What is the Menes: The Chainbreaker Demo?

This demo lets you play through the opening section of Menes: The Chainbreaker, a third-person, parry-focused action-adventure set in a surreal desert prison realm. As Menes, a forgotten celestial shard, you’ll take your first steps toward freeing Bastet and learning why the Creator is chained.

What’s included in the demo

Approx. 1 hour of gameplay
Depending on your skill, you can expect anywhere from a short run to many retries as you learn the bosses and platforming challenges.
2 boss fights
Battle powerful “false gods” who are both prisoners and jailers. Each boss has distinct phases, patterns, and punish-windows designed around timings, parries and positioning.
Parry-focused, Sekiro-inspired combat
- Third-person melee combat with tight timing windows
- Emphasis on parrying and counter-attacking rather than button-mashing
- Enemies that punish greed and reward patience and pattern recognition

Precision 3D platforming in the desert
- Use the Icarus wings to glide, correct jumps and cross dangerous gaps
- Navigate moving platforms, narrow ledges and vertical climbs
- Fall, learn, and try again until the route “clicks”

Lore-rich, surreal worldbuilding
- Discover cryptic murals, environmental storytelling and voice lines hinting at Bastet, the Creator and the Desert Realm
- Optional paths hide extra lore for players who like to explore every corner
Focused single-player experience
- No co-op, no PvP – this demo is all about you learning the systems
- Checkpoint-based progression that sends you back when you die, but lets you keep your knowledge and mastery

How the demo relates to the full game

This demo is a slice of the full Menes: The Chainbreaker experience: one early area of the Desert Realm, two major bosses, a chunk of the lore, and the core combat + platforming loop.
The full game will expand this with more realms, bosses, abilities, and story choices that shape the fate of the universe.

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