Play Demos, Post Thoughts. We're Journalists.https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_oct25_press/
Don't open this link it creates mustard licences
I didn't think I would like this one because I'm not a 3D platformer guy, but the demo was pretty darn good.
Psycho Sleuth had problems where cutscenes wouldn't run and was also pretty hamfisted when it used words like the church of logic but it might be good when it comes out.
Don't like the voice acting in this one. I'd probably play it on mute IF I bought it. Which I would probably only do on sale.
A turn based strategy that actually lets you run around freely instead of those dumb grids
Stop doing these. at least don't make it a general.the last few next fests the threads died well before bump limit because everyone played everything before it even started.
>>722381845No they didn't you're making that up.
>Rubinite is in againUh I thought that wasn't allowed
>>722382139I don't think anyone cares about the rules.
Clever game. Doesn't look like much but has a real energy.
Well, a Dr. Seuss crossover with Junji Ito or lovecraft or whoever is certainly an interesting idea. I did get a laugh out of the game over screen.
if you're one of those "so bad it's good" kind of guys, this one would probably work.
Jackal is good but that demo is already outHalf Sword has a demo too but maybe it's getting an updated one soonSkate Story was in there? if it gets a demo I'll be happy
Alice... no I'm gaining SEN AAA
holy shit do these guys not know how to make a demo. it was talk talk talk talk talk talk like just shut the fuck up and let me play but they just talk talk talk talk talk and when you think it's over they talk talk talk talk talk talk how many prologues can one game have they just kept talking. I didn't even get to the end of the talking I gave up around when they said life is like the rhythmic sounds of cymbals or something the person clearly never heard a cymbal in his life based on that description.I estimate I might buy this game if it was priced at 60 cents.
oh boy more slopI can't wait for the deck building rogue souls likes and same old ideas copied for the millionth time :DDD
>>722381845Just ignore this guy. He was here last time too and spent weeks trying to convince people next fest would be ruined if we started playing the demos before the official start date.He's very spoiled and thinks that the whole world should cater to his interests.
>We're here but we need you to wait for 10 more daysI swear...
>>722383829
not bad I suppose but not a game for me I think
>>722384653Strong Kyrandia vibes.
this one was woke bullshit I'm afraid. Instant Delete.
These roguelites all have the same problem where they never have Items that are so powerful that there needs to be RNG to lock them away. If all of the Items are gonna say +1 speed or whatever then it should just be a regular video game.
bah, tutorial was too confusing. I just switched it off. Some sort of metal detecting game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3008700/Eagle_Knight_Paradox/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3705550/Internal_Incident/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2369580/Mad_King_Redemption/everything else seemed too gay to follow like the other shite posted in this thread
This one was one of those ones that was so obviously good, I already knew what I thought of it before I even got control of the character. also what happens when you press the B button is really funny, I pressed it a bunch just to see her do it over and over again.Instant wishlist.
>Brigador Killers demo got delayedsadge
>hes doing it againanother fest ruined by autism
>>722385941sorry but your mecha tomboy girl is ugly. you're not very good at being a mecha fan i guess
Previous thread:>>722364846
>>722386343bland tomboy game will never be released, literally another dumb artfag's garbage fetish project
>>722386131If the threads bother you so much, you could just attend the festival by yourself. No one is forcing you to attend with 4chan. You can play all the games all privately. No one would be there.
>>722383710Pretty sure that one's anon's game.
>multiple "100 cats in x" puzzlesfor what purpose
>>722383710>Available: Literally after NextFest is doneWhy can't other games be like this?
>>722385941>this shit>not too gay
>>722387134it's AI generated static images
>>722383954I'm not some other guy and if multiple independent people suggest something maybe it's worth at least examining it.
Not bad/I'll keep my eye on it. You dual wield guns which I haven't seen in a while, but fundamentally it's the same as having one gun really.also she moves really fast. her walking speed is faster than most games running speed, and then the game revealed there was a "run" button/so you could go even faster.
>>722387369Just ignore this guy. He was here last time too and spent weeks trying to convince people next fest would be ruined if we started playing the demos before the official start date.He's very spoiled and thinks that the whole world should cater to his interests.I'm not the guy who said that the first btw I'm actually a totallly different guy who just happens to have the exact same opinions okay so you need to listen now and go away kay
>>722387369If you want the threads to go away then feel free to stop them.
>>722384867In what sense woke bullshit?
>>722387546The game started with a disclaimer announcing it was created on the traditional territory of the Australian Indians.
it's hard to tell if the last next fest's threads were bad because people were playing the demos a week early so the actual threads were less active, or because there was a mountain of low effort ai slop to sift through making it more difficult to find the good games and driving away people who normally would participate
>>722387212a bit gay without knowing the context but less gay than everything else I saw on offer and in this thread, fag
>>722387643When other people play the demos doesn't have any impact on when you play the demos. It's so hard to tell if you have a brain in your head. I can't see it from the outside and you really don't seem like you are capable of thought.
There is no "guy" it is multiple people telling you to stop until fest starts.
>when I try to play the demos but they're all sold out because anons beat me to themSTOP IT RIGHT NOW
I get overwhelmed with the obvious slop so i'm glad people post their findings and playtest stuff, good job my dudes
>>722387697are you retarded? the threads are a communal place where people share interesting games for other people to check out. if half of the people do that all a week early and then fuck off, the threads during next fest will be less active and have fewer people posting the good games they found from the sewer does it ruin the demos themselves? no, of course not. can it ruin the discussion about the demos on 4channel? yes, easily
>>722387887
Holy shit
>>722384001That's good, we'll have something to talk about when the next fest actually starts
>>722387134
>>722387605>land acknowledgmentsGross
>playing demos when 90% of them are Unity>and Unity just announced a massive security flaw affecting all games made on itbros...
>>722386652Good. A game that is released can eventually disappoint you, but if it never comes out I can never be disappointed.I'm sure you'll have fun playing as a woman who looks like Johnny Bravo.
>>722388270I have a computer dedicated to nothing but video games there isn't even a web browser on it. no one can get me
>>722388348oh yeah?!?!!?then how do I know your ip is 127.0.0.1?!?!?!
3 cats! Though I only saw one in the demo. Might be even better of a cat game than that other cat game I forget it's name it was game of the year and had robots. I was probably some sort of cat pun.Anyway, seemed like a pretty good puzzle game you have this cat communication bracelet or something. I had a pretty good laugh at how obviously they had ripped off Disney artwork, whether by humans or computers.
>>722380875Is Bill Tiller one of the background artists?
>>722389040I don't bother to watch the names on the black screen at the end.
>>722383742>plays visual novel>"wft Why are they keep talking? When will the gameplay start?"Anon... This is the gameplay.
>>722388290only interested in the gameplay and the mc is a dude, blind retardoh well.. enjoy your vagina boys, closeted gaylord
>>722381845If anything last time made it clear that most of the good stuff doesn't come out until next fest proper and the press preview period is just wading through shit to find nuggets of shit.
>>722389670That's been known. Press preview is a punishment for journos.
Is this /agdg/ game? It looks like it.
>>722387605They do it to get government grants. Which already means the game won't be worth a damn.
not bad I guess, can't be worse than Still Wakes the Deep. you're some bermuda triangle girl or something
>>722389740what makes it look like an /agdg/ game?
>>722389670Then I guess it doesn't matter if people play the demos early. After all, there's nothing good yet.
play my damn demo if you like ZAMN.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3176830/Monster_Freaks/
I have Next Fest fatigue. They do this four times a year, it's getting tedious. There's too many demos and not enough time, especially with all these recent big releases. Worst part is that half the time it's the same indie games that still haven't released after years of demos.
>>722388270That and the incident last week of Steam failing to catch malware being patched into another game after it had gone live.
cool game wishlisted
>>722390017that whole cancer patient thing was made up. he doesn't even have cancer
>>722390190The cancer streamer was dodgy as fuck but him running a scam or not is irrelevant, you can see the dev adding the malware in the update log.https://steamdb.info/app/3872350/patchnotes/
>>722389137Advent Dawn was a talking game and it didn't suck it got right to the point.
