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>>723652992motorslice
>>723652992Latest Thread:>>723591421Previous threads:Press Preview:https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722364846https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722379857https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722476376https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722603976https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722782184https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/722924618https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/723059045Current Next Fest:>>723166958>>723190473>>723221548>>723264271>>723304652>>723351920>>723425413>>723505959
>>723653162I really couldn't post the list of older threads because of the spam filter, fuck chink moot
>Directorate has what gamers wantI hope it will end up having full controller support because it's a clunker with k&m.
>>723653501Best graphics of the fest for me.
>>723653501How many burgers did she eat?
>>723653586All of them.
>Idle on character select in Revolgear Zero for 2-3 minutes>The girl falls asleep
I got one more with some subtle antisemitism.
>>723653131zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
here's a summary of what I've tried so far
For me, is OPUS: Prism PeakVery heartwarming story, finally a good narrative game that knows how to use photography mechanics in an proper wayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1947910/OPUS_Prism_Peak/
>>723653501>7.7 GBNormally I wouldn't download such a storage-eater demo like that, but I'll give it a chanceI'm already I'm up to my neck in demos that I know won't be able to finish by tomorrow
Please tell me if you guys have found any good co-op games. I need something to play with a friend
Will they take away our demos tomorrow?
>>723653854Has BANDIT KNIGHT only a Playtest?, there's no normal demo?
I don't care about which games you thought were good. I want to know which games you thought were GREAT. Give me your day 1s.
>>723654341yeah it's basically a demo with a single level, I saw some anons talking about it in earlier threads and tried it out, it's pretty fun
>>723654512What I don't like about Playtests is that their licenses get bugged and stay in my library forever, making them impossible to delete for some reason
all the mistagged games make me so fucking madGENRES MEAN SOMETHING DONT JUST TAG WHATEVER IN YOUR PIECE OF SHIT
Rebel Engine's mechanics make it feel like it's trying to be those meme FPS webms of people constantly switching weapons and aiming like crackheads
>>723654232If you can do local play, I thought Exploding Judo Federation was a good laugh
>>723654792Imagine thinking that there is tagging rigor on Stem
>>723654682oh shit it is my account still even after deleting it, huh, and I can't seem to remove it in "view licenses and product key activations", I don't really care that much, but according to reddit you could possibly try Help > Steam Support > type in the name of the game in search box > "I want to permanently remove this game from my account"
>>723654937They put my favourite vtuber in that game and I still can't bring myself to care because the gameplay sucks.
>>723654469Motorslice and Million Depth, easily. Maybe Node Math.
I might have found the most insufferable game of the fest.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4065080/Ledgerbound_Demo/
>>723654960I was really looking forward to that but it kept freezing on launch or when gameplay started for me and I have no clue why. Maybe I'll try it once more because I love the concept of "Divekick for grapplers because if you get thrown the mines explode"
>>723654292Some of them but going by the previous fest majority of devs will most likely won't remove their demos.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2394180/Primal_Echo/This was alright, I guess the guy who recomended white knuckle like a fest or two would like this one in terms of megastructure exploration.Main gimmick is that you have some parasite on you, other than that you can go grug with rocks on enemies.Exploration is decent, you gain a double jump and the ability to grab onto fences, but I never knew how to trigger the "hook" objects ability.Seems designed for KBM but for some reason steam rec's controller but the game didn't seem to work properly with a DS4.
>>723653501Shill this to me please.
>>723655426>DS4
>>723655237>the most insufferable game of the fest.I thought it's that Korean game about avenger
>>723654469I'd go for Ground Zero. Korean resident evil 3 to the core.
>>723655623Which one?
Just finished the Homura Hime demo, it was okay but the audio felt very lackluster with a lot of things that looked like they should have had audio not having any (monsters yelling, certain player animations) and the dodge doesn't feel very good at all for how much they seem to want you to spam it for platforming and combat.
>>723655698I don't remember name but MC wears black costume with some red stripes
>>723655623Nah, that one was great.>>723655698Kats Trigger.
>>723655837Damn they stole that text straight out of Metal Slug
>>723655931>what are references
>>723652992What games that thanks to a past Next Fest, did you decide to support by purchasing them, but ended up failing miserably?For example, not reaching minimum thresholds like 10 or 50 reviews
>>723654469Of Ash and Steel. And unlike most demos that are for games coming out in 3+ years, this one actually launches in 2 weeks.
>>723656310I bought Heartworm and felt very hollow after finishing it
>>723654469Kats Trigger is my "no doubts about it" answerMaybe a couple others depending how they turn out
>>723656310i'm not a frognigger and do not buy games that i'm not planning to play right now or in the near future
A fair number of blatant resident evil clones this time around and some of them are even good.
>>723656524Early Access or full game?
>>723654469Quite a lot of game that I'd consider buying day 1https://store.steampowered.com/app/3105440/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_Olden_Era/I'm just fan of the series since little lad and I dig the demo.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3124230/Jackal/Really nice Hotline Miami clone with his own cool vibe.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2808350/Idosra_The_Electric_Renaissance/A bit rough 2d platformer with rpg elements but it's charming.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3547180/The_Sance_of_Blake_Manor_Demo/Really neat mystery investigation game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2622820/Dobbel_Dungeon/Turn-based tactic game with nice artstyle, wide skill trees and neat combat where you throw dices first and then think of strategies.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3969600/The_Fable_Manga_Build_Roguelike_Demo/Rougelike based on gangster manga where you build your own manga page. Buying only if it's on the cheaper side.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2893820/Of_Ash_and_Steel/Really like how close it hit home with Gothic in term of game feel, but I'm the most not sure if they'll pull off a good game. Probably will wait with the purchase.
>>723656980Last next fest had an RE clone with some guy, and a girl with boob physics as playable characters, and it was really high quality, wish I could remember what it was called.
>>723657357If you do let me know.
>>723657357Vultures maybe?
>>723656310Ask me again in 2 or 3 years when my wishlists finally leave "coming soon"
>>723657251Full game.
>>723656310Candy Rangers was by FAR the most excited last year's Fall NextFest got me. It came out about 3 weeks ago and it has only 16 reviews, almost the same with Disaster Arms (25 reviews) which happened to come out a day earlier and sold in the same bundle. It's a shame since they're two of the best indies I've played this year. At least Gravity Circuit did well for itself.
>>723657704Cool>>723656310I loved the fuck out of Candy Rangers from last year Steam Fest and bought this year anyway
>click game>its vampire survivors slop clone>click another game>its a slay the spire slop>click anime game>F2P MMO RPG ALSO AVAILABLE ON MOBILE >repeat
>>723657730>>723657772Candy Rangers is so good, outside of a couple bits during the final boss where the foreground blocks his projectiles. Unique take on rail shooters, adorable art/models, top-tier OST.
>>723657896click better games?
>>723657730>>723657959Based Candybros, shame the dev didn't add co-op(1-4), the game was made to be played with friends
>>723655439TPS paranormal action game. Seems like you are a paranormal agent chasing satanic cultists who operate in a defiled church. Best graphics in the fest. Not an annoying voice actress, good character model. The trailers show other costumes for her too.Good artstyle, great cinematography and map design. Cluttered places that seem lived, tons of props. Beautiful lights. Lot's of round ass.A decent amount of notes and things to investigate, boxes to open. Dialogue choices, cool super moves and effects, it's like a paranormal Matrix. The handgun shooting is nice. Good monster design. It doesn't hold back in horror elements at all: body parts on the map props, bodies, butchered sliced bodies in glass boxes like an MRI scan, the child torture devices in my pic, with dead child bodies, body horror slimy stuff.
>>723657730>>723657772I found an on-rails shooter if you liked Candy Avengers Everything about it screams trash but it's actually great - apart from the Hazard Zone on the car chase level which is impossible https://store.steampowered.com/app/2349940/Sligga_Trigger/
>>723658172Well you've convinced me to try.
>>723656310Such many caseshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2516890/Andarin_Weppes/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2691900/The_Little_Witch_and_The_Lost_Memories/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2692730/Three_Wishes/
>>723658241>Wild Guns but it looks like scrapped background assets from Reboot in HDWeird. Wishlisted.
>Dev streams their own game>Lag>No YouTube archiveWhat gives? Can't afford a graphics card along with the rest of the game?
I swear in the flesh made fear demo when you flush the toilet in the gas station the dev has mixed in some vocals into the flushing water sound effect but I can't make out what is said.
>>723654469Placid Plastic Deck - A Quiet Quest>>723656310I wanted to say Candy Rangers too but I haven't bought this game(yet) just because of regional pricing so I will choose Robot girl's dream -RobotBattleChampionship- instead
Alright, I think I've played every other demo I've wanted to try at this point. Time to install that big-ass Let It Die 2 demo (41 fucking GB) to cap it off.
>>723658637If a dev can't even make sure the game runs well on their own PC I wouldn't trust them to make a game competently at all.
>>723656310Beyond the Ice Palace 2 was one of my favorite demos of previous year Fest and it the full game sit on mixed reviews. I still like the game but I agree with negative reviews that in later parts checkpoints are too rare.
