Biomutant on PS4 Part of Sony's Free Game Trial Service This Month

It can sometimes take an hour or two to fully download a game, but the early parts usually download much faster, which is all you’d likely be able to get through in such a time anyway.

Is the free trials region restricted? It doesn't seem to work in Greece..

@zebric21 UK only i think. Make a UK account.

@zebric21 UK and Canada

@GoodGame Canada too eh? What's that all aboot?

I think I spent 5 hours customising my character at the start 😂

If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t worry so much. Just pick anything. My character was covered up for most of the game anyway in the various hazmat suits.

I’m not sure this is a good game for the Game Trials though. It didn’t really click with me right away - it could put more people off buying the full game than it attracts.

@fR_eeBritney Death Stranding is in a similar position. That game takes forever to start doing anything interesting (but at least it’s very pretty right away).

They should do this for Returnal.

@Integrity lol.

@zebric21 only available in Canada and UK for now

@Integrity Test markets. Canada is quite often one for stuff like this

Nice! Always liked the look of this and actually became more interested when reviews came out from some YouTubers I trust.

Definitely going to check it out now

This whole situation is stupid, wtf the timer start when the download begin, just gave us 2-3 hours starting on gameplay times rather than 5 hours but starting on download time.

So it's not "5hrs play time"? Stoopid.

Sony: "Do you guys not have 10 Gigabyte Ethernet connections?"
Us: "No! Please give us time to download the trial before you start the timer!"
Sony: "TOO BAD! Take it or leave it, chumps!" **goes back to counting stacks of cash**

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I used the trial for Sackboy to confirm it would be a good game for my kids, but given the trial starts on download i can't see many good use cases, for these trials, I would generally download a title well of time.
If they wanted to do game trials why not use ps now to give instant streaming access to the trial?

I want to try it but the whole 'timer starts from download' is so off-putting. As soon as thats fixed il be hapy to do some trials fpr this and Sackboy. Already played the original Death Stranding and intend to upgrade at some point

Would happily do this but A) the download thing is annoying and B) the offer ends 28th October. Why? Can't it just be an ongoing thing? Why do there have to be date limits on it?

Also, if the trial starts from when you download it, does that mean the timer is counting down even if I download it and then don't play it straightaway???

5 hours was definitely enough time for me to realise I didn't want to play this game, any more. Such a shame, as it was one of my most anticipated!

Genuine question - I have my kids set up with sub accounts. Could I use one of their accounts to download the game and have the timer start there, then when it's done (or when I'm ready to start playing it), Just log into my account and start the whole 5 hours of play time access fresh? Or does that not work? Seems like it should do, but I haven't seen anyone suggest it as a work around?

@J2theEzzo Is it anything like Kena? I'm just about to platinum that and love it. I do admit the rabbit hero does look quite intriguing. Also, does it go at 60fps? No ps5 patch is a point against it.

Sony paid so much money for streaming technology it blows my mind streaming these trials isn't an option. Having the time trial start on download just seems like they fear 5 hours is too much to complete the games they plan to place on there. So restrict it to 2-3 hours instead...maybe be decent enough to have the timer only count down during actual play time. Yeah maybe you could end up with the same amount of play time now after downloading but least you don't have to keep checking your download progress to jump on this straight away as the timer doesn't stop counting down regardless of if you're playing it or not.

Just a very odd almost pointless olive branch offered from Sony to maybe gain some good will back. Hopefully this is just because it's in testing stages. Personally I'd love them to offer this (timer counting down during gameplay) as part of the plus subscription and remove the online pay wall.

I miss having Demos, so hope this expands.

@KayOL77 don't know the answer to half of what you've asked! I played it on a base ps4, and have little to no intention of playing Kena... the combat was sort of fun, but a bit floaty; no real impact or ability to aim properly. Even auto-lock sort of floats about, rather than keeping you locked on to enemies properly. Very little voice over work, and just one cringey narrator talking to you like a baby the whole time. Really sucked the fun out of it for me!
On the plus side, the crafting aspect is cool, and the creative freedom to build your character is nice, but it's held back by an arbitrary dark/light system that doesn't offer much experimentation or stretch very deep.

