Posted in December 3, 2012 ¬ 12:06 pmh.Craig Stern
Telepath Tactics, the up-coming tactical RPG for Windows, Mac and Linux from Sinister Design, has just gotten a free alpha demo showing off some of the game’s mechanics. The demo consists of a short tutorial, followed by a fairly large single player battle which involves crossing a river to capture a heavily guarded fort / […]
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Posted in November 9, 2012 ¬ 8:54 amh.Craig Stern
Steven Peeler has emailed me to announce the release of a public demo for Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming space-based action RPG Drox Operative. (You can see me playing a beta version here, and failing terribly it.) The demo is available for both Windows and Mac. It’s 120 MB, which is surprisingly small considering how much stuff […]
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Posted in September 17, 2012 ¬ 10:37 amh.Craig Stern
Life is funny sometimes. I posted about the upcoming Zelda-alike Anodyne on Friday; on Saturday, I randomly met Anodyne developer Sean Hogan at Indie City Games, where he showed off Anodyne for everyone; and the day after that, Hogan released a public demo. Speaking of which: Anodyne now has a demo! It comes in two […]
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Posted in August 23, 2012 ¬ 11:30 amh.Craig Stern
So! Remember this? The Underrail playable alpha demo is now out; the developer estimates that it should provide a few hours of play time. Grab the demo right here and give it a try!
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Posted in July 19, 2012 ¬ 9:30 amh.Craig Stern
Chris Legasse, he of the 1-bit roguelike MiniFlake, was good enough to notify us all that there is now a free playable demo of the game available on Desura. Also, there appears to be a proper trailer now: The demo is Windows-only; however, per the developer, the finished game will be released “on the Android, […]
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Posted in May 8, 2012 ¬ 5:43 amh.Craig Stern
The Age of Decadence, a wRPG long in-the-making by Iron Tower Studio, has an updated demo as of a few days ago. I won’t list all of the changes they made, but you can rest assured that there are a lot of them. Age of Decadence has had a combat demo out for quite some […]
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Posted in February 11, 2012 ¬ 8:23 pmh.Craig Stern
Anne Mönkkönen of Instant Kingdom writes in to report the release of a 5-10 hour demo for top-down action RPG Driftmoon. You can download the demo here, and read more about the game here.
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Posted in January 5, 2012 ¬ 1:16 pmh.Craig Stern
Carpe Fulgur, localizers of the delightful Recettear, have announced the release of a demo for Fortune Summoners. Fortune Summoners is reputed to be a side-scrolling RPG in the vein of Zelda 2 or Wanderers from Ys, but with multiple playable characters. You can read more about the gameplay here. Fortune Summoners is due for release […]
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Posted in October 21, 2011 ¬ 8:58 amh.Craig Stern
Philip Neubauer of Gravel Train writes in to inform me of the release of a free, short demo of his prehistoric strategy RPG, aptly named Stone Age Square Battle. True to form, it takes place in what is ostensibly the Stone Age, and battles are turn-based affairs in which characters battle one another from adjacent […]
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Posted in July 14, 2011 ¬ 6:35 pmh.Craig Stern
Mario Gaida has released a free demo of Silversword, a first-person dungeon crawler in the mold of The Bard’s Tale. Gaida says the game uses a d20 system similar to the older versions of Adavanced Dungeons and Dragons. You can grab the free demo, “SliverswordLite,” on the Apple App Store here. In the meantime, here […]
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