What's in the KUTO Demo: One Era, Two Bosses, Free

The KUTO: The Lock of Time demo is one full era, Ancient Greece, built from a dozen hand-made locations you can play from start to finish. You get the Scythe of Kronos, the dash, the slide and the Rewind Key, and two bosses wait along the way, the Minotaur and Athena. It's free, and anyone with a Steam account can download it from the store page right now.

If you want the short story of how the demo came out and why we're in Steam Next Fest, that's in the announcement post. This one is the list of what you'll actually play.

Ancient Greece, where the story begins

The setup goes like this. Jokoan Kuto is a staff prophet for the Order of the Guardians of Time, he sees a future he very much doesn't like, and the elders answer by sending him to the sacrificial fire. The ritual goes wrong, and he comes out of it carrying the Scythe of Kronos. Ancient Greece is the era where all of that starts, and it's the era the demo covers.

The locations are hand-built, not generated. In the full game, sanctuaries, ritual halls and ruins join into one map, and new abilities open shortcuts back through it.

What you fight with

The Scythe of Kronos is always in your hand. In the demo it does three things:

• strike combos on the ground
• an aerial strike
• a special move, which you get by holding the attack button

You also get the dash and the slide. The scythe is heavy and the dash is short, so timing matters.

Then there's the Rewind Key. Missed a jump, walked into a trap, took a hit that should have ended the fight? Hold the key and take the last few seconds back. Every rewind burns Kronal Dust, though, and the only way to get more is to take it from enemies. Play too carefully and you run dry.

The two bosses

The Minotaur guards the lower sanctuary. Athena waits at the end of the demo. We're not going to describe their attacks here, because learning them is most of the fun.

Controls, Steam Deck and languages

The demo supports gamepads and Steam Deck. It's in English and Ukrainian.

Will it run on my PC?

These are the minimum requirements listed on Steam:

	Minimum
OS	Windows 10 x64 (21H1 or newer)
CPU	Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
Memory	8 GB RAM
Graphics	DirectX 11 (feature level 11.0), 2 GB VRAM (NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti, AMD RX 560 or Intel UHD 630)
Storage	5 GB

It keeps changing

The demo isn't frozen. In the first week of the closed playtest four players told us, separately, that the combat felt weak, and we shipped five builds in those six days (the numbers are here). We keep working the same way. If something feels off, tell us through the feedback form or on Discord, and there's a decent chance the next build answers it.

If you like what you play, wishlist the game. For a team our size that does more than anything else.

Play the free KUTO: The Lock of Time demo on Steam