A playable PS5 demo for Forspoken is available now. After being leaked on social media by PlayStation multiple times this week, the official demo announcement trailer was revealed during The Game Awards 2022.Square Enix has been giving out more information about Forspoken in the last few months. Even with many gameplay trailers now available and another gameplay preview stream scheduled soon, nothing beats getting a game into the players' hands and letting them come to their own conclusions. As the game's release date nears, Square Enix and Sony will allow players to trial the game on PlayStation 5 and interested players can download it right now.The Forspoken demo is now available in the PlayStation Store and will require 30 GBs of available storage space. The game will allow players to explore Athia with five objectives spread out across the map so that they can get a feel for Forspoken's magic parkour, combat, and customization options and hopefully gain the interest of more players after its delay to 2023. Even though this game will be coming to PC via Epic Games, this demo will only be available on PlayStation 5.
Players will have the chance to experiment with some of Forspoken's color-based magic abilities, interact with some of the people that Freya Holland will meet in Athia, and explore the depth of the game's RPG mechanics. The page listing includes all the bells and whistles expected from a PlayStation 5 game. Players will have to explore as much as they can if Sony is sticking to its 3-hour limit for game demos.
Though the demo for the game was announced during The Game Awards, the PlayStation Japan Twitter account accidentally leaked news of the Forspoken Demo hours before the awards show. There will also be an 11-minute gameplay stream scheduled on December 9 at 10 AM PT for players that may not have access to the demo or want to see something else along with the demo content.
The social media marketing for the game has done Forspoken no favors as the dialogue picked for short snippets was heavily derided and made fun of. The world made by the developers at Luminous Productions still looks interesting and wants to make a good impression as Sony's first big release of 2023. Forspoken also marks one of the first big Square Enix titles that will not be coming to PS4.
Forspoken will release on January 24, 2023 for PS5 and PC.