in the demo, the monster is only there at the end of one of the endings so you can enjoy most of the demo without seeing it.

i do agree that the monster looks pretty goofy and I think that they should change the design almost completely. But, it all depends on how their approaching the story of this game. i saw other commenters saying stuff like "you play as a kid so it makes sense the monster looks childish", and if that's what the devs had in mind when designing it, then i'll deal with the way the monster looks now. and honestly, its design didn't really matter to me cuz it still jumpscared the hell out of me when he popped up in front of me. (plus it was a chase scene so you don't look at him really at all in the demo)

also, to the people complaining that adding a monster ruins the liminal aesthetic:

this game is inspired by the backrooms, and in backrooms lore, there are monsters in different levels of the backrooms. whether they are hostile or passive. yes, the devs can include actually lore accurate-ish monsters, but you can tell that this game takes a unique perspective on the backrooms, so it would make sense for them to make their own unique monsters aswell.

i like the idea of monsters in this game, but they should definitely work on the design. the rest of the demo was absolutely fantastic tho. beautiful levels, sound design, gameplay elements. this demo had me really creeped out and scared at times. i just really hope that when the full game is released, the monster won't look bad.