[mattmanser]

It's interesting to read the negative reviews, most of them are so incredibly ridiculous.

Several people complain there's not enough content, but each one of them had put 30 odd hours into the game. Almost everyone else is complaining about the difficulty, which the steam page makes clear is a selling point of the game.

Bizarre.

[ido]

I've seen steam comments (in other games) complaining about the game being boring & not having enough content made by people with 100+ hours in-game.

[talmand]

It seems these days comments and ratings are almost useless. I wish the demo would make a big comeback so I can determine whether I like a game for myself.

[IronTowerStudio]

The demo has been available from day one. We want people to try the game first and see if they like our design. You can download it either from our Steam page or Atomic Gamer:

http://www.atomicgamer.com/files/106498/the-age-of-decadence...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230070/

The demo gives you access to the first 3 locations and about 30 quests. While it hasn't been updated since Nov 2013 due to the lack of time and thus doesn't have the latest features, it does represent the game well. If you don't like the demo, you definitely won't like the full game.

[danneu]

Steam recently started no-questions-asked refunds which is often better than a demo.

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

    > You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam
    > —for any reason. Maybe your PC doesn't meet the hardware 
    > requirements; maybe you bought a game by mistake; maybe 
    > you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it.

Been using it successfully. Just can't have more than 2 hours played.

[talmand]

Yeah, I know. I'd still rather have a demo. I don't like the idea of using my credit card as a means to demo a game I might be interested in. If a game I wanted doesn't meet my expectations after purchase, then that's a different matter.

[IronTowerStudio]

Because some people still expect to win simply by showing up. We tell them the game is hard, they think it's a wink-wink message that doesn't apply to them. We tell them the optional fights are the hardest (i.e. being a hero is a harsh business), they jump into every opportunity to be a hero because that's what they are used to - if the game offers you a fight, surely it's scaled to their level. It's not.