Fabraz will release a demo for open-world 3D platformer Demon Tides for PC via Steam on February 24 as part of Steam Next Fest: February 2025 Edition, the developer announced.
The demo includes the beginning of the story, the tutorial, and a small part the open world for players to explore. This includes several levels, challenges, and gear to collect. The in-game leaderboard is also present, and save data from the demo will carry over to the full game when it launches in 2025.
Here is an overview of the demo, via its Steam page:
Welcome to the Demo
Experience the beginning of the game to get your appetite wet for the full game! Your save data will carry over into the main game. You can also directly compete with other players using the demo’s leaderboards.
About the Game
Follow Beebz and her crew on a journey of self-discovery as they travel the vast oceans of Ragnar’s Rock.
Navigate the open seas and explore each distant structure, uncovering every hidden nook and cranny with your diverse, expressive move-set. Beat challenges or find hidden chests to collect talismans along the way that modify and even expand your abilities or switch up your drip with a plethora of discoverable outfits!
And never forget, you’re not alone in this journey! Compete with other players for speedrunning times by challenging their ghosts or tag a wall and share your message in the form of graffiti with the entire world!
Are you ready to conquer this kingdom and expose all of its mysterious secrets? Or will Beebz be crushed by what awaits her… Only one way to find out!
Key Features
- A deeply expressive platforming move-set that enables you to travel through the world in countless unique ways. Express yourself through your schmovement and get lost in the flow!
- Travel the seamless, open ocean and reach any point of interest at blazing speeds! Explore each locale and figure out creative ways to beat challenges or reach certain areas!
- Hang out on your mobile hub, the Floating Fashionista, to chill with your crew or buy new items of interest!
- Discover hidden secrets and use context clues to unravel this world’s mysteries alongside the main story told through major, cinematic story events!
- Place your own checkpoints wherever you want and return to them any time you meet your untimely demise.
- Collect over 50 unique talismans that uniquely modify or add to your move-set! Get a paraglider to soar the skies, spawn a bubble to float in place indefinitely, change your spin form into a hookshot and so much more!
- Acquire a ton of unique head gear, outfits and hair dyes to change up your appearance! With over 50,000 possible combinations there’s no shortage of drip.
- Compete for the best completion times of each locale by racing other player’s ghosts! Get notified if your ghost was beaten to challenge them right back, may the best runner win!
- Create and share graffiti that will appear in other player’s worlds! Make something pretty, hint towards a secret nearby or troll the players with lies you little rascal!
Frequently Asked Questions
- How long is the demo?
- The demo includes the beginning of the story, the tutorial as well as a small part of the open world for you to explore and platform in! This includes several levels, challenges and gear to collect! Additionally you can also compete for completion times with the in-game leaderboard and even race other people’s ghosts!
- Is this a sequel to Demon Turf and do you need to play it before playing Demon Tides?
- You can definitely play Demon Tides without ever having played Demon Turf before! In fact, we encourage new players to jump right into Demon Tides! It takes place after Demon Turf‘s story but is designed for new players to jump right in with a brand new narrative and world to explore. Any backstory is carefully reintroduced while returning players will notice plenty of fun references harkening back to Demon Turf.
- What does “Expressive” platforming mean, exactly?
- A platformer with a lot of combinatorial depth, allowing you to express yourself through the game’s movement. Meaning a gap can be crossed in a multitude of creative ways!
- We’re pushing the concept of this subgenre to new limits with an incredibly deep, combinatorial move-set that can even be heavily customized! The further you get into the game, and the more comfortable you get with the movement, the more unique your gameplay will end up looking to others!
- What’s Fabraz done before Demon Tides?
- We’re most well known for the 3D Platformer Demon Turf and 2D platformer Slime-san! But we’re also behind lesser known titles such as Cannon Crasha, Planet Diver, and even acted as publisher for friends on two games called Skellboy and SpiritSphere DX!
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