How to extend the 60-minute Resident Evil Village PC demo
Extend your stay with this handy guide
PC players have already worked out how to get a little extra time with the Resident Evil Village timed demo.
A 60-minute timed demo of Resident Evil Village has released on the PC, and as is almost always the case with timed demos on the PC, someone has already found a way to reset the demo timer and allow you to keep playing. The exploit alters files on your computer to trick the game timer into thinking you've played less than you have.
As confirmed in the Resident Evil Village section on Steam, user Leaves suggests the following:
- Disable Steam Cloud for RE8 Demo
- Download Steam SAM (Steam Achievement Manager)
- Delete Local Savefiles (Located: D:\Steam\userdata\<YOUR STEAM ID>\1541780\remote\win64_save\)
- Delete those Files
- Start Steam SAM
- Select RE8 Demo
- Remove Achievements and Stats, confirm.
This won't offer any more content, only more time to explore the places shown in the demo.
From now until May 9, you'll be able to start playing the Resident Evil Village gameplay demo and continue until two days after the game officially launches. That means you can move from the demo to the full game without a gap in-between if you like what you play.
None of this is particularly surprising if you've been paying attention to the trailers and details, but it's amusing nonetheless to read all the gruesome details listed in such a transactional fashion.