>>723658443
stupid sexy monsters
Any good racing games this time?
>Balance>Single player gamelol
>>723659802Some anon has been enjoying exo rally
>>723656310wildwood down. classic point and click adventure starring a guy with down syndrome and it has this hilarious thing where a reaction face will pop up in the corner at various times and it looks like a soijak which i normally despise but seeing it pop up out of nowhere is funny. im also a softie who likes heartwarming stuff with people with disabilities like that peanutbutter falcon movie https://store.steampowered.com/app/2575370/Wildwood_Down/peaks of yore wasnt nearly as successful as i wanted it to be, i remember having a lot of fun with that demo but shitty asset flip climbing games stole its thunder https://store.steampowered.com/app/2236070/Peaks_of_Yore/i also hope vampires best friend does a little better as well but the price tag and length will turn some away https://store.steampowered.com/app/3583530/Vampires_Best_Friend/
https://youtu.be/E3ucnmZaJm0I am getting unnecessarily hype for this game. Something about the world building works for me.>>723653563
Decktamer is kinda funhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2870360/Decktamer_Demo/
>>723659868I think you need some balance so people don't just use the one tactic to cheese through the game but also should not focus TOO hard on it or everything just feels samey.
>>723653861>can't take pictures of the girlThere BETTER be a toggle for this in the full game.
>>723652992Still got quite a few demos to go through, this is my list so far. Not included a few titles that I droppepd within seconds. Overall good haul, quite a few titles that are very unique.
>>723660649The Last Caretaker seemed like it could've been alright but then the demo ended the second you finish the tutorial and before you actually get to do anything. And it runs like shit.
>>723660080>set in 2006>gameplay looks like it's from 2006Pretty funny.
>>723660006>Peaks of Yore>Successful as i wanted it to be>3033 reviewsIf that's a flop, I don't want to know how much you expect a successful indie to sell
>>723660737To me the game felt like a cable management simulator, and not in a fun way. Could have done a lot more with it's premise.
>>723660641It has a plot justification, it is not a simple censorship or a mockery to the player
>>723660771>If that's a flopi said i wanted it to be more successful, ignore that it was in response to a frogpost asking for outright flopsand as i stated, a lot of shitty climbing themed games also released at about the same time and were way bigger
>>723660908There is? Because she's a spirit or something? I figured she just disappeared for gameplay purposes so she wouldn't get in the way of the photos which is fine. But either way, you should be able to take pictures of her since it's just lame to not be able to take pictures of your companion in a photography game. Taking selfies or putting the camera on a timer would be cool too.
>>723660758I am getting old. Maybe that's what it is. Time has stopped for me in my head in 2005.
I already can feel I will suffer while figuring out the logic of murders in Psycho-Sleuth
>>723661112You can photograph spirits, but only if they open up to your presence or are not repressed for some afterlife reasonIt's very likely that the girl is related to the protagonist's mother or ex-wife and is a reflection of their trauma, or a spirit that has not been able to rest in peace.
>>723661469I wasn't too sure of this one heading in but it managed to keep me interested throughout the entire thing. Hopefully they don't fuck up and make the rest of the game boring
>>723660278Oh, I won. Used the jellyfish and not-venosaur to dump poison on and false yeti came in at the end to double it up. Stealing the Sting move from a monster and putting it on not-venosaur also helped clear out the abominations.Curious to see what the evolved forms of Hell Rat and Lantern Dog would have been. Guess I'll play the full version.
>Tears of MetalCompetently made but I think fundamentally unsalvageable. Musou doesn't work if you can't cleave through 95% of enemies at the baseline (which you can, that part is well done), but if you can then there's zero felt impact from any and all roguelike elements. The army customization elements also feel completely pointless as troops don't seem to actually do anything except give more imperceptible buffs and I guess boost the damage for special attacks that even when leaned into still deal less damage than basic light attack strings.Also since you move pretty slow and the dodge has a cooldown it just becomes parry spam for everything that doesn't die in one hit and that got old before I even got through one run.
>>723652992>Select RPG category>None of the games are RPGsMr. Newell fix your fucking tagging system
>>723661681I still have to finish chapter 2 but I will play it tomorrow. So far it interesting enough and I hope they won't fuck it up either. Do you know if there is special death animation when you lose entire HP or is it just game over screen?
did anyone play this? seemed interesting but the english setting is broken and doesn't work
>>723662483>chink slopNope.
>>723662084I found making most of the group spearmen was the right call since their attack just eviscerates crowds and helps stun/damage bigger enemies in the middle of them while I focus solely on the high priority targets; the Swordsmen command just helps divert aggro and the Archer command is kind of ass. I hope the other 4 playable characters outside of the demo are a little more interesting gameplay-wise but I do enjoy what's there even if I really fucking wish it had a linear level progression.
>>723662437It's just a game over. I don't think they really expected anyone to lose considering how many mistakes you have to make.
>>723660080Gave it a try>[Mildly surprised voice] They're crushing kids?lmaoWay too much ass for me though
>>723662716I see. Yeah, in first case I got 22 wrong answers because I misunderstood and didn't skip text and just waited and keep getting damaged and still lived with like 800hp, so I can understand why they didn't bother kek
If this ends up being good it will be the first good Christian game ever. You play as a faithful knight who fights against demons in a corrupted chapel. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3885030/Ashen_Vow/
>>723663668Why is it so fucking dark?
>download doll town>see pic related as soon you start the game>already want to uninstall it and skip the dialogue>your character can do mixamo dances for some reason>alt-f4>uninstallWhat the absolute fuck did I just download?
>>723663668>first good christian gameever heard of castlevania?
>>723663914I've got the urge to do a hitler cosplay and take a picture with a thumbs up infront of this screen
>>723663914
>>723662681>I really fucking wish it had a linear level progressionI would have wanted something more open-ended like in M&B but yes
>>723662840why are you gay
>>723663914>>723664289The fortnitification of horror
>>723664525I'm just not brown, sorry!
>>723663914The immersion breaking references and the emotes reminded me of Yandere Simulator where the dev just puts random shit into the game because he doesn't really know what to do with it.
This looks interesting.
>>723664851Very good art direction but mediocre gameplay.
>>723652992Played Super Beast WorldNot sure what to call this platformer but it's got some similarities to Pizza Tower with the whole combo thing and you can get some good momentum in it. Its a short demo with just two levels. Alright if your a big platformer guy. Might be tranny coded but I'm no expert. The artist does draw cute chubby girls though
>>723665046I can forgive a great many sins in my quest for spooks.
I don't think I'll be able to play all these.>>723653501>>723653563>>723653653>>723660080Her ass was incredibly delicious. I also liked how edgy the game was.
I enjoyed turnbound and wizard cats
>>723664851This was ok. Maybe worth checking out again after they've worked out the kinks. Art direction is solid but the gunplay and level design is too basic. The Nemesis-type chasing guy looks cool but his AI is brain dead and forgets about you as soon as you go into a building.Also really needs an FOV slider. I hate it when FPS games feel like I'm holding the gun against my cheek.
>>723652992I hate 3DCG AVN's, specially the western ones, so I made this chartM Tier:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3264850/That_Time_I_Got_Reincarnated_as_a_Demon_Hand/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3851570/Lure_Of_Passion/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3644610/My_Summer_Vacation/ (Needs a patch available at Saikey Store)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3782910/Goblin_Nest/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3845600/Living_with_a_Little_Fox_Girl/ (Needs too a patch available, again, at Saikey Store)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3682700/Girls_I_just_want_to_get_paid/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3932350/SUMMER_14_Days_Vacation/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3971890/Learn_To_Love/N Tier:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3823290/Heroine_Conquest/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689530/Smilers_Den_Deluxxx/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3824170/Master_of_the_House_DX/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3811560/Angry_Dik/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3757060/Shana__Priestess_of_Tona/
Damn, this shit IS hillarious
>>723663715It's night and it's a horror game.>>723663975Does Castlevania have anything Christian besides the aesthetics?
>>723665697It is, indeed
>>723663914Le troony zoomer horror geimu aware of modern sensitivitiesyou wouldn't get it chud
>>723653501I understand now.
>>723665697>>723665805My hope is they go the Astlibra ost route, and use the best royalty free tracks they can find.God its missing so much atmosphere without music.
>>723666228I thought the lack of music was intentional until I saw the forums. There's also the voice thing where they have it set up for people to make custom voice packs with set lines but no official voices.
>>723663914>check game>multiple language options including japanese>no chinese optionYeah, I'm thinking "based"
anyone try ambrosia sky?
hol up
>>723667135Ayo is that the crushed boy?
I hope they finish poke all toads cause that demo was fun, if a bit easy for my puzzle game brain.
>>723667135You'll find a lot of dead ones
>>723667135>severe the link
>>723667135make sure you post the ones further on
Btw if you like ass I suggest you try this one. The slut MC has time powers and can rewind time and make copies of herself.
