The Mermakers' Body Horror Game Mermade Gets a Demo on Itch.io
A demo release puts the game's body modification premise and swimming controls in front of players well before the Steam page turns into a purchase, which is how a small horror title builds a following without a marketing budget.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
The Mermakers have released a demo of Mermade, a third-person horror adventure about a woman whose legs are amputated in an underground research facility and replaced with a fish tail. The player navigates an abandoned aquarium as the modified protagonist while failed experiments roam the grounds. The demo is available on Itch.io and does not currently support Japanese. A play report describes swimming controls mapped to both sticks and a boost button.
The demo opens on a naked woman lying on an operating table, and the controls carry their own trick that the play report declines to spoil. Underwater movement splits between the left stick for surfacing and diving, the right stick for the camera, and a held button to swim, with a separate boost. Beyond a glass wall, a woman in a bloodied surgical gown watches the protagonist and holds what looks like a medical chart. The demo runs on keyboard and mouse or a controller.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.