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Inside now has a free demo on Steam

UPDATE: Demo on PS4 too. Full game discounted through tomorrow.

UPDATE 28/11/2016 9.24pm: The Inside demo is available on PS4 as well, where it's also on sale for £7.39.

The Xbox One version is likewise on sale for £11.99 (or £10.71 with an Xbox Live Gold account) until tomorrow at 10pm UK time.

ORIGINAL STORY 28/11/2016 5.17pm: Playdead's eerie adventure Inside now has a free demo on Steam.

Should you enjoy the demo, the full game is currently 25 per cent off at £11.24 as part of Steam's Autumn Sale, which ends on 29th November at 6pm.

On that note, Playdead's iconic debut Limbo is 80 per cent off at £1.39. Or you can buy both Inside and Limbo bundled together in the Playdead Adventure Pack for £11.37 (49 per cent off).

Our Chris Donlan highly recommended Inside. "As with the cleverest of Inside's tricks, the narrative itself is best discovered through the act of playing, but it's worth saying that Playdead's latest certainly feels peculiarly topical as it ceaselessly orbits persecution, violence, and all the other dehumanising, self-defeating monsters of fear," he teased in his Inside review.

Inside is only about four hours long, but what an incredible four hours they are! When you're done with it, check out our analysis of its strange, brilliant ending.