>>722390154>Boomer arcade game>Early Access>RogueliteWhy...
>>722387643Contrary to what local autistic troons love to pretend most indie is garbage tier slop like other videogames. It doesn't matter when they start digging in slop mountain, when there's nothing to dig out you only end up with the less awful slop in the end and again contrary to their copes something actually good is a rare find and not something you can get every fest
Decent Game, I suppose. I estimate it's value to be no greater than $5.But yeah you play as a writer named William in the 15th Century. who could it be?
it's weird how people like games because actually games are bad.I'm the only one smart enough to see this.
this one is sort of like Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2
>>722389816It looks like shit for one, but in a charming way.
>>722389816I guess the specific edgy anime-like look.
>>722389816obvious tranny """game"""
this one was actually way better than it looked. stealth game
>>722389938that's why you're supposed to only check the threads after the people with more time than you found all the good shit.
This looks interesting but they didn't add demo yet.
I liked this one.
>>722391273I played that one. It was alright.
this thread is saving next fest because without people doing research in advance, the threads end up just being the top 50 demos from the steam charts.
>>722391273This looks like "Yeah, I draw smut, but this game isn't smut."
this demo really wasn't that great
>>722391464that's never been true thoughever. the top 50 list has tons of multiplayer survival crafters and extraction shooters every single time yet those never get talked about here. there are usually only a handful of games that are popular both here and among normalfags, the only one that comes to mind from last next fest was that dispatch telltale game
>>722391273>Roguelite SRPG with tiny mapsIt's already shit. The artist's porn might be decent though.
This one was pretty darn funny when the creepy little psychic girl snatches the paper that tells the future back from you and adds stuff to the drawing.>no wait this would look so much cooler if I added a helicopter.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639650/Kotama_and_Academy_Citadel/pretty competent metroidvania with anime characters, maybe not the best timing since some people are just done with silksong, but it was nice.
>>722391292>AI-powered detective gameNot again
nice artwork at least
>>722391558of course not, it's focused on pregnancy
>>722391723>is a 3D metroidvania>tags: 2D
>>7223918833D graphics, 2D gameplay.The devs are at fault.
>>722391883hyper focusing on the anime girls in the cover, clearly.
>>722391820how similar is it to recetear?
>>722391969no it's a tavern simulator like Vallhalla or you know the coffee shop one
>>722391668Yeah, it's already on my golden idol knock offs to buy. Nice that we actually get protagonist instead of being this bodyless observer.
>>722379857>early demosDope>peeks insideFucking all roguelites again. Never anything good in these.
>>722388019Link? I can't find that one.
>>722392153roguelites let a game have a lot of replayability. it's just a lot of devs don't know how to actually make a good game but they make and release them anyway. some of the best indie games are roguelites>FTL>Noita>Isaac (even if I don't like it)Yes, there are some non-roguelite gems like Pizza Tower, but those are even more rare.
>>722380156that's funny. I thought I would like this because I am a 3d platformer guy, but I didn't end up enjoying it much at all.
>>722392279the combat was rough. it was okay enough for me to overlook it so i can appreciate the movement and more notably, the animations for the movement. and the music.
>>722392236Except it's not replayability if it's the game play. It's just playability. It's only replayability if you play it twice. It's like saying mario is replayability because each level has jumping.I beat FTL once. I played the game once. There's no replayability there.
>>722379857Stop playing games early, you impatient fuckers ruined last year's next fest threads
>>722392323beating the game once doesn't mean you didn't play it up until you won. you're supposed to play FTL multiple times so you can experiment with all the different playstyles. if you didn't like the core game, then you move on to a different one without putting that much time into it.
I thought we agreed to stop demo-testing before the proper demo-fest, otherwise you just ruin the fun for everyone else.
>>722392431If you can't show up on time, you're the one who ruined next fest. It's called punctuality. maybe you should engage in it.
>>722392539No, the motion got defeated during the senate reading. Demo playing is a go.
I'm thankful for all the demo warriors in this thread, playing demos early so they can tell me what the good stuff is in a few days.Keep up the good work.
>it's just one guy samefaggingdo you just want to ruin next fest threads, or what?
>>722392539Autists will continue to be autistic, you can't just tell them to stop being retarded and expect it to work.They're the same kinds of people that would grind out some multiplayer game in their spare time while the rest of the friend group is busy and then become stronger than everyone else they agreed to play with and not understand why people don't like playing with them.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3758770/Ember_and_Blade_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820000/Homura_Hime/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2070270/Cloudheim/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4013980/MARVEL_Cosmic_Invasion_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4002090/Warhammer_40000_Mechanicus_II_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3831450/LORT_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3991920/Million_Depth_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3764080/Finding_Fern_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3809740/TOJIBO/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3931400/PLAGUN__The_Plague_Goes_On_Demo/In no particular order here are the few games that seem tolerable from next fest and not all have their demos posted yet. Ran through hundreds of entries of slop. There isn't much in here this time boys. Sad.
>>722392756Since you've agreed that I'm unstoppable, certainly, you will shut the fuck up, now, correct?
>>722391748lmao
i couldn't figure out which button let me throw grenades and this angered me
>>722392539>otherwise you just ruin the fun for everyone elsethe fun of trying shit games that nobody is should have the displeasure of playing?
>>722393157Yeah I was sort of confused too about how anyone could be ruining the festival when every game is garbage?
>>722388903DUDE 3CAT LMAO
another spooky farm sim
>new let it die gamedid we know about this? why didn't I see a thread?
Any games from the last few fests you guys have enjoyed after release?Vampire's Best Friend was supposed to come out just about right now but something fucky's going on.
>>722393398That was announced at the Absolute State of Play two weeks ago.
>>722393425Mystery of the MalignApparently made by an anon here. Was pretty fun to sleuth through.
>>722379857I hate how you guys start these threads before the event and when the fest happens threads die out because you've already exhausted your interest in demos.
>>722393425Oh, there we go.The demo was great, in a very VVVVVV sort of way. So long as it's cheap I'd recommend checking it out.
>>722393425and Roger and Mystery of the Malign were both great.
>>722393425yeah sure, there is a bunch coming out in the next few days and I will probably get every one of them. Except for Sweet Carole, that one never actually got a demo so I am making a blind purchase.But it is a clock tower ripoff so I know what is in store already.
>>722383954What a fucking gay
>>722393542I do it on purpose to piss you off, actually.
>>722386082Grim
>>722385979How do you unscrew bolts to the ventilation in the cell? I swear I tried everything.
>>722393558I found VVVVV to be approachable but Vampire's Best Friend felt like a ragebait game to start off, so I'm passing on it. That sucks for the dev though.
>>722392831>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3991920/Million_Depth_Demo/This was from last time. And it came out in the interim.
>>722379857I like how whenever I use these journalist preview links, the recommendations at the top are skewered in favor of the last game I played. This time it was a bunch of games with snow and/or driving.
>>722393820Wait, never mind, I confused it with the other 2D pixel art roguelite about descending into the depths. Million Depth's demo came out about a month ago. It had a nice melancholic mood to it but the gameplay is really tedious.
>>722393737I didn't actually get that far. Once I know a game is good I sort of lose interest in the demo. It's pretty rare I actually play demos all the way to the end, I find it spoils the full game.And I thought you were talking about a different demo at first because I did play one where I couldn't find the damn screwdriver for the ventilation duct but I guess that's a popular puzzle.
Why does a vast majority of games have AI thumbnailsI'm not going to play your game if you can't even design a header on your own
pretty good schizo game
>>722393845Snowrunner?
>>722393892>not playing the demos all the way throughwait is that why some people are total fuck-ups and complaining about how many demos there are to play? Are there people who play every demo to the end?that would take fucking forever. no fucking wonder. It never occurred to me that people weren't playing the demos for no more than five minutes each.
