https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestWhat are the heavy hitter demos of this next fest?Don't say order of the sinking star. Jonathan Blow was always a fraud, go play baba is you or void stranger instead.
Any retro shooters?Any metroidvanias?Any roguelite deckbuilders?
>>741370906More like AIslop fiesta.
>>741370906>previous thread>>741308859>Usefulhttps://rentry.org/steam-hoverThat way listfags and casual lurkers can stop bickeringanyway if you enjoy rhythm games go play PIERCINGhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4348420/PIERCING/or https://store.steampowered.com/app/3690850/Asterika_Phantom_Rose_Refrain/>>741371025one can only pray for the day steam will filter AI
Getting in early for Flooded Burials. I don't think it's part of nextfest but it's got a demo and extremely good.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3045030/Flooded_Burials/
Saving my wife Wony in Kusan
>>741371214why does this feel like rusted moss
>>741370906I’m going to Alice
>>741371271this being the furry hotline miami clone? is it good?
>>741371302It's really good
>>741370906I played the sequel of IMSCARED ( Remnants of a Scare ), I expected something pretty shitty but it's pretty well done so far. My only concern is that the secrets / alternative endings are a little bit tedious to get to and i feel like the main reason to play the game is to get it.
>>741370906order of the sinking star
>>741371302>>741371371He said he was part of... Diamond Wolves
>>741371276Because it is. I don't know why it doesn't show up directly on his itch page though.
>>741371675...if you are a brainless normalfaggot, sure
Any colony simulators besides the star trek one? I heard dungeon settlers isn't really that much of one. Any good arena fps games besides empulse? Any good MMOs besides spiritvale? Any arena fighters besides frog game? Any elder scrolls clones?
>>741371276>rusted mossThis was heavily discounted on the Nintendo eshop and I almost, almost bought it. But I didn't.Is it fun? I almost made a thread about it but figured the thread would die quickly since it's not a famous game.
>>741371097This feels more perverted than an actual porn game about fucking monsters somehow
>>741372178Not him, but I loved it. The movement is just that fun and gets better the more things you unlock.
>>741372257Then I'll just pray that the game goes on sale again then. But it's on my wishlist now.
I can not find the way around in Retrospace, what the actual fuck. Anyone know where to go after the time skip?
iron nestdrone sector
I really enjoyed the Sprawl Zero demo.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4463690/Divider_Dave/puzzle platformer with a cloning mechanic
>>741372348Nevermind, didn't know you could break vents. I'm used to bars in vents meaning they are indestructible. Still, the game is very hard to navigate for such a small map
>BREKEKEKEX demo got nerfednoooI liked it better when enemies were unhinged
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2950790/IRON_NEST_Heavy_Turret_Simulator/Welcome to the PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant waiting room.
Any good tower defense or strategy games?
>>741371214>>741371276It even has the same sfx when the main character takes damage lol. I knew the devs were working on iron bramble, no idea they had something else cookinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4328820/Iron_Bramble/flooded burial is really fun, snappy and fast-paced but maybe too easy for now>>741372178If you do play rusted moss play it on pc or with mouse/keyboard. The game was really designed for mouse aiming. Maybe if joy cons allow for gyro aiming
>>741372936I thought it was too easy too, but there is a hard mode that you can enable on the map. All enemies attack more frequently and honestly, I think it's perfect.
>>741372905There is a flash game tier tower defense porn gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4403260/Swarm_Bunker_Lust_Defense/
>>741372905bloons 6
>>741370997I didn't play much but these I liked:>metroidvaniashttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3504400/Blade_of_Mercy_Bloody_Countess/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2727520/Escape_from_CALYPSO/>retro shootershttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/SPRAWL_zero/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115160/Warhammer_40000_Boltgun_2/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3042790/Scirocco_Thugs/ (not a shooter but first person beat'em up but it got the retro shooter feel)
>>741372178One of the best in the genre.main dev is a tranny
>>741373319Does it actually seep into the game like with celestroon?
>>741372905https://store.steampowered.com/app/4594150/Sir_We_Have_an_Orc_Problem/
>>741373536The main character is a "changeling" who lived with humans but betrayed them and you can make comparisons with troons if you really want to but it's very easy to just treat it as a fantasy world setup.Also all characters are female, if it bothers you.
>>741372539>puzzle platformer with a cloning mechanic
>>741373686This one was surprisingly good for how simple it is. Just proves that good execution matters the most.
This nextfest feels particularly better than the other ones I've checked before, I'm feeling pretty hopeful now
why are the chinese like this?
>>741372176There's Corsair Cove if you wouldn't mind a pirate themed colony simhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/
>>741370906Why bother when half of this shit is slop made with AI?
Finished the Object Impermanence demo. It's alright, the orb creatures are very cute. But it's not enough for me to wishlist it.
>>74137435650m imbalance to men.
Anybody else played Parasite Mutant/not!Parasite Eve? I'm playing right now and it's alright but really does seem like one of those one-man projects. though i dunno what else I'd expect.At least not!Aya is hot I guess. Plays fine.
>>741375126shoulda been Parasite in City 2 desutoo bad they got the guy making it
>>741374993>he thinks it's only halfROFL
>>741375126I played it in the last 'est and actually loved it.
>>741375350>dude just ignore steam's own statistics, i know betterDumbfuck.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4438690/A_Standard_Deviation/weird puzzle game also based on splitting up along the color spectrum. Also the frog gets turned gay.
>>741375418Really! good to know. I hope the map expands a bit. first part feels like playing FF13 where it's just corridors, but I'll keep playing it.does not!Aya get more outfits?
>>741375515Deltarune.
>>741375418nta but how is the translation. i don't know if this is a jap or chink game so i wonder if it's all amchine translated
>>741374993Why bother living when you die?
NEXTbump
>>741375126It was jank and not worth playing. Feels like it's coasting on the niche genre association and anime art style but desperately needs more dev time, like another 2 years. Don't drop your standards just because you want another parasite eve game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/ I thought this was pretty good
>download thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3714420/Delta/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/SPRAWL_zero_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3605570/Hyper_Bun_Buster_Rocket_Hammer_Action/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3488690/Vision_Quench/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4012150/BREKEKEKEX/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3634550/Ninja_Game/ <-- not in the fest but has updates>enjoyedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/AGX_GP/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3566690/Childrens_Garden_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3807830/The_Wells_Blessing_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663910/Dungeon_Settlers_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4245250/VHOLUME_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4658760/Mythmon_Mythic_Monsters_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4665530/Brigador_Killers_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3767850/SpiritVale/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3282300/Mistfall_Hunter/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4728020/Washington_Prime_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4776100/Dust_Front_RTS_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4300500/IRON_NEST_Heavy_Turret_Simulator_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Order_of_the_Sinking_Star_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3483510/The_Adventures_of_Elliot_The_Millennium_Tales/ <-- not in the fest but recent, this one's for my napishtim heads>neathttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4366540/Shadow_Rush_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4820990/Hangin_Off/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4347080/VOID_DIVER_Escape_from_the_Abyss_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4615080/Hypnagogia__Broken_Dreams_Demo/>looks interestinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2876710/Hammer_Dongers/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3929380/Golf_5_MAX/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4625930/ONIGASHIMA_Awakening_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4435340/Anymaker/
>>741376692Give up. AI has killed the hype
>>741375473there are no steam statistics about ai usage in this fest dumb fuck. if you're referring to the ~40% figure going around, that was for ALL games released on steam last week, nothing to do with this fest of demos. more importantly, that's based solely on self-reporting amid a strong anti-ai stigma, meaning it's the bare minimum and devs are incentivized to not disclose their usage, so the real percentage is going to be much higher.
>>741371097what the fuck is the point of this scene
Not sure if Fatekeeper counts as nextfest but if anyone here liked Dark messiah you should definitely give it a look, too bad its in early access and has fuckall for content but its cheap as fuck and if you play through it you can already see the potential, its just like Dark messiah but with realistic graphics and animations
>mistfall hunteruninstalled instantly
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4337440/Memory_of_Memorie__A_Chill_Story/They should add some pen scratching sounds (that can be disabled of course). Right now the only sound she makes is some magic thing that made me think the timer was over every time I heard it. The music is ok, the unlockable dialogues are whatever.I think I'm missing out by not having it on a second monitor, still more effective than just a timer because I don't want to disappoint the anime girl, made me focus for over an hour.
