The only two games i've found so far that i've enjoyed is Winnie's Hole and Numeral Strike. But Winnie's Hole is super unoptimized. It's from the same dev as Ring of pain which was really good but also really unoptimized.
Numeral strike isn't anything special but it appeals to me.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2715010/Winnies_Hole_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3708620/Numeral_Strike/

damn have the other nextfest threads only been shills? have i been just interacting with shills in the other threads and they're all asleep right now?

Pathologic 3 and Sword Hero are my personal favorites.

>>723425574
Winnie's hole creeped me out too much to enjoy it.

>>723426379
I already lived through Pathologic 3's synopsis in 2020 i don't want to go through that again, not even playing as Fauci

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>literally just Mount & Blade but worse with a coop focus when you can just use a mod on Bannerlord or something

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>>723426378
I’m gonna SHILL Hell Maiden. Play it, buy the Early Access for $20. Send feedback. Watch it CHANGE the industry by forcing indies to spend $1000s on art commissions.

I want to finish more demos before recommending shit. Looks like I won't sleep tonight.

I downloaded a bunch but haven't played any of them yet, let me know if any of these aren't worth the time:
>Q-Up
>Abyss Kitchen
>Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road
>Motorslice
>Oh! Robot: Legendary Mechanic
>Majogami
>Tears of Metal
>Homura Hime

>>723427034
nice art completely wasted on yet another vampire survivor-like. it's worse than roguelike deckbuilders at this point cause none of them even do anything meaningfully different.

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Any good incest/goon games this time around?

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>>723399982
The devs' previous game was about a thoroughly heterosexual relationship between a guy that was a massive fuck up and a girl who was extremely hung up on her past. There wasn't anything about modern day mental illness in that.

Trying the Swords and Sandals 3 remaster now. I don't know why the dev is remasting it, it's already on steam and fine, i'd much rather have another new game in the series.

>Dunestake
I think I am too dumb for this, I still not get how the stake and target work and one of my guys was sent to the shadow real after a match. real issue is that the menu is kind of crap really and the tutorial may need a little bit more of work. Or I am brainlet. in any case, I wasn't too interested in this, betting games aren't my thing.

>Alabaster Dawn
I liked it, if you liked the combat in Cross Code, which I did, you would like this. Is the same flavor but without puzzles so far as the demo goes, is does parry, dodge and stance bar for the enemies but it doesn't feel like a dark souls at all thankfully. I will play it when it comes out most likely. Bad thing was the music, generic forest music suck balls. is it so hard to have music like Ys?

>Tainted Ground
I didn't manage to move foward until I tried to change the settings to minimum so it will stop lagging and it crushed. for the little 15 minutes I played it looks like a generic horror game for youtube, maybe.

>Malleus Maleficarum
Is a standard metroidvania with nes pixelart. It was a game, a game for ants because it was less than 10cm wide and tall.

>Way of Madness
A total incomplete game, it does show what kind of game it will be and the nice art. the 5 minutes I played it felt like those old flash horror games. a static room with no camera movement and simple point and click, there is aparently some "dungeon crawling" moments and you fight things. It looks promising and hope the dev team isn't in too much troubles.

>Aquametsis
Is a stealth fps, it felt wonky to play and at some point I felt like I was doing some senseless parkour to advance. For me it was meh. Maybe someone more versed in Deux Ex can enjoy this a bit more than me.

>>723428201
It seems dope, i already know the series pretty well, the new visuals and audio are nice, i think i'll pick it up when it comes out, i also appreciate any dev who will keep at it making classic genres like this that have disappeared otherwise since flashgames died off.

>>723425574
I totally forgot about Ring of Pain. Wasn't that part of an old Nextfest? I thought I wishlisted it.

YAPYAP was more boring than I was expecting for a coop meme game. Running around and breaking shit with spells isn't really as tense or interesting, and doesn't even require any coordination.

>>723427034
I'm not playing another Vampire Survivors-like. I'll play a roguelike deckbuilder before I touch that shit again. At least I have to use my brain for those.

>>723427034
FUCK SURVIVORSLOP

>>723427471
Abyss Kitchen is super short. Like 10-15 minutes tops. It's a day 1 buy for me because I feel like it took heavy inspiration from Dungeon Meshi. But it's not for everyone.
Motorslice is a clear winner as well.
I've been hearing mixed posts about Homura Himi, so I want to give it a try myself.

>>723428234
>Maybe someone more versed in Deux Ex can enjoy this a bit more than me.
I'd actually compare it more to Thief or Splinter Cell than Deus Ex, since there's no leveling or dialog options.

>>723428870
probably but i wasn't paying attention to nextfest at the time, i'm not sure how i found it but i really enjoy the game. I recommend getting it if you haven't. not sure how often it goes on sale though.

>>723429278
that's pretty true, I don't have much experience playing stealth games or fps from the start of 00 unless they are just action game.

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>Ground Zero
Korean resident evil 3, read gud
>G-Rebels
G-Police 3. Nails the look and kb/m controls are solid. Controller bindings are madness but they know of it. Runs slow with all graphics cranked. This is my standout so far just because I really like G-Police.
>Road to vostok
Mad finn makes something between stalker and SP tarkov. Definitely gonna be good when done but is for the autists who like the idea of the misery mod for stalker.
>SANGRA
Resident evil clone made by a hue. mite be cool but one only RE fans are going to gloss over the rough edges methinks.

I should make like 1 level of a game that seems super promising and put it up on a steam nextfest with 0 intention of ever actually turning it into a game.

>>723429839
How will you stand out from all the others!?

>>723426942
>coop bannerlord
is that actually a thing now? last I heard there was no private servers

>>723429884
make a game like Solar Settlers but with actual art instead of a bunch of text boxes. but then have it be a single level of one race

I was looking forward to teamfight manager 2, unfortunately the demo is ass. Terrible ai, the tutorial itself is terrible, players have a wide variety of stats but good players are all well rounded so the variety serves no purpose. It was supposed to launch this year, but i can't see that happening without it being a disaster

>>723430230
>teamfight manager 2
yeah that game looks like poop water

>>723430230
I downloaded that earlier and instantly bounced off it

>>723425574
>Winnie's Hole
I expected a golf themed spiritual successor to home run derby for some reason.

>Ground Zero
Corean Resident Evil. It's been on my radar since the announcement, really wanted to play it. Looks good, I give em props for actually trying to make a PS1 looking game without resorting to making everything look like pixelated vomit. In my mind, this how PS1 games looked like if you just up the resolution. Controls like shit, both character and aiming, economy system mite b cool, you can parry and counter, "herb" mixing, but you just wait until you have 3-of-a-kind. I say tweak the controls and we're fucking golden.

>>723430507
That's actually not a bad idea...