The age of Baby Steps-likes have begunhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3716360/Upstairs/
>>722393845yeah, all my recommended games are similar-ish to ck3. which is fair because I've played nothing but it the last few weeks, but still
>>722393398It doesn't resemble the original game stylistically, changed the VA for Uncle Death, and doesn't even seem to have Grasshopper involved with it anymore.
>>722393425>>722393425From the recent aside from already mention Mystery of the Malign >>722393529 I really enjoyed The Drifter (point'n'click sci-fi thiller), Captain Blood (xbox360 action button-masher) and Is This Seat Taken? (simply cute puzzle game).
>>722394002Easy Delivery Co.
enh. wasn't that bad but wasn't that good either
>>722394161Oh, right. I also really enjoyed The Drifter. Slipped my mind since the demo for that was fucking ages ago. Glad it finally came out and they managed to nail it.
>>722393425Of the 34 notable games from the previous two next fests only 9 have come out. Of those Dolls Nest was one of the best games this year, Hell Is Us was decent, and Gal Guardians 2 was unfinished garbage.
>>722394191>that UIAt long last, a Firewatch-like.
>>722394321AI generated Firewatch-like at that.
>>722394191more like project saara
>>722385240>artefacts
>>722393948your game is dogshit, brosry
Lmao the stop having fun guy appeared and everyone just kept playing demos
>>722394509It's set in Britain.
Someone ask for pregnant Paper Please?
>>722394071The 'walking simulator' tag sounds more appropriate than ever. Literal flesh mecha piloting gameplay.
>>722395149Plappers Please?Papers Plapped?Pregnant Please?
>>722395149I played it. It was okay. Think there was a cat.
>>722379857These are happening too often now. Same with steam sales.
>>722393931most indie devs aren't inspired people they're retards that wanted more of some old game or who merely want money but don't have the expertise to work in the industry>endlessly derivative slop>lazy garbage>1/500 polished industry burnout game about blacks (none of the devs are black)
>>722395826Okay well you can leave
wowee more indie pixel roguelike rougelite 3D 2D card deck building survival crafting sloppa made by eastern europeans and chinese using AI generation!!!!!!!!! sign me up
>>722380875>Furry heavenOk, I'm out. The premise reminds me of The Last Express tho.
>AI Generated Content DisclosureMany such cases!
>>722396193Actually I don't think anyone has posted a deckbuilder yet.
Daisen almost looks promising but the dev made the demo have nothing but the virtual training and challenge missions the game has instead of showing off the story mode which looks like it has more varied environments, so the demo just makes the game seem boring. Pretty stupid decision.
>no peepholecore slopWeird, i guess it's too early.
>>722390835I'm loving the adventure game vibes of this but the controls feel like ass for a game that's about doing crime.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882590/GunflareEpoch_Demo/Gunflare Epoch - Playtime: 20mins - Rating: 2.5/5 (potential to be higher)Nuclear throne/Enter the Gungeon kinda game(more Gungeon than NT). It has weapon evolution which i always love in games, and this mod system where you can pick up passive effects (like fire damage, less spread, change shape of bullets so on), but I couldn't actually figure out how to equip them. Think it might be bugged in the demo. Biggest issue with the demo was the lack of difficulty. Most enemies don't even have attacks and the ones that do have very slow, predictable bullet patterns. Rougelites need to be difficult to keep the player engaged, so that's the main thing that needs to be worked on for me to consider picking this up on release. I really hope this one turns out good, cause I'm desperate for more of this type of game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2919070/RopeKun_Adventure/Rope-Kun Adventure - Playtime: 6mins (Demo is basically just the tutorial) - Rating: 4/5 Very cute little puzzle/light action game where you solve puzzles with a rope and strangle your enemies to death. Definitely picking this one up.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3928280/Vital_Shell_Demo_Disc/Vita Shell - Playtime: 13mins - Rating 2.5I didn't actually realize this was a vampire survivors clone until I started playing. Pretty disappointing as I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but it's not bad. visuals and music are really well done and made for quite a relaxing experience. Still probably not gonna play it on release though.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1848490/You_Are_NOT_Bunnygirl/I also wanted to try out this one, but the demo is broken according to every post in the steam discussion forum, so I'll just wait for the 13th, I guess.
>Kotama and Academy CitadelPretty generic metroidvania. Decent combat, but nothing else stands out. But I recently played Rusted Moss so I guess that spoiled me.>Aegis ForceDecent srpg until MC got bugged outside the combat zone in a fight and I was literally soft locked.>KriophobiaGame crashes after initial settings. 10 out of 10, wishlisted.
>>722394020my criteria for wishlisting games is wishing I could play more, so I tend to play the good demos to the end
>>722388903lost Vikings but with cats?
>>722396193the threads were fine before without comments like this, we all know low effort copy paste games exist but we make the conscious effort to not post about them because they fucking blow, you add literally nothing to the conversation
What if Webfishing but horror and with muppets?
>>722381443You mean Valkyria Chronicles kinda deal?
Is Prod all Frogs finally officially in the Next Fest or is devanon delaying it again?
For all the furry gaymers in thread.
>>722397296>>>/reddit/fuck off
>>722397760yeah im thinking you're upset you dont have a logical reaction to the realization that you'd entered a thread for something you dont care for and instead of moving on you stayed and continued to get mad at like an autist
>>722397918>wahhhhhhhhhh muh safe space!!! janny help meeee !!!!! nobody can criticize muh roguelike deckbuilding indie game wahhh>stop posting in MY thread REEEEELMAOin
>>722397972>didnt even read the comment and decided to chimp out, coming back a half hour after his post got a reply because he got a little notification despite his apparent hatred of the thread topicyeah you're insanely asshurt
>>722398031>janny help mee wahhhhhhhhhhh !!!!!! make him read my post and then stop him from posting in MY threadLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>wishlist an chink AI-generated deckbuilding game last NF>it still didn't come outWas not the purpose of that shit to make games fast?
>>722398073try a soijak next
>>722393948Played like a low budget Signalis for me, still liked it so hope it releases.
former next fest stuff im waiting forhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2881610/Mohrta/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3583530/Vampires_Best_Friend/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3570370/CARIMARA_Beneath_the_forlorn_limbs/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/Isopod_A_Webbed_Spinoff/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1598780/Silly_Polly_Beast/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2464280/Tormented_Souls_2/
Short but nice demo and the dev made pretty good horror point'n'click games before.
>>722398590>CarimraDamn. I missed this last fest. Looks like my type of game but there's no demo anymore.
>>722397661what's up with women and gays fetishizing giant hands? I would understand biceps and shoulders because it makes sense as signs of strengths but just lusting after huge palms is so weird to me
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3667270/NEKOMIMI_DESTRUCTION/You run around school beating up students.Extremely janky and bare-bones, good combos but gets boring after 5 minutes.
>>722401838no pantsushots?
>>722402126Nope, they all wear spats.
>>722402386It's shit then.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3457940/FUNKYHEART/did anyone try this one? the voice acting seems a bit amateur but a game with bhopping seems fun
>>722393425Matchless KungfuDemonic MahjongMage Tower Massacre(arguably) Rise of the Golden Idolgonna try Mystery of the Malign next
>>722401575Men get turned on by a woman sucking on a popsicle, and women get turned on by playing a guitar. They imagine things.
>>722403062by men playing*
wait a second...
IT'S ALL CHINESE AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3512750/Vampires_Veil/I played this one
war... has changed?
other people should try this one
God I fucking love Next Fest, best thing to happen in the industry in a long time.
>>722404865Sexy, but is the gameplay good?
>>722405649Enh it's probably not for me. Seems like a precision platformer and those always get pretty hard towards the end.
>Dark Auctionnicei hope someone will make a mod to put Hitler back it
>>722406062unwishlisted
>>722380460it says they fixed the problems now. maybe I'll try it again?
Pinnacle point has a playtest up now.
>>722389670Playing through shit without guilt is the joy of the Next Fest.
