like a very healthy development in gaming.