About This Demo

• The complete Act 1: its map, events, elites and the boss that guards the way down.
  
• Three heroes from the start — Amós, Isolt and Sela. Beat the boss to unlock Mor; win again to unlock Ulrik. That's all five heroes of the full game.
  
• The real systems, not a cut-down version: one shared deck, permanent mutilation, stress, afflictions and broken minds.
  
• Full controller support.

Your whole party fights from a single deck. Every card belongs to a hero, and when that hero dies, their cards die too. Wounds don't heal between fights: lose an arm and the cards that needed it are gone for the rest of the act. Push too hard and minds start to crack.


The demo ends where the descent begins. Two more acts, the Sanctuary of flesh and what sleeps at its bottom are waiting in the full game. If the demo hooks you, add Borrowed Flesh to your wishlist — it's the best way to support the game.

Demo progress does not carry over to the full game.


Found a bug or have an opinion? Use the Feedback on Steam button in the pause menu or at the end of a run. It opens the Demo Feedback forum, and every post is read.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Borrowed Flesh uses generative AI for part of its 2D art (backgrounds, characters and enemies), its music, some of its voice lines and its translations.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Borrowed Flesh is a dark fantasy horror game with frequent, explicit violence and gore. Combat depicts dismemberment and permanent mutilation of the player's characters (severed arms, crippling wounds), bleeding, poison, characters being grabbed, swallowed whole and devoured alive by monsters, and detailed on-screen deaths. Enemies and environments feature heavy body horror: exposed flesh, bone, corpses and malformed creatures.
The game also deals with themes some players may be sensitive to. A stress and sanity system can drive characters into breakdowns in which they harm themselves, attack their own allies, or suffer a fatal heart attack; character death can be permanent. Horror scenes include hanging imagery (an enemy that lowers nooses onto the party). The game contains mild profanity, and a card-gambling minigame played with in-game gold only, with no real money involved.

The game contains no nudity, no sexual content, and no depictions of sexual violence, drug or alcohol abuse.