Steam is famous for its tempting sales, but it could well become even more attractive with this functionality similar to the PS Plus Premium which has just been discovered.
For a lot of PC gamers, Steam has become an absolutely essential platform. More than an online store, it’s a hub full of great deals and popular features. And it may well be that Valve’s platform seeks to seduce more by taking over a feature of the PS Plus Premium which allows you to play certain games for free for a limited time.
Steam plays it PS Plus Premium
Spotted by users, Steam would therefore now offer free trial versions limited in time, much like what the PlayStation Plus Premium offers. Or at least that’s the case today with Dead Space Remake, currently on sale on the platform. It is, in fact, possible to try the EA game for a little less than 2 hours without paying a single penny.
What is amazing is that the remake of Dead Space seems to be the only game to take advantage of this offer. Although many EA titles are on sale, no others offer a trial version. Moreover, no other promotional game offers it at the moment.
At this time, it’s unclear if this Steam offering is isolated, if it’s a feature that’s coming back soon, or if it’s something else entirely. As it stands, the free trial has nothing to do with EA Play, which is something entirely separate. Not even with EA for that matter, since there is no similar offer on the publisher’s store.
More questions than answers
It is therefore difficult to say where this new feature comes from. But the fact is that it already seems to be well received by users. On ResetEra for example, the first returns very welcome this novelty, even if many questions. In particular to find out if this trial version replaces, or is combined with, Steam’s refund policy already in place. The latter allows you to be reimbursed for a game if you have played less than two hours during the first 14 days following the purchase. For the moment, Steam does not seem to have communicated on the subject, so we will have to monitor it closely.
