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Every month there are dozens new games released on Linux, but only handful of them present themselves with a demo.

Certainly - when you look at all the competition on the entertainment market, all the books, movies, music, mobile f2p, TV - that surely speaks of our "game-dev" ego, doesn't it :)

You -- "customer" -- have to start asking dummy questions. What exactly makes us game-devs think; what makes us believe that we can pitch our game to you for less and price it for more? Why should you pay for this random crap, when you have other shit available for free?

Now... Parasite. The dev of this little game tries to do it right. It's not a click-bait title. Parasite follows the trend set up by VVVV, "funny retro platformer from 16-bit era" - without a demo, I wouldn't ever notice this game exists... And that would be a shame.

In Parasite you play an alien worm on a quest to clean his planet of human colonists, before they take over your world. It's a bit of "The Thing" played from the other side, but in a neat, kids-friendly way. You take over humans, dogs, whoever, and try doing your best to sabotage the colony, preferably killing everyone before they escape.

You can download the demo directly from Steam or alternatively you can try the browser version.

Parasite has been made by Raphael Gervaise. It's available for Linux, Win and OSX.