Played Nezori. Demo sucks but there could be a decent action RPG here. It has some balancing problems but otherwise it works well. Worth a watch if you like Fox Girls and it's at a good price.
shillin
>>723668620This one is great, everything feels balanced around everything else unlike a lot of other action game demos; you can slide around and do big combos but the enemies move fast and try to crowd your ass (or get in their big windups while the others do so).
>>723661112Stop lying about the real reason you want to snap pics of underage girls, pedo
>>723668097>roguelite shooter
>>723669597I mean I'd say the webm you're responding to kind of proves that untrue.I was able to effortlessly live until I simply got bored by repeatedly spamming her thrust attack, break dance and big vines (all of which either beat the AI through attacking from to far or are invul)I could even take time to taunt with no issue at allImo its very poorly balanced because enemies can parry or dodge mid-hit-stun and you have absolutely no mechanics to punish this, so trying to fight them properly just sees them go "nu uh" and literally walk out, but spamming aoes, invul and ranged attacks easily beats everything
>>723652992What the heck is Majogami? It a platformer where you just press RT to do everything.You press x when you feel like it. Then sometimes you can press LB to play a cinematic where something happens. I'm so lost and confused. The only thing I like about it is the characters are a little cute.
They literally don't test a fucking thing
>>723669912I spent most of the time in the demo with the dude personally, the girl definitely looks like she has much better crowd control than him.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3994730/This_Is_Fine_Maximum_Cope__Demo/>Game based on a meme that is ancient but only somehow got popular years later>Still not striking while the iron is actually hot>"Maximum Cope">Metroidvania tag>Same studio that made Mayhem Brawler (which is middling as far as beat-em-ups go)
What's the matter, anon? Your Armored Core Vampire Survivors clone is getting cold.
>>723670937First Vampire Survivors clone I've really attached to and that's 100% because I think the aesthetic is cool.
I liked hell maiden
I thought Hell Maiden was mid
I dunno why people hyped kotama beyond "uohhhh">MC can fully heal herself more or less at will>To balance htis, everything kills in 3 hits>It doesn't balance this, it just makes the game trivial, you are ltierally never in any real dangerParry doesn't feel very good to use v the enemies who take 0 hitstun from anything yet are also tanky too. You just sort of whail on them while they don't react and occasionally block 1 hit and repeat
>>723670937it doesn't do anything interesting mechanics wise, at least hell maiden attempts something, even if both of them are ultimately still survivor slop
>>723671370>I dunno why people hyped kotama beyond "uohhhh"have you seen that one thicc shop lady with the hip cleavage?
>>723670310Real men test in production.
>>723671502Yea she's a random minor npc you pretty much never interact with beyond once
I never actually played amy vampire survivors so the gameplay was new to me I just played it cause its the same ppl who made Goody Two Chews
>>723671081>>723671719dilate
>>723670157Yeah it sucks
>>723655690When those dogs stood up, I knew I was in for some kino
jesus... competition looks bleak out there
Played The End of History and chuckled at how every major NPC is mudcore asshole>Your mentor mentions that his pervious two students grew up to be a bandit boss and a ruler of the nation seemingly with pride.>That same ruler's introductory scene has him test his new sword on prisoners.>Your mentor prefered faction is a decaying corrupt empire ruled by a old fuck, who doesn't bat an eye when his procession trambles a boy to death and kills his screaming mother.>Emperor's son kills women and frames random drunks for it and emperor's daughter (girl on the centre of the banner picture, by the way) disfigures any woman prettier than her.And the world is supposed to turn even shittier according to the mechanics.
>>723671370it trivialize the levels, but during bossfights is hard to see a gap between attacks to heal because it's slow as fuck, there will probably have some equipment to improve it though and then most likely trivialize bossfights too.
>>723671942All the more indieshitters need to put in more effort into marketing their game instead of just hoping the algorithm or some eceleb picks it up and shills it for free.
>>723671942Full games and demos are separate entries on SteamDB so that number is double what it should be. It's 2960 games, 2963 demos and 3 softwares. No idea what those extra 3 demos are and I don't think there's a quick way to find out. Maybe some devs made more than one demo for the same game.
>>723667135Damn, leisure suit larry fell into some hard times.
>>723672153>some eceleb picks it up and shills it for free.That's literally the most effective way to market your game you damn 50 IQ ape. What, you think devs make successful games by posting devlogs? Retard.
>>723671961What the hell, this isn't Chinese?
>>723668097did they fix her face though? last time the protag looked like one of bruce willis daughters
Phase zero has some hilariously bad animations.
>>723653501this game seems too good to be true, like a mix of Tomb Raider, The Matrix and Constantine, as a 90s kid I am very much hyped.
>>723672508woops meant outbreak zero
>>723671961Chink media can be strange like that>mfw reading water margin and the bandit who drugs travelers and turns them into meat buns that he serves at his inn joins the cast of heroes
>>723672396What exactly is the problem with saying indieshitters shouldn't hope an eceleb picks up their game to shill it for them? I am not saying they should avoid ecelebs shilling their games, if anything they should approach ecelebs instead of leaving it up to chance that ecelebs find it.
>>723672439Japanese guy living in Europe, saw this after two minutes of looking at his twitter and the game's website.
Dream Echo was alright, but goddamn is its UI a mess
>>723672767If you have more than, like, 50 average twitch viewers, you'll literally never not have new indie game keys in your inbox. You're not saying anything novel.
Did the previous next fests have this much slop?
>>723673268We need to be able to filter by dev/publisher country so we can get rid of the jeet ware
>>723673268Always
>>723664394plenty of games/devs fall for the roguelite curse
I genuinely believe too many games are coming out these days.>PS1 library totals out at roughly 4300>This was from 1994 to 2006>Steam averages 18,000 games a year
Give Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era a go. It plays like 3, but with additional mechanics.
>>723670937I will buy it if it's $3 but anything more than that nope.
>>723673268Yes but it gets a little worse every time.
Red = badOrange = okayGreen = goodPink = just not for meAny good combat games I missed?This fest sucka
Anything like Hero's Adventure/Tale of Immortal (or other wuxia stuff)?
>>723673627It's what people want now sadly. Run-based roguelites with metaprogression that allow death to be part of progress and attrition/luck being rewarded as much as or more than mastery allows literally any gameplay format to become an addicting timesink for most people these days. Long linear games get dismissed by people who don't think they have the time for them while shorter linear (arcade) games get dismissed for being too hard to beat without practice. I don't hate the format inherently but a LOT of indie devs are seeing this trend and using it to give their simple polished gameplay a longer shelf life to that target demographic.I'd say I wish more games went the SoR4 route and added a roguelite side mode after launch to a game that had crafted levels from the start, but GuardCrush went ahead and made a full roguelite beat-em-up right after so SoR4 Survival was seemingly just a testing bed. At the VERY least, I think Action Roguelites of all kinds should just do what Balatro does and allow you to see your run's seed and input it later to do it again or share the seed with others.
I'm retarded, in XOF I can't find all of the enemies in stage 1
>>723673642true, we need some sort of game sink or we're going to drown. This is just poorly designed mechanics.
>>723673957Try Safeguard Saga or wait for the Hero's Adventure's spin-off
Does anyone remember this roguelite from a fest or two ago?>sort of 2.5D with sprite characters>beatemup castle crashers style view angle>kinda dark art style with lots of blacks and greys but cutesy anime(?) character designs>room based>you had to aim your attacks>you get basic attack and a couple more buttons>usual roguelite mechanics where you get to build your characterI forget the name but it was pretty cool. I think it was from asian devs maybe.
>>723674061You might have missed a few turrets, for some reason you don't have to destroy all of them before the next objective starts
>>723673906>Any good combat games I missed?See if you like Kats Trigger, Myths Are 100% True, and Majogami. They're all Action-Platformers but the enemy engagement is the focus in all of them. Marvel Cosmic Invasion also has fun mechanics but dumb enemies that either crumble instantly or give you 2 seconds after spawning before they throw out a big projectile.
>>723674201Also forgot to add I saw this >>723672813 and it reminded me of that game I'm talking about.
>>723674035roguelites are popular but I feel there's been a lot of games lately that would've been better if they hadn't been roguelites
>>723671942more than 5000 demos and yet also the first next fest with zero interesting games
>never finish all of the demos I get from Next Fest>i still got like a couple from last october's though 18 is the highest I've ever done within a week, so I'm improving
>>723673906Olden Era
Is YASUKE: A Lost Descendant's demo good, I don't know if I want to download a 10GB demo; even If all of the other demos I've downloaded may coincidently equal a combine 10GB; that just means YASUKE: ALD may not be optimized well.
>>723671942>>723674385Many of these are repeated because SteamDB counts the game page and its demo page as different ID's despite being the same title, the reality is that for the Festival, an estimated ~2960 demos attended
>>723655556I know...
>>723674593I'd struggle to call it a demo. It has Pre-Alpha plastered on-screen at all times and even that feels generous. They got a ton of ideas made and BARELY functional but it's still way too early for them to use their only NextFest on. Genuinely give it like 2-3 years.
