How are you liking Next Fest?
>>740756858I'll tell you what's nextival, if that's even your real name. It's what happens when you cross a joker with a society that treats him like shit.
I'd like to let you guys know that one of the best demos of a previous Next Festival, has made a surprise announcement their game is coming out in less than 24 hours.https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2771220/view/684129946245793276
it hasn't started yet
>>740757489That's certainly one point of view.
>>740757284Did you play as the chicken?
GREAT:>Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldronhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3330210/Kinny_and_the_Cosmic_Cauldron/>Shutter Storyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3798860/Shutter_Story/>Pulsebreakerhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3851600/Pulsebreaker/SOLID:>Virtue and a Sledgehammerhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/Virtue_and_a_Sledgehammer/>Gretel & Hanselhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3299820/Gretel__Hansel/>Your Forever Friendhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3948370/Your_Forever_Friend/>Fields of Aaruhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4410710/Fields_of_Aaru/NEUTRAL:>Spiritsteadhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3501540/Spiritstead/>Moonfrosthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2561630/Moonfrost/>Gossip & Potionshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2691410/Gossip__Potions_Tales_from_the_Witch_Shop/>Jupiter Junkworkshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2913540/Jupiter_Junkworks/
>>740758406Gretel & Hansel looks really good. I thought it would just be a flash port.
Where the japanese and east asia games at. Tired of westoid flash game shovelware
>>740758406>>Fields of Aaru>Anubis doesn't have massive fucking tittieseh.
>>740759257>Tired of westoid flash game shovelwareImpossible (Japanese translation: impossibru)
Locked in on a buy:>Delta>Hypnagogia Broken Dreams>On The Way Home: Strange Incidents (VN)>Diorama Break>Witch The ShowdownDownloaded:>Sprawl Zero>Red Chat Ritual>Ascenders>Penguin Colony>End of Eden>Farcraft>Hook-Kick>Flase Hero>Essence Blade (H-game)Did not like:>Magical Blush>Prison of Husks (unfortunate)>Screenbound>Spring At Dawn, I am a Monster
Any horror game? Can I add to library and the demo won't disappear?
We have Kingdom Hearts at homehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3830080/Twilight_Requiem/
>>740759589The little heartless are cute and the stained glass platforms
Best Demos so Far:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4113400/Slaughterhouse/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3932580/Diorama_Break/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3715040/DekaDuck/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3003310/AngelGaze/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1765670/Aboard_the_Adventure/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4281830/ESPecial_Jobs/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3851600/Pulsebreaker/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4240800/Liv/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4050160/Cold_Case_The_Red_Dress_Murder/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3718500/The_Bagman/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4336290/Tyrania_Enforcers__Visual_Novel/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1773160/Fey_Distant_Daydream/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4360660/The_Long_Wake_What_Remains_Observed/
>>740756858June 2026 Next fest page:https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_june26_press/Violentmonkey userscript to see capsule art/thumbnails of steam DLsite links posted in a thread:https://github.com/kani-ge/DLSite-Links-PlusPrevious press preview threads from newest to oldest:>>740578116>>740421712>>740243252previous press preview threads that died early:>>740411105>>740359658>>740314624
Okay Demos So far:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3349520/Iris_Dissolution/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4407400/LOGBOOK_Beneath_the_Storm/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4434840/AI_is_Home__Survival_Thriller/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4377480/Burn9/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2818820/The_Telwynium/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4413070/Red_Chat_Ritual___TSUMIMI_TIME/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3422230/Death_Comes_Skiing/
>>740759863I tried slaughterhouse because I liked the premise, but the point&click controls felt unresponsive and it negatively impacted my experience. Tyrania was surprisingly good
>>740759947Yeah I might get around to telling the guy sometime he needs to fix his controls. Maybe someone will do it for me.
>>740759864>>740737106
>they're so busy whining about remakes they don't pay any attention to original gameskind of hypocritical I think.
>>740760392thanks for archiving my hornyposts of Asian girls
>>740759589Fine. I'll try it.
>>740759257People who concern themselves with the nationalities of games are contemptible trash. Return to your trailer.
>>740761426I thought we were in the era of countries asserting their national identity
>>740761616Here's a riddle for a retard like you:A chinese man moves to czechoslovakia. Once there, he creates a video game. What is the nationality of the video game?
