Take your run attempts seriously. You only get three.

[Korsiff]

If you try to delete your save files, you'll find that the feature to do so isn't currently in the demo. This means that each save file, up to three, is wholly limited. Take your time and think, not only about what you will do but about what you want to do. There are a few mysteries I've been wanting to explore but since I'm on my last run, I want to focus on two that I can hopefully complete in my last four days.

With that said, a genuine congratulations if you've made it to the antechamber. Your room for failure, while a little generous, was still limited.

I don't think I've said any spoilers here except to spoil something that isn't immediately obvious and which would inform a person's caution going forward. I just think it's fair for people to know this up front.

[Rayzark]

You can delete the save files manually in your computer.

[vaevictusgamer]

How to do so manually?

[Hackmaster214]

Wow, really? How cheeky of them, but understandable. However, like the first comment mentioned, its nothing a little computer wizardry can't solve.

[Dogubomb]

We wanted players to be able to take their time and not feel rushed exploring the manor, so we opted, instead of a time capped demo, to allow unlimited time within the house tour and only limit the number of days. Originally this was intended to be only 4 in-game days, but we ultimately decided to allow the demo to be replayed a couple of extra times for the drafters that really, really wanted to explore a bit more.

We know how excited everyone is for the game, but we also feel strongly that playing the demo over and over and over has a high risk of impacting the pacing and intended experience of the full release.

Of course, players are free to heed or ignore this advice as they see fit, but we wanted to share the logic behind the 'save file limit' so you could at least make an informed decision.

Our team is beyond excited to share BLUE PRINCE with you all and we likely have even less patience than our players!

Spring can not come soon enough.
-Dogubomb

[Korsiff]

Originally posted by Dogubomb:

We wanted players to be able to take their time and not feel rushed exploring the manor, so we opted, instead of a time capped demo, to allow unlimited time within the house tour and only limit the number of days. Originally this was intended to be only 4 in-game days, but we ultimately decided to allow the demo to be replayed a couple of extra times for the drafters that really, really wanted to explore a bit more.

We know how excited everyone is for the game, but we also feel strongly that playing the demo over and over and over has a high risk of impacting the pacing and intended experience of the full release.

Of course, players are free to heed or ignore this advice as they see fit, but we wanted to share the logic behind the 'save file limit' so you could at least make an informed decision.

Our team is beyond excited to share BLUE PRINCE with you all and we likely have even less patience than our players!

Spring can not come soon enough.
-Dogubomb

I get it. It's just that, compared to other demos, it's a surprise as limitations go. I just felt it would be a shame if someone was a bit too lax on their first run or two before realizing that there was a limit, wasting their opportunity to uncover more mysteries. It would certainly sting to see the beginnings of so many things and to know that you missed your shot. At least with the three runs I did, I'm satisfied that each one involved me doing my best to explore as many new avenues as I could see.

Also, the demo was an absolute blast. I'm pleased by how uniquely engaging it was. Ordinarily I'm not one for puzzle games but this one had just so many paths of inquiry to chase after.

And again, I don't disagree with the run limit. In my last run, I started encountering depths that started to seem like a bit too much to reveal all at once before getting to experience the full game proper. Though what was learned is incomplete, it's easy enough to accept stopping when the demo was as fun as it was.

Here's hoping for a smooth development and release process.

[Korsiff]

In short, I just wanted folks to know for knowing-sake.

[Nanashi]

That's kinda a shi-*ahem*-terrible move, It's cruel to the players who wanna play spoilers be damned and who don't intend to spoil it, if you made it clear on startup "hey this is a demo, you get 4 days times 3 runs" fine, but you didn't.
And now as a result I'm gonna have to rip apart the game and lobotomize its ability to make permanent saves...
So thanks for being dumb and giving me more work to play a game that seemed awesome...
Or, and hear me out on this, let people play the demo 4 days as many times as they want and actually hide the important stuff like a good game demo
*ahem* inkshade *ahem*
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3141310/Inkshade/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKP4LNHbQhA

[Vercci ]

This has made the demo very frustrating. The rooms can screw you over unless there's a meta I don't know about yet because I can't play long enough to figure it out. Early locked doors stopping me getting from rank 3 because I haven't had enough rooms for keys. Turning from the left side of the manor to going across the rank 4 times because I'm not getting a room that's pointing north unless it costs 3 gems. Treasure maps that I'm one room from solving and then it's two dead end rooms and a 3 gem room. Lots of keypad doors and this run I don't either get a keycard or security room nor a breaker to interact with them.

I've seen enough of the game to know I'd slowly get upgrades that would stop a bunch of these early losses from happening, but it's also meaning I get 2 days out of my supposed 4 days attempting each run on each save file. Now I'm torn between trying again on my final save slot, or not even bothering to try because I might waste my final save slot.

[Nanashi]

Originally posted by Vercci :

This has made the demo very frustrating. The rooms can screw you over unless there's a meta I don't know about yet because I can't play long enough to figure it out. Early locked doors stopping me getting from rank 3 because I haven't had enough rooms for keys. Turning from the left side of the manor to going across the rank 4 times because I'm not getting a room that's pointing north unless it costs 3 gems. Treasure maps that I'm one room from solving and then it's two dead end rooms and a 3 gem room. Lots of keypad doors and this run I don't either get a keycard or security room nor a breaker to interact with them.

I've seen enough of the game to know I'd slowly get upgrades that would stop a bunch of these early losses from happening, but it's also meaning I get 2 days out of my supposed 4 days attempting each run on each save file. Now I'm torn between trying again on my final save slot, or not even bothering to try because I might waste my final save slot.

if you'd like, i can teach you the steps needed to run the game from a clean image of an emulator so you can play the first save slot infinite times (clone safe image, play save files in separate cloned image, delete clone, re-clone original)

[Helen - Raw Fury]

Hi there, we are always very excited to see that players want more of the Mount Holly House Tour and are enthusiastic about the demo and the game. However, the House Tour is only a demo designed to be a taste of the full game. Therefore content included in the demo is limited and the amount of time spent at Mount Holly is capped at 3 separate runs.

Demo saves will also not transfer to the main game on launch, so we highly recommend taking lots of notes and screenshots while taking the House Tour in preparation of starting the full Blue Prince adventure when the full game launches next year.

We understand limitations can be frustrating when you are making progress on solving a mystery. The demo is designed to give players a chance to sample what they will be able to find, learn and achieve in Blue Prince when it launches in Spring 2025.