Ubisoft vets releasing free demo for Metroidvania couch co-op Revenge of the Savage Planet because "we know that money is tight," and they hope you'll say "this 4 years of effort and 30 people" that made the full game "is worth 2 lattes"

Cropped key art for Revenge of the Savage Planet showing two player characters running away from lots of green goo, flanked by various googly-eyed wildlife.

Some three months after launch, Revenge of the Savage Planet is getting a big free update and Steam demo that lets players try out the beginning of the sci-fi action co-op game commitment-free, starting August 18.

Revenge of the Savage Planet – a bigger, weirder, raunchier sequel to Journey to the Savage Planet – released back in May after Raccoon Logic founders Reid Schneider and Alex Hutchinson re-acquired the rights to the franchise from Google following its Stadia shutdown.