In recent times, demos have seen a bit of a resurgence. Admittedly, it's still not on par with previous years. Back then, nearly every game had a demo. However, in recent months, we've seen demos for AAA titles such as Outriders and Resident Evil Village released.
While one could argue that both games would have sold well even without the demos, giving players a chance to experience the games before they launched surely played a role in their sales numbers. Because of that, we're hoping that other studios paid attention and are convinced to try the same route.
With that said, we're going to push our luck in wishing for these video game demos of upcoming titles to happen.
Deathloop
Deathloop is Groundhog Day but with assassins who are hell-bent on killing each other instead. That's it.
So, why a demo? Because, for one thing, the premise isn't exactly all too common. We've had roguelikes before where there's an endless gameplay loop of living and dying. However, something like Deathloop hasn't really been explored that much. In particular, with how, on one hand, the protagonist wants to break free of Black Reef's endless loop. Meanwhile, on the other hand, we've got an antagonist in Juliana who wants to protect the cycle at all costs.
In addition to this, Deathloop is going to come with a multiplayer component where players can drop in other player's games and hunt them down as Juliana.