To celebrate summer and the coming holidays, and perhaps also Microsoft’s victory against the FTC and CMA in the Activision Blizzard King takeover filing, Xbox launched its Demo Fest on Tuesday, July 11. Through July 17, players of the Xbox and Xbox Series X⎜S consoles can download more than forty games to try before they launch.
Once downloaded, they can remain accessible for a long time. This is often a part of the game or of short duration. In the past, this had allowed testing of many upstream games that later integrated Xbox Game Pass or could also be found on PlayStation 5 and PC, such as Lake or the successful French game tinykin.
Among the demos offered by Xbox, we find Mole from the French studio Canari Games, a tribute to pixel games and highly inspired by Retrospective scene. Another pixel game to watchPixel Cafe. The story of a young woman who discovers the big city working in a cafe where she will build relationships with customers, her boss, will better understand the history of the place while refining her mastery of coffee and dishes. A game based on storytelling and management.
Long awaited for the start of the school year, lies of p is available as a demo to practice in this reinterpretation of the story of Pinocchio, but with the sauce Dark souls.
To prove the strange too frank and drake, a game tinged with the supernatural that mixes narrative, mini-games and puzzles to solve, with a graphic bias. Frank, the building’s janitor, and Drake, allergic to the sun, are two characters with mysterious powers who share the same apartment without ever meeting. Two parallel lives that take them to the heart of a plot that threatens them. To communicate, they leave messages on the fridge and in other places in the apartment.
Demos available:
- A Duel Hand Disaster: Trackher (Ask An Enemy Studios)
- Aero2 (Crazy Fellows)
- Alchemist: The Potions Monger (Art Games Studio)
- Alice (Casper Croes)
- Astrea: The Six Sided Oracles (Little Leo Games)
- Bang-On Balls: Chronicles (Exit Plan Games)
- BattleCakes (Volcano Bean)
- Black Skylands (Hungry Couch)
- Born of Bread (WildArts)
- Boxville (Triomatic Games)
- Cell Scientists: Beyond (R-Next)
- Cross Tails (Rideon)
- Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle (Invader Studios)
- Death Revives (Nyctophile Studios)
- Demonschool (Necrosoft game)
- Desert (Zebik Media Interactive)
- Dynacat (Replayne)
- Evil Wizard (Rubber Duck Games)
- Exhausted Man (Candleman Games)
- Porcupine Drop (Critical Rabbit)
- Frank and Drake (Team Appnormals)
- Knights of Braveland (Ellada Games)
- Let’s cook together 2 (yellow dot)
- P (Neowitz) Lies
- Lunark (Canary Games)
- Marble to the top! Ultra (marble up)
- Metaball (Buketplay)
- Metal Mind (Whirllaxy Studio)
- Overpass: Rhythm Roadtrip (Studio Bean)
- Pixel Cafe (Baltoro Games)
- Pocket Bravery (Statera Studio)
- PolyFury (Walker Games)
- Punch Club 2 – Fast Forward (Lazy Bear Games)
- Raging Bytes (Impact Point)
- Rain World (Hidden Video)
- Sea of stars (Sabotage Studio)
- Sker Ritual (Interactive Wales)
- Slave Zero X (Poppy Works)
- Space Ship (Recombobulator Games)
- Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde (Cauldron of Creatures)
- Island Spirit (1 Million Horde Bits)
- Stonks-9800: Stock Market Simulator (Ternox)
- The Isle Tide Hotel (Wales Interactive/Interflix Media)
- The Night of the Rabbit (Daedalic Entertainment)
- The Wandering Folk (Stray Fawn Studio)
- Trinity Fusion (Angry Mob Games)
- No world (no name)
- Wrestle Quest (Mega Cat Studios)
Note that Steam Neo Fest also has its share of PC games on demo in June for you to discover. There are some games that are also offered by Xbox like sea of stars EITHER p lies Other small pearls will also be discovered such as The Brotherhood of the Cosmic Wheela strange game that mixes wizardry, divination and storytelling.
Source: BFM TV