Deliverium has a playtest and a demo so that's excellent. You can literally choose between being a demoer or a tester
not bad I guess
>>722389919Fun demo anon.Really like that 90s artstyle and general feel of that era. Made me think of that one Simpsons sega game where you play as Bart.Bonus point for making it an honest top down shooter. So tired of every game being a rogue-like or bullet hell or both.My suggestion would be to make the death screen a little bit shorter in duration and maybe add a restart option at the pause menu. Also adding "remaining aliens" counter in the menu would be nice as well. Because as it is it disappears way too quickly and you can't see again at will it unless you kill another alien making you wonder if you cleared the level or not in case you didn't pay attention earlier or forgot.And another thing. I was looking for controls to figure out how to use molotovs and when I pressed DEFAULTS in the settings the game went black screen and silent. Task manager says that it's working but I can't do shit in it.
This is one of the "big titles" I'm waiting on.
>>722406643I read that as big titties and was really confused by the picture.
Crisol is the only one I've seen so far that doesn't look like indie dogshit.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989380/Crisol_Theater_of_Idols_Demo/
>>722406716That's funny, because it's the most indie-dogshit-looking of them all, mirror, mirror, on the wall.
>>722406716When a person whines about indie games being slop, this is the kind of game those sorts of people like.Keep that in mind.
>>722406716>mostly positiveDamn. I had in my wishlist.
>>722396920
>>722406643>>722406687>big tittiesSame.
>>722407017big titty games don't sell anymore
>>722406932BTFO BASED
Blue Ridge Hunting totally missing next fest for it's demo launch. What a blunder.
>>722406805Seeing how 75% of the games I've seen in the list seem made with RPG maker, call me skeptical.
Demo was sort of limited, but it certainly looks like an ambitious game from the trailers. It could be good. Wait and See, I suppose.
>>722407332Oh I'll call you a lot more than that. Stupid. Scrawny. Shallow. Shabby. Senseless. Spineless. Slow-witted. Superficial.
>>722407332There's about two demos that possibly could have been made in RPGmaker, but it cannot even be said for certain since they didn't use stock assets. Most of the games posted are 3D, which, cannot be done in RPGmaker. You don't know what you're talking about. You are stupid. and filthy.
>>722407332You don't know what that means if you believe that. I'm genuinely surprised you somehow either don't know about or don't think they're all clearly on something like unity.
Resident Evil Requiem is going to get a stealth launch of the demo on the day Next Fest launches for real. I can prove it too. The demo has already been played in limited sessions at conventions and for the press so it exists. And it's Halloween month, a perfect publicity time for horror games.You heard it here first folks. Get ready for all the other demos to get totally overshadowed and for everyone to seethe about it.
>>722407361Yep, good to finally see an actual Gothic inpisred game.But I'm a little sceptical considering that it appears to be a solo dev and his rather ambitious with simulated open world.
>>722407332how fucking stupid can some people be
>>722406805How? It has unique assets and production value. It's closer to the lower end of AA games than an indie game.
>>722407815Solo Devs have been getting better. There's plenty of games out there that you would have never imagined could have been made by one person. Hollowbody was like that. The Rite of Sacred Fluids trilogy(soon to be quadrology). Heartworm. Spy Drops. Market Garden.I basically only play solo dev games so I have quite a few. To me, indie game means independent. It means by yourself. It's not an indie game if you have help.
>>722407767That's not really proving anything? And even if it happened, people usually check on at least the top 10 or something of next fes demos, not just the top one.
>>722407852Could I explain it? Maybe. Talking to you is sort of like trying to explain things to animals. They're too dumb to understand most things, but you can get them to obey you with effort.Will I explain it? No. You're fucking stupid. You don't deserve anything, except to play the game you posted. That's the sort of game you deserve so it's good you enjoy it.
>>722407619It's a figure of speech but retards here seem to take everything literally. The overwhelming majority of the demos I've seen look paint by the numbers in terms of presentation and if that's made with unity, godot, ue5, rpg maker and so on, that's besides the point. Crisol at least looks like it has an identity in terms of art direction and presentation, which ofc does not mean it will be a good game, but it's enough to stand out in a sea of lookalikes.
>>722407767Pragmata and Onimusha have been getting public previews too. From what I've noticed, Capcom usually puts out a demo a month before.
>>722408385>Crisol doesn't look like generic unity slop.lmao. Okay, I'm sorry, it was mean of me to make fun of the game directly to it's developer.
>>722398117It's for marketing and testing purposes, but the algo is so inundated with low effort slop you really can't rely on it for marketing alone these days.
>>722408361I'm not the guy who called the rest of the games in the fest "indie dogshit". The game he pointed out simply does look like it has some more money put into it, and you calling it dogshit in response just seems like a knee jerk reaction because that guy was being a dick.
>>722408459That's funny because it's an Unreal Engine game.
>>722408492It does look like garbage. It reminds me of Ai: The artificial intelligence and christ was that a bad movie.
>>722408572Well whatever. To me, it looks fine. I tried it and it does seem decent but I was put off by it feeling like a console shooter. Low FOV and hold Space to reload.
I didn't know Civil Engineers could play games.
>>722408701That's one way to advertise your game, I suppose?But he got me, mostly because I'm still searching for a game that does fishing really well as I fucking love fishing.
At the end of the day AI is great. It makes shovelware easy to spot, thus easy to avoid
>>722408385Figure of speech are supposed to mean something and especially nowadays, RPGmaker is basically only used for bottom of the barrel japanese H-games. I'm not>>722408459And I will tell you I assumed this was an Unreal engine game, as it's easier to make games that look "AA" in Unreal engine. For what's it worth I hope your game turns out well, it's at least smart of them to participate in the next fes of this month as a horror game.
>>722408129Circumstantial evidence counts as proof when you have enough of it.
>>722409107looks cool, wishlisted.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3551560/Crownbound__Fantasy_Kingdom_Sim_Demo/Something clearly inspired by majesty. I wish the dev would work on it for longer instead of just releasing it while it looks worse than the thing it's based on when it was released nearly 30 years ago...
Pure, unadulterated kino
>>722409464a-at least it's not AI art
>>722409501oh wait I have a game for this hold on
>>722409501
>>722404865Oh yeah we're cooking/
>>722409540human art btfo
>>722393948I think I saw this on Manlybadasshero's channel years ago
>>722385240your metal detector game gets blown out the water by mine. Relics>Artefacts
>>722409617stop it, my wishlist can't take anymore
>>722409748I saw you on the sexual offender registry. That's where you are.
>>722409696Kino, looks like a 2005 flash game.
>>722398590>Mohrta has a release date nownice
>>722408879>fish
Alright I should go have a bath and go to school. Dunno why I bothered attending when I clearly just want to play video games.oh well.
>>722404865Feels like Shantae to me. A meh platformer with a sexy protag.
>>722409947If you could tell me if I can entirely avoid porn stuff and just fish until the end, I might give this a try, at least it would be a novel experience to avoid bitches when I just wanna fish.
>>722410259Okay, here's a real game for you. It did have a demo at one point, an excellent demo. The only reason I haven't bought it is the price. They are charging too much. But yeah, the best dishing game I played except for Dave the diver I think.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2393160/Nice_Day_for_Fishing/
Any bullet hells of interest? I don't want to hear another goddamn roguelike or a deckbuilder or some other inane mechanic they just copy and pasted.
>>722386652>>722386343Demo when
>>722408385I was rightI played the demo and it's dripping with atmosphere. The shooting is pretty bland though.Either way I'll keep it on my wishlist and get if if the reviews are good. >>722408560Doesn't matter as long as it looks good and has its own identity. Expedition 33 is on UE5 and it looked amazing in terms of presentation.
>>722407361Immediately liked this game. Has a great feel and any game with destruction and physics like that makes me happy. It was silly that I was just messing around with moves in the first room of the game and the arena keeper in the next room got mad so he walked over, kicked my ass and stole my shit. Then I managed to just stunlock him in a corner with a shortsword and looted all his shit. Fun.
>>722397420hopefully it won't retain the open faggotry and troon vibes that webfishing has
For what this game describes itself as its pretty mediocre. Then again its a literal match 3 game so idk what I was expecting.
What games are these?
