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https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone going to try it out?

rms

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <[email protected]> wrote:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

Because I do like the setting, maybe I will try it? Once released?

Usually on a single player game like this I prefer to wishlist it and
let it sit, let the bugs get worked out, let the game become what it's
going to be, and then wait even longer until it goes on sale. At that
point I "demo it" in the form of taking advantage of the return policy
if I don't like what the game turned out to be.

I learned decades agao there can be such a thing as moving too early
on a game. Back on Mplayer (late 90s) they released an early
Daikatana multiplayer demo. It was a lot of fun up against the other
online shooters available at the time, very immersive. By the time
the actual game came out 1.5 years later, it was nothing like the
demo, completely lost the feel and I didn't see anything worth
playing.

Thanks a lot, John Romero with your well-conditioned fashionista-lush
hair and lazy fucking eyeball, that was a nice move to make people
your bitch like that :)

Anyway for me, it was one event in a long line of gaming experiences
that taught me the best demo option is the modern return policy of
Steam.... that is, after the game is finished, when it comes to single
player games.

With multiplayer games you have to weigh everything a bit more...

...because there can be a number of early mover advantages there, both
in terms of early skill acquisition and being a "real" part of shaping
what the game ultimately becomes.

Single player gamers don't really have as much influence on what agame
becomes in the long term, because the publishers don't regard them in
the "MAU" (monthly active users) count. They're just regarded as
consumer couch potatoes who either make a decision to purchase or they
don't, so their opinions don't count as much as those who engage
regularly online.

Promise I'm not intentionally shitting on anyone on that last
sentence, it's just the hard reality that comes with knowing the
inside of the business.







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Because I do like the setting, maybe I will try it? Once released?

I played the demo tonight. A decent cyberpunk atmosphere -- I'm not a
fan of pixelated graphics but this looks good; the simplified arkham combat fun but threatens to get repetitive. gameplay besides that seems to be
simple platforming. worth a look!

rms

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <[email protected]> said
this thing:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

I mean, there's nothing there really screams at me 'get it now'. It
looks like a bunch of other cinematic platformers ("Inside", "Kong:
Survivor Instinct", "Shadow Complex", the like). All of which I
enjoyed. This one's cyberpunk aesthetic is neat, and I'd probably like
it if I played it... but it doesn't seem to stand out beyond that.

Certainly I'm not getting it new. Maybe it'll show up as a freebie or
part of a bundle; I'd be happy to add it then. But I'm not inclined to
play the demo (but that's more because I dislike demos), and can't
even be arsed to put it on the wishlist.


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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <[email protected]> wrote:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

rms

*--

I tried it for a little while. Didn't see what the big deal is. I am
sort of sick of sidescrollers.

-pw
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:04:20 -0700, PW <[email protected]> said
this thing:

On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <[email protected]> wrote:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/
This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >>going to try it out?

I tried it for a little while. Didn't see what the big deal is. I am
sort of sick of sidescrollers.

I think if you don't fall in love with the setting/visuals right away,
you won't see the point. Looking at it, I was reminded of "The
Ascent", a top-down Diablo-clone with a similar cyberpunkian theme. It similarly seemed to rely more on its style rather than doing anything
original with its gameplay, setting or narrative.

Which didn't make "The Ascent" a bad game --and presumably the same
can be said about "REPLACED"-- but neither does it make either game
anything to rush out and play.

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rms <[email protected]> wrote at 16:35 this Friday (GMT):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone going to try it out?

rms

Immediately love the artstyle, I absolutely love it when pixel art is
put into a 3D space (maybe thats why im such a fan of Paper Mario) and
the gake itself looks pretty cool. That being said, I'm not very
confident of if my computer can actually run it, unfortunately...
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