>>740761716Was he born there? If he wasn't born there it's Chinese
>>740761769Wrong answer. Retarded freaks are always so bad at riddles.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4581870/Kaido_Genkai_An_Anime_Racing_RPG_Demo/Incredible disappointment tbdesuOnly real positives I could point too are the car models are high quality and the music sounds good if you are into jpop/jrock.Didn't care for the writing or story, and the car physics model didn't particularly feel great. Benefit of the doubt that's partially from being in an underpowered starting car, as much as I like the Honda city visually.No indication which quests are available for your current progress level until you drive over to it.Abysmal graphical optimization, framerate was horrid and lowering the graphics almost seemed to make it more unstable. 40-high 50 fps at 1440p on a 3060 12gb.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4508570/Veritas_Tales_Witch_of_the_Dark_Castle/Fantastic, genuinely looking forward to spending time with this in the future.The posts from Nishimura talking about his love for old game books and how he is creating this one are a nice read too.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/AGX_GP/I went into this ready to be disappointed and underwhelmed as I am with most antigrav racer attempts. I leave a bit disappointed but impressed.Decently high production value and overall pretty damn competent. Unlike Kaido Genkai the game performance was incredibly smooth, with a wide array of graphics options.My main gripe is how "ability" focused it is. A high APM does not necessarily make for a good "racing" game, this mainly applies to using the horizontal shift ability mid corner or whenever possible. Breaks up the flow, feels unnatural.Wishlisted for now to keep an eye on because the overall package was impressive even if I have my gripes with some mechanics.>>740756858
A game from my locality is entered into the next festival. I dunno if I'd bother trying it. An exception to the nationality rule of video games is if it's your own territory. You can hate games from your own country just fine if you know the people you live with are fucking idiots.
>>740762037You sound like a major racing fan, which means you hate "casual" racing titles. I'd wager anyone who doesn't give a damn about racing might enjoy Anime Racing. Bit of a paradox there but you know.
>>740760392thanks I'll make sure to include it next time
i sure see a lot of Ukrainian demos it's crazy how those guys keep making games during the war
>>740762706Most russian and ukrainian devs moved to Cyprus
secret demo launch of code veronica remake on official next fest start date
>>740762037>My main gripe is how "ability" focused it is. A high APM does not necessarily make for a good "racing" game, this mainly applies to using the horizontal shift ability mid corner or whenever possible. Breaks up the flow, feels unnatural.This is a good explanation. I tried it myself and couldn't think of the precise reason why I wasn't too invested.
On the topic of racing/vehicle games before I go to sleepProject Turbo Blast is in this Nextfest, idk if anything has changed but that's another game I am not quite sold on for similar apm reasons.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2929250/over_the_hill/The devs have announced that a demo for this will be availabe by the start of the nextfest. Art of Rally is great and I'm down for some comfy offroading.There are a couple other racing games on my wishlist already that I hope will be in this fest and I've got a few more already downloaded from my first couple trash dives. Plenty of vehicle focused stuff as well.>>740762426You aren't really wrong, I keep up with a couple motorsports series, however I'm not into sim racing.Clearly there is an audience that wants that mix of casual open world driving/racing with the anime slice of life story and experience. I've played a lot of arcade racing games and consumed a lot of japanese media so I guess my standards have gotten relatively high.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1785580/The_Book_of_Buja/
>>740762706I have assessed Sinking City 2 and determined it to be SOLID. although I could have probably done without zombie enemies for the bazillionth time.
oh well that's good to hear, it would have been really upsetting if the serial killer was also a rapist good thing they dodged that bullet.
>>740756858>How are you liking Next Fest?It hasn't started yet.
>>740764672You haven't started yet*.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459880/FantasyJourney/surprisingly fun 2d hack and slash, pretty soulful art for a chink game (besides the sprites themselves I guess, weird sense of priorities)
More like "Next!" fest
Actually it hasn't started yet and you can't play demos without permission it's not allowed.
>>740765334thank u nexttell em ari
one thing I'm glad has changed with nextfests over time, is I've noticed that devs stopped doing that faggot shit where they take down their demo immediately after the nextfest period ends
>>740763149They changed the physics and nerfed the best car
I get a kick out of those faggots who whine about people playing demos "early" and then as soon as the festival starts, they flip a switch and whine about how everyone beat them to all the good demos.
>>740765928>Things that absolutely 100% happened.
>>740765352unc thought he was cooking with this reply
>>740764556Fair enough if you don't want to include sexual assault in your game for whatever reason but drawing attention to it in this "I love murdering people but I would NEVER EVER touch a woman inappropriately!" sort of way is always so bizarre to me.