>>723430507
Oh yeah copyright ran out, so someone COULD make a homerun derby again

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A lot of wishlists this time around, but also more dev's that don't know how to make a good demo.

>>723428234
>Is the same flavor but without puzzles so far as the demo goes,
Did we play the same demo? It already had some simple puzzles in the starting zone with the exploding shit and crossbow, then it skips to a full blown puzzle dungeon with the redhead in some later part of the game.

>>723431364
well, I am comparing it to the cross code which was a bouncy ball puzzle game, so doing a bit of work around isn't much of a puzzle. Is likely to get more complex puzzle in the full game.

>>723427817
Straight up porn? Or fanservice? There's a couple of demos featuring hot sluts.

>>723427034
>VShit
>yurishit
Hard pass

>>723431605
Fanservice is fun too

>>723431268
>Project Thea
That game's a step backward from their previous game and the artsyle and the art direction in general is HORRENDEOUS

I genuinely can't find any good puzzle games and I'm not picky with them. The only one I liked is The Path Home. Where are all the sokoban?

>>723427034
>yurishit
Picked up

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So whats' the deal with P, why does she keep blushing at her drone companion? It would make sense if the drone was remote controlled by someone, but she treats it like it's its own thing.
Is she secretly a robot fucker?

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3887650/Neon_Divide/
What could be a decent action game is ruined by being chink gachashit, more specifically it's apparently a port of some existing mobile game. The gacha system isn't available in the demo so there's only the starter unit, who mainly fights via martial arts, but the roguelite system in battles lets you acquire up to 3 random weapons per mission. It just barely guides you through basic upgrades via grind mats without reaching rank ups or whatever.
Even more damningly, its english translation is pretty inconsistent where the starter unit's family name gets spelt in at least 3 different ways, and the unvoiced cutscenes are nearly unreadable because it uses speech bubbles read in east asian script (i.e. up to down, right to left) except with the runes replaced with english text which are rendered vertically and also unable to fit in the speech bubbles.

That said, it has a rather crazy setting where the first chapter has the starter girl casually stops an eldritch creature from being summoned by a cult, just because the cult fucked up her mission and tried to get her brainwashed.

>tl;dr
skip unless you really want chink gacha hell

>>723432062
That must be new, because when I played the first version of the demo, she would only get bashful, which I thought was the cutest thing ever.

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Kingdom of Night (really soulful 80s America high school RPG. It's just great.)
Red Dawn (Blue Archive-like. Cute music and tactics gameplay. It's like some cute chibi anime I never watched.)

>>723427034
I liked the demo. The visuals are gorgeous, the music is good, and the card mechanics for the VS items were interesting enough.
>hmm I'm getting some 2hu and Rozen Maiden vibes from this
>check dev's twitter
>We're heavily influenced by 2hu and Rozen Maiden
It got me to pick up one of their earlier games, Little Goody Two Shoes. Crazy what non-sloppa art does for a game

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>>723427034
>rogueslop and survivortrash
and to top it all off

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Aisha's game is the only halfway decent eroge this time but the gameplay is still tedious. All the store page screenshots are in Japanese even though it has a proper translation.

>>723431268
another furry coomer with zero discernment or taste.

>>723431540
Instead of bouncy balls with different effects, we have different ranged weapons with different effects. No doubt there'd be more complex puzzles in the full game, but I'll probably pirate it at best.

Angeline Era is pretty cool
it's got bump combat like the early Ys games

>>723431828
Yeah, I agree with that. Much like the new setting, the game feels like a fantasy game that has been grafted with sci-fi elements. I felt there was a loss of the dark fairytale world of the first two games. Also the demo was bad. Don't throw a player into the deep end of a crunchy game like this, make a curated experience.

>>723432110
Thanks anon, I won't bother with it.

>>723432439
How did you draw that conclusion? I have no coomer games and the only furry game did nothing new or interesting.

>>723432183
It's from a post the dev made. As far as I know she doesn't make that face in the actual game
yet atleast

>>723432730
all furries are hypersexual, this has been proven by actual published papers. I know what you are.

>>723432730
Too late you're the Bubsy guy now

>>723432730
Wow, you got defensive real fast there. He must have been right.

>>723432914
>>723432952
>>723433024
/v/ is a furchad board.

>>723432952
I played the original Bubsy on the Super Nintendo. Honestly, didn't occur to me it was a furry game.

>>723433124
you were groomed by a video game

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Vital Shell is the only promising survivor game I've seen on the fest so far.

>>723427034
It's actually quite good for a survivor game, with interesting choices to make, but I'm done with survivors

>>723432437
>futashit

END YOURSELF

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>>723433224
The Wukong game isn't that terrible for a slopvivors, I'd say the best thing about it is just the music
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3837030/Wukong_2088/

>>723432110
>another gacha
why the fuck is there no tag for that on steam? I had this on my wishlist because didn't know what the fuck it was going to be, guess it will be another terminull brigade.

>>723433303
lol you're gay

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>>723433610
This is your biggest red flag if you get the inkling of gachashit or p2w MMOshit

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Now I gotta see if I can S rank the 2nd stage.

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>Kotama & Academy Citadel
Anime parryslop metroidvania, I liked it and I'am sure the fellow coomers in this thread will like this screenshot, I was surprised when this semen demon's art popped up. The combat felt good and wasn't jank at all, only moment I felt something off was when I was against a wall and the robot's lariat hit me 2 times. I'll most likely play it.

>Effulgence
It was pretty barebones even though it looks pretty. An enemy move around in the map and you wait for the moment to hit it or simple aim and waste a turn, all weapons have ammo. eh nothing too interesting.

>Painted in Blood
This is an fps with action, not a walking simulator even if first impression can give you that, it could considered a survival horror. didn't finish the demo but it looks good, even if the game is stiff it does not feel wrong like many of those type of games. Is really dark and sometimes moving around kind by a bit of a hassle. I would recomend a try. Like the art direction too.

>Brno Transit
Same creators of HROT. A walking simulator, They really nailed how to feel like shit and a wageslave.

>Marisa! Returns the Books!
Is a clicker, so idle that even clicking does nothing. holy shit. Cirno misses shots to a house...

>Prophesy of Ashen
well. this game is fucking DnD and I ain't playing a long ass demo and reading. In any case, I found strange having no equipment, this is a nitpick, real issue is that the art direction is all over the place. pixel art, digital UI, drawn anime girls and maybe the overworld map has some AI somewhere, not that I'll twist my panties over it but is not charming to see such a bloadted thing. Combat was DnD with 2 clerics level one, grab a dagger and punch the rat.

>>723433620
>hurr durr I love chicks with dicks you dont? what are you a faggot???

>>723434136
>Prophesy of Ashen
Huh, is that a Chinese-made CRPG? Don't see those very often.

