Steam free trial games now support separate store pages and can also enable user reviews

According to news from this site on July 27, the Steam Game Store announced on July 26 that thousands of trial versions of playable games will be launched on Steam every year, and millions of players will try them out (usually new products on Steam) section). The official noticed some common trends in the changes in processes and functions in the feedback from developers and players, and made an update based on these feedbacks. Behavior of Trials in the Steam Library Now Improved There have been some official updates to the display and behavior of Trials in the Steam Library. Here are the key ones: Players can add the trial to their library without immediately installing it. If players aren't ready to install a trial yet (such as when using the Steam mobile app), they can now simply click the new "Add to Library" button next to it. Even if players already own the full game, they can install the trial version. This is mainly to make it easier for developers to test trial versions, but it also makes it easier for players to manage the installation/uninstallation of trial versions. The trial can be explicitly removed from the account by right-clicking >Manage>Remove from Account. Once a trial is uninstalled, it will automatically be removed from the player's library. Trials can now have separate store pages

1. By default, the free trial will appear as a button in the base game's store page.

2. Now, players clicking on the trial will sometimes load the full trial store page, while other times it will take them to the full game page with a button to install the trial.

Tightly linked to the full game

3. The standalone trial store page will automatically display a trial install button, as well as a widget linking to the full game, for players interested in adding it to their wishlist or purchasing the full game.

Trial version user reviews

4. If a developer chooses to enable a store page for their trial version, it also allows trial version players to leave user reviews there.
5. These reviews and ratings will appear on the trial store page, just like reviews for any other free game on Steam.

The Steam store will now show more trial versions

Trial versions are now more like free games and can appear in all the same columns and lists as the latter.
For example, trials can now appear on the Steam homepage in lists like "New & Hot", on the "New on Steam" page, and on related tag and category pages.
The official has also made some changes to the display threshold of free products in these columns to better maintain a balance with paid products.
Wishlist notification when the trial version is launched
Steam officials have also implemented a new feature: when the game in the player's Steam wishlist provides a trial version for the first time, or the developer the player follows launches a trial version of a game for the first time, Steam Notifications about the trial can be sent to players via email or mobile app.
Players can choose to receive or not receive these emails by updating their email preferences.
Official Q&A attached to this site:

Q: What’s going on with the trial version icon? Is it a plate? Or a vinyl record?

A: This classic icon, my friends, comes from the days when trial copies were distributed through the post office, in the accompanying package of a gaming magazine printed on dead wood, and carried on a round medium called a disc superior.

Q: Some trials just showed up in my library. How is this going?

A: We've made some changes to the visibility of trials in the Steam library, and this may affect trials you played a long time ago. We've done our best to clean up the trials we don't think you'll care about anymore, but it's possible we've missed some. You can easily delete them by right-clicking them in your Steam library and selecting Manage >Remove from Account.

Q: I love the free trial. When is the next Steam Release Festival?

A: Don’t miss the week-long Steam New Product Festival on October 14th (PT), when hundreds of new free trial versions will be available! You can visit the New Product Festival page now to sign up to receive reminders: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

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