I’ve warned you before this was coming!

On November 12th, the current demo will be replaced by the new, limited content, official demo.

This new demo includes a new and improved GUI, 1 ending for Quinn’s route, important changes in Julian’s route for his and Monika’s characters, final sprites for Monika, Quinn, Lux, and Quispe, and more!

However, to be more in-line with a traditional demo and for time-management purposes as this game approaches release early next year, the content in Sebastian, Julian, and Brandon’s routes will be decreased.

There will only be 1 ending available for Sebastian and Julian’s route, and Brandon’s route will not be featured in the demo (since it will not be available in stores. You will have access to it through a free off-site patch due to content restrictions).

But whyyy?!

The game is getting closer to release. Target is early 2023 (probably around March-April is the current PENCILED-IN date, but no promises).

For me as the developer, limiting the demo content will make the demo easier to maintain and manage.

You’ve probably seen devs sometimes take their demos down at various points when at critical stages of development. I do want to avoid doing that!

Up until release, on top of finishing the route writing, I will be doing a lot of polish and edits to all the endings in every route. I will be putting in the final artwork of more characters, updating expressions, adding CGs, polishing all the text, doing important rewrites of some content, adding in more side-content, achievements, etc, etc, etc.

It’s a lot of changes that impact the entire game and could add in bugs, which can make managing multiple versions and all the various settings and such time-consuming. I’d rather focus on finishing it.

So if you haven’t played the current demo (in all it’s old, outdated glory!), you better do so quickly! The countdown has started.

If you’re reading this late and missed your chance, or if you want to play all the available content, the Patreon’s still here!

https://www.patreon.com/arewar

Or wishlist the game and get it when it’s finished! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2128070/Particles_of_Reality

(I will also have it for sale on Itch, I just haven’t set up the page yet.)