🎮 Demo Guide - What's In It & Progress Transfer

Yes — and not just as a preview. The developers have confirmed that your demo progress transfers to the full game, so hours spent in the demo now are hours banked for launch. The demo contains a real slice of the run loop: multiple commanders, the first three difficulties, and a Daily Challenge mode that has run community key giveaways.

• Commanders: The Captain, Blob Girl, The Core and The Duchess are confirmed playable (the launch line-up is ten). The demo first went live on February 18, 2026 and grew through festival updates — the Tiny Teams Fest update added The Duchess.
• Difficulties: the first three difficulties of the invasion.
• Daily Challenge mode: a daily run variant — the developers ran key giveaway contests on it during Next Fest.
• Languages: the demo ships in eleven languages, including English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
• Full controller support, with Steam Deck-specific readability fixes from the demo patch notes.

The official demo announcement states: "Your progress will be transferable as well!" — unlocks and progress you earn in the demo carry into the full game when it launches on Steam, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. The exact unlock categories have not been itemized by the developers; treat commander familiarity and any demo unlocks as the banked value.

Learn the loop in this order: dice alignment first (pairs into triples), column placement second (which artifact gets the XP), resource timing third (Budges before Chrono). Then try one engine per commander: Budge stockpiling with The Captain, Mini Dice flooding with Blob Girl, Kraken column routing with The Core, and fourth-row board building with The Duchess. The commander tier list ranks all revealed kits for launch.