In early 2020, a collective called Haunted PS1 offered a selection of very special experiences: PlayStation-style demos with first names turned into horror. A new edition is here.
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The Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021 is therefore available for free download on the PC. This is again a collection of free demos that technically lasts over 25 years. And 25 is also the number of trial versions included – the previous edition includes 17. A reminder that none of this is supposed to exist physically, although Haunted PS1 wouldn’t mind if a publisher didn’t care.
Without warning, the darkness dies, a pale light floods the room and you are in a massive building made of stone walls and marble columns. The air is cold but hot, as if you were breathing dusty gas. A display case – you stand in a display case, a display case with strange relics of the culture outside this place, the culture you will never return to, and the shapes on the display cases prick your eyes like glass needles.
Nice way to present it, isn’t it? Here are the names of the 25 demos on offer, some of which will surely remind you of very famous productions:
- [ECHOSTASIS]
- Torment of a dying MMO
- An outcry
- Apolysis
- Static chase
- Fiend’s Isle
- Ugly goodies
- JANITOR VENTS
- Lorn’s bait
- Loveland
- Mama sandbox
- Pathogen-X
- Peeb adventure
- Protagoras is bleeding
- smile
- Still Ridge
- That what chase gave
- The chameleon
- The drowning machine
- The Heilwald gap
- The moon effect
- The salt order
- tmOD
- Toree 3D
- Run run
To download this and make sure you have moments of fear, like in the 90s when fear was very present on Thursday, find out why, just Download the 2021 Demo Disc from this page.