>>723434136
Yeah i was fairly disappointed in Effulgence. I had it on my radar before the nextfest. it's an amazing visual style and i hope other devs pick it up. but the game itself is barebones unless i'm missing something major.

>>723434209
it's okay anon, you'll understand the straightest porn available one day. you'll stumble upon some futa x female and you'll say
>wow, my eyes have been opened

>>723434209
>I insist that there must be a man present in my porn
>I am definitely straight by the way

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I wonder if devs just literally don't test their games at all or I'm just particularly good at finding really obvious issues
BRB teleporting

I try not to be a pessimist usually, but I clicked on this banner and genuinely saw nothing of value. I was shocked that I couldn't find anything that looked polished or interesting in the slightest.

Not enough gacha in this to appeal to /v/.

Tearscape seemed alright. Bloodborne-themed Zelda, music and sprites were nice, but I feel the soulsy RPG elements didn't add much to it.

>>723435092
I think they fucked with the algorithm, it used to be all the best looking shit would be the first thing shown in each subcategory but this time they seem to be purely random.

>>723435415
There's 3000 games and not even 1% of them are worth looking at because it's all deckbuilder cashgrabs, my_first_project, vampire survivor not-games, wageslave simulators, chink hentai, or AI slop.

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>>723425413
>>723069465
Wtf?.. I struggled a bit fixing the compilation errors because I don't know anything about programming and and I leaned on Gemini, but it worked, and now I have the full Fox Girl game
Thanks if you're reading this, based kemono enjoyer

>>723435092
This has been the worst steamfest since i started paying attention to them for sure. I'm just glad i found 2 games to look forward to. frickin sucks that neither of them are coming out this year and both have a vague "2026" release date. That on top of both Olden Era and Slay the Spire 2 getting their EA release dates pushed back to next year has me wondering what i'm going to do the next 3 or 4 months.

>>723433224
Ridiculous that I've seen a bunch of mecha survivor clones so far and not one of them has had the idea to make every weapon you get into an extension that builds off of your frame.

games with fapservice?

>>723436862
Bio Goddess

>>723436843
I mean the first mech you have can use heavy weapons that are shoulder mounted, the mech in that screenshot is only limited to light weapons which are held in the hand.

>>723435749
Having discovered Motorslice, UMIGARI and Zako no Ahiru, It has served me and I'm pleased
It's not necessary to find 8 valuable demos for every 10 downloaded. If in the end you're left with a handful of discovered games that you wouldn't have known existed under any other context, the Festival has fulfilled its purpose.

>>723436278
>>723435092
you're just not looking hard enough

>>723432437
That's look AI generated as fuck

>>723437225
True, 90% of anons stop looking for good games right before they find them

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>>723434136
>Anime parryslop metroidvania, I liked it and I'am sure the fellow coomers in this thread will like this screenshot, I was surprised when this semen demon's art popped up. The combat felt good and wasn't jank at all, only moment I felt something off was when I was against a wall and the robot's lariat hit me 2 times. I'll most likely play it.
I thought it felt like shit. No idea what people see in it. Combat feels extremely sluggish with how much hitstop there is which is absurd when you're swinging around a fucking umbrella as your weapon. And even by the end of the demo I was already tired of fighting the same few enemies over and over again. No decent music either when that's metroidvania 101 and it's not like the backgrounds/environments were interesting outside of the power up rooms. Maybe the notebook could've at least offered some hook to make things more interesting but you just kept getting hit with notebook entries that you aren't allowed to access in the demo.
Saya was cuter by the way.

>>723425413
>see games
>add to wishlist
>by the time they release, forget they exist.
many such cases.

>>723437324
Or, in the worst case, they download literal shovelware without thoroughly looking the thumbnail or even opening the store page for a trailer
It's very easy to fall for games that "look" good based on static images screenshots
People should have more rigorous filters, that almost everything is hot garbage is an unfortunate truth throughout the industry, not an isolated problem of this Next Fest.

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>>723437053

>>723435092
I've been going through dozens of demos in every next fest since it started and I still haven't found anything good in this one, it's definitely the worst one yet. Or at least the one where it's been hardest to find anything worthwhile among all the garbage.

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>>723437053
>>723437676
I mean the mounting equivalent of this.

>>723437838
Fucking resonance of fate customization lmao, that would be something

Just played Let it Die Inferno. It was really bad.

Im getting my ass kicked on normal in birdcage stage 1

>>723437225
i looked plenty hard and went through dozens of demos

COMPOUND FRACTURE WHEN!?

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I tried out this fishing game, FISH3: First Catch, and the mechanics are really cool. It's kind of like a rail shooter but for fishing where you have to move your boat around obstacles while catching fish with combined mouse and WASD targeting and a rhythm hitzone.
But it seems maybe buggy since both times I tried the first stage I got to the last area and it seemed like something was supposed to happen but nothing did and my boat just kept going around in a circle.

>>723427034
Looks like shit.
>Little Goody Two Shoes devs
Yup. It's shit.

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Very funny, they want me to get hard for a typewriter (And it works)

>>723438938
Final Sentence needs mandatory capitalization, I don't care if that slows down the 20wpm grandpas even more.

>>723439015
I always thought that capital letters were mandatory and I always used them, to my surprise I discovered that they weren't, and I still continued using them even so

UMIGARI any good?

>>723439273
Doesn't the tutorial you type through literally tell you they're optional?

I downloaded the demos of Painted in Blood, Avernum 4 and a couple of other games I can't remember right now, but I only tried Painted in Blood.
It was kinda ass, some decent ideas but very questionable execution.

>>723426507
t. chairman xi

>>723435728
First 2 days is slop testing ground.

not a demo but Ball x Pit came out for real and I didn't boughted because of its boring stat check gameplay

>>723440030
Ball x Pit has a demo too, anyway, I'm not a fan of the hype for Devolver Digital games

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>>723440030
bazed

>>723440030
I wanted more ball combos

>>723440457
uoh

>>723427034
>$20
Aren’t VS & friends popular because they’re cheap?

>>723427034
You can shill it all you want, I will never play anything with the LGBTQ+ tag, you yurifag

>>723441252
I add that tag to all the games I like just to keep fags like you out.

>>723441252
You did it anon, this post won the culture war

>>723441671
Are you the same retard who was shitposting about culture war shit in the last thread when people said yurifags were retarded? Calling yurifags retarded has literally nothing to do with culture war shitposting. It's been happening since before you found this site. If that bothers you enough to make up some strawman to reply with then you can save yourself the time writing your next post because I won't reply to you again.