>>741372176embers of the uncrowned is nexon's latest which sort of plays like a clunkier and lost ark but with a much smoother sense of progression. promises to not be p2w in favor of sold cosmetics which I almost believe due to armor having no appearance. enjoyed it enough and might check it out on release
>>741377176I'm not even sure why that one is getting attention, it seems generic as fuck and its another fucking extraction game, how are people not sick of this fucking genre yet I don't get it
>>741372176>Any colony simulators besides the star trek one? I heard dungeon settlers isn't really that much of one.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4362900/Monastery_Ora_et_Labora_Demo/Looks interesting, mostly because of the setting, but I yet have to play it.Any elder scrolls clones?Queen's Domain from esthetic kind reminds me of Morrowind, but I have mixed feelings about it. While I can get used to the combat system that's a lot about strafing and holding attack button, whoever came up with high-up placed laser shooting eyes can go fuck himself. From strange fantasy rpg advanced games there's turn based Entropy from Dread Delusion's devs and I also found Apathema that looks a tad interesting, but I haven't played these two.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1799840/Queens_Domain/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4277440/Apathema/
>>741377048https://youtu.be/arRTTitkNbw
>>741377260The dark fantasy looked cool, and I like that extraction games are ultimately "pve games but with unplanned pvp timings"
>>741372826It gets a lot of points for being literally the only game of this hyper-specific genre, but that doesn't save it from the useless gun elevation mechanic, or the incredibly simple target acquisition mechanics. It's just far too easy to locate enemies and ballistics measurements and calculations are all automatic. This is basically just lever-pulling simulator
>>741376024I didn't think twice about the translation at least, which I suppose is a good thing. That doesn't mean it was perfect ofc, but at the very least it wasn't jank and I didn't notice any obviously added western memes or quips about trans lives being heckin valid.
>>741377260My friends and I tried desperately to enjoy this game but it's so fucking easy, and it's likely you'll go an entire match without seeing another player. Plus, the lobbies are full of official bots that play like dogshit
>>741374356foid gooners deserve RPGM AIslop too
>>741360765What game is this?
>>741377776https://store.steampowered.com/app/4293910/XenoFeels/
>>741377048ya but which of these were made by black devs
>>741377895damn, one of the replies had xenofeels in the filename but I thought it was just the anon describing how he was feeling.
I am once again bitching about fuckass devs who dump their game on every conceivable category. No, your shitty asset flip precision rage game is NOT also an adventure game because a dialogue box pops up every dozen screens, and a puzzle game because sometimes you step on a button to open a door.
>>741377425When I played it I had the same experience this anon >>741377675 had, it adds nothing to the experience and I feel like a standard PvE approach would have just been better, it always feels like these games are using the extraction genre as a crutch for popularity rather than a thoughtful addition to the gameplay. Granted not a single extraction game so far has ever managed to keep me engaged for more than 100 hours so I'm clearly not the target audience but still, at least with games like Dark and Darker I could play it and think "Yeah I guess I can see why it'd be fun"
>>741378038It is the onus of an extraction game to put the player into danger which compels them to escape. You can see successful examples of this in Tarkov, where you can die in one shot to the head/eyes, and Dark and Darker, where one mob can fuck you up if you don't get spacing right. Mistfall Hunter fails at this because the PvE is so braindead easy. Mobs do pathetic damage and don't follow you out of the "room" they spawn in, and PvP encounters are just not common. my friends and I played trios for about 10 hours collectively, and we encountered another group of players exactly TWICE. Every other PvP encounter was obviously just a bot.
>>741377260Most extraction games are FPS where you get your head blown off from nine miles away if you poke out from coverDark and Darker laid the ground for a better kind of extraction with slower close-range combat and dungeon crawling but the devs fumbled it. So people are on the lookout for another good fantasy extraction game. Sadly Mistfall is not that game.
>>741378038they changed up matchmaking the other day to make pvp more likely, I'd run into actual players about every match
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3674680/Roguecraft_DX/actual roguelike. Looks nice but is incredibly basic.
>>741375126Played it last fest but wasn't particularly impressed, everything outside of the anime titties felt very generic
Okay wasn't really feeling Sprawl Zero until it starts throwing incendiary shotguns at you like candy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4245250/VHOLUME_Demo/You like Babbdi?You like Straftat?This is those again but for parkour speedrunning instead of exploration/arena shooting. Make sure you rebind crouch to a mouse button because if you want to get a silver medal or better you're going to be spamming slide jumps like it's pre-melee rework Warframe.
thoughts on valor mortis?
>>741378720>incredibly basicYeah, the only thing this has going for it is presentation. It is otherwise incredibly flimsy compared to something like DCSS or frogcomposband. Or Elona.
>>741378720That's a shame, I quite like the spritework.
>>741379124Not good, basically just another mediocre soulslike does nothing with the first person viewpoint that wouldn't be done better in third person.
>>741379124I like it. It's fun and you can parry. Dislike the fact that there's no french VA and the main character's English.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3438920/VOID_DIVER_Escape_from_the_Abyss/Pretty fun game so far
I'm beating a golem with a cute wizzard. How does /v/ feel about Veritas Tales? It's like a nice Adventure book.
>>741370906This is your reminder to try out the sequel to imscared, they dropped a demo.Very well done for indie horror titles, especially given the drought in quality in recent years.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4171520/Remnants_of_a_Scare/
>>741379562>AI disclaimerat this point they all sound the same
you SHOULD play Casualties Unknown.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4576490/Casualties_Unknown/
>>741377376>whoever came up with high-up placed laser shooting eyes can go fuck himselfdid you find the throwing knives?check out https://store.steampowered.com/app/4388730/Dark_Fantasia/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3849000/The_Lantern_of_the_Laughless_Saint/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4111860/After_End/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3819690/Nox_Mortalis_Demo/
>>741379901Is this shit agdg? I remember it being extremely overshilled in vg
>>741379901Yiff in hell furfag.
>>741379901demo linkhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4576510/Casualties_Unknown_Demo/
>>741379901but I'm not a sadomasochist furry?
>every other game on the front page is ai slopi just want to find some decent eroges, damn it.
>>741379813Good enough to wishlist it, my opinion of the final game is gonna depend heavily on how much branching there really is because the intro you play in the demo is railroaded as fuck.
>>741379813Feels like I'm experiencing a proper table top RPG adventure, despite never playing one myself. Has quite a lot of charm, and feels nostalgic in its presentation. I didn't play the full demo, because I got a feel for it fairly quickly and added it to my wishlist.Would have to play it when I'm feeling like being extra comfy.
>>741380054it has daily threads on /v/ despite also having a vg thread, it's just furries shilling their garbage
>>741380124That's true. I guess rather than a tabletop rpg, it might be closer to a "choose your own adventure" book, like those Goosebump ones I read as a kid.
>>741380117Steam needs a fucking AI filter option for YESTERDAY.
>>741380236There's a term for the in-between, gamebook.They were quite popular in Japan.
>>741379901>>741380063This is your future
>>741380483A casualty of gaming
>>741379862Meh, plays kinda like an isometric gigaslave/metal assault
>>741371097I thought you were supposed to freeze the needle for this kind of homebrew procedure not the other way around.
>>741380483My kids will know this as Marisa of Liartop Mountain
>>741380842And how are you enjoying it so far?pros?cons?I like the style but it has a feel of AI slop to it. when it comes to the illustrations
>>741380697For the most part, sadly, though there's still some people making them. Scholastic of all companies is publishing new Fighting Fantasy stuff now.There's digital versions of some of them these days, though!https://store.steampowered.com/app/856880/Fighting_Fantasy_Classics/?curator_clanid=33039573
>>741370906Leftnigger butthurt by Blow's nonleftisthood detected>go play baba is you or void stranger insteadIf I've played both, why WOULDN'T I be excited for OotSS you dumb faggot?
Surprising part of this next festMore rts games than expectedMore decent porn demos than expected
>>741373686This i've been watching for a while and it's definitely a buy from me. Surprisingly good for how simple it is.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2827720/The_Drylands/I want to like this game because it seems cool, but the driving is so ass. The turning has such delay I can't stand it.
Is there a way to tell the steam algorithm that you didn't like a game and eject it from your recommendations?
>>741381038Meh. I got bored after 30 minutes, I'd pay a dollar for it. There's not much to it at all, it just looks and feels nice to play but that's about it.
>>741381234A couple of them got full-on vidya adaptations, too. Deathtrap Dungeon had a janky Tomb Raider type game, and Warlock of Firetop Mountain got an adaptation based on the board game a few years back, with combat maps and everything.
>>741381559As far as I know you can only do that through the "Discovery queue" thing
>>741377229I don't think I can handle another korean mmo after throne and liberty's failure at this point, I hate how koreans have all shifted towards mobile or console friendly full screen UIs and gacha menu navigation, I miss the old web design UI that felt more like a desktop. That and alongside the weird daily/weekly gated progress that makes it more like a job instead of just letting me play the game whenever I want and binge on weekends if I have time. They peaked with like aion 1, archeage, tera, c9 and black desert and haven't made anything good since.
