I’ve been tracking the progress of Demon Spore ever since it was first announced, which was just before I launched Rogueliker, now that I think of it. How time flies, eh?!
I jumped into the first demo as soon as I could, and I’ll be honest with you, the game was a bit janky back then. However, the new demo that I just played represents a huge improvement, and my excitement for Demon Spore is once again back to unhealthy proportions.
The sci-fi horror game takes heavy inspiration from the John Carpenter classic, The Thing, and also that scene in Species – no, not that one – that scene in Species where they’re in the lab and it almost goes horribly wrong.
Well, in the lab in Demon Spore, it does go horribly wrong, and you end up on the run from an ever-expanding terror with horrible tentacles that never stop reaching for you.
The new demo has cinematics to set the scene, an amusing tutorial, and then it gets into the nitty-gritty of the early game.
It plays from a top-down perspective and it’s rather tactile, with lots of interactions that only get more intense the closer you are to death.
The demo also has multiplayer, which I’ve not tried, and there are a bunch of improvements over the last iteration, according to the post shared by developer DinoBoss over on Steam. What the demo definitely does is give you is you a short, sharp shock of an introduction to the game and its core mechanics.
This demo update lands ahead of Demon Spore’s planned release later this summer on PC (Lin, Mac, Win). As you’ve likely guessed by now, I’ll be taking a closer look when it’s done.
Finally, as mentioned in the headline, there’s a shiny new trailer for Demon Spore, which you can see below in all its 4K glory!
