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This year’s Summer Sale on GOG.COM gives you the chance to play demos of some impatiently awaited games. From the dusty prairies of the Wild West to the space station floating among the stars - enjoy 7 demos of fantastic games for free.



Desperados III is a real-time tactics game with the story set before the events shown in Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive. In the demo released exclusively on GOG.COM, we meet Isabelle, a mysterious lady from New Orleans. She’s later joined by John Cooper, Kate O’Hara, and the rest of the band on two dangerous missions.



Destroy All Humans! is an open world action-adventure game about Crypto, an alien who lands in 1953 America. There, he must harvest human DNA and destroy all potential foes. In the game’s demo, released exclusively on GOG.COM, you’ll have the chance to test Crypto’s fancy weapons and even sit behind the cockpit of the flying saucer.



System Shock is a remake of a cyberpunk RPG masterpiece. As a hacker stuck on a space station, you must try to survive the machinations of the evil SHODAN A.I. In the 1-hour long demo you can explore the cold corridors of the space station and meet some of the SHODAN’s disgusting minions.



CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you become an amorphous creature of unknown origin. By consuming people around, this being evolves and becomes even more deadly. In the demo, you are tasked with escaping the research facility in which you are held.



Spiritfarer is a cozy management game about evanescence. You play Stella, ferry master to the deceased. The demo gives you a chance to upgrade your ferry with new elements, talk with its unusual passengers and… spend some time fishing.



Vagrus - The Riven Realms is a role-playing game with strategic elements. The game’s prologue serves as an introduction to the dark fantasy world of the game. It puts you in the shoes of the caravan leader leading his crew across a dangerous land to finish various missions.



Cris Tales is a beautiful indie game with all the best qualities of jRPG. Join Time Mage Crisbell on her journey across a world facing a grim future. In the demo, you witness the beginning of her adventure, as she’s meeting new friends and learning basics of time magic art. This version of the demo has two new characters, five new enemies, and three new time powers in the new Demo Battle mode.

Do you feel the adventure calling already? All 7 demos are available for free on GOG.COM and await your discovery. Have fun and remember to download them before 15th of June, 1 PM UTC. All the demos mentioned above will cease to be available once the Summer Sale on GOG.COM ends.
I'd recommend trying Carrion. A very interesting game. It reminds me of the Alien campaigns from Aliens vs Predator series. It has a different perspective, but the gameplay is quite similar. System Shock is also worth checking, but there are some doubts whether this is still the same game as the original.
Post edited May 28, 2020 by Sarafan
Is System Shock really planned to release soon then?
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ssokolow: Whether or not they'll be removed from the library, all I can say is "WTF?"

Making demos a limited-time thing is one of the most idiotic marketing decisions I've ever heard of.

(I'm reminded of some of Gordon Freeman's commentary about the decisions made by the great minds at Black Mesa in Freeman's Mind.)
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joppo: Let me join you in chorus. "WTF" indeed
Did the marketing people lose their brains? Did they smoke rotten weed? What do they think is an improvement over a scenario of demos that stay available?

I wish they come and explain where does the magic fairy that will make it so no one will get curious about these games ever again guards her magic wand.
limited demos ? wow thats a new one . i hope they dont disappear after a certain time, or expire like best before dates on food and medication.


as for :

"Let me join you in chorus. "WTF" indeed
Did the marketing people lose their brains? Did they smoke rotten weed? What do they think is an improvement over a scenario of demos that stay available? "



One cannot loose what one does not have , as for smoking , smoking is bad no mater what is being smoked.

And last but not least : "What do they think is an improvement over a scenario of demos that stay available? ""

I guess we will never know what they think.


Anyway a playable game demo ( no videos , no rolling demo which is kind of a movie) and most certainly no time limited demos that will expire and can't be replayed ( like bigfish does and many like them).

A simple limited demo ( no pre acces no alpha that are usally unstable) but the good old limited demos you can play over and over again is the way to encourage gamers to buy games thats how i ended up with 450 retail games, and just too much digital games ( could have bought 3 high end pc for that amount)
Time frame limited demos?