>>741381835Embers itself is a repackage of a Nexon mobile game called Wars of Prasia, and it shows in gameplay
>>741377229>promises to not be p2w in favor of sold cosmeticsAlso this isn't even a good thing imo, this is equally as mediocre and boring as a p2w mmo. I say this because an mmo without gear that represents their strength is pointless, everyone running around looks exactly the same unless they paid whatever for whatever cosmetic, that's really gay and stupid. I don't really give a shit about cosmetics at all honestly. I want mmos with gear that looks better the more powerful you get and has mix and match capabilities, and at this point I don't even care about p2w anymore because koreans stopped doing pvp mmos forever ago so I don't care if someone is hitting 20k more than me because they paid a thousand dollars for a single weapon upgrade when I just want a game to play.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3812600/ReStory_Chill_Electronics_Repairs/You repair electronics in Tokyo. Western developers of course.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4638750/Lazy_Witchs_Factory_Demo/ROGUELITE FACTORIO BUT WITH CUTE WITCHGIRLSINVEST NOW
>>741380516Why is it always gay people that do the most insanely extreme things for sexual pleasure
>>741381424I've seen the rtswhat are the good nukige
>>741382827Not him but Train45 is a good one.
>>741382638>why people with mental disorders do mentally ill bullshit
>>741382638Unironically demons in their heads.
I was bored and remembered that someone had a hard time with Bloody Grids
give me your cutest demos
>>741379965>dark fantasia>We want to be that AIslop adevnture imageI will now NOT download your demo.
>>741382475>>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4638750/Lazy_Witchs_Factory_Demo/okay im trying this ome
>>741382475>You repair electronics in Tokyo. Western developers of course.I'll admit I'm a bit of a weeb so I do like Japanese settings, but I fucking hate it when it's so in your face about it. >Konnichiwa repair-san! I just got back from the sakura viewing festival and my tamagotchi broke!Did I mention this game takes place in Japan? Just shut the fuck up. Real annoying anime-club shit.
>>741383101yeah sorry I was browsing on my phone and just saw first person fantasy and assumed. But now I'm looking at it at home and it looks like ass. Sorry for including it.
>>741379965>did you find the throwing knives?I did. It's still annoying how out of nowhere these lasers sometimes can surprise.
Brigador devs are currently making a new game btw, basic gameplay is the same but instead of mechs you play as people and equip yourself with shit taken off the enemies, mechs still exist as things you can drive along with normal vehicleshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/903930/Brigador_Killers/
>>741383726Already played the demo last month. Any updates?
>>741383726lol, you phrase it like you're the first one to tell us about it. it's been in every fest thread for the past 2 weeks.
I don't think I can beat Renaissance fair motor scooter grandma in Mortal Shell 2
anyone tried ddodhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2468200/DDoD/also why are some games able to have a demo but no reviews on it?
>>741383941They did some minor update on the demo a week back but no actual new content apparently
>>741371097>making a rhythm game>hmm how do I differentiate myself from the competition>I know! Add a very detailed ear piercing scene going through the whole process and blood sucking
Any cool puzzle games now that i've finished the OotSS demo?
>>741384108It's just a setting that each developer gets - your demo can have its own reviews, but it also gets its own page.source:I have a game in the next fest.
>>741381559dude i had this in my wishlist, it kills me that the demo's ass
>>741383006Hey that was me! Thanks a lot dude. I clearly missed some aspect of the rules, I'll check the gif again sometime this weekendI'm working 13 hours shifts from tomorrow until next friday lol I've seen two more clones on this gimmick since our last exchange... If you want something different but close in the puzzle dungeon theme to this and Desktop Dungeons, check out Slot & Dungeons from a couple of years back, it's cute and dope
>>741372176>Monasteryhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3179120/Monastery_Ora_et_Labora/Help your brothas make the biggest & best monastery in da bishopric.
Worst part of Next Fest is that all the interesting stuff would be vaporware anyway
>>741377376>>741385253Thank you, I'm trying this now
>>741383971Nvm I beat it with the cheat seal6/9 cheevos is good enough right lolThe sheepherder boss was my favoriteNow do I play Bioshock Souls? Aka Valor Mortis? I did like Witchfire.
Since I won't have a lot of time posting again for a while, I might as well dump what I've currently played. Sorry, no links. ____S>Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle____A>Mirklurk: Every Step Matters>AGX GP>About Fishing>Delta>SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL>NEODRIVE>Blood Dungeon____B>Immortal Wayfarer>Wind Runners>Shroom and Gloom>VOID DIVER: Escape from the Abyss >Retro Rail GO!>Bloody Grids>IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator>Witch the Showdown >Normal Golf Game>4D Intuition>Washington Prime>Bonehold>Drone Sector >BREKEKEKEX>Scraps Of The Machine>SPRAWL zero>FARCRAFT>ORPHEUS: TO HELL AND BACK____C>RIG Riot>Ascenders: Beyond the Peak>pipes.exe>Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!>Kaido Genkai: An Anime Racing RPG>Hypnagogia 壊れた夢 Broken Dreams>Boars in Rome>Ved:Recure >Your Painting, Sir____D>SiN Reloaded>necrofane>DragonSword : Awakening >False Hero>Outrange Strike>As one we survive>TANUKI: Pon's Summer>Worming from home>BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER BEFORE 4>Tom Lander: The Exiled King>Asterika: Phantom Rose Refrain>over the hill>Shadow Dungeon>Memoirium>Happy Bastards>Czar Ry____E>Denari>Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2>Roguecraft DX>Dawn One>Shadow Rush>Gossamer Matrix>10hit>SHATTERFARMS>Penguin Colony____F>Dream Shell>Knuckle Jet
>>741370906>AI Slop FestMeh
>>741379862Might want to quit video games if you're going to be this fickle anon. Maybe join the military and be a productive member of society.
>>741370997>sin reloaded>lone chefHaven't played any roguelite deckbuilder yet but i did add some.I'm highly recommending this Metroidvania. The pixel art is one of the most gorgeous things I have seen in a video game, it's truly beautifulhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3280150/Lone_Chef/
>>741385929>military>productive
>>741370997deckbuilders coming your wayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3103620/Witch_the_Showdown/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4186640/_CharmEdge_Deck/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4422430/DAICE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3640430/Worlds_Upon_The_Wind/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3929330/Relief/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4133850/Lapistasia/
>Nobody mentions SPRAWL: Zero...Pretty much Halo, with Half-life / Fear elements. Pretty neato game, would recommend checking it out if you want a solid FPS.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/SPRAWL_zero_Demo/
>>741386319>AI slop
>>741381424i've found three porn demos and two of them i quite liked (train45/succubus successor), what have you found?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3989550/Fallosophy/Pinball platformer that is actually fair instead of an annoying rage game. You can still fall down, but it's not too mean about it. Also showed of a few mechanical twists in the demo already, which is nice.
>>741386414>Too lazy to click a link and gets mad over AI instead.Stay classy, anon.
>>741377061This implies /v/ plays video games.
>>741386567>succubus successorstay tasteless, jeet. Why would I take a rec from you?
Something about 1st person 3D organization sims hits the spot for me. Fairly short demo, but I already see that it'll be up my alley. Apparently it has co-op, but I find singleplayer peak comfy, especially since there are no time limits.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4622530/Cat_Mail_Co_Demo/
>>741370906>go play baba is you or void stranger instead.I already did, wanker
>>741386319>Nobody mentions SPRAWL: ZeroIt got mentioned in previous threads at least a few times, so there's this.
>>741386319Everyone mentions sprawl zerothey shill it every threadit sucks
>>741380238The moment they add a filter people will stop disclosing it
>>741386705So, are you going to give up on the internet when everything becomes AI or...?I'm not sure what your plan is here.
>>741377061AI shart has unironically killed my interest in exploring the indie scene. I just wait for known devs to put out something or wait for something to blow up here
>>741384570Shill me your game anon
>100 friendsit's like ball x pit crossed with sticker ballit's okay but I don't see it having much depth
>>741387134>Look mom I posted it for the 5th time!Cool. go hang in other threads and stop shitting this one up.
>>741387198In the interest of not being 'that guy' I will refrain.It's Silicon Scars
>>741385929Is it really that hard for people to be honest about their work instead of putting a generic "be assured that every last asset was human checked blah blah"Just say how you have used it
>>741386319Wasn't impressed. >Completely linear, exploration is just something you do after clearing an arena of enemies, the reward for exploration is lore(lol) or a temporary gun, or some currency for NG+>Enemies need to have a highlight so you can see them against the golden/brown visuals>They are still just blobs shooting slow projectiles at you>The two 'skills' in the demo are effectively godmode on a very short cooldown (I played highest difficulty)>Guns feel good but all have limited ammo, there are no reloads, you must get a new gun when the mag is empty, too bad if you like a specific gun, you'll get to kill 5 enemies with it and have to go back to shitty pistols/SMGs>Guns have "quality" but most of them instantly kill every enemy>Most encounters consist of a group of enemies standing around doing nothing, then gates opening up around the arena that release more enemies, until all the gates have opened and the last one has a checkpoint behind it.
