Hi guys,
I'm making this post to let you all know that I've decided to remove the demo of POPGOES Arcade from the Steam page, as I felt it was misleading to newcomers. As most of you already know, it was never actually a custom-made "demo", but was rather just the free version of POPGOES Arcade that we originally released in 2020 on a different website/platform.
There are a few reasons for this, but most of it chalks up to the fact that it's not a very good representation of our paid product anymore. Not only does it lack a lot of the premium features (like paints, The Bestiary, the bedroom, etc) but it is also a downright poorer version of The Dead Forest. This is made even more obvious with the changes we will be integrating into the upcoming 2.3 update.
Ignoring the obvious addition of an entire sequel campaign, soon the paid version of POPGOES Arcade will have all of these OVER the free version:
- 40 Steam achievements
- Significantly faster battles
- Better BB upgrades
- Corruption hotspots (faster enemy encounters)
- Controller support
- Various bug fixes and optimisations
With all of this in mind, we feel that the free version may actually put some people off from buying the paid version in ways that we have already addressed in updates we have worked on. Make sense?
When we are completely done with the game, we may work on a new free demo that provides a snippet of the premium experience, rather than a large but very outdated version of the game. In the meantime, if you already downloaded the free version on Steam, it should still be in your library. And if you never got the chance, you can find it on the original website we uploaded it, but please bear in mind that it is not a good representation of the paid version here on Steam anymore.
Hope you all understand!
Kane