>>723674593I played it for 5 minutes and it felt like shit. It's like the Eternal Palace Sakura game in that it has a ton of good animation work but the gameplay is ass. Except this one has mothafuggin' Yasuke.
>>723672813I always wanted to play an entire game on the chrono ark dungeon screen
Can't believe I kept seeing someone shilling this machine translated garbage, they can't even keep terminology consistent. There's zero information on this game or dev outside of the Steam page either which is suspicious as fuck.
>>723673642I just let the algorithm and word of mouth handle it for the most part, and think of the games I never see as the ones that never got past their initial pitch in the old days. That's probably still more than before but whatever.
>>723674035>Long linear games get dismissed by people who don't think they have the time for them while shorter linear (arcade) games get dismissed for being too hard to beat without practiceI hate this so much, there are always some fags that come out the woodwork and say "ahhh but I have le job, kids and wife I want to come home and just chill out" maybe try playing something else then motherfucker? instead of shitting up something that's clearly not meant for youwhat annoys me the most is that this seems to be exclusive to video games for some reason, I didn't see crying to nowhere near this extent about Scorsese for making a 3 hour movie, people saying they don't have time for shows like BB or BCS, or for reading whatever books are currently respected nowadays, it seems like weirdly vidya has the most vocal faggotry when it comes to this stuffI've been thinking about this a lot actually, how often time the "are le video games art?!" debate seems to always resurface every now and then, and I feel like that's in large part due to the way audiences engage with the medium, most vidya players just don't respect the medium, they always seem to treat it as a product first that must provide instant gratification to them, cater to their exact sensibilities, otherwise it's complete shit, I feel like with other mediums audiences give things a lot more leeway to be "artistic", express themselves in unique ways or whatever, while video games seem more "business" oriented at heart
no tutorial/10
I wish there was an easy way to tell on the demo page which demos were gonna be removed at the end of NextFest and which ones will stay..
>come to /v/ to find demo recommendations>its all fucking anime garbagewhy do I bother
>>723676452anime website
>>723676452yeah, why do you bother coming to a site for anime fans when you hate anime
>>723673796Its a worse version of 3 and doesn't take enough from 5
ok you hooked me>>7236764527/10 bait you hooked me too
>>723675208The fact he kept comparing it to a mobile game wasn't a big enough red flag for you?
swiggity swooty, korean booty
>>723676261Not a game for people who need the tutorial.So I should stop playing it, since I don't know how to run infantry over.
>>723676452olden era isn't anime
>>723676849I wouldn't mind as much if it didn't just drop me into a squad select screen with no context or hints.
>>723677076It's not too obtuse, at least.
>>723673642no one cares what shitty things you decide to believe in
Of ash and steel has piqued my interest for sure.
>>723676761delicious
I'm no sailor but I don't think boats work like that.
>>723677935that's why he's stranded
>>723653854kinowish more people did thist. didnt did this because the fest was so shit it would be 99% calling games shit
>>723677935Is this AI?
>XOL: Space Mech WarIs a parody of gundam and you are a zaku pilot, for now there is no equivalent of an enemy gundam.It was fun, pretty simple, to the point,Enough weapons to not become boring with machinegun, charged shot, missile spread and big explosive rocket.>revolgear ZEROIs pretty simple, classic Shmup, I liked it. I like that it has a wide variety of shot-types and can use it them in howerever combination you want, missile barrage is kinda broken as I got a lot more points and the bosses get melted by the million rockets. The music was nice and upbeat and the graphics pretty enough, yeah is good.>BIRDCAGEAlright, this shmup is a bit more cimplicated and hard, you have a normal shot-type but you have a sword, sword deflects blue bullets and lock-on enemies and then you toss it as a weapon. I didn't play much because I could feel how rusty I am playing this kind of games and the red circle parts filtered me but I had fun. It felt very good.>CiniCrossIs a Picross roguelite, I feel like it kind of defeats the reason of why someone would play a picross, I play that shit when I go to bed many times. When things get hard you are forged to click at random and guess or the timer will eat you out. Is a Picross, who cares? The presentation is nice at least.
>>723678181it's a game
>>723678137Makes sense. I've now got more important things to do like showing a dude a pair of shit-stained trousers I found in his cabbage patch.
>>723678214XOL was too jank for me but I hope they keep working on it
>Flee The FallenIs a side_scroller with zombies that feel like a flash game from the old days, meaning, it wasn't very good. zombies can tank quite a bit and your knife will be your main weapon, I died to multiple shooting zombies, should have used a grenade. don't care.>Death In AbyssThis shit is Devil Daggers and Descent had a bastard child, meaning that it was fun as hell, didn't beat the level but don't need to say this is good, it felt good to play, you move fast enough to dodge the big mouth coming at you and have enough tools to survive, from golden butterflies that give you a power up, unlimited boost, lock on missils you can spam while shooting and killing the strange structures around you kills the monsters close by but don't harm you. I recomend.>Zako No AhiruWell, there is something strange in the control of the duck on this Get Over It, sometimes it slide strangely and sometimes I feel like it propulse in a strange way sometimes in some finniky places. overall, a good idea and for people who likes cute girls, I know I liked it but I doubt I'll ever play it personally.well, I think I am done with this fest, kind of a shame I couln't play as much as I wanted because I got an ugly flu and had the energy to simple get grumpy in bed. I though this fest was alright and I didn't play any roguelike, no Death In Abyss doesn't count.
>>723676378The devs are setting a time period for the demos so Steam would just have to make that public. I'm sure devs would whine about it though. The end date of sales are already shown. Demos should show theirs too, if applicable.
>On now through Monday, Oct 20Steam... this shit petered out long before the weekend
>>723678284it's an important part of familiarizing himself with the island's culture
Is there any way to filter out tags?
>>723677935female captain tried to parallel park her galleon
Every investigation demo i've played has been slop
>>723656310Overrider. 34 reviews.Its a shame since its a pretty fun game and the devs are very dedicated, but they're also TOO dedicated and make massive sweeping changes no one asked for (ie, they deleted the entire story and made the game linear instead of stage based in the same update for... some reason. In a game about playing different bodies. Where you only find different bodies in different stages.)
only thing thats really been any interesting so far.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3412330/The_Skeletons_Are_Fighting/The game's competent but I don't really like the style.I dunno shit abiut fightan games but I'll pretend that I do.4 button game but it's more like SF and non-airdashers in terms of movement/magic series/EX gimmickMost interesting thing about it is the Unique button being used for dodges, parries (frame perfect dodges) and a block counter move.Cast is the typical shit (shoto, gaypler, zoner, balrog clone rushdown), but I guess the scythe guy is interesting because they have demon flips, teleports and an air swing move.Funny how it has online available, it's not like anyone is playing that for the demo.But it's kinda like, why wouldn't I just boot up fightcade or play the capcom collections? It doesn't really do anything crazy, but I don't hate how it plays at all, jus the aesthetic
>>723678908I'm about the same on it. Fun to lab combos in, skeletons were a decent idea to mask the limited art of the dev but they don't fully do it. Seems like the full game will have some kind of Groove system like CvS2. Best fighting game this Fest is Exploding Judo Federation easily and that's coming out in like 4 days for free.
Anyone play Kingdom of Night past the "intro" area? I couldn't make it past all of the blah blah blah
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3631290/Slots__Daggers/This was pretty cool. A roguelite slot machine deckbuilder, sounds like slop but it was fun.Got attracted to it because it's a very good looking game, it has a good punch when proccing stuff.If the map in the demo is all the game, it's probably going to be a $10-$15 game, seems like short fun game.
>>723676261>1 squad for suppression with 8 dudes (Special weapon slot LMG)>1 squad for spotting and recon drone 3-4 dudes (special weapon slot sniper)>1 squad for general killing shit with 6-8 dudes (No special weapon just use a good AR or the SMG)>1 squad with the bitch witht the scar on her face for vehicle (choose whatever weapon fits the mission/pirate unit type during planning phase i.e. armor piercing weapons for mounted pirate vehicles) >spot>suppress>move up and kill Just read the squad leaders promotion thingies and the rest is self explanatory
>>723678343Try DeAnima if you want a roguelikeGet better soon anon
>>723673642it becomes much less of a problem when you remember that a great deal are shitty porn daz3d crap, asset flip ai unity jank, straight up scams, or of a genre you dont care forthat whittles it down a lot
Those are the games I wishlisted and Legitemely Liked. How much I liked the game goes in order from first to last.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3610210/Klostyn/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2984030/Death_In_Abyss_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3533360/Filiy_Eclipse/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3941820/Revolgear_Zero/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2618150/BIRDCAGE_Dryad_Ecophene_Module_Object/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3476880/Brno_Transit/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3047510/Myths_are_100_True/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3837380/Majogami/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820000/Homura_Hime/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1094600/Kingdom_of_Night/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639650/Kotama_and_Academy_Citadel/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3123770/XOL_Space_Mech_Wars/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3324650/Kats_Trigger/Kats Trigger is in a hard place for me because the writting sucked major balls and was cringe as fuck but liked the game.>>723679671thanks, will try that one later..