>>741370997>Any metroidvanias?like half the damn reccomendations Steam gives me>>741377048>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Order_of_the_Sinking_Star_Demo/YO DIS SHIT SO DUMB MANE
>>741387646Wouldn't it be fair for all works then and not just AI?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4546210/Bitvaniaholy sloppa batman
>try to download a demo that you have apparently already installed>it fucking launches the gameI hate this. Why is it like this? Who likes this?
discovery queue checkhow deep are you?
>>741387807Not really, AI is a whole other league and needs to be treated differently. At this point I just want to know how much work is actually yours or if I should pay for the AI sub myself.
>>741387490Literally the first time I've talked about AI but scrolling it up it seems you're white knighting for AI slop attacking everyone shitting on itGood for you, I guess
>>741388447>he actually sucks the DiQJust use your pattern recognition like a real racist
>>741388447my ignore button doesn't work for this so I stopped using it
>decide to look at demos for once>go to storepage and click on nextfest banner>scrolling past obvious low quality gen'd artwork being used as their boxart>interest begins to waneIt's rude to assume that these various anime games just sloppa'd some art, and perhaps that's actually just what the artist draws like, but it REALLY looks like sloppa shovelware.
>>741388482>AI is a whole other league and needs to be treated differently.Leftists really like showing their true colors when race is replaced with something else.
>>741388780no no, if you think its slop it probably is
>>741388447Deep
>>741388925rookie numbers
>>741388925I meant the next fest specific queue
>>741370906shill
This game is FUN. Not exactly the Elder Scrolls clone I was hoping for but it's like Doom 2016 with a sword in the jungle.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4829270/After_End_Demo/
>Demonherd DungeonIs this WEG porn game, the ONLY adventure game card game of the entire Next Fest? There are countless of card games. But none who are also adventure games of some kind. Except this game. From what I can tell.
Highly recommend SPRAWL zero to any and all mid-30s console boomers such as myself.
>try wind runner demo after having it wishlisted ever since i finished jet lancer a long time ago>it's shitfuck it playing jet lancer again
You don't realize you hate indies enough until you browse Next Fest for over half a decade.Deplorable creatures.
So is Digital Anima a creature raising sim at all? The trailer and tags kind of leaves me thinking it'll 100% rugpull me.
>ai slop>ai slop>decent game>ai slop>good game>ai slop>ai slop>ai slopthis is depressing.
>>741390396Indie developers aren't the problem. The 'problem' is Steam's borderline non-existent curation. Anyone can put anything up there, which naturally leads to a lot of shovelware and outright shit that needs to be sifted through to find the good stuff.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4404830/Utopia_Haven/It's Metroid. Not inventive, but fun enough. Little starship shooter section before landing was a nice touch.
>>741390580Nah I'm thinking indies are the problem.More than half of these retards could have released on itch.io instead. Or better, gotten a job as a codemonkey.
>my next fest>incremental idle games>anons next fest>actual gamesThis algorithm is ASS
>>741390678They can and often release on both platforms.If you want better curation on Steam, take it up with the fat fuck himself. If you can pull him away from the yacht dealership long enough to make your case.
>>741377454Still pretty fun for a "lever-pulling simulator" and who knows, maby later missions will become more challenging
>>741390728just filter out idlers
>>741390580I havent had a problem finding games on steam in years desuIf anything the curation isnt lax enough
>AGX GPmore like AGPfuck this tranny game
>>741391135how do you know it's tranny game? if that's true, i will not play it
so theres a starcraft clone demoa wc3 clone demoand a c&c clone demowhere the FUCK are the AoM and Rise of Nation ripoffs??? Fucking RTS cucks keep rehashing the same franchise
>>741385528>Valor MortisSo now that I'm trying it, it's nothing like Dark Souls or even Witchfire for that matter
>>741379813It was great, one of the highlights of this fest.
>>741385528How do you get the cheat seal? Do you have to beat the supposed to lose fight at the start? If so guess i can't get it
>>741391658It's at the Mether's place. The game tells you it will disable achievements if you equip it.
Any games that take place in ancient Egypt?
>>741391807Serious Sam
>>741391219Anything that encourages speedrunning these days gets called a troon gameNot to say it's completely baseless all things considered but it's a pretty outrageous conclusion
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4461730/Project_Looking_Glass/This is a pretty cool walking sim, real-world parapsychology is untapped potential in games
Any good dungeon crawlers?
>>741370906https://store.steampowered.com/app/3825600/Culdcept_The_First/this shit is vidyacocaine, try it out and win one round
>xeno feelswhat even is the porn content in this one? can't find shit anywhere.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3722660/Cosmodrill/space drill resource gathering. The animation of the repair bay tracking your movement makes my brain happy.
>nothing but porn games in mine>dont own a single porn game on steam
>>741392483seems to be more lewd than explicitunless the full game gets into the real stuff
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401910/Dart_Racer/Surprisingly fluid antigrav racer, more similar to something like redout, I never played redout 2 so can't really comment.Disappointed there were only 3 tracks in the demo, all of which are wide as fuck and you just kinda cruise easily around. Collisions get fucking weird the three times I touched something but it was so easy it wasn't an issue.Pod racer style "dart" wasn't in the demo either, and that's mostly what had me interested.Gonna go wreck my hands with some more Neodrive instead.
Silver Pines is surprisingly fucking good. I'm genuinely impressed by its atmos
This seems like the first nextfest where we are really feeling the weight of the aislop. Every other game has some disclosure that they slopped it up, and I have noticed more than one that is obviously using it and didn't disclose it. We really need to be able to filter out slop.
>>741392202Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Heart
>>741392634Well? Did you like any of them?
>>741392634That's because the porn games are fire this time around, so everyone is trying them out and weighting your suggestions.
>>741386319So far it is one of three games out of about 60 demos I've tried that are any good and boy does it stand out. There is enough there for zoomers who are allergic to movement techs to enjoy and deep movement techs for oldfags to enjoy. I just hope it there is a 10x more difficult mode in the game (ideally with 10x the number of enemies) for people who understand all the "hidden" movement mechanics. The other two are:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3714420/Delta/ - I initially loved this game. They understand what makes games like Quake appealing but for some asinine reason they stopped short of greatness. It is just a map trial game not a PvP FPS. So it honestly serves no real purpose. I don't know how many people just grind out jump maps in CS/Quake anymore but apparently now there is a whole ass game for those people. The ones that like movement but don't have the neuroplasticity or reaction time to combine it with shooting folks.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4347080/VOID_DIVER_Escape_from_the_Abyss_Demo/ - this is clearly something quite nice for people who enjoy this sort of game. Sadly that isn't me.One game shows promise but unfortunately is extremely shallow and has microscopically small maps so you can't pick up speed. That's https://store.steampowered.com/app/4323990/EMPULSE/ and given who the developer is I wouldn't expect it to evolve beyond what is in this demo. So possibly a fun casual game if you want to absolutely crush FPS-lets that have moved from Apex to this. It is somehow even more streamlined than Titanfall 2 which was a stripped down simplified tech-stripped version of the masterpiece Titanfall.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4151000/Fading_Echo_Demo/action adventure where you get water blob powers and interact in different ways with water, lava and green sludge. Not gonna lie, the dialogue is a bit Forspoken-y, but there's some pretty fun mechanics happening and the presentation is cool enough for me to look past it.
IF I SEE ONE MORE FUCKING FRIENDSLOP OR DECKBUILDER OR IDLER IM GONNA GO INSANE
Rage uninstalled Valor Mortis. I didn't sign up for Bioschlock France
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3992630/There_Are_No_Ghosts_at_the_Grand_Demo/It was fun. A renovation job simulator with a ghost plot and a musical. There was a lot of yap but it never feels like it is getting in the way, looks nice, the couple songshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3820790/Kinny_and_the_Cosmic_Cauldron_Demo/So this is a bit like a pachinko balatro? toss balls into the cauldron, they collision and you get points with synergy and bla bla. Is cute but doesn't interest me personally.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Order_of_the_Sinking_Star_Demo/Is Sokoban, a good Sokoban. So yes there are some neats mechanics giving this game a twist. A good puzzle game, now I just wish it didn't have the longest audiolog ever that engulfed the first part of the tutorial. Kind of wish the dialogue and story was post levels maybe. I do hate that to reach a level I neede to move back and forth, Block Koala shit that was. Good game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4796740/Pogo_Froggo_Demo/unreal slop, friendslop, is slop, Slopogo Frogo.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4594230/Dragon_Dragon_Fire_Fire_Deluxe_Demo/Is Bubble Bobble but instead of bubbles, fireballs. Is an easy game so far. The gimmick is that you can burn stuff likes explosive barrels and boxes that are under a platform and if they burn, the platform falls. I had fun with this one.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3861690/Dont_Get_Fired_Demo/Run around, do some task, choose the toilet then lose because you only got one stall and you got a line of five people. It was entertaining, nothing much to say, friendslop.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3582430/Uh_Oh_Airlines/So I tried to play it, I am dumb or this game works bad, is like Don't Get Fired but worse. people change the thing they want really fast and there was no tutorial and I even had to combine items, didn't manage to put the chocolate syrup to the ice cream, fuck this shit.
