Honcho Wishlist Trailer & Demo Access
Somewhere in rural Japan... closed access to the Honcho demo is available!
Thank you all for your patience with this. The demo is now available for all paid Patreons. Here’s how it works:
If you’ve ever pledged at the Support Honcho tier ($10 or more), you should receive a link to access the build on itch.io.
If you’ve cancelled but previously supported, you will still receive a link.
The itch.io build is currently a ZIP file, as I’m above the 1 GB limit. I’ve reached out to Itch to try to lift the limit, but we’ll see how that goes.
What does the demo contain?
One Inaka Prefecture and delivery missions.
Full vehicle simulation elements with all current vehicle components accessible through RNG looting.
The demo does not contain the late-game vending machine elements.
Probably some bugs, but it's been tested a fair bit.
What about the full game?
Honcho is a big game, it'll take time to add the remaining environments, components and systems.
I want to give a Steam key to anyone who has donated $20 or more. This is dependent on Steam's terms of service, and their willingness to send out keys, so I can't currently promise this but it is what I'd like to do.
Why not NextFest?
You're only allowed to put your game into one Steam Next Fest, so we're holding off until the game is closer to release. A demo will eventually make its way to Steam Next Fest, but I'm not sure when.
Anyway, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your bodega cats. Honcho has a trailer. And they should all wishlist it!
Thanks,
Greg
Any issues getting access to the demo, feel free to comment here and I'll get onto it.
Comments (14)
Hi I just subscribed and I can't access the demo through the link provided in the email. Any help is appreciated!
Hi check your DMs, sorry for the late reply I have been away this weekend.
Hello, sorry if I interfere, but if the reason to let less people to try out the demo you can try using playtest function on Steam. There you can personally choose who can test out the game //unless Iam wrong//
Can we still pay for the demo
When I extract the files it says "Unity player.dll not found" and wont work
7zip is needed. Going to get a patch out today to make the file size smaller and allow modular downloading through the itch client.
Why is the demo paid? It's a shame, my parents will never want to buy that. And if we pay for the demo, will we have to pay for the game again in the future when it is released?
It's a buggy demo right now, so I wanted to keep the influx of players low whilst I fix things. Eventually there will be a free demo for all, I just need some help and time to fix the issues and take on feedback!
If I become a member right now, can I have a link? I wanted to support but my mom said I couldn't.
Yeah, should automatically send to you with the greeting message.
Thanks Greg! I've managed to download a copy of the demo, but I'm getting an error whenever I try to extract it. Not sure if this is just a me issue, but thought it worth posting incase anyone else has a similar issue! error 0x80004005: unspecified error - This comes up for each .dll file.
Hi, 7zip is required to extract the game files. I had to use a stricter compression method to manage to get it under the 1gb limit on itch.io. A few other users have reported that using 7zip to extract the files fixes this issue.
Looks beautiful. Very exciting!
excited to play the demo!