>>723441889
No

>>723441889
>if that bothers you enough to make up some strawman
>says the man making up a strawman to win arguments by default

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I've been playing a lot of Front Line Logistics. It's kind of a cross between a colony sim and an RTS set in some Eastern European country in 1993. It's kind of tense managing the supply trucks, troop rotations, etc. knowing enemy infiltrators might show up at any time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3738890/Frontline_Logistics_Isarian_Warfare/

>>723438119
Were you a fan of the first one though? Most people didn't like it, but I killed 40 hours on it just fine.

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Still got more than enough for the weekend

>>723441592
That a single person puts a tag doesn't affect anything, it has to be a coordinated effort to be reflected, when someone launch a Steam page, the developer is the first to establish those tags
AstralShift put them there and their ideological line as a studio is to be proud of creating queer games

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Cairn was really nice. If you blew it off because le angry woman protag, give it a try anyway

also requesting reccs pls saars, not looking for anything in particular, just like playing the demos

yellow qrcodes for anons who don't like reading and just want to get recommended things

>>723438852
>But it seems maybe buggy since both times I tried the first stage I got to the last area and it seemed like something was supposed to happen but nothing did and my boat just kept going around in a circle.
Yeah, that happened to me as well. It was in the last Next Fest too, and the first stage ended perfectly fine then, no idea what happened.

>>723442842
Wow it's a good thing you avoided it then you were almost turned into a gay.

>>723437338
Won't de y what you say, this ain't no Nine Sols. I think the combat does pick Up because where you respawn, the main hub or whatever, if yougo to the left you can find a blue platform which you can jump down from and meet a more avances swordfish girl. Meet her and killed me in less than a minute.

>>723442663
>>723443025
>helping phoneposters
Yeah nah kill yourself

>>723437338
>>723443321
its fucking trash
seriusly, why are you even wasting your time with this

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>>723443335
anon phoneposters can't scan a qrcode thats displayed on their phone.

>>723443140
The better, so I don't end up like you

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313700/Constance/
Just tried this on my brother's recommendation. It's kind of like Hollowknight expect the art and animations are actually good, and the level design doesn't seem as tedious. It's got a few good platforming challenges right in the demo as well.

>>723443025
why come some of these are gold and some white
what happens if i scan them
my phone cant scan

>>723443827
>It's kind of like Hollowknight expect the art and animations are actually good
You could do it without trying to own the extremely popular other metroidvania, I feel.

>>723443827
>depression allegory indie platformer

>>723443868
It makes mustard gas DONT DO THIS!!
they're just links to the steam page, gold are the ones I recommend

>>723443740
Yeah we'd have to take away your /v/ card if you actually played video games instead of shitposting about politics.

>>723443956
thamks

>>723443451
for me, steam took a look and said "boy, you sure are playing lots of bloons tower defense, want to see every single tower defense available during this next fest?"

>>723443908
And you could not be upset by someone pointing out that Hollowknight's animations aren't good.

>>723443920
>depression allegory
I actually had to go read the whole description on Steam to see what you were talking about, because there was none of that in the demo. You just get dropped in and play.

>>723444189
The same thing happens if you play just one porn game, the algorithm condemns you to watch porn thumbnails all the time

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>>723443920
>Comfy, casual, humerous, whacky
All mean "we didnt even try"
>Reverse bullet hell, action survival roguelike, etc etc
"Its a v sav clone but we don't want to say it is"
>"Deep story"
Someone got raped, someone is depressed or both at the same time
>Like X game
Then why don't I just go play X game instead
>Roguelike
"We didn't want to have actual map or proper encoutner design, just lose until its easy lol"
>Slots
Balatro clone
>Card
STS clone
>Only discussion is "x character is hot lol"
fuck off gooners
>Literally an alpha
Why waste your 1 time you can do this on an alpha fuck sake devs

So easy to filter out garbage based on so little and always, 100% of the time be right to do so

On the other hand,
>Broken english chinese or japanese games made by a solo dev who DOESN'T say he's solo for pity, with absolutely no concept of balancing or game design at all
kino

>>723444265
because nobody likes depression simulators

>>723444346
you mean v surv, v sav is the fighting game

>Step into constances socks
im not a cute girl though....

>>723425413
I need to scour the threads more to see if there's any hidden games I missed. Most the games I'm looking forward to aren't associated with the fest. Most games I'm anticipating either don't have confirmed release schedules or don't have much information on their development progress because they are harder games to make, or they have hit development road blocks for one reason or another, so they're never ever entry applicants. I go in every year to these fests expecting to see some deep stealth game or immsims and I'm always let down. It's not that my preferences are so narrow, but there's few game genres that really speak to my interests as a gamer. Actually maybe that's an admission that my interests are so narrow and that indie devs just don't know what I like to play or they're not capable of delivering video games that I like.
Aside from mentioning what I want out of the festivals, I would say Road to Vostok looked like it's the only game that drew my interests.There's few STALKER likes that actually look decent, this is one of the two strongest contenders for upcoming games even if the demo was kind of a weak showing. The other being a non featured festival game: The Path into the Abyss. The game misery just looks like a cheeki breeki meme game rather than something cool, so forget that one.

>>723444323
At least porn games are fairly competent and making one horny.

>>723444528
>>723434814
this is apparently pretty good if you like stealth ignoring whatever buggy shit is going on
i didnt like it myself though. felt very sloppy. i could jsut stand vaguely above enemies and bitch slap and their ai can't actually handle this at all

>>723425413
wow you guys really are playing nothing but scraps. the press preview really trounced you

>>723444189
For me its pretty decent at rec'ing stuff, excepting the fact its recoemding demos I've literally alreayd played
Told me this is in it, for example:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2991310/Eternal_Palace_Sakura/
Which I'm surprised seen no posts about, since I HAVE seen people hyping (webms of the chick and 0 gameplay) this game for I think years now, despite rarely actually visting /v/

>>723444717
go ahead and suggest the same VS-like for the millionth time

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>>723444717
I skipped the press preview threads because they're cancer that kill these threads
Its actually been LESS cancer this time because people are posting 'scaps'. Last time it was just the press preview guys spamming the games they already ruined for themselves in advance of the fest
I only play high IQ demos for smart chads

>>723444886
cancer kills you whether you see it or not

>>723444717
Most of the interesting demos only appear at the start of the actual Festival. The Press Preview is just a sea of shovelware and a few interesting titles. An appetizer, but not the main dish
The excitement is in those timed demos that developers takes away once it's over. Not the ones that were always available for months ago and just came in to participate

>>723439506
yeah, it's neat and has a nice weird atmosphere. apparently their games are pretty short, but I don't know specifics. if the full game is like twice as long as the demo and is fairly cheap, then I'll be content with that

>>723443827
This was in at least two next fests already.