>>723679437Then throw it all in the garbage when the AI has rocket artillery and screens it correctly.
>>723679853>Kats Trigger is in a hard place for me because the writting sucked major balls and was cringe as fuck but liked the game.This but the opposite
Finally found another proper hidden gem:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3975830/ROLLA/Isometric Katamari but you're a Blob-like horror movie monster that grows when it eats people, and you try to fulfill a list of THPS-style objectives like dealing property damage, collecting things, or getting a humans-killed combo before police/army guys kill you. The UI is styled like it's a live news feed showing the world the destruction too. Great shit.
>>723658172wut child torture devioices d s
>>723659868>>723660502Yea I've never understood people acting like balance doesn't matter just because its singleplayer. Mario dying in 1 hit but accessing new areas v 2 hits v 3 and being able to fly in World is funIf he just could always fly because "lol balance", it would get boring almost instantly
>>723679856kek, yeah those fuckers are annoying. I just chased them down with the mech and laser cannoned em
>>723674201Maybe Ascend to Zero?
>>723680496I liked this one too, posted it a couple days ago but it didn't get much love. Pretty fun to just roll around and watch things explode.
>>723679671>hmm this looks pretty bori-->WAIT ARE THOSE EVIL TIDDIES>DOWNLOADING
What's the best survival horrors of next fest? anything you could see going head to head with indie games like Tormented Souls, Hollowbody, Conscript, Signalis, Crow Country etc.I don't know much about what is going on in this area. All I know is I got Becrowned and Holstin on my Wishlist.
>>723680646I get what you're saying but I also get the other side. Balance too much and you just suck the fun out.
>>723681778Ground ZeroFlesh made fearA.I.L.ABleak Haven
>>723657304>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3105440/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_Olden_Era/isnt this just a demaster? I thought age of wonders replaced this shit series
>>723682227>>723680646I don't want to play a shitty character, so they better make her starting weapon better. Is that hard to understand? I simply won't use her over other characters if it is left as it is.Just don't get into Binding of Isaac territory
>>723682656By shit series you mean the remakes right? Because if not you just made many enemies.
>>723682686>Is that hard to understand?Yea based on the contextless image you posted that doesn't say what game it is
>>723679853>Kats Trigger is in a hard place for me because the writting sucked major balls and was cringe as fuck but liked the game.fuck you faggot we need more writing like that game
>Downloaded so farLessariaWhiskerwoodSnow AshDuskpunkRepel the RiftsDrill RiftOnly played Drill Rift so far, which is about a team of dwarves assigned to drill into a rift to bring back mythril ore. It's a resource management sort of game where every day you choose between drilling or maintaining your drill/expedition members while trying to fill a quota. Can't fill the quota in time and everyone gets executed. Drill too fast and you'll break the drill and lose. Push people too deep and they'll uncover eldritch abominations that will kill everyone. It's kind of fun, but a lot of the progression boils down to dice rolls which can make winning or losing feel more like a game of chance.
>>723682815>image you postedIt's not me, but I also played the same game so I knew it.Hell Maidenhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4002340/Hell_Maiden_Demo/
>>723683607fest ends tomorrow so your post is worthless, you played nothing.
>>723683749Happened last NextFest too, I only just got a weekend off to play shit.
>>723683749You make it sound like he missed an important deadline or something.
>>723683885Let me guess, a brownoid that is butthurt that anime girls have taken the names Dante and Vergil from your epic hack and slash slop DMC?
>>723683969Anon, I...
Anyone who doesn't have their Nextfest2025 badge for completing 50 demos will be kicked from the /v/ guild
>>723683957He did. This fest is never coming back, you had one chance at life to experience it.
>>723683969I'm glad it mentions Divine Comedy in the store page because anons here were saying "Erm Virgil has the masamune"
Every tanuki in fox flare night better have giant tits or I'm gonna burst into treats
>>723684068It's over...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4035180/NOOK_FALL_West_Town_Demo/It's a pretty slow burn, but I ended up liking this one. There's a certain charming fetishism of Western life, and the translation is good.You get to make Va11 Hall-A type choices about which brand you serve someone in your small shop to change dialogue routes, and the small locations work better than I expected from the screenshots. Very atmospheric if you just want to immerse yourself somewhere for a bit.
>>723682686VS is the same as Pokémon where you can pick the literal bottom tier and win anyway. If anything Virgil should be weaker and they can move that power over to the metaprogression.
>>723664851One of the few games that actually looked interesting to me. I want more Grimdark games. And it preferably not just being a souls like because they're trying to compete with From Software. Just like the Bloodborne/Yharnham kind of setting. Dark gothic settings in general like Van Helsing. So this works well being horror I suppose.
Puzzle/Mystery recommendations I just played.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3565680/DECRYPTO_Project/On the surface it's a cryptography game where you decrypt files of various difficulty, but there's some meta puzzles to solve that were really unique and fun.If the full game has more under-the-surface puzzles, I'll be very happyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3817240/Heaven_Does_Not_Respond/Solve puzzles related to a murder mystery on an early 2000s OS and internet.Has more of a horror spin to it. Ends at an interesting point which I hope doesn't detract from the investigative experience in the full game.
>>723664851edgy shit is boring tho
>>723684358>DecryptoI'll check it out, thanks.>Heaven Does Not Respond>A young man, Selim Kara, is found dead under mysterious circumstances.Why should I care that a subhuman died? Skipped.
One last hidden gem before I gather my thoughts on the Fest:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3091650/Yellow_Trouble_Demo/Shock Troopers-style run & gun with arcade and ARPG modes. Really cutesy stuff where you're shooting rubber ducks with water guns but the bullet patterns are legit and you can see all the Neo Geo-style spritework.>>723681294Neat. The demo is pretty short even if you go for all the missions but I like it a lot.
>>723674671if you know why didn't you buy a proper controllerEven high-end shit is like $60 pre sales and lasts forever if you're not an ape
>>723684654I have ducklike fatigue
new best waifu of fest found
>>723671370>You just sort of whail on them while they don't react and occasionally block 1 hit and repeatNo wonder you got filtered if you played like shit
>>723685129What is not playing like shit?Your basic attack has no hitstunYour skills have no hitstunYou can dodge (inexplicably after the first boss) but it gives no reward while parry mostly or actually paints enemies which is how you pay for skills AND hpSo literally, what can you do different, exactly? Beyond dodge, which is objectively worse than the parry?
>>723655426>the guy who recomended white knuckleThat was me! Two or three fests ago or so I made a couple of posts about White Knuckle in the threads. This was pretty awesome, cheers. Wishlisted for sure. Loved how many different nooks you could explore, even though the platforming was slightly janky. In the end I made a wrong jump and the parasite tried to rescue me, only to slam me into the ceiling, causing me to fall, then repeating this infinitely lol White Knucke and even Lorn's Lure a fest before it were more polished though. Every fest so far we get one or two of these megastructure exploration/platforming 3D games. From my memory: Lorn's LureWhite KnuckleHypogeaMIKPrimal EchoMaybe Doll's Nest counts as well but it's more combat focused imo
>>723666228>God its missing so much atmosphere without music.No it literally doesn'tIt would be unironically worse if the dev slapped some pointless track on non-combat sequences
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3720440/RyneArca/>Trailer is just 7 seconds of "BIG STEPPY"Jap devs are so fucking based
>>723652992Post recommendations about games with focus on animals (like Spirit of the North) or strategy please (demos only).The catalog is too vast, I can't browse everything.
>>723685070I wish she had more moves instead of just waiting for the cat symbols to change
>>723676452True. Weeaboos also have terrible taste and they prove that all you need to do is put anime characters on top of mediocre games to make them sell. >>723676490>>723676493If weebs like this wanted a secret club then moot shouldn't have allowed /b/ shenanigans back in the day which got the site a lot of unwanted attention of outsiders. Should have had a firm rule which barred non otakus. Instead he wanted 4chan to basically be something that made internet pop culture relevant, like SA.
>>723685207>hitstun in parry centered game>repositioning with dodge for free damage BAD>timing breaks for free damage BAD>can't time shit>i'm not shit at videogames trust me
>>723685740You didn't answer my question at all.What is not playing like shit?Far as I can tell I objectively played in the most optimal manner.Like are you just shitposting or actually retarded?
>MC's tits are like torpedos>Every time you move 0.1 inch they jiggle like she just jumpedlol
>>723686043oh sorry forgot webm
Strong female protag and overall zoomer vibes, but surprisingly good gameplay and pacinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2604490/I_Hate_This_Place/
>>723686110dat ass
>>723686110https://store.steampowered.com/app/3920790/Light_Fall_Demo/I'd rather play actual kino
>>723685874>can't read>me skipping half the basics is le optimal actually>le shitposter!
>>723686309Sorry you're bad at games lol?
>>723686274
>>723679853>Brno TransitPretty funny and atmospheric, good balance. Even the music on the radio was good. The table tennis gag was great. Driving the train was boring though, I'm conflicted. Would pick it up for $10 or so.