>>741379562>>741380842VOID diver is pretty fun, I found it very similar to Ascend to Zero gameplay wise though
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4568340/Minesweeper_NextGen_Demo/I don't understand how this has over 1k players. It basically becomes hexcells, and then more. But it's all still minesweeper.
>>741385626thanks anon
>>741395423The boss of this area sucks so hard
>aislop>extraction shooter>"incremental" (whatever the fuck that means, the fact that so many games just have the word outright in the title makes me assume it is copying something directly) >extraction shooter (but its not a shooter this time!)>friendslop>aislop>aislop>AAA studio using an indie game fest to advertise for some reason>aislop>4390582 more games trying to look exactly like slay the spire
>>741396198>>AAA studio using an indie game fest to advertise for some reasonthis is a good thing though
>>741396198Is slay the spire really that popular?
>>741396396Hard to say. If I had to take a guess it is probably that it is incredibly easy to make. One step up from aislop, really.
>>741396396As the other anon said. I think "popular" is just now another way to say "how easy can you replicate the formula" samething with how big balatro got and Schedule iAND not to mention the 100000 different types of "stocking shelfs simulators" which are all AI slop
>>741392441This actually looks pretty sick
>>741390657I actually like metroid clones, not so much the usual "metroidvanias"
Any shmups that aren't just Vampire Survivor games pretending they are shmups?
>>741392854How's the music? The music in the trailer has me worried.
>>741396019It's just a bunch of gimmicks taped together so of course normalfags will flock to it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/Virtue_and_a_Sledgehammer/This game is horrifically mistagged. It's definitely an artsy narrative walking sim first and foremost (the only other button aside from walking is hit thing with sledgehammer). It might be one of the better ones of it's type though, it did definitely create an atmosphere. I'd say it's a bit unsubtle in its messages, but considering the sledgehammer I think that's intentional.
>Every FPS game I've checked out is some kind of movement based spectacle shooterI blame the Ultrakill gays for this
two kingdom hearts clones:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2542020/Duskfade/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3830080/Twilight_Requiem/
>>741397605I honestly don't remember anything about the music if there was any. That could be both good and bad.
>>741398624Duskfade looks kino but Twilight Requiem looks like slop so I'm questioning if Duskfade is worth trying now. Why isn't TR slop? I'm open to being shown I'm wrong if you're willing to share why you enjoyed it.
maybe I'm bad at video games but this solo dev debble may cry-like is whipping my ass
Brace for KINO https://store.steampowered.com/app/4012150/BREKEKEKEX/
>>741398624absolutely shameless
>>741398996NTA, but it is extremely rough. Honestly not worth trying.Duskfade also is barely a KH-like. More akin to a Jak or Ratchet.
>>741399140Fair enough, thanks for sharing. Will try Duskfade after a few others at least.
>>741396396Bro the sequel hit 500k cc on Steam
how the FUCK do you dodge in brekekekxit says up arrow + direction but that doesn’t do shit for me
>>741399140>Duskfade also is barely a KH-like. More akin to a Jak or Ratchet.what's up with people calling a mascot platformer "kingdom hearts"
Its time for the usual question brosWhich demo convinced you to REMOVE the game from your wishlist?
>>741397721they're all chinese
>>741396198>(whatever the fuck that means, the fact that so many games just have the word outright in the title makes me assume it is copying something directly)It just means its a game with upgrade loop. Like a mining game where your drill has a set amount of fuel, so each time your fuel runs out and you finish your run you get to upgrade the fuel or dig speed and go deeper and get more gold etc the next run
>>741399473False Hero
>>741399349the protag has a keyblade and some of the ads namedrop KH as an inspiration
>>741399473>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3699850/The_Devils_Due/It felt bad to play from the first few moments of gameplay. They obviously had a decent budget that all went to the intro song and animation.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1879270/Into_the_Crypt/What if slay the spire was worse, and in 3d?>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4446370/Grit_Shot/Just abysmal dogshit
>>741398537Here's your boomer shooter.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2067820/RetroSpace/https://store.steampowered.com/app/632950/SiN_Reloaded/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4241920/BRAZILIAN_DRUG_DEALER_BEFORE_4_DEMONS_FROM_THE_PORTAL_TO_HELL_I_OPENED_ARE_STILL_IN_THE_FAVELA_AND_NOW_I_HAVE_TO_SAVE_MAMADAS_FROM_RONALDO/
>>741398537It's a shame "boomer shooters" have become about "movement" and not resource management and territory control, but I guess everyone who cares about that has an endless selection of free doom 2 wads with hyperoptimized kaizo level difficulty that wouldn't be commercially viable in the first place
>>741399473The Long Wake. Very barebones and tedious to play, and the horror atmosphere just didn't land.
>>741373536It seeps in heavily, but not in a soapboxy kind of way. You won't be patronized but there's no mistaking that you are playing a trannygame.I thought it was fine, my main issue is that physics sim-based platforming gets very annoying very fast when it starts demanding precision.
>>741399836>1 remaster of an old game>1 shitpost game>1 actual game that's more of an imsim than a boomer shootergrim. Where's the Cultics, Ion Maidens or Hedons?
>>741372826I liked it enough. But there are some presentations issues that stand out like a sore thumb for me. I think the whole lever thing could be replaced by some form of old computer using punch cards where you could do all the work before like calculations, angles and whatnot. Only to lay back watching it all unfold after you punched the calculations in. My main gripe is how the cannon feel, they have virtually no weight to them, no matter how massive the screen shake is you can't fake the weight of those type of ammunition being loaded. This is especially true for the loading mechanism felt like a ordnance that massive just casually being shoved into the canon so easily makes me a bit sad. Also fully ramming the power bags without even thinking about how fragile and explosive they are is also a sad detail to go unnoticed.Those old WW2 era training vids on how they handle the main cannon on ships such as Iowa can give you a pretty good idea of how it should be done. Maybe some more autismo when it came to calculations like the other anons said and making sure the map was overall better and more immersive. But it's a pretty good game
>>741400817They didn't sell.
>>741398624Twilight Requiem is literally garbage, fuck you guys for recommending it a few threads ago. Please actually play the demos before even posting a link.
>>741401103Yeah no shit buddy, he said it was a Kingdom Hearts clone
>>741370906Dust Front but it's just a tech demo
Did all the fucking 3d platformers vanish?Were Motorslice, Bubsy, and Demon Tides the only ones?
>>741372176>>741395030>EmpulseTrying this right now. Is there no bunny hopping in this? Or if there is, it feels like the speed cap is heavily limited. Like it seems that jumping out of a slide or off a boost is faster than jumping off the ground, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuck me man this is a far cry from the bunny hopping in TitanfallI'm gonna be so pissed if this takes off without bunnyhopping and people praise it, because on the other end of things, there's ShatterRush which actually feels like Titanfall. It's just super early in development and doesn't have nepobaby funding like this does
>>741370906Have you tried Order of the Sinking Star? What do you think about it?
>>741401661I think they just don't have new demos to submit. Still waiting on The Big Catch and Kero Quest
>>741401738Its a sokoban gameWhats there to say
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3812600/ReStory_Chill_Electronics_Repairs/Comfy weeb game.
>>741401738shan't be touching any jblow kusoge
>>741401661It was never roguelike deckbuilder/survival crafter levels of ubiquitous. 3D platformers aren't boomer shooters, you can't just boot zdoom and slap in some assets, you gotta go from the ground up.Following a few projects on social media, they're in the works, just nothing fest ready.
>>741401686Alright there definitely seems to be some conservation of speed off of boost lifts if you slide and hop, but true hopping and speeding up from anything seems to be missing, and there's no EPG equivalent. Again, gonna be super upset if this becomes popular as a Titanfall replacement with the frauds. Might be fun as its own thing, but if this gets the successor title I'm just gonna, I dunno. Cry probably.
Signy and Mino was alright, though the demo was pretty short and mostly tutorialising. The combat is like an in between of Paper Mario and Valkyrie Profile, with you using meter to chain attacks and juggle enemies on your turn while dodging attacks on the enemy turn. Good music too.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwqyGTdwYQhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3202580/Signy__Mino_Against_All_Gods_Demo/Seems like it's an old demo but they've only now put it in next fest since the game comes out next month.
>>741402076You just know.
