Fell & Sell demo: what it is, and what carries over

Does a demo exist?

Yes, free on Steam

Official

Do saves carry over?

Yes, confirmed

Official

Full game after it

$8.99 at launch

Official

The demo button was checked by hand on 2026-08-27. The save carry-over started life here as one reviewer’s report; the developer’s launch-day announcement confirmed it, so every line on this page now carries the official tier instead. A claim only moves up a tier when a source appears, never because it sounds right.

Every demo question, with where the answer came from

Seven questions, four different kinds of answer. The middle column is the point of the table: three of these have an official source, one has a player behind it, and three have nothing at all — and those three are written as unknown rather than filled in with something plausible.

Source: the Steam store page for appid 4627110 and its review pages, both retrieved 2026-08-27. Rows marked No source stay in the table on purpose — deleting them would make the list look complete.

What the demo will not settle

A demo whose saves survive is a different object from a demo that rewinds you. If the carry-over report holds, the demo is not a trailer you watch and then start over from — it is the first slice of the same run, and the decision it puts in front of you is whether to keep going, not whether to begin.

That matters more here than it would elsewhere because of the shape of the playtime numbers. On 2026-08-27 the median playtime attached to a Steam review was 2.9 hours, with the middle half of reviewers between 1.7 and 4.4. Against a game people are writing about after an afternoon, a few demo hours are a large fraction of the thing, not a taster before it.

One correction and one caution on that paragraph, since it is the one doing the arguing. The correction: the carry-over is no longer only a reviewer’s claim player-reported · 2026-08-27. On launch day the developer wrote it down — “while you can continue your progress directly from your demo save file, we highly recommend starting a brand-new game. Starting fresh is the absolute best way to fully experience everything the game has to offer” — which confirms the saves transfer and, in the same breath, advises against using them. The caution: review playtime is capped by the moment someone chose to write a review: it is a lower bound on how long people play, never an estimate of how long the game is. What the demo cannot tell you either way is where it stops — no limit of any kind is published, so there is no way to say in advance how much of the game you will see for free.

The furniture demo players get, and the day it went missing

Playing the demo leaves you with something in the full game. The developer’s own words on launch day: “everyone who braved the demo will automatically receive an exclusive piece of furniture to place in your home as a token of our gratitude! This reward is permanently yours and will be available to you even when starting new playthroughs.”

It did not work at first. A patch later the same day carried the admission: “Demo Reward Fix: The exclusive furniture piece for everyone who played the demo should now correctly appear in your inventory.” So if you played the demo, bought the game on 26 August and found nothing in your inventory, that was the bug and it was fixed within hours — there is nothing to replay to earn it back.

Steam announcement “OUT NOW!”, 2026-08-26; Steam announcement “Ver. 1.0.1”, 2026-08-26. Read 2026-08-28. What the piece is called, and whether it moves Comfort or Prestige at all, is not published.

Demo questions