>>723681076I found it https://store.steampowered.com/app/3214610/Cinderia/
>>723652992Death In Abyss fucks super hard. Feels good to dodge around, the enemies have a great aesthetic.
>Took like an hour JUST to get through hack and slash JUST checking out the trailershow the fuck are people checking thousands of games holy shit this is so slow
Is that based on some gacha?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3201470/Homura_Hime_Demo/
>>723686274I have VS clones fatigue.
>>723685345the fuck is her problem
Since this Next fest is coming to an end, how you feel about his one compared to previous next fests? did you enjoy most of the demos for this one and wishilist a lot of games or was it bad and you couldn't find anything inserting. Also were you able to finish all the demos you downloaded in time before it ends?
I expected to like Olden Era so I wasn't exactly surprised when I did. But it still genuinely exceeded my expectations. That is not to say I've got no gripes with it or that there aren't things I miss or wish were different or whatever. But I just kind of expected an above average entry. Like maybe in the top 60% percentile of the franchise or something. But instead I feel like this actually might have the potential to be a top contender. Granted that I realize it might be premature to say that after just a demo, but it exceeded my expectations still. Beyond that I'm also very pleasantly surprised by the Alabaster Dawn demo. I enjoyed CrossCode but I wasn't massively into it. And I recognize that the gameplay of this is very similar, but it still felt massively improved to me. Combat felt smoother and more engaging. Though I guess the setting also appeals to me more as well. I'm surprised by how engaged the demo got me even though I just expected it to be more CrossCode, which was not a game that managed to draw me in like that (though maybe that was in part because I never really cared much for its dotHack mmo setting.)But these demos probably stand pretty firm as my most standout demo experiences even though they were already two of the most high profile ones. I do really hope that the Placid Plastic Deck game ends up good. Seems like a really cool concept of a game with a strong presentation as well. But with how content light the demo was, even with the konami code extra, it just feels like it's difficult to say anything about the demo at all with conviction.
>>723687408WEAK. The most talked about game is slop this time around.
>>723654469Exo Rally is the only good demo in the entire event
Did anyone try this out and is it any good if so? The cute cunny piqued my interest but there's no reviews and I saw no one mention it.
>>723687994it's been mentioned a few times, but only to comment on the fact that it's ai sloppa of the angel's egg girl
>>723685294>It would be unironically worse if the dev slapped some pointless track on non-combat sequencesCorrect. There is a big difference between slapping a pointless track, and selecting appropriate music and using it well.
>>723687994I don't play pretentious sounding text games, she's not going to get naked so meh>>723688103I guess it sorta looks like her but its certainly not the same style
>the demo lets you collect the currency>you can't spend itBig YIKES
>>723687408The June Next Fests are always the juicier and the ones that hoard the biggest amount of gems, to me this edition seemed like a completely average Fest, I found 3 good games and that is what I appreciateLike many other people, I could sit and whine about the fact that there are 3000 units of juck sea, but that's not a problem when I looking only for the demos that seem interesting to me, I always download ~100 and the amount of crap and shovelware I come across is the usually expected.
>>723687994Looks like AI waste with a thick layer of filters, and the lack of a single trailer just worse that appearance
>>723687408the best one this yearprevious one was slop
What are we thinking 4xbros?
>>723687408It's been good for me but I'm far from done. I usually play through the press preview but this time I couldn't start until this Wednesday. I've played about 110 games and wishlisted 17 of them. Four additional ones I already had on my wishlist. I followed a couple of games but didn't wishlist them. Last winter I played nearly 230 games and added 38 to my wishlist. I'm on the deep end of Fest-enjoyers though for sure. I have participated in every Fest and kept notes on everything I've played lol I will be playing the next week too, some demos stay up for longer.
>>723568889This is really neat. Excellent narrative. The illustration style reminds me of the old CCC animations on newgrounds which I was a big fan of. Combat seems decent enough for a visual novel. I stopped playing after the combat tutorial, the introduction was dragging on and I didn't want to skip it. Wishlisted.
Should I add it to my wishlist?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3677050/HABROMANIA/
>>723690064>psychological horroris there a tag more indicative of slop?
>>723690064>Based on our current development pace, we anticipate HABROMANIA will remain in Early Access for approximately three to four years - so leaving early access in 2028 or 2029. Our plan is to release about three chapters each year during early access, with a full version hopefully launching once all major story content is completeHoly shit, press that button today cause you're definitely forgetting the name in 4 years.
>>723690196action roguelike
>>723687408It felt a little weaker than usual this time. I played 41 demos (down from 60 last fest) and wishlisted 7 new games, though a wishlist from me doesn't mean I'll buy it.
>>723690196roguelike deckbuilder
>>723690196>>723690240>>723690323There are people in this board that forget the four horsemen of slop:>Procedurally generated, Survival, Crafting, Open world.
>>723689562>230 gamesYou're definitely sicker than me. I couldn't handle so many demos in such a short period of time. From 70 an onwards, I start to clog out
>>723670310This reminds me of that Simpsons gif
>>723687994It's certainly made with AI image generation, but the writing and design is still pretty compelling. Seems well put together.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3476880/Brno_Transit/This game was kinda weird but I'm interested.
>>723683607I enjoyed Lessaria. Maybe I'll buy Majesty of GOG
>>723690579I take brakes to read manga but yeah it's pretty intense
How was the end of history
>>723680526>>723653653
>>723690632Guy who made HROT and LEGIE. Interesting, I'll make sure to get around to it.
Alright, finally done. I played 45+ demos and now I go to bed. I hope I help somebody find a game they'd like (or avoid one they'd try without knowing it's something they don't like).
>>723692596
>>723692596>The home run Flamefrit wasn'tIsn't that an April Fools game?
>>723692928People kept asking them to make Flamefrit real so they did and it was just okay.
>>723654232yapyap was fun
>>723654232Revolgear Zero & Yellow Trouble are nice arcadey co-op.
>call your game Red Dawn >nothing to do with wolverines>the menus are in chinknamese>anime crapMy disappointment is immeasurable.
luv me some Cosmic Invasion. Seeing Richie in a game proper again + Josh Keaton as Spidey feels good
>>723693579Really hope the full game has better enemies or a harder difficulty but I totally feel your sentiment. Keaton is easily my favorite Spidey voice.
Incremental chads, any good finds?
>>723679339dogshitdegenerate shit of stalling the fights to farm the coins is the stratif you don't do that and just kill everything instantly early on, you are getting fucking 1 shotted by later enemies which do more than your full hp with 1 attack, so health upgrade every shop is a mustand even then you can get fucked over by rolling coin jackpot for 3 turns in the row and simply dying to the enemy without being able to do anything even with optimal build, ask me how I know
>>723663668Looks kinda based ngl
Beni a qt!Game is interesting enough, but I could see it getting stale fairly fast as the enemies don't have too much variation going on (and the UI is cancer)
>>723694290Forgot to say, this is ANTHEM#9Also noticed that sometimes the translation is a bit rough so I don't 100% know what an item does, but only sometimes.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4030720/ANTHEM9_Demo/
>>723654292Most won't be taken down but even if they were, as long as they are in your library before the fest ends, they don't usually have DRM so even if you can't launch from Steam anymore which is common, you can go into the Installed Files and launch the .exe directly and nothing will stop you most of the time.
honestly pretty happy with this fest
>>723656310I think a lot of devs are learning that Steam Next can't be in the middle of game development to drum up interest. In other cases too like what >>723660006 mentioned, there are demos with unique mechanics that are overlooked or had a twist which got mildly popular and then had their thunder stolen by other devs who can iterate and toss out stuff to get a product out to market faster when it is good enough which is unfortunate. AI also even if disclosed makes it even easier.Devs are now rightfully prioritizing putting Steam Next as a last stop releasing a demo before releasing the game right before another Steam Next fest in the next 2-3 months to prevent people from waiting and losing interest or getting ideas stolen.
>>723692596I was wondering why I hadn't seen paraside since that seems like my kind of game, but>roguelite
>mfw playing Kats Trigger
>>723660006>shitty asset flip climbing games stole its thunderYou're talking about White Knuckles?
>>723653131got too much positive reception too fast, not allowed to recommend it anymore anon keep up
>tried over 40 demos>only 2 wishlistedmaybe i am more picky than before or this Fest was garbage
>>723659868You have to know that most people are fucking retarded monkeys and if single thing is too powerful are completely incapable of just not doing thing and then will whine and bitch about thing eternally. Of course if thing is nerfed they will also whine and bitch about how everything is now impossible.
>>723680646People who complain about balancing in singleplayer games are just braindead retards, they don't care about the game at all and should be ignored.
Medea in Hades 2 is the most broken thing ever but you don't see complaints about that in the threads.
>>723679210Yeah, agreed.But i could only find three straight fighting games this fest, the third being just divekick esque with a goofy comic strip character as yout designs.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3421590/Bootsies/
>>723691646I don't think it's happened yet
Do the demos get removed tomorrow?
