Steam Game Trials Launched, Dead Space Remake 90-Minute Demo Out Now

Steam game trials have seemingly launched on the platform, with the critically acclaimed Dead Space remake now offering 90 minutes of play time.

[masterfox]

cool, will finally know if I will be able to run this game properly with a 3070 in QHD. :D

[Snookies12]

Right there with you haha. Gonna see how my 3070 runs this. I'm sure it'll run just fine, but curious to see how it performs regardless!

[masterfox]

nice!, getting solid framerate! almost all the highest settings, removed that grain effect, and reflections to medium, DLSS to quality, at the beginning while in the ship and then to the corridor, between 75 to 90 fps, then after after I got the main weapon start getting between 100 to 120 fps, is nice when you don't have to do alot tweaking in the visuals options and have a good framerate.

[phatak]

It runs extremely well, I was worried about the stuffer that I had heard about when it initially launched but I think it was probably patched. I generally don't even play the latest games as I'm still trying to catch up on a huge backlog but it was the first time in like 3 years that I bought a game right after the trial, one of the best-looking games I've seen, was simply blown away.

[D4RC]

It will run just fine.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Awesome

[Venoxn4g]

It is good that more people can try now

[ElendilsSorrow]

I hope this is extended to other titles as well - being able to play Sonic Frontiers on PS5 through the PS Plus trial sold me on the game as a hesitant long-time Sonic fan. I've gamed on PC all my life, and Koei doing the Wo Long trial was also critical to my purchase of the title later. Hoping this becomes normal again

[Petebloodyonion]

It's gonna be quite an interesting experiment for Steam.
I hope they can tell if this impact the refund rate that Steam has.
For example, if it cut the number of ppl asking for a refund by half.
Also how it impacts sales.

[GoodGuy09]

They're probably annoyed with the refund rate so this seems to be a small solution lol.

[Inverno]

And without it being locked behind a subscription.

[Tapani]

I wonder if I can get this running upscaled to 4K at 120fps on a 5800X3D and 4090. It seems there are still pretty bad CPU bottlenecks and the FPS simply drops under 90fps in many scenes, plus traversal stutters persist. I think the 90minute demo is a great way to test it out before buying! I do suspect the price will drop further, and if they put in a solid patch or two, this might be worth it at 30% discount.

[Tapani]

Commenting on my own thread here: pretty much a locked 120fps on the setup, but the traversal and other stutters are still very real. Looks amazing at DLSS Quality 4K 120fps everything maxed out, including RT. The game itself also seems to be quite interesting. Maybe I can look past the stutters and this is worth the 20% discounted price hmm... Certainly steam game trial has been a success this time!

[GoodGuy09]

Oh wow. Great feature and free at that with no subscription. Steam at it again with their heavy pro consumer pracitces. Technically all games do already have a 2hr trial (for refunding them), but these trials will give you no pressure and purchase. Of course, I'm assuming they'll only do this with a very small number of games for now and games that don't take you a little less than 2hrs to beat lol.