Daedalic Entertainment has released a playable demo for its adventure game The Whispered World, now available for download.

The demo contains a section from the first of the four chapters of the title which was originally due way back in 2008. The file weighs in at 593 MB and can be downloaded via a couple of mirrors, here and here as well.

Sadwick awakes from one of his nightmares and and must first speak with his eccentric circus family, before finding his way into the depths of the Autumn Forest. There he comes face to face with an odd stranger and an earth-shattering prophecy.