>>723696335Depends on the devsIf you're not sure go post in the forums and ask if the dev will get rid of the demo
Will indie developers ever get talented enough for Thief-Likes and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory-likes? I ain't ever seen one. Well I saw a failed attempt in 2023 for SC called Cloak & Dagger Shadow Operations. But never saw it attempted since unless you want to count 2D games like Intravenous. For Thief there's one game called Filcher. Anyone that says Gloomwood is dishonest.
>>723696447Will anons ever be talented enough to find games they enjoy on their own without being spoonfed like fucking retards?only time will tell.
holy shit they made a game after Wojak
>>723654292probably if you're desperate to try a demo, unironically just email a indie dev for a download or something they might actually just throw one at you
>>723696596Stealth games don't release anymore really. Imagine claiming that I'm so spoiled by choice that I actually could be spoonfed on this matter. You cannot find anything with equal depth to SC or Thief.
>>723696846You get what you deserve.In this case, you're totally inept and your reward is seething about games you can't locate! It's very satisfying.
Void inside is pretty.. weird. I dunno I usually don't like these types of games but this one feels different.
>try 0 games>wishlist 60>plan on purchasing 40>plan on playing 0
>>723695581That's the point of the fest to me. You try out dozens of demo and wishlist and buy the couple games that actually stuck with you.
>>723652992Would
>>723697601no no NO that is totally wrong you total retard the whole point of the festival is whining. Here's the list of acceptable crybaby subjects:1. can't find demos2. too many demos3. next fest is ruined5. this is the worst next fest6. slop7. ai8. stealth games don't exist anymore9.press preview10. too many gigabytes
>>723697734don't forget about complaining about the posts other people make
>>723697778wow this truly is 5. the worst next fest
>>723653653imagine how sweaty her ass crack is in there
>>723697734The gigabytes are an honest complaint, it's no fun in the slightest when a dev makes you download the full build of his game so you can try only a tiny portion, or when they leaves you with the whole engine and its unusable trash taking up gorillions of storageIt's a matter of principle, if they can't optimize a demo, that incompetence carries over to the full game.
>>723693259It's really cute but janky as fuck and the translation is awful. Still liked it just because it is really cute but needs a lot more cooking.
Ghost Hunting Journal demo is okay, but the girl walking animation is ANNOYING as fuck
>>723698015>It's a matter of principle
>>723687408Too many survivors clones, metroidvanias, and isometric games. Too many games that look like low effort unreal engine asset flips with stock animations.Nothing new I didn't already know about that really grabbed me, which is unusual for a next fest where I'll usually come away from them with at least 3 new games that I like so much I regularly check in on them before release. There was that one game called Beyond The Doors that's pretty cool where you set up modems like in Tunnet, but the fact that I almost forgot the name of it before making this post doesn't bode well for my long term interest.Stuff that got demos that are day one purchases are things I knew I'd want before the next fest anyway like Alabaster Dawn, Escape From Ever After, Death in Abyss, and Shell Soldier.All in all maybe I just didn't find the specific kind of games I was looking for but I really tried, I sorted by category and everything. I think the problem is me, I've already got way too many games I'm genuinely looking forward to right now to be interested in mid tier >"that kinda looks okay ish I suppose"games.
>my dogshit demo should be 40gb because... it just has to be, okay!
>>723696447pure stealth is such a dead genre there's barely anyone trying so the few we get will be mediocre/poor. Doesn't help that it's actually difficult to pull off unlike the usual indieslop genres
I actually have too many stealth games which is amusing to me since I don't really care about them that much anyway.
>>723659065>Placid Plastic Deckbased on a 15 minute demo?
>>723691646Janky combat, but artstyle is lovely.
>>723698474actually didn't bother playing it that long it was obviously high quality in the five minutes I spent on it
>>723687408Eh its the same shitI found cool stuffFound weird stuffFound lots of sloppaIve gotten way better dumpsterdiving and sussing out garbage
man, I like roguelikes as much as the next guy but I miss seeing indies make linear games
>>723699226I want to see action horror games make a return. Not stuff like resident evil 1-3, I mean stuff like Dead Space and Resident Evil 4.
>>723699550>I mean stuff like dead spaceI wonder what ever happened to Negative Atmosphere. I'm going to assumed it was abandoned at this stage. Surely something will eventually come around... except nothing will ever be as memorable as Dead Space.
>>723699550ROUTINE: Q4 2025 trust the plan
>>723700443I genuinely don't understand why most developers, AAA and indie alike, don't seem to get just how much limb based damage improves a game. I don't just mean in the RPG sense like in fallout or in the horror sense like how in dead space you blow off limbs, I mean stuff where enemies have a tangible reaction or gameplay purpose to being shot anywhere other than the head. we had this shit in goldeneye 64/perfect dark running on hardware that's like 100x less powerful than what we have today, this adds so much to combat flow and atmosphere assuming it's a game that is reasonably medium to slow paced. In resident evil 4 kneecapping a ganado then suplexing them was fun as fuck and stuff like that lets you juggle enemies.
>>723684914A mix of laziness and being too used to them due to having to learn how to repair them becsusd of others going ape mode with controllers. But the skillset transfers over so i might as well drop them and do something like make a fightstick You're right, however, i should get something good since sales are coming>>723685274I'd say dolls nest counts in terms of using it as a setting, but i do like how common this is becoming as a thing. Hopefully it doesn't get too oversaturated but it will be nice to see one every next fest as usual
>>723689304Reporting in after trying itHoly fuck it's so scuffed but autistic enough that it might be good with a few dozen runs of polish
>intimate relations with Kana Luna
>>723700683we don't even have good AI anymore
Please try Let It Die Inferno
>>723700842>grind gameSorry, no.
I noticed Next Fest page stopped feeding me low-quality amateurish slop over the last two days.
>>723657357Not part of the fest buy my favorite RE clone of recent years was Conscript, a 2D one set in WW1
>>723699550Linear horror action games seems to be one of the few genres indies will still do besides metroidvanias
>>723701086Can you give examples of ones you think are good? Maybe you know something I don't.
>>723695553hmmmm nyo
>>723695553>>723701267
>>723700683being able to mess up an enemy's aim by shooting their arms was awesome in metal arms and MGS3one of my favorite things to do in those kinds of games is seeing how much damage I can do to their limbs before they die
>>723700842Does it have a million random japanese artists again?
>>723700842>die like a bitch>can't restart run>can't immediately do another run>have to go through 10 minutes of menus and cinematics and loading screens
>>723701397For me the importance of limb based damage has always been less about the indulgence in violence but more a matter of>A: Atmosphere. It doesn't feel like you're shooting fake guns which enhances immersion.>B: Tactical options, if you're in a room full of enemies, stunlocking enemies with bullets can give you time to reposition or juggle them>C: Weapon feedback, You're holding guns that have actual stopping power to them, making them feel better to fire in terms of pavlovian feedback, which makes the whole game more memorable to play. The VK-12 shotgun in F.E.A.R. cuts motherfuckers in half at point blank range and causes them to stop firing at you sometimes if it doesn't outright kill them.It's a good touch that may not be mandatory for a game to be good but you notice when it's not there.
>>723701142Stuff like Crow County. Signalis. Tormented Souls. Etc.
>>723700921It's not too bad. Seems to be progress is gated by if you can kill the layer's boss. So progression isn't like LID1.>>723701495No idea yet.>>723701585It's the biggest flaw for sure, but still fun
>>723700842>Please try Let It Die Inferno>unavailable in your regionThey don't want me to
>>723687408I spent most of the fest lying sick in bed. I hardly checked out any.
I don't understand what to do...https://store.steampowered.com/app/3988130/Witch_Potions__Craft_of_Lust_Demo/
>>723695172>today I am the law
>>723701760All good games but>Not stuff like resident evil 1-3, I mean stuff like Dead Space and Resident Evil 4.
>going through wishlist looking at games from previous Next Fests>several have quietly moved their release dates from 2025 to 2026 or are still Too Be Announcedsucks>>723660080just finished this>by the end the gameplay was growing on me, really does play how you'd expect a good late 2000's TPS game to play>atmosphere was kind of all over the place, you're walking through rooms and rooms of child murder dungeons but it doesn't feel very serious or shocking at all>dialogue isn't great, wasn't for a minute drawn into the story or cared much for the characters>love a good bubble buttfeels like the kind of game I'd pick up because the gameplay is fun and engaging enough but I'll probably be speed-reading/skipping most of the story
What was the name of that demo with a girl that runs walls like prince of persia?
>>723703076Motorslice
>>723653501Nice ass and decent face & hair but the game itself was mediocre. The movement and animations also don't do her model justice.
>>723703054
>>723653501>Directorate>search on steam>second result is AV Director Life!kek
>>723703174>AV Director LifeNow this is kino
>>723699226Players are obsessed with replay value and aren't into paying retail price for a five hour game.
>>723700842>PvEvPNah
>co-op and multiplayer demos top the fest charts>no one here even mentions themAre you all friendless or something?
>>723703391I mean I have online friends but we just stream demos to each other on discord rather than playing multiplayer slop
>>723703391You don't get to bring friends
>>723703391I only play single player games.