>>740759397I only played a bit of Escape from Calypso so far.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2727520/Escape_from_CALYPSO/Seems like an interesting side-scroll survivor horror metroidvania although the enemies look like rip-offs from Dead Space.>Can I add to library and the demo won't disappear?Most demos stay after the fest but it all depends on devs.
>>740765737demos add double the work. it sucks but it makes sense as to why devs would take them down (bug reports)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4664420/EULA_Demo/First time I ever say this but this demo showcased actually kino use of AI slop, it was really funny
>>740759303It's also 10FPS on the trailer, Egypt wannabe but it's niggers instead of actual egyptians, for some reason there is bearded dwarf nigger "egyptian" too.
>>740756858I'm thinking you should wait until the 15th, faglord
>>740761716I doubt he acquired citizenship the very second he moved there so he's still legally Chinese. Not to mention the fact that a fully grown man is heavily influenced by things he grew up around which would shape his world view which in turn shapes how he interacts with everything else. No matter how much you integrate you will still be different, that's just how it is. But this is a trick question because there's something that playstation and Czechoslovakia have in common which is the true answer.
>>740766596Since somebody mentioned using AI for game design already...>Brave New Wondershttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3437380/Brave_New_Wonders_Demo/It's Factorio, but belts are replaced by robotic workers. The bots are programmed by vibe coding.Also the game treats vibecoding as cursed knowledge that ruined the civilization LOL.It actually WORKS though. If AI fuck ups your vibes, you can always modify the code pathing yourself.
>>740766903I gave the non-/pol/ answer that a China man born in Slovakia is Slovakian
>>740766903Too cowardly to even give an answer, I see. At least the other guy tried.
False Hero is actually good. Better than I expected out of an indie soulslikehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4702340/False_Hero_Demo/>attack-stealing mechanic is the center of the combat system and therefore actually good>it's tied to a resource but the game is balanced around letting you use the abilities frequently>world is good and cool>voice acting was surprisingly good, finally felt like I wasn't listening to adults in a recording studio playing pretend>attacks are very readable, no memeshit windups.>combat on the easier side, you can take like 3 hits from the boss before dying, invuln frames feel wide. for an indie game, it's probably the perfect difficulty. i still died to the boss like 3-4 times but it didn't feel cheap>the first boss was overall very cool and well-presentedEasy day 1 buy.
>>740767051If my "question", which is a statement, is a real question for you then that means you're someone who has space in his heart for DayZ and/or Eurotruck simulator. That's horrible.>>740767017He's a terrible human being who either thinks that playstation has games or that DayZ is a real video game that shouldn't be erased from collective consciousness. Either way, I wouldn't feel too bad about him not liking your answer lol
charming and soulful puzzle game
>>740767720https://store.steampowered.com/app/4117830/Your_Painting_Sir/forgot the link
any good puzzle games? preferably something sokoban or a minesweeper/nonogram logic puzzler
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4603450/Mega_Squad_Survivors/tried just because a I'm a three kingdoms slut, it's a survivors clone where your weapons are genderbent three kingdoms generals who zip around everywhere killing shit. combat is pretty okay for survivor standards, but the presentation on everything else sucks, like there's no sound effects and a short shitty little AI song plays on loop forever. hopefully they clean that up by release because there's a solid little 1-2 evening game there if they do.
>>740768914>hopefully they clean that up
Any retro shooters? No arenaslop
>>740769142Probably not as retro as you're looking for, but I'm going to try this tomorrowhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/SPRAWL_zero_Demo/
>>740769608>Probably not as retro as you're looking forYou're right but I won't say no to a good linear campaign either, will check this out
rift wizard 3 demohe reworked usables into craftables and added mid-run bosses
what killed the hype?
>>740770739No way to filter AI games automatically.
>>740759257i was wanting to know this too. good gook and chink stuff also welcome. will post what little i found when on my pc.
>>740769142Don't yet have a demo, but look interesting.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4267870/Washington_Prime/
>try Penguin Colony demo>boot it up>pic relatedWell it's a good thing they're upfront about it so I didn't need to waste my time with this, onto the next one.
>>740772242I like this type of splash screen, like the taiwan stuff. It doesn't impact me
>>740772242aboriginal trvke
>>740772242At first I thought it was made up garbage, but then I saw the British Commonwealth mentioned. What is wrong with these niggers?
