I am not sure what demos you mention in particular but the one I recently played is news tower and I am hooked. Just waiting for a good sale to snag the game and even stopped posting the demo mid way. I for one appreciate all the demos being put out even if it is short. Their only purpose is to showcase the full game and they do a decent job of that.
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months agoShovelware demos are useless.
I remember the time I played the demo for farming sim and DOA:Dimensions to death on my 3DS. Those were actually good demos.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I nevr said demos for actual decent games are baf. Just that trash games and asset swap games are and polluting the search results and library.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah it doesn’t compare to old-school demos like stuff that came on discs with magazines, but at least it’s a lot better getting the option to try something instead of buying and refunding everything. And at least some bigger studios and indi games are picking up on this as well.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
For sure. But I hope they use the Steam Demo feature (same game page with a demo install button) instead of doing a free and premium type of publishing like they do with phone apps