>>723442621
since you seem to like mystery games, check out 52hertz. it's another vaguely gnosiaesque werewolflike. it's a bit more jank especially with its translation still having multiple lines in chinese, and it's a bit more serious than psycho sleuth, but I'm enjoying it. I'm a bit under halfway through the demo though (based on how long they said it was), and it's still just setup. there's been no murder to solve, so I haven't interacted with that side of the game

>>723425413
>reanimal
Friendslop moviegame not for me but technically good looking and controls work, not jank. Can be played solo cause the ai girl helps perform teammate actions

>everwind
Minecraft clone but with tighter custom rules and gameplay, and visually great looking.
Start on a tiny forest biome island, get stone tools and some recipees
Unlock recipees by mining block type
Can also find them like consumables to learn recipees from dungeon loot
Slightly improved minecraft combat.

Get an airship and add fuel to it. Its now a floating mobile base.
Fly to a nearby desert biome floating island. Kill mobs, loot dungeon, get copper tool recipees (2 of 4) mine in tunnel near end of dungeon, get copper.
Lots of stuff to decorate. Instead of mining 1 block gives you 1 block it often gives you a resource where you need a few to craft into blocks. Block crafting station sometimes gives better ratios so you can make a lot out of a little but you dont end up with stacks and stacks of stuff too easily.

I enjoyed it so far.

>hellmart
Jank but fun. Not too much to explore, but you know the area and after you do a little work sim, suddenly paranormal threats arrive.

>>723446130
>. it's another vaguely gnosiaesque werewolflike.
kill urselev

>>723443426
open image, zoom in on qr codes, hold power button to bring up google assistant, click search screen, it gives you links to all the qr codes

>>723446154
that's the best way to describe them though

>>723444189
i got recommended dwarf games because i play a lot of deep rock and just finished return to moria

>>723425413
Of Ash and Steel, is a modern gothic made by some russians with 0 budget for marketing so i have to shill it for free here https://store.steampowered.com/app/3708420/Of_Ash_and_Steel_Demo/

The game releases on 2 weeks, the first 20 minutes are not the best but the game opens up after you finish the camp main quest which takes less than 15 minutes and serves as the tutorial, after that you are free to explore and completely on your own

>>723446596
Have you tried this one yet? I downloaded it but haven't launched it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2237320/Dwarf_Delve/

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pretty good. Heavy link to the past inspirations with the rainy start, lantern first, followed by boomerang.

>>723444528
thats the issue with stalker type games. None of them really stand out because it's kind of easy to make a game that boils down to walking down a country road with a rusty AK in the rain. We already have that with so many stalker mods... They need to add something to make it stand out, project silverfish has some wacky idea, forever winter really plays up the faction warfare angle quite a bit. Path ionto the abyss and Vostok just look like Stalker clones hardly worth caring about unless they manage to polish it the fuck up. Not interested in early access slop if its gonna be generic.

>>723446041
Was it? I've never seen it posted in these threads before.

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>>723425413
>Was wondering where the demo is
>Still delayed
Grim, i hate Valve sometimes

>>723427928
title?

>>723434557
>t. tranny

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I can't stop staring at her ass.

>>723447937
>I like looking at hairy men's assholes

>>723448014
what gaym

>>723447593
Opus Echo of Starsong

>https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561199799926917
A stream at a reasonable time? I'll post it for free.

>>723448014
name the game gooner

>>723448097
Directorate Novitiate
it was absolute jank

>>723442334
>Eastern European
they speak some sort of middle east language and have all arabic names

>>723448097
>>723448329
Directorate Novitiate

>>723446794
I'll check it out after work but the minecraftesque look kind of put me off

>>723447378
>hardly worth caring about
The world AI in The Abyss actually looks really cool though and surpasses both OG Stalker and STALKER 2 in that regard to what A-life was capable of doing. At least that's what the Abyss-Life concept seemed why it stands out from the rest. The fact that they're looking at simulating thousands of NPCs that are always active in the world in various states in which they're not really despawned is incredible.

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Really cool concept but the controls are so hard to get used to, even worse than the turnip game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3910660/Arcabbit/

>>723448207
>tranime streamer
>tranime vampire survivors rehash
0/10

>>723447378
>>723449367
And what's more interesting about this concept specifically is the way that the developer has described this AI system, he seems to mention some of the difficulties that Todd Howard had when trying to implement that kind of thing in Elder Scrolls Oblivion. That the characters in the world tend to act erratically and unpredictably. I think it was Todd that said something along the lines of regarding radiant AI that important story characters in the world just end up getting into trouble in town for stealing or killed by monsters out in the wilderness as to why they couldn't use that model in that model in the end. So I have to wonder if the guy developing it might have to take certain considerations to protect some of the story characters in the world, to not be subject to the vulnerabilities of every other NPC in the world. That's likely the only concession that will be made. But everything else will all likely be non scripted events.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Demon Hand is funny, not sure it's very good but it's funny

The gambling games are comfy

>>723451068
Names?

I love slots, poker, and mahjong.

>>723451068
>the games designed to dispense dopamine are dispensing dopamine
Wow!

>>723451097
NTA, but i think he refers to this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3720460/KEEP_GAMBLING/

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>>723425413
I'm looking forward to Mina's game!

>>723451506
>No cast shadows
Now this is a new level of bad.

>>723449367
>>723450341
The AI system is going to be simulated as a .txt document with stats swapped in an out. Who gives a fuck, it's not going to be genuine AI, its gonna be a shitty simulation that feels fake as always. Do you wanna be friends with an NPC? I'll get jazzed up when I see spectacular gameplay, but a handwritten story is going to simply dunk on any random event by a long shot. Video game stories suck ass, and computer generated ones wont help.

Im not gonna remember a random NPC with no personality.

Some anon said that you have to actively pick up exp in Vital Shell, well that anon was retarded because you just automatically get everything you didn't pick up at the end of each wave.

>>723451951
>VS clones in charge of observing game mechanics
kek!

>>723451951
at 10% of their normal pickup value. It's what the reclamation stat is.

>Kats Trigger
I came for the ass.

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>mesugaki bully into asmr whisper
Zoinks!

>>723434136
>military uniform but also leotard but also high rise g-string with low rise pants
Holy mother of overdesigned

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>What if we made R-Type but it was actually good?
I didn't think it was possible, but I guess it is.

>>723449445
Looks like mobile slop.

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>>723449781
>shartchild
0/10

>>723451630
>t's not going to be genuine AI
What makes it not genuine AI because of stats? it's the most advanced system I've seen that's not an ascii game and the fact that he showed off numerous variations of a scene example of how a scenario could play on a simple mugging/hostage scenario means it's unscripted to a ridiculous degree. It's the best kind of behaviour I've personally seen. At least from what I know about it currently. Yes, it's too premature to say anything because it may not even live up to expectations. To me it sounds like the developer is biting off more than he can chew for an indie game. I find it hard to comprehend being possible on an indie budget. Or I suppose it's closer to the AA funded level. Just because you can reduce what it's doing to a simple stat change in an notepad that doesn't make it any less incredible that individual npcs eye tracking changes depending on mood and distance, it still looks like black magic kind of shit.