@KayOL77 would suggest it's also more a weird cat-hybrid than a rabbit! Haha 😉

UK and Canada had to be the answer to the following question at Sony HQ:

Which 2 countries could we pick to do something in that would piss off the US the most? 😂

#Imoldenoughtorememberdemos meme

Sony has PS Now and PS+, why is this even a thing?

I don't understand how 1 company can screw up demos so badly in 2021. smh

@es_lion Yes, it does work. I did it woth sackboy. I had to "download" the free trial from the other account too, but as it was already downloaded I could play instantly. Which was nice, because I'd started the download when I went to bed, so the five hours had long passed

@rjejr maybe because most of the US are on dial up speeds

@GHockey Great thanks! So although Sony have been a bit weird with this one, there's actually no real problem since anyone could set up a secondary account to download the trial(s) in advance and then play them when they're ready to on their own account? I get that people don't want to have to go to the trouble of doing this and they really shouldn't have to, but it isn't a major issue if there's such a relatively simple workaround!

Also it means I can download ones like Sackboy (that I quite fancy myself) and get the full access time to it and then my youngest can get the same amount of access on his account too to try it out!

Thanks for the reply!

Two games I’ve been wanting to try… I might be making a profile in a different region.

@J2theEzzo Everytime I think of the game I get a white speckled rabbit in a battlesuit in my mind. I can't HELP it!!! 😟

I remember when it was more common for Sony to have free trials of games - I think it was late in the PS3 lifespan where one benefit of Plus was that quite a lot of new games had a one-hour free trial (not all of them, but several). You'd download the full game, and the clock would start when you started playing - and pause if you quit, so you could do two 30-minute gaming sessions a few days apart. But it was only an hour - often tough to figure out how much you like a game when you only get an hour, especially if it has tutorials and cut-scenes that eat up a lot of that hour.

But acting like this is some revolutionary new concept seems odd, since it's in many ways a less-friendly variation of what they used to do more often.

I think this is a great idea. The problem I have with demos is that they generally drop you in the middle of a game and I always find that a bit overwhelming. This will allow me to experience the game from the beginning and then the option to continue by paying is cool.

Does anyone know if you can continue playing if you opt to buy the physical version over digital?

@KayOL77 some things there just ain't any helping, I guess! 😉

@J2theEzzo Ok. It's 60fps, at 1080p which I can live with. So I might try it after all.

So I can download this as Guest, then play it full time with my own profile?

@Ward_ting Yeah demos rarely start from the start. This is a good idea. Also they should sort out the kinks.

Will give this a go. I enjoyed watching all the cut scenes on the Death Stranding trial.

Aaaaaaand where do I find these? Biomutant has the try option. Death stranding is the Digi Dlx version and no trial button. No trial button for Sackboy either :-/

@vapidwolf US has PS Now but most of the world doesn't so...🤷

"Recently, Sony very quietly introduced Game Trials."

Game trials were part the original ideias for the Playstation Plus' benefits. There were a couple of game you could test them for an hour. I think PS Plus still has PS3 games you could do this. However, for unknown reasons, Sony stopped doing that.
Another wasted idea was the alpha/beta access, that actually was never implemented properly.

I really enjoyed Biomutant but it’s opening hours are arguably its shoddiest…

I would like to try both Bio Mutant and Death stranding, but it looks as though gamers like me who live in rural places with slower download speeds are persecuted yet again. Be fair Sony and start the timer when the download has completed. I haven't been been able to download a game in 5 hours ever!

Honestly, it's not a bad game. They just should have rethought the combat. The only thing I like about it was the psi/mutant powers. The rest felt like a bad attempt at a DMC combat system. I'll get round to playing through it eventually, but will probably start again and focus on guns next time.