The PC demo is availabel on Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Windows. Having come out on PS5 and PC today, players can explore a mysterious and magical world as Frey Holland - a modern woman yanked out of her own time and place and transported to a world of Athia in which a magical, sentient Cuff guides her to take control of mysterious powers, save the land from a deadly force known as the Break, and find her way back home. Luminous Productions announced the release of the Forspoken PC demo in a blog post on its website celebrating the game’s official launch. With this release, PC players can also see what it’s about before they commit to a purchase. Forspoken launched on PC and PlayStation 5 today, but only the PS5 version had a free playable demo until now. That fantasy world certainly looks appealing, but I realized that's often because the RTX tech disguises art assets that are really cheap and bland.Forspoken has launched today and with it, Square Enix and Luminous Productions’ quirky magic-infused parkour adventure game also has a demo on PC for those who want to try the game before they buy. In fact, the game doesn't seem to feature any ray-tracing until Frey arrives in Athia. The opening chapter shows NYC with snow in December, but the ground remains dry, presumably to avoid ray-tracing. Doors inexplicably grow or shrink depending on how you look at them (reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland in all the wrong ways). If the sloppy opening - presenting Frey's entire backstory through documents on a table, with a judge handing down a community service sentence - doesn't turn you off immediately, the lack of consideration only gets worse from there. With publisher Square Enix already catching heat for producer Naoki Yoshida's defense of upcoming Final Fantasy XVI's scant diversity, Forspoken makes the nightmarish choice to start with its Black protagonist in court for her third felony.

Put simply, Square Enix faces too many open-world competitors to get away with a poor showing like this.

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