Resident Evil VII: Biohazard demo now available on PC

A month or so before the release of Resident Evil VII: Biohazard, this upcoming survival horror got a PC version of the free demo, previously available on PS4 and XONE.

You can now play the Resident Evil VII: Biohazard free demo on Steam – actually, it exists there as a separate item called Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour, and serves as a sort of prologue to the actual game. It starts with the protagonist waking up in an abandoned hut. With no one around, you must find your way out before the night sets. This is obviously just the beginning of a terrifying story, as you would expect from a Resident Evil game. Previously, the demo was available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Resident Evil VII: Biohazard is said to retain the dark atmosphere of the franchise, while introducing some important changes to gameplay. This time around you will observe the events from the first person perspective, which is to add to the overall immersion. The game also focuses less on action and more on horror elements. The full game will launch on January 24, 2017, on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Here are the in-game visual settings available on PC:

Screen Resolution: Up to 3860x2160
Refresh Rate: supports 144hz monitors including Nvidia G-Sync
Display Mode: Full screen, Windowed, and Borderless Window
Field of View
Frame Rate: 30, 60, and Variable (uncapped)
V-Sync: On and Off
Rendering Method: Normal and Interlaced
Resolution Scaling: 0.5X to 2.0X, 1.0X is 100%
Texture Quality: Very Low to Very High
Texture Filtering: Very Low to Very High
Mesh Quality: Low to Very High
Anti-Aliasing: FXAA, TAA, FXAA+TAA, and SMAA
Motion Blur: On and Off
Effects Rendering: Low, Medium, and High
Depth of Field: On and Off
Shadow Quality: Very Low to Very High
Dynamic Shadows: On and Off
Shadow Cache: On and Off
Ambient Occlusion: Off, SSAO (Variable), SSAO, and HBAO+ (Nvidia-specific)
Bloom Effect: On and Off
Lens Flare: On and Off
Volumetric Lighting Quality: Off, Low, and High
Reflections: On, Off, and Variable
Subsurface Scattering: On and Off
Chromatic Aberration: On and Off
Color Space: SRGB and BT.709