>>723703391You can only play so many multiplayer games at once, and the market is flooded right now.
>>723703391MISERY sucks and not in a fun way.>>723703614see pic
>>723703391Misery really isn't that good. Probably one of my least favorite "lethal-likes" I've played
>>723703391They're already at the top. They don't need the signal boost.
>>723703174>>723703128>>723703054>butte + fun TPS actionIt's kino. Maybe I should play Remember Butt too.
>>723690632Is it possible to find a vacant toilet by going to another station? I didn't make it.
>>723703391Theres zero point mentioning demos people can already find
>>723703391Not friendless, I'm only against friendslop games and streamerbaitI don't want empty experiences that seek to compensate for their lack of content with the interaction of your best companions and the "funny voicechatting"A friendgem game would be an asymmetric cooperative at the tier of It Takes Two, something that exploits the concept of cooperation by fundamental design, not garbage inspired and formulated by Lethal Company or Among Us.
Metal Eden is very great too. I am not if it was on the previous demo fest.
>>723703679>>723703642>MiseryHuh, I thought Yapyap is the "lethal-like" of the fest.
>>723703085Thanks
>>723703391I have friends, and games to play with those friends already. I just don't want to pick up another forever game you need to organize play sessions with or a FOTM streamer game that probably has spyware anticheat. I want things to have a story with a beginning, middle, and definitive end that I can play at any time whenever I want.
>>723704051But it's released last month and not really part of the nextfest
>>723704051Soundtrack DLC release when? been holding off on buying it till I can get a soundtrack edition.
>>723692596>spaghetti western doom>shieeet they made a new Luminesthanks anon
>>723703625It really isn't, not by the games that actually tries at the very least. Last good coop game was Remnant 2 and it was like 3 years since its release.
>>723703750Remember me is underrated as fuck. Play it, it's fun, the main character is likeable and the bso is greatIt's one of those ips capcom just kills too soon without giving it another chance
>>723698474Unironically yes, I found it weirdly charming compared to all the other demos I have played this fest and it's the only one I consider day 1 buy>>723687408I enjoyed more demos this fest but they weren't really in "I want to play this game in the future" territory so I have to say I liked the previous fest better.Yeah, I finished most of the demos I wanted even though I took my sweet time with them
>>723657357Did anyone remember?
>>723704340There are very few new infinite games the fuck are you even on about? I have to scrape about half dead mmos to get my fix of something with regular content updates and persistent progression that doesn't fucking ends in 10-20 hours.
>>723703361funny thing is, I rarely see anyone yet when I watch Japanese people play it, they run into people all the time
>>723692596I'm too retarded to play Lumines, I confuse it with Tetris and I'm unable to form squares properly, I was ultimate humiliated in the online matchmaking
>>723704553If your game does not have a credits roll that comes about as a result of a plot/journey it is a forever game, because it's designed for you to play it for years. This used to be an awesome thing when I was a NEET and barely had any games to play, but I'm reaching critical mass of game interest with just how big both my existing and future game wishlist interest backlogs are, I want games I can definitively complete with everything in the story tied up in a nice little bow. I think I'm not the only one either, considering how many people are glazing Expedition 33 right now.
>>723704486Does it have the charm and brilliance that Life is Strange (the first one) had?Because after that point (for me), the studio entered in an ideological spiral where they care more about progressive panderism than making good games.
>>723704559Why couldn't they just make the first game minus the free to play elements? Imagine what could have been.https://youtu.be/JgQYAZqp_lU?si=WPGiLarSGeKda-su
>>723687408I think I played a similar-ish amount of demos compared to previous fests, added a good amount of games to my wishlist but I'm not sure if I will buy any of them. Oddly enough, nearly everything I tried felt very derivative of games I've already played.
nice
>>723690449>early access
>>723704934they really enjoyed their time with making Deathverse is my thoughts on it. I think that's why Inferno is a paid game and not F2P
Did anyone play this?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3633250/Junji_Ito_Maniac_An_Infinite_Gaol/I wasnt able to get far into it due to time, is it just a jank amnesia clone?
>>723705254It's a "remember Tomie? remember headhunting statues? remember hair decapitation story?" fanservice walking simulator with roaming enemies that you can kill with traps. Not really bad, but not good either.
>>723705074>forced analog stick movementClassic controls my ass
>>723698154She walks like that because she's a slut
>>723704530Maybe this?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2173460/Echoes_of_the_Living/
>>723705557Wdym by fanservice?
>>723705562
>>723687408wishlisted 4 while 2 others are on my radar now, so definitely better than the last where I left with zero new ones added. not quite as good as one's going back 2 or 3 fests ago though
>>723704486https://youtu.be/C0K3s4p8yrgIt's nice. And I can max out the graphics too.I also want to play Control in this female TPS action genre.
>>723701934>>723704486https://youtu.be/C0K3s4p8yrgIt's nice. And I can max out the graphics too.I also want to play Control in this female TPS action genre.
>>723703679Isn't MISERY just co-op STALKER at home? It's also self-describing for how frustrating it plays
>>723703391>loads of multiplayer games that are too late to try and capitalize on the lethal company craze>previous fests were loaded with SH and RE clones>still no lethal company-like multiplayer game with fixed camera angles and tank controls to capitalize on both the lethal company AND the SH/RE revivalsit is such a no brainer, but most of these devs only know how to copy directly and not synthesize two existing concepts into a novel one
>>723658484Three Wishes is just way too expensive. For what I've seen in the demo, I'd be willing to pay like 5 bucks.>>723687994The atmosphere and art are phenomenal, and the puzzles seem interesting, but there's really not a lot to go off in the demo. What I can say is that it definitely won't be everyone's cup of tea.
>>723706120That game is going to be dead on arrival.
>>723660278Why is it so yuge? Also needs an option to disable the cut ins since they aren't animated anyway so there's nothing cool about it.
>>723705562Just play mouse and keyboard dummy. The bigger issue is that horrendous lens flare.
What's the name of TPS everyone recommends here?
>>723707135which one?
>>723707256MC is the woman and there is the screenshot of her walking in a town.
>>723707279What a descriptionMust be Bad Rats
>>723707404>descriptionDon't know. Only know that the name of the game starts with D
Is Dead Weight good? Conceptually it seems cool but I didn't try it because it seems slow.
>mfw I see the tag idler or roguelite
>CalyxRTS base-builder where you gather up resources to build tanks to destroy the local flora before it spreads and wipes you out. Found it pretty fun despite never really playing an RTS before. Micromanagement was a bit awkward since you can't group units for easier management but not horrible, will keep an eye on in
>>723707512dunno boss
>>723706120it's stalker in setting alone really. the game plays like any other scavenging survival crafting crap where you go out to collect junk from locations that reset every couple of days to build up your base for your roguelike "run", but with painfully limited inventory space, scarce resources in the world (made worse that the recipes to craft things are expensive), and low health. It's challenging but not in a fun or fair feeling kind of way, just tedious.Despite the store pages screenshots showing somewhat cool possible location generations, 95% of the places you'll see are identical fields, woods, and ramshackle villages that get really repetitive really fast.
>filter for 3d platformers>every game with a jump function is listed no matter whether or not there is even any platforming at allWhy??
>>723707926>the game plays like any other scavenging survival craftingIt's even worse than that because you only get about five minutes of daylight before you have to bolt back to your bunker. So despite the trailer and Stalker-like setting making it seem like you'd be carefully exploring a lot and looking under every rock you actually are forced to speed through everything like a spastic, and even then it's so RNG heavy you usually don't even find anything of note within that strict time limit.
>>723700842Its the worst game I have played this year.
>>723707826Thanks.
>>723657445>>723657502>>723704530This based guy >>723705673 found it. It was Echoes of the Living.
>>723708283My experience was>try to fight some weird plague doctor with a revolver>die>explore and accidentally blunder into anomalies that make me go 100% insanity>stumble around begging нeгpмaн to help me then die against bandits>explore and get a bunch of loot>die of thirst because i couldn't find any water
>>723665230This one was fun as hell and probably the only demo this time with great music
>>723667404https://store.steampowered.com/app/3345810/E9uations/try this, im getting filtered by it
>>723708746Skate Story has some great music but you only hear each track for like 30 seconds before you finish a zone and barely get to enjoy it
>>723708076Devs use whatever tags they want and players often add theirs, anything that even remotely resembles the game, and blatantly misusing every other tag. Technically you can report the misused tags, but that doesn't do anything unless many others report it, too.Like, I'm now looking at a match-3 game that has tags: strategy, real-time strategy, turn-based strategy, turn-based, solitaire, choices matter, and both roguelike and roguelite, and roguelike deckbuilder.
>>723697697what game is this?she looks like nanachi
>>723709159https://store.steampowered.com/app/3837380/Majogami/
>>723705812He means Clapbait >>723705557I see,thanks, maybe I'll get around to it today
Good thread. I didn't even finish 20% of the demos I downloaded so I hope they remain playable.
I'm really liking of ash and steel.
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