>>723432760
She does if you zoom in on her face

>play the typing br game
>even if I purposely handicap my typing I'm still doing like 65 wpm and completely eclipsing all the peckers with their 25 wpm typing
I don't know what to say.

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>Alabaster Dawn kept Crosscode's automatic jumping at ledges system

>>723454290
jumping is a do-nothing mechanic that adds nothing to any game besides platformers.

what the fuck chicken run got a sequel!?

>>723444189
i was buried in mediocre looking metroidvanias for the first few times i checked, because of silksong

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>>723454042
Yeah, but she only keeps a straight face while you're zooming, until she can't take it and gets embarrassed. There's no way to get her to make that smug look I think

i wanna say i liked Mechanicus 2, because i did quite enjoy the gameplay and it has great sound and music. but i could not get rid of a weird smear/blur despite disabling motion blur and TAA, hope that is just a demo idiosyncrasy. most of all HOLY SHIT the loading screens. loading screens for a 2 line talking heads scene then loading into an autopath map then loading into a combat. if it's supposed to be like this i won't touch it at release if at all.

D&D Battlemarked - actually pretty cool. its presented in charming traditional way with a tabletop scene and using mini figs and is mostly just dungeon hacking with some VERY basic campaign story (like reminds me of of 1st ed. basic), though the gameplay is some weird action point / deck of cards thing. many will probably hate it due to roguelite deckbuilder fatigue, but it's not exactly like that. you're still rolling die and there is some kinda progression elements not in the demo. i've tried some other miniature-style DnD games like this, but this one was done a bit better.

avernum 4 - played some spiderweb soft. shareware when i was young. too young and dumb to understand them but they always intrigued me since i liked Ultima and stuff. its actually really streamlined and easy to understand by today standards. i guess you could say it's in the mold of like nethack, world moves when you do, but as a party based CRPG and goes full turn-based in combat. pretty neat and oldskool charm, they basically haven't changed the formula in... 2 decades, it seems.

>>723442334
anon explain it to me I do not get it

>>723456060
menherarium - i didn't even play enough to really figure it out but you get teased/tortured by a sexy jailbait yandere and play something like yahtzee. seemed like it would just be too random and simple to be fun but probably more to do with how you manipulate each phase and if you know what the fuck is happening.

menace - i didn't like it as much as i'd hoped, but i think its because i need the extra management layers like xcom and JA2, to go along with the squad tactics. it's probably there but i didn't get to it or its not in the demo, so i'm still keeping an eye on it.

HoMM olden era - i don't have much nostalgia for the series, only played some demo/shareware in the olden days. i really like the visuals its like classic made high res. seems like it could be alright, but if the AI is bad then its gonna be pointless.

haven't played yet - skate story, OPUS, Crystal of Atlan (is this just a style over substance mobile slop, or an actual MMORPG like it says it is?)

a very lame list with no deep cuts, sorry. i usually play like 20-30 things every fes, but i've been sick as a dog.

>>723456627
>Crystal of Atlan
mobile slop don't bother

>Homura Hime
>Poke ALL Toads
>Bubsy 4D
>The Séance of Blake Manor
>Tears of Metal
>Finch & Archie
Anything else even slightly interesting?

>>723425413
>really looking forward to
Starsand Island
Psycho Sleuth
>regular looking forward to
52Hertz
BIRDCAGE
Dark Auction (was much more excited before the demo, but it's still not bad)
Homura Hime
The Real Faces of a VTuber
UMIGARI
the other 9 or so demos I tried weren't for me or were bad. still have 9 or so demos downloaded that I need to try

>>723456060
mechanicus demo was clearly a very crammed pack demo with a lot of the meta game skipped. The map and random events from M1 are smushed- they clearly don't want us to have much of that in the demo.

The real issue is it's kinda just the first game but now you can play as baddies. I'm super uninterested as much as I enjoyed the first. Same setting, same gamplay, no work put into the meta game. Like, let me invade planets with a nekron battalion or something I dunno. The only benefit is it will be the first game but better- I recall the first having some rough ending content.

>>723457194
You already know, Made In Hell

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>>723432183
>>723454042
>>723455783
Oh my mistake, turns out she does actually make that smug look if you zoom in while she's charging up the chainsaw

Also found these neat things:
https://files.catbox.moe/x1u9vi.mp4
https://files.catbox.moe/xzie14.mp4

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Only game I tried so far that I really enjoyed.

>>723457573
Looks pretty cursed when she smiles

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Red Dawn
>cute
>funny
>great music
Thank god for gook/chink/jap garage nerds and Unity. Been playing nothing but anime style Asian jank all year and haven't this much fun with vidya in ages.

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Revelation of Decay is my favorite so far. Really big demo, I played for 7 hours and didn't finish it. China #1

>>723458906
dude this game is sick, nice recommend
I would never have looked at it otherwise
gotta say chinese are stepping up their indie game scene

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Aquametsis seems pretty cool. The level design was great, lots of ways through the dam, a bunch of fun toys and hidden loot. Didn't mess with the psi much but the enhanced strength letting you brain people with random boxes is always great. Strapping remote charges to a drone and flying it into a group of guards is neat. Didn't get much use out of the EMP grenades, but presumably there'll be robots and shit in the full game.
My biggest gripe is that the keycode glyphs are a pain and I was too dumb to figure them out and ended up blowing (or shooting, once I got the energy-crossbow-thing) my way through the locked doors, and that when I tried to stealth kill an enemy with a riot shield the shield vibrated around the room, clanged off everything, and alerted the whole building. The platforming is a little janky too until I got the hang of it, you have to hit shift AFTER you start moving if you want to sprint/wallrun.

