Demo limitations?

[Olive D. Cox]

Whats up with the free demo? I loaded it up yesterday, only played about in the lobby and settings menu then quit. Today I opened up the game and it doesn't let me play it - its just says "Thanks for playing the demo" - was the demo a 1 time play? Time limited? Confused as I haven't actually played the game yet and not it seems I can't?

[Cerebrum123]

The demo is a 45-minute one-time play. So you can't play it again.

[Fuel75]

Here is a post from one of the Devs, that may help you re-play, with loss of any previous progress. Also keep in mind, the demo is already outdated with regards to content and items.

Originally posted by TGRL:

Just delete saved folder to play demo again

"C:\Users\Tugrul\AppData\Local\Shivers\Saved"

Don't forget, if you delete this folder, all your progress will be reset, including the full version.

[TheUKDude]

Originally posted by Cerebrum123:

The demo is a 45-minute one-time play. So you can't play it again.

Yeah I just found this out too, I might try the deleting of the save folder located here:

"%LocalAppData%\Shivers\Saved\SaveGames"

I think its stupid that we have to do this to test a demo out, it took me like 30 mins to get the controller setup as I wanted.

[Jackie Paper]

Originally posted by Cryonics_Ice:

Whats up with the free demo? I loaded it up yesterday, only played about in the lobby and settings menu then quit. Today I opened up the game and it doesn't let me play it - its just says "Thanks for playing the demo" - was the demo a 1 time play? Time limited? Confused as I haven't actually played the game yet and not it seems I can't?

In my opinion the games is worth it 100% I hardly buy anything anymore and if I do I usually have buyers remorse lol. With this game a I have not regret buying even once. If you got 15$ to spare just pick it up, if you don't like it just refund it. It's a great game and all the random I've played with are cool. If you like phas you'll most likely like this, if not more.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by TheUKDude:

Originally posted by Cerebrum123:

The demo is a 45-minute one-time play. So you can't play it again.

Yeah I just found this out too, I might try the deleting of the save folder located here:

"%LocalAppData%\Shivers\Saved\SaveGames"

I think its stupid that we have to do this to test a demo out, it took me like 30 mins to get the controller setup as I wanted.

While you may think that, if you sincerly mess with a demo within 45 minutes in a lobby thats also a you problem.

Demos are ment to showcase you. You did not take the showcase and purposefully stayd in lobby for 45 minutes.

Demo's always been limited in ways, wether its by time trial, or via via limited content (EA a level) or both.

[Olive D. Cox]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

While you may think that, if you sincerly mess with a demo within 45 minutes in a lobby thats also a you problem.

Demos are ment to showcase you. You did not take the showcase and purposefully stayd in lobby for 45 minutes.

Demo's always been limited in ways, wether its by time trial, or via via limited content (EA a level) or both.

I mean my post is from 1st April, and I now own the game, thanks for (a) joining the party and necromancing a 2 week old post, and (b) ranting about me being in the settings menu for 45 minutes, that's a really helpful and constructive input to my original post.

FWIW I actually loaded up the game and a visitor knocked the door and I left the demo running as there was no indication it was time limited.

But seriously, thanks again for your valuable and insightful input, a real pillar of the community you grew up to be.

[TheUKDude]

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

While you may think that, if you sincerly mess with a demo within 45 minutes in a lobby thats also a you problem.

Not at all, I was setting up the controller so that it was perfect so that I could put 100% into the game.

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Demos are ment to showcase you. You did not take the showcase and purposefully stayd in lobby for 45 minutes.

Once again not true, demos are suppose to show off the good parts of the game, basically to entice the user to buy the game, BUT like I said above I was setting up the controller to work as best as it can for this game, so I was going back and forth testing and changing stuff.

Once the controller was finally setup as I wanted, I did get around to playing the demo, and overall although its not as scary as people are making it to be, don't get me wrong I did like it and will probably be buying it sometime next week.

Originally posted by GamingWithSilvertail:

Demo's always been limited in ways, wether its by time trial, or via via limited content (EA a level) or both.

Well I have never seen demos handle time trials like this and if they did they had a disclaimer stating that, but its fine, I can just delete a file and replace it with the backup file I created after creating my character.

That in all, I think they could of added a tutorial map for new people that haven't seen anything of this game yet.
While I have a rough idea what to do in this game the lack of a tutorial map will push away some new players.

That in all I do like the game, I am hoping the jump scares are better in the full game due to the few I saw although were ok, but not that scary.

But I do see myself buying the game due to I do love these types of games.