>>741402331That you are brown? Yeah
>>741401738let me know when the looker dev makes "chaos of the rising sun"
>>741402003>Alright there definitely seems to be some conservation of speed off of boost lifts if you slide and hop, but true hopping and speeding up from anything seems to be missing, and there's no EPG equivalent. Again, gonna be super upset if this becomes popular as a Titanfall replacement with the frauds. Might be fun as its own thing, but if this gets the successor title I'm just gonna, I dunno. Cry probably.>bunny hoppingI hate the erroneous early gen-z use of this terminology (fucking CS fags) but yes by your modern definition there is... "bunny hopping." Conservation of speed translates from all movement techs if you exit correctly. There is even slope jumping (or.... "ramp jumping" ugh). Though I haven't played enough rounds to fiddle see if you can break the soft speed cap and the map is too fucking small to get a good feel for it (the practice arena though is a good place to test vs the teeny tiny map in pvp). It is hilarious how the guns are all laser beams in hip fire. Love that fact. Might as well go all the way and add in full air strafe and proper circle jumping techs as well at this point and delete the mech. Especially given how trash the mech is and how the balance between mech/infantry is so wack right now. Hopeful the game is like 20 bucks or free so it gets enough attention to fund additional maps and maybe breathe some fucking life into the visuals because it is just so bland and corporate right now. There is a LOT of potential here and I'm worried the retarded CEO that runs this company is going to squander it like he did with Splitgate.
Any recommendations for Fire Emblem like games/SRPGs?
Empulse feels like a game made by devs with only a surfacelevel underatanding of Titanfall
>>741402539There's the new Brigandine game that looks and runs worse than the previous one.
>>741401686Hopeful that if it is a success EA gets off their sandfilled ass and makes a TF3 so we don't have to deal with the Splitgate CEO.
>>741402592Seeing the trailer was enough for me to understand that.
I mentioned this in previous thread but didn't get any (You)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3070450/Night_Blood_W__Cutthroat_Wolf/100% sure some people in here will like it, it's high quality.
>>741402520>I hate the erroneous early gen-z use of this terminologyImagine thinking I'll actually continue to read your post and talk to you after you act like such a rudey patooty. Take a lap and circle back around with a nicer post. Then we can talk about video games :3
>>741402426Touch a nerve?A little jokey-wokey got you uppity, anon-kun?
>>741402739Your loss anon. The audience for technical shooters is extremely small. Most places where they are discussed will be disgusted by the misuse of the derogatory term bunny hopping which is explicitly used to describe a non-technical movement, one done in a panic by someone who doesn't understand a game's movement mechanics. Why/how zoomers managed to corrupt it in CS-space I'll never know. Possibly some Russian mistranslation or an inbred streamer. I don't accept any perverse attempts to redefine words. That is jewery of the highest order.
>>741402604I doubt it will, unfortunately. Ended up playing a match and it just felt like Splitgate but with some extra gimmicks, but the real kicker is that it dropped me into a match with bots. They never seem to learn with ANY of their releases that being matched against bots gets you to drop the game real quickly, as no one wants to slog through a bunch of fake matches until they're allowed to have fun. Hell, that's the entire reason I ended up dropping Splitgate Reloaded. I was willing to give it a chance because I really wanted to see the game succeed after they did the revamp, as I was a big enjoyer for Splitgate 1 (even played in a couple of the /vm/ game nights for it), but Splitty 2's propensity to continue to drop me into fake matches (even after doing the required intro ones/level ups) instead of giving me a longer queue eventually killed all my interest with that game. Besides, one always has to remember that it was EA that wanted Titanfall 3 in the first place. Respawn--or more accurately the scattered and remaining dregs of them that stayed after TF|2--are the ones that kept choosing not to do it. I doubt there's anyone left with the drive to make it, let alone the talent. >>741402894>Your loss anonNah, it's never a loss to choose not waste time on rude and ignorant people :3
>>741402076does it seem like the combat changes up any? i'd be worried about it getting stale as hell by the end
>>741388925I already reached the end of the Next Fest queue so there's no number to show anymore. And I've seen someone with twice my number for the Discovery Queue around /v/.
>>741379062Just tried this and it was awesome, I just played it casually but I can sense the skill ceiling is really highalso the atmosphere is incredible, my favorite level from the demo was jungleyou can definitely explore the levels though, there are some collectibles and easter eggs, I think there's a character from one of the games you mentioned. It's a nice change of pace from just grinding the level.
>>741401738It's good but has too much dialogue for what it is, some may call it pretentious. It's nothing innovative either, could've been finished in like 2-3 years but Blow had no idea how to manage a business. It's still worth a try though.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4246860/Security_51/Not bad, not great either. Typical inspect person, decide to let in game. Has interesting ordering of rules where some rules trump others. I assume its made by russians considering the random names.
>check out a roguelike deckbuilder>the dev team is from Indonesia>their staff page on their website has little portraits of them as monkeys below their IRL picturesI laughed. I will now play your game.
>>741370906Anyone in here try Stuff It ?Looks like a porn game where you train monster girl "dolls", and then fuck them.Wanna know if the demo is worth trying before I download it.
>>741404408>this anon wants a demo of a demo
>>741404341Game?
>>741404518Bro hasn't experienced the average WEG/H-Game, I see
>>741404535https://store.steampowered.com/app/3750130/Montabi_Monster_Taming_Roguelike_Deckbuilder_Demo/
>>741402672Reminds me of Sanabi and Kats Trigger. Pretty cool, but controls feel a bit stiff. The jump in particular feels pretty bad with how it loses momentum.I'll keep an eye on it, hopefully the final version feels a bit better to play.
>Dungeon SettlersSeems pretty promising to me, fun and extremely challenging in the harder difficulties, took me like 15 min of micro managing the first boss to take it down and it was on the 2nd hardest difficulty.slime encounter in the first floor felt unbalanced though, way harder than anything else outside of boss.
>>741405770LIANA SEX
>>741403751I dont even bother with this because they broke the ignore button.
did anyone get the last salvage squad that was a demo last next fesit's very cute
>>741406125it is incredibly boring and had nothing going for it outside of funny pet dog.
>>741406125>>741406187Well the game is out now no?
>>741406125I liked it, but now that it's out, I'm hesitating. I guess it was just "okay". I mean for $10 it's fine.
>>741382475>>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4638750/Lazy_Witchs_Factory_Demo/Yeah, this is the good shit. Managing to clear the highest difficulty in the demo with 10 seconds left on the clock feels good.
>>741406919If you like factorio derivative, there's this toohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3979570/Factomancer/Also this one is old game from last year festhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2389040/ShapeHero_Factory/
>>741406678I like it more than the betamy only problem is that a lot of the guns are not fun to use
>>741379813>>741380124>>741380236>>741380483>>741380697>>741381234forged since years in a secret NIHON mountain.
>>741375126I've been watching the other not parasite eve game, 45 parabellum bloodhound. Stupid name but it looks cool.
>>741399473Echo Weaver.Time-loop metroidvania sounded fun, but it's obvious that the implementation is lacking.Was hoping that the entire map would be relatively close to the spawn point and only knowledge gates would stop you from going wherever, but instead there's checkpoints that basically set your spawn point further along. And that 'basically' makes it worse, even; if your spawn point actually shifted at least I'm sure the explanation could be neat, but no, it just arbitrarily moves your fast-travel point that you can reach 1 second into a run. Boo.Also the loops themselves are supposedly on a timer but you get so much extra time it basically doesn't matter.I've still added more wishlists than removed, so not too upset. Just a little.
Divine Frequency is pretty damn good. Not really sure what the premise is, but the presentation is great. Some of it reminds me of E.Y.E., with the pseudo-RPG stats and dialogue choices, and the general look too. Something about the map design and movement reminds me of the first Marathon game, but I can't put my finger on it. It's good.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2548880/Divine_Frequency/
>>741409535What the fuck
>>741404408I was right btw, not worth playing.You get 1 reused sex scene for the monster girls you can make, the demo has a 15 minute trial timer, while being an auto battler with no means of speeding up combat. Combat drags on as slowly as possible, and it seems like your units are capped at lvl 2, as their first levels up were instant, but no subsequent ones came upon defeating over 8 enemies after the fact.Just bad, which is sad because the idea has appeal.No items dropped while testing combat,
>>741370906I'm not sure that I really liked this yet I am intrigued and will boot it up again. Anyone else play it? It's kind of outward x super old trpg
Problem with the RTS demos is that it just made me want to play the games they were inspired by
>>741409535It's pretty good. I'd say I liked it more than Sprawl Zero which was fine imo.
>>741401738The Megalopolis of videogames.
>>741410778i enjoyed the russian sc/aoe3/c&c3 game but i think it is supposed to be a 4x outside of skirmishes
Are you an OG demobro whos been in these threads since 2019?