Shame on you gog, you have upset enough of your customers already without pulling this kind of shadiness.

Edit: not downloading on principle.
Post edited May 29, 2020 by lazydog
Limited time demos? Is this gonna be a Spellforce 3 situation where the demo ceases to function after a certain date? I would have hoped you learned your lesson after that last fiasco...
On closer inspection, it would seem to me that all these games are just another gog promo for in development nonsense.

Games that do not exist and will likely not resemble any demo.

Shameless.

Correct me if I am wrong.
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Zoidberg: Limited time demos?
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teceem: No, limited time that they're available for download. Once downloaded, there's no time limit.

Anyway...
I just tried Destroy All Humans! I fun game, just like I expected it to be... I don't need demos to know what games I like / are good, but I like that could try it out before release anyway.
How can you know a game is one that is good and/or that you will like without trying it?
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Zoidberg: How can you know a game is one that is good and/or that you will like without trying it?
Reading/watching reviews and/or (about) gameplay (and other information)... interpolating with my own experience. How do you know that you won't like being tortured if it never happened to you? (this might sound like an extreme analogy, but I think the basic point is there)
If the demos are indeed only available for a limited time, what is the consensus on users downloading these demos and then uploading them to archive.org and placing the links in this thread?

Of course this would not be allowed if game demos had to be purchased, but has that ever been the case?
Post edited May 29, 2020 by solar_dome
Is there a way to simply download the demo ? not via Galaxy and without adding it to cart first ?
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GOG.com: enjoy 7 demos of fantastic games for free.
Seeing the news post I already found your headline suspect - "enjoy 7 demos [..] for free". As if it is so special to get access to a game demo for free that it is worth to explicitly mention that. On GOG it obviously is, as you are going to time limit this offer!

As much as I liked it that you have added some more demos to GOG as much I hate it when they disappear again after a short time. Of course, they are (hopefully) DRM-free so that, when we have downloaded them, we still can enjoy them later. But what's about people which are interested in the games after the Summer Sale, when the demos have been deleted? Why delete them?
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GOG.com: Have fun and remember to download them before 15th of June, 1 PM UTC. All the demos mentioned above will cease to be available once the Summer Sale on GOG.COM ends.
Will the demos only be deleted from the game catalog like removed games? Or does "cease to be available" mean they also will be deleted from our user accounts? When anybody should have the opportunity to delete something from a user account it should be the user, not GOG!

I do not understand the logic behind such actions. As if it's not rare enough these days that a game even has a demo, why restrict the access to these few demos and make the handling so complicated? Why do we have to add the demos to our accounts? And why do the demos have to have a separate store page? Is it so hard to just add a download link to the game card for games where a demo is available?
Post edited May 29, 2020 by eiii
Demos need to be more commonplace.
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theslitherydeee: Demos need to be more commonplace.
Aren't they just "buy the full game, find you don't like it/etc. and then request a refund" at this point anyway?
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theslitherydeee: Demos need to be more commonplace.
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TheMonkofDestiny: Aren't they just "buy the full game, find you don't like it/etc. and then request a refund" at this point anyway?
Maybe. I have no idea how GOG does it, but in my experience you get dinged for requesting refunds. There's an invisible limit, that once you hit it you are revealed to be one of the bad ones. I prefer to avoid the hassle.
Remember when demos were nothing news worthy but were pretty much required if you wanted your game to sell well?

I guess I am overexaggerating a little bit...

Still, I feel uneasy when a demo is presented as some kind of gift to the players, like "Wow, I get to play part of the game early!" when really it should be a question of "Let me try a demo to make a decision of whether or not I want to pay for this product".

Tell someone in the 90s that demos will be considered a gracious gift by developers in the future...

EDIT: Not even blaming developers for this one, consumers are just too happy to spend money for anything new.
EDIT2: Let's not even mention Shareware which we all played for years as though they were full games.
Post edited May 29, 2020 by Karterii12