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This one is pretty cool, reminds me of The Coma

>>723459909
the door where you first encounter the numbers has the runes 0123456789 right above it

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>Play visual novel (with JRPG combat included)
>The map has you move around to start events
>There's a hidden event where the MC walks in on a girl changing
Soul

>>723459474
lmao the demos are so fucking bad it feels like theyre allowing anything

>>723430520
>>723429760
Same, I really enjoyed GZ. Alongside Alpha Zero is a good RE clones. Sangra seems entertaining at least.
Krio clone needs better controls though.
Becrowned is a good Silent Hill but it needs to fix the camera controls

>>723460080
son of a bitch
that's what I get for playing at 2AM, I guess

>>723458906
Looks great, guess it was overlooked because mutts get triggered by anything chink

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This game used to be called Dark Auction: Hitler's Estate not long ago but it was censored and all references to him were toned down to the point of calling him "Dictator X". What an disgraceful downgrade
It would have been super based if the original intention had been maintained.. Who were they trying to please if it's banned in Germanistan anyway?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2363180/Dark_Auction/

>>723460331
apparently cero, but people claim that about everything.
the camera movement when you move around in first person was super fucking janky, which I really didn't like. I don't know if it's better on a controller, or if they just designed it to be that way, but I've never seen a camera act that way before. the controls in general were all kind of a bit fucked

>>723460540
The idea that it's CERO is retarded, and I saw a guy in the forums saying it was CERO because "Atlus did it to Persona 2's remasters" as if we haven't known for years that Atlus are happy to self-censor to appease their western masters (and P2's Hitler censorship was originally done for the western release).

>Homura Hime
Very basic Japanese hack 'n slash. No spice, just bland.
>Crashout Crew
Friendslop (i have no friends). Drifting didn't click, like the map wasn't designed for it.
>Cairn
Comfysoul. Horrid performance at the moment with my AMD setup.
>Final Sentence
Neat presentation but I'd rather just open up a browser and do typing games there.
>Quarantine Zone
Older demo, but graphics settings didn't work so I uninstalled right away.

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>>723458906
Looks good, thanks Anon. I got hooked on Cavalry Girls and so got over my anti chink bias so I'm in the market for more. Also have Cav Girls shilling from me, go play it, it's a ton of fun. Can't hate a dev who makes the best gun a Starsector homage.

>>723425413
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2876050/_Pet_Street_Story/
This looks very interesting, too bad it's chink exclusive

>>723458906
What's this about

>>723461895
goofy zombie survival

This Next Fest is awful. AI art. AI voice acting. AI garbage

>>723462025
AI post

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I ignore posts without steam store page links, images and videos. Just so you know!

>>723462263
okay, I'll take images off the steam store page and then run them through grok to get fake 6 second gameplay clips

>>723442621
>Million Depth as action
It's a very unique combat system, but that shit ain't action at all.
You can be as slow and precise as you want with every movement except jumping.
And the crafting thing will have a lot more impact on the encounters than perfectly managing movement.

I need more dev cope posts from reddit or twitter. It fills me with joy to see trashy looking games rightfully being ignored. Please share if you find any, I'm enjoying this more than demos

>>723461212
There's more chink indies than you can count and 99% are chink only
But the best ones tend to get translations, much like japanese VNs

>Taxi Chaos 2

For shovelware it's not the worst idea. Crazy taxi clone but driver-less cars crash into you to mess with human driver. Its need for speed hot pursuiot crazy taxi with arcadey style.

Its got that shit shovelware art style and I have to uninstall. Never even got to tanks and other stuff it supposedly has.

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>>723461212
for me it's this korean only mystery vn
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856210/Detective_Bloodphobia/
and this other korean vn I came across during the last next fest. I'll be honest why I'm interested in this one
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3442310/Trauma_Record/

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Thanks to one of you for suggesting this one yesterday.
The gameplay concept is pretty novel and I like it. Plenty of challenge puzzles means they get the appeal.
This could've been any manga, but with me being a Fable fag I can enjoy seeing the panels of some of my fav characters.
Though still feels cheaply made under the hood. Most of the panels are ripped straight from the manga to translation or anything, no VA work beyond generic mooks grunting, music sounds familiar yet isn't and the only unlocks you get look like manga covers which I've already seen all. Concept art would be nice as a reward.
Still I feel like the devs are Fable fans too and I can appreciate it.

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Truly this is horror beyond imagination.

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Defines the pillar of creative degradation and indie prostitution per pennies

>>723462953
The killer known as the fable..

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Gave Motorslice a shot, surprisingly fun even though I've never played these sort of parkour games before. P's movement is responsive while still feeling weighty, she's pretty well animated too, doesn't affect gameplay but adds a bit of personality to her. Combat's a mixed bag, it's satisfying slicing a robot clean in half but it's so easy and barebones it feels like an afterthought. The boss was pretty neat though, I liked that it was actually designed around your moveset rather than just being a big sandbag. The VA is whatever, not overly offensive but still has that 'english anime dub' tone to it which I'm not fully comfortable with.
Was wondering why there was a 'gore' setting, and yeah, death effects are surprisingly brutal, wasn't expecting P to splatter into a pool of blood and gibs when I fell off of a ledge. Wonder if it's a fetish thing like that Citadel game.
Really fun demo, definitely going on my wishlist. P is cute.

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>>723462953
I also wishlisted it and will buy depending on pricing.
Games can be simple but fun (that is the whole point of rougelites) as long as they scale budget and cost appropriately.
What I like in games such as Fable or Astrea, is that they do not brainlessly copy the 3-Mana-and-play-cards from STS, and try to create more unique systems.
Another demo that matches that specific interest of mine this NF was Moonsigil.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3284290/Moonsigil_Atlas/

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Playing Copperfell right now, it's a Runescape clone. Has a demo.
It's pretty fun so far, I like games with individual skills you can level.

>>723464434
>Starslop Valley artstyle
I sleep

>>723463392
Reminds me of prince of persia

>>723463392
>P's movement is responsive while still feeling weighty
Dunno some parts felt jank to me.
I tried it out because I saw PoP movement so I knew i had to give it a shot and well maybe I'm just spoiled.
>For the vastness of the areas your movement is slow
>The wall kip up kept making me think I can do an AC style jump off to the sides, but it's only directly opposite.
>No way to grab the ledge you're currently standing on
>Camera angles can mess with columns
>Had times where I wanted to climb directly up and got a wallrun with the only way out being falling to my death
>Can motorslice down walls, but you just die as you reach the bottom floor
>Jumping off the wall as motorslice ends unintuitive
>The curved wall wallrun felt extremely inconsistent
>Checkpoints are too aggressive and I've had times where I skipped platforming because of them as I died and spawned ahead.
Those were some of the gripes I had with the game.
There's obviously performance issues too.
Game just needs polish and I hope it gets it.

Do they delete the Demos after this ends?

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I don't know why does this run at 7 frames on steam deck. A shame, it was perfect for it

>>723464709
Some yes
Some no

>>723464709
some do, most don't from my experience with past fests. at least of the ~30-40 I end up trying

>>723464434
so is it like elin?

>>723464709
Most will stay in your library.
Others will have the 'play' button replaced with a 'store' redirect button.
Depends on what the developers feels like.

>>723464792
not too familiar with that but from a glance it appears to be so.
>>723464526
Yeah the art's kinda mediocre but it's pleasant enough to look at so I don't mind.

>>723429760
>G-Rebels
Most disappointing demo of the lot. The AI slop looks awful and the engine doesn't help things at all.

