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If it's demos you want, today's your lucky day; Valve's thrice-yearly Steam Next Fest event is back for another outing,…

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

A demo has never once sold me on a game, going all the way back to shareware days.

However, I can think of countless times a demo has convinced me not to buy a game.

[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Factorio's demo absolutely convinced me to buy it.

Demos only really work well if the game is fantastic and able to convey that in a small slice of the game, though.

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