>>722397002what program do you use to clip three different screenshots together and add a transparency layer to the picture?
worrying about "running out" of demos is pretty silly. In the run up to the festival, new demos are coming out daily so there's always going to be new stuff to try. barkour is coming soon
this is a game for a very specific sort of person
>>722411161I was just pointing out the engine. It has its own identity but it does seem to borrow a lot of its style from Bioshock. Not a bad thing though. Anyway, the game seriously looks nice but the gameplay was meh. I tapped out after I opened up a third area where that big thing was still following you around. The shooting didn't impress and the hide and seek was boring. We get a fuckton of them but I would have liked it more as a RE kind of survival horror resource management game. Would have been a wishlist and instant buy for me for sure. And since I was thinking of RE while playing I couldn't help but laugh when I found the bolt cutters.
>>722412901Not him, but that's very simple to do in GIMP or Photoshop.
Any cunnycore games?
>>722412412Match 3 might be joining my list of jumpscares together with roguelite and deck building. Hate when I look at something that feels I could be interestd in and see those tags, somehow I saw match 3 in like 5 of those this time.
>>722414465I wouldn't call that game cunnycore, so I have no idea what your criteria is. There's this weird wave survival strategy game with a twin tail flat dragon girl as the protagonist.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3648290/SunbreakWar_demo/Absolutely no context for the protagonist, though.
>>722412901https://www.getpaint.net/this
>>722413417I quit at the same time. I got the shotgun but being chased by that unkillable fucker wasn't fun. It takes a lot from Bioshock and the using inventory items part is definitelly out of RE.I'll give it props at least for adding a south american setting to it, not many games go that route.
>>722414906Not exactly what I consider cunnycore but looks interesting, MC's model somewhat reminds me of Spiral Knights and game doesn't look like typical roguelite so I will check it out.Thank you!
>>722414465I suppose>>722391723MC is a small girl compared to everyone else, and the school president is also a loli.
This felt very interesting and it's shamlessly trying to capture the HL vibe, or more particularly Alyx.It definitelly has a lot of potential, though I'm tried of the "getting chansed by unkillable blind monsters you have tp sneak by" shtick is annoying. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2154070/INDUSTRIA_2/
>>722415924You recommended it to me right after I downloaded it kekStill, thank you!I will be posting some demos myself later after I play them
>>722379857>steam sale >but you cant buy anything yet because its not out why tho?
>>722416395It's not a sale, though.
>>722416395Next Fest and Fall Sale are separate events.
>>722409464Holy fucking soul.
>game is tagged as VR>look inside while in headset>not VR
>>722416967Tagging fail. Devs use as many tags as possible to make sure everyone sees their shit, hoping that you'll forgive them for the ruse as long as you see something you like.
>thought it was just a meme rip off made by a rando>it's actually KC Green making it and it had a Kickstarter and everythingwutGame doesn't look very fun though.
>>722417243If i learned anything from the Deathbulge game, trolley problem games, Polandball game, Cyanide & Happiness game, etc.They're generally not very good.
>>722390689To me, it's oxygen, in the sense that it keeps people alive, and most of those are well, retarded. But what can you do?
kino title
unless we got a new demo for mindwave im uninterested
>>722417243There's also apparently a Junji Ito game. Made by a Taiwanese dev with a plain 3D photorealistic style. The protag never seems to shut up either so it's hard to be scared. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3633250/Junji_Ito_Maniac_An_Infinite_Gaol/
Any good gooner games?
>>722420241>good gooner games?oxymoron
>>722420480Alliteration
>>722411038NeverWhy do retards think it will ever release, just because it has 2025 in release date?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3724410/Directorate_Novitiate_Demo/I had this on my wishlist because it looked like a diet VTM. But apart from the protagonist's ass, the gameplay feels like utter dogshit. It feels as though they spent more time making sure their menus were as clean and soulless as the average AAA game
>>722416967Name?
>>722390154More beat 'em ups:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4013980/MARVEL_Cosmic_Invasion_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2266750/LightSup/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3756910/Cat_Girl_Survivor_2__Beyond_The_Veil/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411060/Broomstick_Exorcist/ (no demo yet)
>>722422736>Cat girl survivors 2>sprite animations actually seem competent>but the cover art is almost certainly AI generatedOdd choices.
>>722379857Why the fuck aren't they just make the Next Fest start sooner? This press only shit is pointless because everyone has the link 1 second it's out. Utter retardation. The press page lacks functions that the real one would have and some demos are usually not even up yet.
Why is it on the page if there is no demo? What the shit?
>>722390154>>722422736Another one:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4057760/Mexican_Ninja_Demo/While I love that beat-em-ups are slowly coming back I do think that the roguelite progression really isn't needed for the genre, at least as a main mode. It's great as a side thing like SoR4 and Shredder's Revenge but I prefer more crafted levels, though if the gameplay is good it's good.Cosmic Invasion is something I'll need to spend more time with; I've beaten it three times and tried every character but I'm still not certain of the flow. You're SO mobile as everybody except She-Hulk (who is massive and has a gigantic dash attack) and you seem like you're meant to be constantly doing assists and tags since each character has limited tools solo. I tried Jenn & Venom at first and that felt a little off since they both have grabs as their special and parries as their defensive tool; I think something like Venom & Spidey or Storm & Jenn or Rocket & Nova would vibe a lot better. The numbers and aggression/hitboxes of enemies seem tuned to how insane your tools are, but I'm not a fan of the demo bosses in how rigid they mostly are, especially how Taskmaster is basically invincible until he throws his shield and how you can't grab the bosses at all.
>>722407361>look at key features>Non-Level Scaling Enemies: Every enemy including Monsters are organic parts of the ecosystem - A Wolf at the beginning of the game won't magically become a bullet-sponge by the end.Based, this guy knows what people want and there was no bullshitting at any of the points, he's telling how it is. I'm certainly interested.
Nooooo it's too soon I'm not ready to spend every evening playing demos for the next few weeks....
>>722424792Non level scaling enemies only means that entire areas become worthless once the game moves on. If a rando wolf becomes a bulletsponge it means that the dev is a retarded nigger and can't scale shit properly, not that the system is le bad.
>>722424706roguelite in what way? usually that would mean it has progression and upgrades, do those really have that?Honestly I'd be fine with that if it meant without upgrade the games would be actually hard. I have a mate I've been playing those games with, and we usually just end up first or second trying all those games, so it feels a bit eh.
>>722424687It also recommends demos from games that are already out. Fucking hell.
>>722407361>look at key features>Non-Level Scaling Enemies: Every enemy including Monsters are organic parts of the ecosystem - A Wolf at the beginning of the game won't magically become a bullet-sponge by the end.Lame, the player is going to magically be able to delete 99% of the game's enemies with the flick of a finger as soon as his level is +1 over them.
>>722425596The system IS le bad, yes. for both making weaker enemies feels unnecessarily strong later on, and for stronger enemies to either not show up or be beatable way earlier than they should.The only reason you would say an area becomes "useless" because of level-scaling, is if the only thing you expect from said area is basic gear, which sounds dumb as fuck and a design issue on its own.
>>722424687Because the next fest hasn't started, man. Were's bad naughty people using a leaked link to a press only preview, remember?
>>722425814>>722425596Embarrassing, honestly.