>>723464709
I still have demos from 2023 Fests that are still working, lol.
The thing about expiring licenses once the festival is over is only concern a minority of demos
Obviously, you should be wary of those that are primarily online or from large publishers.

>>723464709
Depends on the dev

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Jungle Rot is kino. RE2 in Vietnam, tank controlls feel great, a bit easy but they might have added more weapons to the demo for testing then the full game will have.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3779320/Jungle_Rot/

>>723460048
>MC is a genki slut
picked up

>>723425413
>What games have you found this Nextfest that you're looking forward to?
Suzerain on the moon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2547090/Lunar_Ascendant/
And new demo for Pathologic 3
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3199650/Pathologic_3/

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>>723425413
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878450/Master_of_Command/
For my fellow armchair generals.

>>723467118
I did not care for the way items get appointed to singular troops

>>723464751
The dev uses his own engine so maybe it just doesn't work with Linux or something. Maybe the fixes people use for HROT would work with it.

I'M SO FUCKING TIRED OF SURVIVORS AND METROIDVANIAS
MAKE SOMETHING ELSE
FUCK

>>723466676
4:3 in current year is a crime. At least use the spare space on the side for something interesting even if it is just an overlay.

>>723443451
real

>>723469262
Wait 6-8 months for all the megabonk clones then.

>>723427034
kys survivornigger

>>723463876
I thought i was going to like this game but the demo ended up being pretty boring. Not the fault of the dev not trying hard enough i just think the concept is dead on arrival.

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>>723426378
I see the shills that post the same slop in every nextfest thread woke up. notice that they started posting around when india and china would be getting online.

>>723469785
These threads are only created by shills to shill to unsuspecting anons. Nobody should listen to anything posted ITT and should avoid the event in general.

>>723469785
>>723470002
yeah, let's leave this shitty shill thread and go argue about politics instead

>>723469476
If it means a revival of bhopping I'm on board.

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Million Depth is probably the only game I'm genuinely excited for. I do wish all the blocks were unlocked from the get-go though, seems like a cheap way to add depth.

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I liked what I saw of Bleak Haven.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3566840/Bleak_Haven/

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Gutter world dev. Pretty based
Shame the game itself felt like total shit to play

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>>723470114
>seems like a cheap way to add depth
Well how else are they supposed to get to a million?

>>723469785
>>723426378
Its been less shilling than normal, actually
Like i haven't seen that cunt of a dev who spams his frog touching game every next fest this time, despite his game not fucking being in them

>>723470881
calling the cartel on you carlos

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>oh cool a megaman battle network clone, finally
>idle desktop bullshit
grim

I played Reanimal after playing the intro of LN3 and feeling kind of, I don't know, let down? The giant baby did nothing for me compared to the huntsman in 2. The skin suits were thoroughly creepy, but the forced NPC companion that is required for puzzles feels weird.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3581040/Bharat_Police/

saars pls to be doing the needful and play game

>>723472169
>all that AI gen
Does india have a single goddamn talented artist anymore?

>>723471703
fucking this
I got baited by this slop too

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>41 GB for a fucking demo
Witcher 3 was 45 GB 10 years ago

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Zako no Ahiru was surprisingly fun for only being a rubber duck that can shoot water
and a mesugaki

>>723472612
>Witcher 3 was 45 GB 10 years ago
I know that shit was bloated af, shitty game

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Mid chinkfest overall. Favorite games were Kingdom of Night (actually made me say "I want to buy this" which is a rare feeling) and Reanimal, which I knew I would like beforehand.

I haven't played all my demos but I feel like cutting it short and doing something else with my time lol

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Anyone else tried this? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2237320/Dwarf_Delve/
I opened the game, there's no way to change the sens so I move my camera like a tank and I crashed when I interacted with the first thing that appeared on my screen (some chains).

Also, any worthwhile immersive sims in this Next Fest?

>>723471241
Everyone already played the damn game, I doubt there's anyone left to shill.
I have nothing against shills on this thread as long as they aren't invasive. I mean, how the fuck do you Talk about demos if you don't shill a bit?

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Gave Starsand island about forty minutes of my time, not really sure what people praising it are seeing. Feels a bit sluggish and jittery moving about and the artstyle of the environments look ripped straight out of genshin impact (which I guess isn't surprising given the game seems to be chinese). Wasn't really huge on the cutscenes that play each time you meet the mentor characters, especially since they tend to show the cracks in the character models, but at least that only happens once. It being chinese-made also seems reflected in the writing, the dialogue seems to meander a lot with some npcs, I noticed I was just barely skimming over the lines because there was just enough babbling and rambling my brain switched to 'skip dialogue' mode like with genshin when i used to play that.
I was bewildered when I looked at the list of NPCs and found that the childhood friend is actually amongst the tallest girls I met despite the typical loli proportions. How she's remotely taller than the farm lady is beyond me.
Also optimisation sucks, I was seeing pop-in from shadows and textures up to three meters in front of me despite maxing out all settings.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3467730/Wall_World_2_Demo/
solid sequel to Wall World, it's really just more of 2d mining and turret defense

>>723472917
It's so damn linear though I was reluctant to recommend it. I should probably replace it with that PS1 Mecha Survivors game.

>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3908810/Stackflow/
>tetris roguelike
kill me

>>723473227
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3933120/CiniCross/
How about picross roguelike instead?

>>723473374
I got spoiled by how good Ball x Pit was last fest that this fell flat for me. I also played Lumines first so I was on cloud nine with the techno style. I didn't know Lumines was so kino.

whats with all the idle slop? who plays that crap?

>>723473608
havent seen any idle slop this round?

>>723448956
>Directorate Novitiate
what a shot Control meme clone
They even copied ugly male-looking protag

>>723473374
>can't drag to make a line of crosses or squares
dropped faster than a gamedevs project

>>723472818
To be fair the most I've played in Genshin Impact is going to the library and then fighting bokoblins in a randomized dungeon and saying it sucks and deleting it

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>copy-paste free itchio game
>put AI slop art
>top demo
even indie is turning into slop now

>>723433742
Why doesn't steam allow you to filter games with this? I will NEVER play a game with this

>>723473738
You can though?

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I am impressed with Metal Eden. I enjoy controller-optimized fps games.
The Jap spook walking simulators are good too.

Is that Way of the Samurai with porn?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4068730/Red_Masked_Ronin_Desires_and_Shadows_Demo/

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>>723474741
>Way of the Samurai with porn
w-what

>>723462604
The driving just didn't feel very fun.

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>>723474653
>Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland

>gaming have never been better
>play 10 demos
>9 are terrible
>1 is alright
>they are all a copy of something else
>some even use the same asset pack
>try to play another 10
>same thing
pain