#google Stadia tries something new: a free 30-minute game trial

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Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service is still coming up with new ways to attract gamers, and it’s finally trying one that we’ve suggested for years: free time-limited trials of entire games, so you can see whether it’s for you. As 9to5Google reports, you can now hop on over to Stadia, sign in with your Google account, and be playing a 30-minute free trial of Hello Engineer just by following this link and scrolling down to the “Free trial” button you see below.

Google also has this dedicated webpage for other free trials that it might offer in the future, though it only appears to include Hello Engineer for now. Google previously tried some limited demos.

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