>>722423215Different skillset I suppose.>>722424706Nice, thanks. And yeah I've been playing both a lot of Wendigo Blue and the Absolum demo and despite both being roguelites I think the latter is better, where the actual levels are handcrafted and in a specific order vs Wendigo's more samey repetitive screens. That said I still highly recommend Wendigo Blue since it's by the Valdis Story developer and has some crazy comboing.I picked Venom and Storm and felt like they were surprisingly well balanced. My issue with Cosmic Invasion is that I'm not really a Marvel guy and set pieces (bug swam, elevator) aside the levels seemed pretty basic. Could just be a demo issue but it feels like it'd be a one and done for me rather than something I see myself replay like SoR4. The boss fights were interesting at least.Created my page for this fest but I don't know if I'll play a lot of demos, I ended up getting burnt out during the previous fest and left a lot of stuff unplayed (having a lot of work at the time didn't help either). I'll probably just keep sinking a bunch of time into Yunyun Syndrome and Absolum/SoR4.https://rentry.org/bjsnf2025-3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989390/SLEEP_AWAKE_Demo/>Led by Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE combines FMV sequences with psychedelic visuals, blurring boundaries between reality and imagination.It's just a walking sim and the writing sucks, but there's cool art design
>>722425596>>722425814>making contrarianism your whole identity
>>722424706>Mexican NinjaExtremely soulful aesthetic, genuinely dogshit combat even before taking roguelite elements into account. Everything feels limp, there's no hit feedback on enemies, everything is imprecise, and there's a cooldown on EVERYTHING except your jumps and light string. What a waste.>>722425653This one straight up has a simpler version of the Hades hub down to picking passives and cooldown attacks for your run based on three spirits. I'm seeing more and more games trying to be Hades with a sidescrolling or third-person camera and more juggles. Absolum is the best of the bunch because it's the half of the Streets of Rage 4 team that did the gameplay and they know how to do traditional and roguelite beat-em-up design from that game, and even then I hope they have a static Arcade mode. There's a demo for a low-poly Musou clone that's doing the roguelite thing that I'm going to try next; Musou is simple enough as a combat model to kind of work with roguelite formats at least.
>>722425840>both making weaker enemies feels unnecessarily strong later on, and for stronger enemies to either not show up or be beatable way earlier than they should.again literally a dev skill issue for both being unable to scale values properly and for being unable to set minimal scale limit
Maniac Mansion n Fuck Kingdom, Steve.
>>722425973>20 gigshow?
>>722379857how do you open this inside of steam instead of the browser
>>722425653There's surprisingly a lot of newer beat 'em ups that integrate roguelite mechanics, yeah. SoR4 had the survival mode in the DLC but even aside from that it helped you unlock different specials for regular runs. Absolum and Wendigo Blue go even farther and when you lose a run you gain exp/currency (in Absolum's case, the exp is equal to your score) which you then use to unlock stuff that makes your next runs easier, be it items or starting buffs or different abilities and whatnot.It's a good way of getting replayability out of a beat 'em up which for the majority of people are 1-hour once and done experiences and making it a better value proposition for the average consumer, but it will probably ruffle the feathers of a lot of purists who like having everything unlocked from the start and having the game be a pure test of skill and score-chasing.>>722426241>Everything feels limp, there's no hit feedback on enemies, everything is imprecise, and there's a cooldown on EVERYTHING except your jumps and light string. What a waste.Damn.>There's a demo for a low-poly Musou clone that's doing the roguelite thing that I'm going to try next; Musou is simple enough as a combat model to kind of work with roguelite formats at least.Name?
>>722426268And your complaint that the area would be useless, or that you would curbstomp an area the moment you leveled up, is a "dev issue" as well. There should be so much more interactivity that some levels shouldn't make you destroy anything below your level, and there should be so much more to areas than a supposedly gear/magic that are just weaker than more advanced areas' loot.
>>722426241Looked at the stream on the dev page and i don't know where do you see Hades in it, it's just a Blazblue Enthropy Effect ripoff but slow as fuck and with bad animations
mite b coolhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1977200/Rebel_Engine/ no demo yethttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2076520/Death_In_Abyss/ had a demo before but got an update
>>722427589>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1977200/Rebel_Engine/What the actual fuck. The demo of this game was already in a next fest last year i think. It had a different name but it was the same fucking game.
>>722427935that's not uncommon
>>722390154Gave this one a shot and it's very stilted to play but you can see the vision. Was weird that there's a character whose class is Wrestler when as far as I could tell there's no grab mechanic (which is fine as a design choice, Capcom D&D didn't have grabs either, but why call him a wrestler?)>>722426446>Name?Tears of Metal. I'm trying that next.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4040960/Tears_of_Metal_Demo/>>722426743I used it as a shorthand for the format of roguelite where you're picking passives and activated abilities themed around different deities while having a form of meta-progression between runs.
Mostly (but not entirely) nip, chink, and gook stuff:>Games with demo now that caught my interesthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3343600/Conjunctivitalizer/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3536080/Dark_Cage1Reincarnation_For_Salvation/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3686510/Fox_Flare_Night/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639650/Kotama_and_Academy_Citadel/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3667270/NEKOMIMI_DESTRUCTION/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3715770/Oh_Robot_Legendary_Mechanic/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3432860/PsychoSleuth/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2652600/SealChain_Call_of_Blood/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2797290/Ten_Ten/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371110/UltraGirl_Alters/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3891620/_/>Games with demos later that caught my interesthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3508910/Abyss_Kitchenhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2363180/Dark_Auctionhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3689990/H9/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820000/Homura_Himehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3837380/Majogamihttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3737620/MarisaReturnTheBookhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3394770/Menherariumhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2885530/MeowPowerYachiyohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3756520/PIXEL_DASH_Toast_of_Destinyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3755370/Pushu_Pushu_Lets_rescue_the_girls_in_dangerhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3714430/SURANGAMAhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3820390/Touhou_Iyuushou__What_the_Bullet_Hellhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2914150/Yunyun_Syndrome_Rhythm_PsychosisIf anyone has any asiaboo recs let me know.
>>722428154forgot https://store.steampowered.com/app/3575980/Fantasy_Maiden_Wars__DREAM_OF_THE_STRAY_DREAMER/
>>722380460Made a thread about the psycho-sleuth demo a while back. Really lacked polish: musical direction, investigation segments and the pacing were all over the place, but I could see the concept working. It feels both high budget and cheap slop at the same time. A timid recommendation for mystery VN fans. (danganronpa, zero escape, ace attorney) The setting is bizarre but I somehow enjoyed my time with it despite all of its problems. The MC looks like battler from umineko and there are many other nods to mystery VNs that are clearly intentional.I hope Eden;Schemata gets a demo this time around.
Girl here, any horror and otome game?
>>722414465https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072510/NeverAwake_FLASHBACKhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3508910/Abyss_Kitchen//https://store.steampowered.com/app/3712860/Wonder_of_Blue/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2879980/ZAKO_NO_AHIRU/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3921000/Tale_of_android_after_the_Apocalypse_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3480790/Reverie_in_the_Moonlight/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409620/The_Path_Home/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882510/NonetBeat/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4038600/Destiny_Code_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3845600/Living_With_a_Little_Fox_Girl/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3389100/ARCADEA/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3979330/nophenia/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3795730/Until_the_End_Demo/
>>722428717Thank you very much!>ZAKO NO AHIRU demoSweet, for some reason steam didn't show me even though I have it on my wishlist
>>722427935I feel a bunch of those games should change titles.
Hard shilling for this demo, if you liked the trauma center games I seriously recommend you try cutting edge. Atrocious furry designs and boring lengthy dialogue aside, everything about the game is amazinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3639510/Cutting_Edge_Roots_Of_Mutation/It's not like the other medical sims that tend to be grounded in setting or gameplay. It is meant to be a spiritual successor to the under the knife games with a similar ranking system, focus on speedy precision, wacky cyber viruses this time etc. Play on cyberdoc difficulty and max rank the operations
>open game trailer>5fpsdropped>open game trailer>dev has fps overlay or debug menu in the trailerdropped>open game trailer>hear chinesedropped
>>722382139And that's a good thing
Any demo for this feel?
Is this the last Fest of the year?
>>722428245SRW attacks are always funny.>hyper giga ultimate teamup dynamo death beam: 3000 damage>some little guy punches you: 2900 damage
>>722429284Detective Instinct: Farewell My Belovedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/Detective_Instinct_Farewell_My_Beloved/
>>722429020All fair, not sure why you feel the need to mention it, though. Not exactly your blog.
>>722429680Did this get a new demo, or is it the same intro scene where all you do is look at a bush?
>>722428590Post tits or GTFO
Menace demo is already out
>>722424687>>722425864So it starts in 2 weeks? Pretty sure we'll get the demo on the 9th, when the 30th aniversary of the Heroes franchise hits.
