Game Demos Need to Come Back For Many Reasons, Especially for Accessibility

Game Demos Need to Come Back For Many Reasons, Especially for Accessibility

Having more playable demos can help players make an informed purchase, and for disabled players this would help with accessibility.

Most of us know that without a playable demo, marketing materials like gameplay trailers and development blogs aren’t always enough to answer the question of whether a game will be enjoyable. Ben Bayliss points out that for those of us with accessibility concerns the question can instead be whether the game is playable at all, making purchases much riskier.