Forspoken’s free demo has launched on PS5, but if you were hoping this might finally answer whether Square Enix’s new open-world RPG is going to be any good, it seems we’re still not there yet.
You can grab the Forspoken demo on the PlayStation Store. It offers a brief recap of the setting, throws a very short tutorial at you, and then lets you loose to complete a few objectives and run around the open world. It doesn’t look like this is a chunk directly taken out of the game – instead, it seems the demo offers a custom sandbox built out of the game assets to offer a taste of the combat and parkour systems.
The response seems seriously mixed so far – by which I mean some people love it and some people hate it, not that everyone thinks it’s mediocre. The Forspoken subreddit is currently filled with discussion on the game, and it doesn’t take long to see that players are divided.