>>722429792nta but they barely changed anything, it's still the same demo. Detective Instinct comes out soon anyway. Recommend you try Detective Hindsight instead https://store.steampowered.com/app/2982950/Detective_Hindsight/
>>722379857Another one already? But there's so many games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3419690/Chicken_Run_Eggstraction/What the hell. A Chicken Run game? In 2025?
>>722428154Which one of them are gook so i can throw them into trash immediately?
>>722429680>>722429792>picture of a girl>"look at a bush"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3581040/Bharat_Police/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3874780/Cold_Calling_Demo/Pretty fun gameplay about juggling telephone lines and managing devices with various boosts. Demo is rather easy but I could see it becoming much harder in later levels. The cartoony artstyle is quite pretty and the dialogues you'll ether find amusing or cringe. Personal I'm closer to the former.
>>722429626Yes.>>722429902I played it, it's good.
>>722429014I respect the grind to play this out, but there's no world that I can support doing designs that bad. bad even for furry standards.
>>722428154>Oh robot Can someone remind me, what was that ancient ass game that was basically the same but with zombies? You were some sort of last hope for humanity, it started in the city, was multiplatform and released like 10 years back
>>722382139>>722429132Just when is it going to be released?
>>722430910>The inconsistent art style of the character portraits The only thing that is consistent is the nice bobs the AI generated on women. Good morning sirs.
>>722417340deathbulge was kino actually
>>722430329It got a new movie a few years ago, what's interesting is Aardman is making this game themselves and it looks decent all things considered
>>722386082AGAIN?? FUCK. Man that was the one thing I was hyped for
>>722421280Modo Modo
>>722426446>>722428152Tears of Metal is actually really excellent so far. The combat fundamentals are as simple as you'd expect for a Musou (light, heavy, block, dodge) and the upgrades are pretty standard fare for action roguelites (explosions, arcing lightning, etc.) but the bits about building a small army to fight with you and upgrading/customizing/ordering them is really interesting and gives me a feeling I wish actual Musous gave me more. It also nails the aesthetic it's going for, very dirty and muted while still being very easy to parse during combat. It's rare that a roguelite really clicks with me beyond the "good combat but I wish this was more linear/curated" phase but this might be the one, I genuinely think the format compliments what it's going for. This leapfrogged Cosmic Invasion for my favorite demo so far.
>>722430329>8mb of ram
>>722429014Thanks for the recommendation, I'll take anything trauma center.
>>722432321>musou roguelitetruly manmade horrors beyond our comprehension
Thoughts on GAYa?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3825510/GAYA__The_Mystery/
>>722432321No, thanks.
>>722432579Shoo ShooBack to walking simulators
>>722432719>A Korean-Dropped.
>>722432909Last walking simulator i played was Firewatch and it was okay
>>722432579As someone that that fond of either (with few exceptions) I'm having a good time. It's less about throwing hundreds of worthless enemies at you but a few dozen somewhat threatening ones (if not to you then your army); still feels good to slash through a group but it feels more important to do so. Sengoku Basara still feels the best of these types of games but that series is dead.
>>722432321Getting to order armies while being an individual is Kingdom Under Fire kinda deal?
>>722405472>Immersive sim>Tactical FPS>Management>Corpo hellscapeHoly shit that sounds so cool, I'll check it out.
>>722382139Probably a glitch. Whenever I find a cool demo to share with anons during these journalist previews, they tell me it's from a previous fest.
>>722433528You know I'd heard the name of that game before but never looked up what it was but this seems awesome too. Are both the ones on Steam worth playing?
Looking at this thread I'm genuinely surprised there isn't a roguelite Metal Slug clone out there yet
>Rainchaser is not out>Rubinite is not out>Poke ALL Toads is not out>Crime Or Punishment is not out>Onikura is not out>Kumitantei is not out>Homura Hime is not out>Big Boy Boxing is not out>Bits&Bops is not out>Constance is not out>eden schemata is not outare all next fests like this
>>722435721I have no issues with those games taking longer than a full fest to release, especially if they actually looked good.
>>722435721Yeah, this is just plain poor thinking on devs' part. Fest demos should be released just months or even weeks from their respective launch (and I mean full launch not EA). Show off the greatest features of your game and have the fans hyped to get it soon, don't let them wait for three more years until they forget about it. Some are careless enough to prepare a buggy early alpha build for such an occasion, I don't get it.
>>722406342Word. You need to play the shitpost games to appreciate the gems. Also, wading through kusoge is how you discover soulful stuff
>>722435708Metal Slug Tactics itself was something of a roguelite.
>>722435708I guess most of the sidescrollers would rather use procedural generation as a crutch rather than having to design and draw a bunch of elaborate levels.
>>722436396I think indies fall into the trap of "I'm going to make a vertical slice and if people like it then I'll develop a full game" vs the professional studio mentality of "the game is almost finished let's cut it up into a demo for marketing purposes".
>>722435708I actually saw a metal slug clone just recently but it looked like shit so i didn't bother remembering its name
>>722435721>Poke ALL ToadsYou know that it's /agdg/ trannyslop and its dev does shilling every next fest? You can go and spam their thread or wait 9 days and spam its shilling attempts
>>722436970>>722436396Chris Zukowski is one of the notable marketers in the indie space. Starting at 30:35 he explains why it's "better" to get your demo out as early as possible. The "meta" allows you to build up wishlists so that when you eventually launch, you'll have built up a bigger following. At least for indie devs with no publisher. He did an interview with Thomas Brush and Thomas mentions how his publisher (and others) have the more conventional strategy of releasing a demo close to launch. They try to ride that momentum of regular marketing. https://www.youtube.com/live/WezMZrk32M4?si=sOswiHF-KIwsINNz&t=1835
>>722436970I think a lot also treat fests as opportunity to get feedback on their early alpha.
>>722437415What's the matter big boy, upset /agdg/ called your game shit?
>>722437415
>>722437962Upset that this retarded troon is shitting up every next fest thread for like 2 years with his slop and still can't finish his flash game tier scam kek. It's already hard to find anything of value in the torrent of garbage without troons like him or you shitting up the place further
Is there a post listing all the must try demos?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2101420/GIMMIKO/is this good it looks cute
>>722438228Just passing by to say that it's pretty easy to skip his game, takes like 5 seconds to realize it's that same one puzzle game and move on. You take longer by typing out your melty and screaming about trannies. I'll no longer engage with your meltdown.
>>722438349No because the fest is not out and posts with demos worth shit start appearing 3-4 days into the fest
>>722438349I played that demo, it's fun and I recommend trying it out; that said it didn't convince me to buy the game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3535870/Bayaya/I cant tell if this is irredeemable slop or absolute kino
>>722437839Early demo to build engagement and receive feedback from glorified betatesters that funded your Kickstarter? Sure. Still sounds like a good idea to leave your latest demo for the fest.
>>722438832You can do both, both make an early demo to receive feedback and to update the demo later when it's more worked out, I've seen some do that.I feel it's pretty healthy for them to release an early demo, receive feedback, and then take their time to process the feedback. Nothing to lose for both sides.
>>722437415Oh no the schizo seething against agdg is back
>>722429014man the artstyle of this game really doesn't do it justice, I would never have touched it if it wasn't recommendedmy only minor complaint is being forced to use qwerty at the os level if you play on keyboard
>>722437839Interesting. Watched through the rest of the video though and when he does mention Next Fest he emphasizes how the game list is sorted by most wishlists, which sounds to me like you should leave participating in the fest for when you're close to release since you'd have racked up all those wishlists, like the other anon said.
>>722439490>everyone who doesn't like me or my troon buddies is... LE SCHIZO
>>722439490>le agdg good because... kekypoo
>>722439064The issue regarding Next Fest is that you can technically only have your demo featured in one of them; so the question remains: should the early demo be featured to receive more feedback (and then make players wait year(s) for the actual game to come out) or should the updated demo that is more representative of the finished product and can function as a marketing tool be featured?