>>741395590>There_Are_No_Ghosts_at_the_GrandThe trailer and screenshot looks fake as fuck. Kinda want to check it out just to see how different the actual gameplay is.
Surprised I haven't seen more people talking about Pathogenic.It's a fairly by-the-books twin-stick shooter roguelite, but it's polished and plays well. Really solid theming.This reads very mildly but it's probably my favourite demo of the fest.
>>741411565>the russian sc/aoe3/c&c3 gameWhich one was that?
>>741409731This is what peak performance looks like
>>741409535kino boss fight at the end of the demo.
Do you guys check the demo list using the client of Steamdb? I noticed the demo list wont load more games if you use filters to block certain tags.
>>741390426The hell's this?
>>741412632The demo list bugs out even if I'm not using any filters. It was never properly built for actual infinite scrolling. It sucks. I only use SteamDB when I want to give the games one last quick pass towards the end of the fest because it doesn't give much info.
>>741412632I just browse the website version on a browser.
>>741412464he must be talking Dust Front RTSis pretty coolhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2610770/Dust_Front_RTS/
Any imsims? I'll try Retrospace later, but i'm not a fan of le ironic retro setting
>>741413580Nothing that I liked, personally. Retrospace was just okay and Devoid is an extremely discount Dishonored.
normies ruined video gamesnormies ruined indie games, toothere's normie consoomers in this very threadat least older games are safe from them since they don't actually play the "old unc shit", they only watch videos and spew easily ignorable nonsenseeach fest sucks more and more as more garbage low imagination shit is being made
Was just playing it before turning in for the night.Loved it. The style and presentation is really top notch and if you can really fill out your active party as bug as all those slots imply it could get really funky on a cool way.I can already see the party composition potential with weapon skills. Wishlisted for sure
I played Choo Choo Defenders because I just wanted to try something quick.I thought it was supposed to be a tower defense, but you're not really defending anything except for yourself. The train just goes around the track and auto-shoots, similar to Loop Hero, except you don't have much to do while the wave is actually running. The gameplay is mainly placing your limited tracks in between waves to hit certain pickups or deliver stuff. Reminds me a little of Mini Metro/Motorways, though you can't adjust your track mid-level and even on the highest difficulty, it's pretty easy. There are different conductors you can use, but aside from their starting weapons, they all pretty much play the same.It's a little charming, but it seems to lack replayability. It has the typical roguelite pick-one-of-3-upgrades, but that doesn't seem to shake up things very much. Levels themselves are rather short, so I don't see being able to put that many hours into it either.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4692540/Choo_Choo_Defenders_Demo/
Any good Sokoban games? Preferably something long
>>741401738got stuck in the west part with all the crystal because i moved a beam box with the displacer rod to a point that i softlock myslef and i wasted so much time on the level i just deleted the demo
>>741414706Order of the sinking star. Pretentious writting but the promise is that the game is gonna be really long
Any games that scratch the need for a N64 zelda like games thats NOT Azaran: Islands of the Jinn?
>>741414996You might like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
>>741414534That's a lot of words to describe a bullet heaven game on rails.
>>741412632I mostly rely on the discovery queueIt still won't actually show all games for some fuckass reason but it's smoother than using any of the lists
>>741379813From the moment I heard the music swelling as I arrived at the city in the beginning I knew I was in for a good time. Cozy as hell, especially with the wizard adding random commentary like he's some kind of GM
>>741372826ignoring that the game's too simple, my biggest issue is that all the pushy-wushy stuff is CLICK TO DO THE ENTIRE THING, like the loading and a bunch of leversi want full on borderline-vr levels of interaction, more knobs, more twists, less automation, more things that take time so that i can do something else in parallel for maximum optimization and stresspvkk gettings its lunch eaten because they have some weird feature creep and insane level of polish to achieve is really funny, reminds me of that one body cam game that spawned the genre with its trailer alone, but managed to miss out on its own fad that came and went lmao
Played Object Impermanence and can agree with the common sentiment.It felt like I was walking forward without any real roadblocks, the puzzles a non-threat. And while the "ruined martian factory" aesthetic was kinda neat, I still wasn't interested in it.The one secret I found was just "you can walk on these small pipes", and the reward was just some more alien graffiti which I didn't have any reason to care about. Unfortunate.Viewfinder had some real issues, but at the very least that was a game whose rules were fairly omni-applicable and made me say "woah, sick" at least twice. Despite this being a game focused on the quantum rocks from Outer Wilds, I see nothing to indicate it's going to be nearly as cool as just that small fraction of that game. Sad!
Warhammer-like deckbuilding roguelike with chess mechanics....sure, why not?https://store.steampowered.com/app/3345260/Empire_in_Decay/
>>741417368>ROGUELIKEKILL YOURSELF
>>741372826Me am brainlet. Me no know how aim cannon right. Me shoot off map. Me uninstall in shame.
>>741415195It's hardly that though, because you don't control anything but which upgrades you get and where you place the tracks. The puzzle and optimization part are in the forefront, more than any combat honestly.
>>741377180This is actually pretty neat.
>>741370906Spooky Stardew Valley seems fun.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195440/Welcome_to_Elderfield/
I played another train game, just because.Endless Rails is an even more straightforward bullet heaven with the gimmick of moving the train towards one side of the screen or the other. The train is your body, but you mainly control the "drones" which are always grouped up.However, the main way to get more guns/damage/buffs are centered around your carriages. You combine them into bigger carriages, but the weird part is that it doesn't seem very integrated. Combining carriages don't really care what's on them, so long as you upgrade in order (1:1 -> 2:2 -> 4). The modules you put on them can be freely bought/sold, so you don't really care too much about setting up a proper "build" like other games.It seems like the combination and upgrade mechanics could be a lot more varied and interesting, but they aren't. Also it has a "boss" level, but you kill the boss super fast and then it's just a regular wave for the rest of it, which was really anticlimactic.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4694500/Endless_Rails_Demo/
>>741382475>>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4638750/Lazy_Witchs_Factory_Demo/This was great really fills the factory autism in bitesized playthroughs
>>741418053If you're interested in spooky farming game, there's this upcoming game from NIS (not next fest stuff and no english version yet)The atmosphere is amazing IMO.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3934250/Village_in_the_Shade/
>>741372826>>741401048>>741416821it either needs to be WAY more autistic, or less autistic.if it was faster and simpler, you could up the rate of fire and get more complex with the missions. moving targets, quicker counter attacks, etc.or, they go harder on the simulation aspect, but i'm worried about how fun that would be. if it takes 5 minutes to load and fire a round, how do you make the actual "gameplay" challenging without it feeling like you've been kicked in the nuts for being 1 degree off in your calculations?
>>741418392Neat.
>>741418392>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3934250/Village_in_the_Shade/I don't like Squarenix HD-2D stuff but for some reason I really dig this style, is there a term for this?
>>741379814MAKE SURE TO WALK ON THE GODDAMN ARROWSI still can't believe multiple streamers completely failed at this and just finished it normally like they were walking through a museum
>Time To Wake Upit's really boring - the only mechanic is that you press a button to blink and the level changes, blink again to go back. Maybe something more interesting happens later on? I don't know, the visuals were rather boring as well, also terrible audio mixing>Scirocco ThugsBorderline cozy game, which I'm not sure if it was intended. Just punch people and kick them into eachother, there's no depth that I could find. Quality presentation though, this part's absolutely nailed>over the hillmanual is still automatic, generic indie polygon aesthetic, no fixed camera, sluggish as balls to control, where the hell are mudrunner comparisons coming from?>object impermanenceboring, the puzzles are extremely straightforward, maybe it's the limitation of the concept?>nophenianot a video game, i like the visuals though, and I guess that was the point, so I think it's the most successful demo i've played so far>kotamonjust bad - there's no feeling of achieving any progress or reaching some goal, i even forgot there were cards involved, and the loop is the size of my balls>iron nestnot enough stuff to interact with, target calculations not even remotely as involving as i wanted them to be, i need the cock+ball torture mode>anymakerran at 1400fps, i escaped before my gpu left the mortal coil>platonicablue prince anime slop, interesting, but i don't want to be spoiled so i left the demo after figuring out the kind of a game it isnot too bad all things considered>>741417318you hit the nail on the head - there is no 'woah, sick' moment that many other puzzle games of this kind have. Given that it's literally about NOT LOOKING AT SOMETHING, it might be VERY hard to make work in the first place
>>741418614It's not HD-2D, just the artstyle that team tends to use. Kinda like watercolors maybe?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1998330/Yomawari_Lost_in_the_Dark/
>>741418614Hand-drawn.