>>740772653Australia has pictures of them with aboriginals on chains. It's pretty brutal.
>>740772708When was this, 150 years ago?There's more slaves today than at any point in human history yet I'm supposed to care about something nobody involved was alive to experience, and be lectured through a fucking video game. No thanks, bro
>>740772242>This is aboriginal land>"So are you going to give up the land to an aboriginal person?">What? No. This is my land.
>>740773037Where exactly are these modern slaves, and don't say wage slaves
>>740767720>>740767790Difficulty is all over the place, this one took me 10 seconds but girl in the woods had me stumped
>>740773223India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia...seriously how sheltered are you?
>>740772708Ok and? What population has not been enslaved at some point?
>>740773295Uh I guess I don't research Muslim countries enough
>>740773410Definitely don't look up why muslim countries have virtually no blacks despite being the biggest slavers of Africans
>>740773480Objectively false since Sudan is muslim and african.
>>740773835Sudan is in Africa not in Middle East my sheltered friend
any games made by 4channers?
>>740773902>Definitely don't look up why muslim countries have virtually no blacksDo you see yourself mentioning ME anywhere? cause I don't, my blind friend.
>>740772242>At the time of British settlement in the 1830s, the collective populations of the Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung and Wadawurrung tribes of the Kulin nation was estimated to be approximately 725.the brits didnt even consider them to be anything because a single warship has more men than their whole """nation"""
>>740773976I'll concede that "muslim country" was a poor choice of words which I only used because you used it, what I actually meant was Middle Eastern countriesNow that we've got semantics out of the way you can either keep living a sheltered life or accept that whitey really wasn't the worst thing to happen in Earth's history
>>740770739The press link sucks. I think I'll hop on reddit to search for concentrated shill posts("hey devs if you have a game blahblah")
Any point'n'click games worth checking out? Pic related looks interesting but I haven't played it yet.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4475180/Shadow_A_Parable_of_Sappho/
Bitch you can eat my exhaust.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3010280/Powerplay/Quite fun rts although a bit too derivative from C&C.
>>740777067>quote from man minutes before getting hit by a kei truck
>>740777067>chinaman scribbles I don't install these games unless I can make sure the devs are from taiwan, who the fuck knows what malware can be there. I don't trust valve to vet their games from the most powerful hackermen
>>740777243She lost but then this bitch reused to race me. Apparently my little car is not good enough for her. I told her it is perfectly average.
>>740773923there was some 3d platformer with a cute blue haired protagonist but I forgot the name
>>740773923>>740777509I remembered its name
>>740777642>we have harry potter at home
>>740777642Various Daylife ass name
I want fantasy action RPGs but not soulslike roguelike metroidvanias but that's ALL INDIES EVER FUCKING MAKE
>>740778506pls undastandlevel design is difficult and takes too much time for my indie game six years in the makinghave some square rooms randomly put together and three random powerup options
>>740777921nah it's not that good of a name>>740778506I know they're out there and they make me sick every time I see them, but I don't feel like roguelite metroidvanias are anywhere near the norm
Thank god there's a menu option for rebinding movement from the left stick to the D-pad, would've uninstalled the demo otherwise. Any 2D sidescroller game doing this is not worth playing. Tired of having to use steam input or third-party software to fix developer incompetence.
>>740778506name the roguelikes and metroidvanias you found, i wanna play them
>>740779481I cannot, I'm simply shouting into the void
>>740757284Welp, that's an unwishlist(roguecraft dx)
>>740759947>I tried slaughterhouse because I liked the premise, but the point&click controls felt unresponsive and it negatively impacted my experiencethat sucks, I liked his previous game (time to live)
>>740779817Was it bad? Looked kinda good>casual yet challenginglol
>>740780323You hold direction buttons to move and attack and have no initiative except when to use items or run away. if there is crafting it did not show itself on the first floor/5 minutes.
>>740756858I don't care, I pirate everything.
>>740780480I think you might've misunderstood the point of nextfest a little
>>740780513But he can pirate demos too. Useful for when devs take them down
I'm not playing any of these but I'm just putting them in my wishlist if the screenshots look cool
NEXT FEST IS SAVEDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILaN4X_ndE
>>740782328I get the hype but man the game doesn't look good at all
>>740782328I hate that gay retard so much
>>740782328>unlisted >48 minutes agook Jonathan
>>740782328>more blowsloplmao