>>722438735Is this Cris' game?
>>722440542Later approach is better to weed out scam devs scamming for attentionIn fact better have two separate programs, one normal steam fest where you can only feature shit that's releasing in half a year most or get banned from store and one early access program where devs dump their slops and fish for feedback
After Megabonk and that Brazilian game it seems schizo aesthetics are the easiest way to blow up nowadays
oh great it's the agdg failed dev reject thread general full of slop games
>>722435721>>Homura Hime is not outIt never had a demo tho?? this is the fest it's scheduled to get a demo THO???
>>722439829My interpretation is to release a demo right after Next Fest, build up your wishlists, adjust and polish, and try to capitalize on the next, Next Fest. I don't think I'd aim for doing multiple Next Fests, but hopefully a dev's game doesn't stay in production hell.
>>722438735Looks like it's from that never ever chess fencing dev.
>>722435721>Bits&BopsThose devs need to hurry up fastTheir game only got attention because everyone assumed Rhythm Heaven was dead and Nintendo killed Heaven Studio, but since Groove is a thing now, Bits&Bops needs to release before it or it might not do too well
>>722441360Why right after a Next Fest? His advice sounds like you can even take as long as you need after you put out a demo. Treat the demo like Early Access and update it eternally like Neverlooted Dungeon is with how it's blueballing the fuck out of me.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3931170/MONUMENTUM/Pretty fun platformer. Gamepad only
>>722442003My thinking is you want to avoid other festivals that'll take attention away. You could stay in production forever and rack up wishlists, but I think that's when you have to weigh: are you getting enough to warrant how long a game is taking to come out.
>>722441546>Their game only got attention because everyone assumed Rhythm Heaven was dead and Nintendo killed Heaven Studio, but since Groove is a thing now, Bits&Bops needs to release before it or it might not do too wellAgreed. Pastel Parade didnt have a lot of reviews because of that as well
>>722442416I read that as numpad only and thought I was having a stroke.Maybe I am having a stroke.
>>722443704
>>722379857Good chunk of stuff to check out already.I'll post my thoughts on the ones I enjoy as we go.
I haven't even checked more than a fifth of the thread yet lolI'm only working 20 hours next week and I'm free the week of the fest. I'll try to go past 250 demos this time.
>>722391748KEK
>>722382139Hopefully they overhauled it after they kept getting told that the combat was too reactionary and it was just a worse NanoApostle which beat it to the punch.
Anyone remember or should I say know about Outlive? Often called Brazilian startcraft. Apparently someone is making remaster of this game.
>MotorslideI was almost into it until I heard voice acting and for some reason you can't skip cutscenes.
>>722429014this is one of the worst monkey paw ever fuckwhy is the game so good
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646600/Foot_Fetish_Fortress_VolTitan_Vs_The_Jundoh_Empire_Vol3/THIS IS WHAT INDIE GAMING IS ALL ABOUT, BABY
>>722445972I was immediately put off by the combat. If it was just a parkour game I'd have liked it but swinging the chainsaw stops you in your tracks and it does a really stupid looking camera zoom and shake effect.
>>722445972leave the feedback retardbro
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2340130/Ground_Zero/Ground Zero will have a demo soon. Hopefully it'll cleanse my palate after Silent Hill F(uckup by DragonKnight07)
>>722446459Is this peak or cringe?
>>722447078Peak of cringe
>>722446869>gook RE3
Oddtown seems like my type of game. More games should focus on one small town/village where weird shit happens instead of making boring open worlds.
>>722446845I somehow doubt they will remove voice acting because some autist can't stand western "anime" voice.
>>722447975they can add a voice volume bar if it's not in the game already for some reason
>Radio The Universe will get an updated demo after 2 years HOLY FUARK
>>722448441>a worse HLD in every way because dipshit dev keeps diddling with shit nobody cares about
I swear to God i must've seen this exact screenshot in 5 different game pages by now
>>722448441[X] Doubt
>>722405472>>722433925It was in the fall next fest back in 2023, hopefully the demos has been updated. It was pretty cool back already
>>722448667???https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=WHM
>>722406383Is there any reason the play the demo over the playtest?
>>722448906So is it a scam coasting by on the idea of selling trading cards or a vector for malware?
>>722449206You need to have a certain amount of player engagement to be able to add trading cards to your game, as a developer, and those games are getting jackshit. It's probably just asset flips for whatever reason.
after one hour of scrolling the tab decided to crash so i leave you with a screenshot from the last game page i opened
>>722449998>>722449999Great art, that's for sure
>>722408090>I basically only play solo dev games so I have quite a fewwhy though? most of them are impressive efforts but not great games
>>722448906Is there any way to report these blatant scam games?
This one was pretty good actually, and long. I played it for 40 minutes, and the page said it was an hour long demo. Usually I don't bother playing them that long. I recommend it.I actually have my own rating system and it is just me estimating how much I would pay for the game. It's better than a 5 scale or a ten scale. The upper limit is just the maximum I would ever pay for a video game.I rate this one as: $19.99
>>722409413>instead of just releasing it while it looks worse than the thing it's based on when it was released nearly 30 years ago...many such cases
>>722409617Nice ass. Must be a good game.
>>722421247Damn nice ass. Might be worth trying for that.
>>722450653Valve approves themYou need to pay $100 to get a steamapp ID, and then a Valve guy looks at your game and hits the approve button, so it goes on the storeReporting does nothing
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3969600/The_Fable_Manga_Build_Roguelike_Demo/the fuck is this
>>722413075there's never been a decent game with zany big band jazz in the trailer
Speaking of games - what is the point of putting your game on steam while your demo is only available on itch? Does steam actually take money for demos? Do devs really expect a random person to just magically know that itch exists and there's a demo on it?
>>722389919Looks fun. Wishlisted. Hope it's a big success for you.
>>722451473https://store.steampowered.com/app/2153190/GHOST_at_DAWN/
>>722418930I don't get it, those aren't furries?why not set it at a furry convention or something and make it edge kino
>>722429014man, this would have been great without the furfaggotry
>>722446258Furfags have the necessary autism to make gameUnfortunately that's also why they're furfags
>>722414465https://store.steampowered.com/app/3866890/MonaThe_Endless_Journey/
>>722451883I'm sure valve would let that pass.
>>722452253You need to chill out. Must be past bedtime
Why do people flip out over trauma centre having animals but none of the other animal games like this one, for example:>>722380875
>>722454801there's furry designs and there's furry designs that seems directly out of a shitty furry porn commission
>>722454882Oh I see. You find the animals attractive in the trauma centre game and it's causing emotional dissonance.I saw no difference in eroticism levels between one and the other.
>>722455063That's a cool projection, but no, that's not the thing, and you're just pretending to not realize the difference.
Berserk Boy devs making a Battle Network auto-battlerhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3405610/Berserk_BITS_Demo/i'm not down the idle games rabbithole yet but this seems like a good place to start
bump. don't let the thread die at 493 posts or trolls will say it couldn't reach bump limit.
>>722457995Instead we will say that you had to inflate the post count to save your shitty dying thread
>>722458365i'll inflate the last 7 posts for this thread. it's the least i can do.
who the fuck is we
>>722458470Calm down with your inflation fetish
>>722458578I was just copying your words, which is obviously not a good idea since you're at rock bottom
>>722455498I don't get the point of these.
>>722459335ADHD
>>722459335You just watch the cyber elves and feed them like a tamagotchi I guessTamagotchi was the first idler I suppose
>>722459424I understand the ADHD where you rapidly lose interest in something so you go do something else I just don't understand how to derive entertainment from something that plays itself.The only "idle" game I "play" is 旅かえる and I don't even think I've checked where my duder is since early last year.
>>722459630it's not about entertainment it's about filling your empty life with noise. Ever seen boomers that just turn off TV and pay zero attention to it? Literally the same shit
>>722459851Well 4chan is very noisy too and less fun than idle games arguably
this one was pretty fun
>>722460764I'm here for some legally distinct UC Gundam space combat