>>741418614It's just 2D graphics except with post-processing. Any 3D effects are done using layers. SE's 2DHD has fully 3D backgrounds.
anyone tried pic related? how is it?the trailer doesn't really make clear what kind of game is it.i fear it might lean into the "we want to be the next five nights at freddy" kinda deal
>>741402539https://store.steampowered.com/app/4426490/Rhomfaya_The_Rays_of_Liberty/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3154550/Aegis_Force_The_Scorian_War/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3211430/BRIGANDINE_ABYSS/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3594090/The_Great_Wastes/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4348610/Codex_Arcana_Grimoire_of_Monsters/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4109510/Realm_of_the_Wyvern/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3034660/Dunebound_Tactics/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2601980/Space_Scum/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2384640/WILD_Tactics/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3096870/Mechs_and_Muskets/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3299450/Calame/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4154670/Heavy_Duty_Inc/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3594090/The_Great_Wastes/
>>741419642Anon did >>741218225
>>741384430yes play the Outpour demohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3615290/Outpour/
Any good turn-based strategy? I'll take SRPGs too.
>>741420857Oh, I should've read the thread all the way to the end on the SRPG front, a bunch of these >>741419676 look neat. I'll give them a shot tommorow.
>1 weekend FOMO demosShan't partake
>>741379124was pretty lame and the parry felt a bit off, i think it needs half a second to finish raising the sword before it counts as blockingweirdly it reccomends a controller even tho it's a first person gamethe level up screen screamed unfinished and the upgrades weren't interesting
>>741386319>>741390121>>741372478>le sprawlhttps://www.gog.com/en/game/sprawlI played this Sprawl game and did not enjoy it at all, as a millennial.The music sounded cool at first but became very repetitive. My other issue is that platforming in an FPS game is so lame it made me want to quit.Is this some kind of sequel?
>>741422856>My other issue is that platforming in an FPS game is so lame it made me want to quit.>never learned how to shotgun jump award
>>741371097>sterilize the needle>don't sterilize the puncture sitemany teen girls get infected earlobes from shit like this and it's entirely because women pretend that ritual is better than modern practice
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4766800/CASCADER/
>>741423482>no gameplay video>a singlar screenshot of a treebro deserves to fail just for this travesty of an online presence
>>741388221>3 forum posts total>All from the dev>Hey guys, we got a demo out, let us know what you think!>Hey, guys, we're doing a competition! The highest score will get the game for free!>Hey guys, let us know which items you'd like us to add!>No repliesWhy is there a tugging pain slightly to the left of the center of my chest?
>>741420624well, glad to see it wasn't just me with that first impression
>>741424056vaxx status?
Best games I've played so far>Washington Prime Die Hard like Boomer Shooter >Kaido GenkaiAnime Arcade Racer>Dart RacerStar Wars Racer x F Zero>Normal Golf GameDumb FMV Arcade golf game>Wind Runners Shmup roguelike>Metropolis 1998 OpenTTD Sim City looking city builder with full interiors etc, seems like it could be really cool
>>741418203Train vidya again? Looks kinda like Fogpiercer except real time.
>brought the base mechwarriors 5 game a month ago>absolutely love it but theres a myriad of expensive DLCs>surely some of them will go on discount during summer deals>they just put a 75% deal on the base gameFUCK YOU
>>741371097>just give the girl an ear infectionlol
I haven't seen anyone talk about it so I'm gonna shill it.Chained Beasts is an action roguelite where you play as an animal-themed gladiator. The main gimmick of the game is that you're constantly chained to something, be it a big metal ball, the ground, your coop buddy (if you're not solo), etc. The chain works both to hamper you and to benefit you, you can get caught on something and get stuck, but you can also use it to trip enemies like in that final action scene in Pirates of the Caribbean.Game feels good, looks nice, and has a nice soundtrack. By all means it should be one of the highlights of the event if anyone at all besides me found it in the sea of incremental idle AI slop.
>>741384430https://store.steampowered.com/app/4311980/DITTORI/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/He_Who_Watches/I played both of these and enjoyed them
I just thought I'd mention that for the first time ever steam discovery queue recommended me an H game just now, which is weird becuase I don't play those games on steam
>>741388768yeah i have the same problem
>>741409535I liked the presentation, but I honestly only found how dark it was to be more annoying than spooky, which ultimately made me uninstall.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4422450/DAICE_Demo/It's not a deckbuilder, but it's sorta table-top adjacent. You play as an AI core inside a wee spaceship that you customize with various modules, which you then activate by rolling dice and shoving them into those modules. If you've played LONESTAR it might seem somewhat familiar.Can't help but feel like the name of the game was a very unfortunate coincidence. It's only called that because you play as a rogue AI core, it doesn't have anything to do with clankers.
>>741426070Just like with Astrea, I just call them dicebuilders
>>741333968>The Second Reality RoomLove me chuunis and particulary this type of trauma take on it like in Chuu2. The deduction part can get annoyingly vague at times. There was one translation that I failed because one of the terms was a coin toss between students or salarymen, and I chose the wrong one by choosing students (which annoyingly, ended up being right anyways because the group was actually a mix of students AND salarymen). Wishlisted. >VholumePerfection. It's like Mirror's Edge but at the faster speed that I've wanted and actually still manages to play smooth. Wishlisted.>Sprawl ZeroCool for a shooter and I'd like the weapon swapping if they added more cool gimmick weapons. I did find a secret chest that rotated between a bunch of weapons and it seems like all the gimmicky stuff is locked to the higher tiers (it scrolled past a katana at T6, and I got a T5 grenade launcher that shot five grenades at once and destroyed the environment) so I hope there's more ways to get those instead of just praying you actually spot a secret every level. Also needs some movement tech.
>>741426583Will probably take a while for that term to catch on, but it does sound apt enough.
>>741426583Starvaders is now Dicevaders
>>741390426store page makes it blatantly obvious there is le tweeest and it looks like it'll be as generic as the other fourth wall breaking horrors games>DOOODE LOOK THE GAME IS LE CORRUPT AND LE CUTE SPRITE THING HAD IT'S HEAD RIPPED OFF IT'S SO SPOOOOOOOOK
>>741412662the game doxes you at some point. It's a funny trick all the fourth wall breaking horrors love to do. Steam description makes it clear it'll happen
Okay but does YOUR favorite demo have a dedicated "bend over to be plapped" button?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152750/Taival/This Cubeworld-like got fuck all traction on the fest. It looks kinda bad visually, but I really like the music of it, and it just seems soulful.
>>741427343>I Have No Dick And I Must Cum
>>741427343How is it as an actual beat-em-up?
>>741379813Was kind of bored by it. The art is good, but not great, and mechanically it felt kind of flat.
>>741401738I think that there will be more puzzles added to it in 3 hours.
Which one of you is this?
>>741427207Looking at it I think the game actually has a good base for some real psychological horror. They just needed to borrow from SOMA and focus on what horrors come with having created a digital facsimile of life. Instead this looks to just be cheap shock horror
>>741428395>Even the trailer is like 20 FPSAt least he could've made something fun like Acquitted.
Some programmer seriously left Studio MDHR to make the most stale action platformer to possibly exist.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236560/Revertices/
>>741427665Mid to bad. Like the other brawlers I've tried so far (blades and battles, flux heroes) it has absolutely no grab attacks which is just boring.For some reason it has absolutely no pause function at all, no way to see your movelist, etc (those are in a downloadable pdf or steam guide, which explains the "bend over" move is actually pickup; you can just hold the button and do it at any time to make her bend over lol)A lot of moves feel hard to actually get her to do like stomping and seem to serve no purposeSpecial moves are done via holding X or Y mostly. So you can't combo XXX into the sword special. Because tha'ts hold X. Its a bad system.Even reading the moveset, I don't know how to change weapon. Sometimes she claws, sometimes she has a sword with the same exact input. Never used the scythe.Also, her hairline on her sprite is too high so she looks like she's wearing a wig ruining the core appeal of her being hot
>>741428395The throwaway line about punk rock is what gets me.
>>741428395me when punk rock is giving dad the bird when he asks me to mow the l*wn
I've taken to checking the game folders of every demo I download and it's fairly common for Unity devs to accidentally leave the DebugInformation_DoNotShip folder in the game files, which then contains a debug log file based on their computer. Nothing really interesting but it does show file paths which sometimes reveal names. And that tells you if a dev is incompetent without even needing to boot up the game.
>>741395423>>741396135Yeah I just threw a tantrum. The boss hit me with 4 cannon balls and then I shot my empty gun and got so mad I uninstalled lolI'll give it another try later
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3536620/Glory_On_Pluto_Demo/Really cool strategy roguelite, first I've seen in a while that isn't a fucking deckbuilder or Balatro-but-thing. The amount of math you kinda-sorta need to keep up with as your run progresses will probably filter a lot of people, though.
>>741431764What's YogsCast
>>741418392now that you mention this, in the previous fest I didn't manage to post about Bersmich because I responded to an off topic thread about bumpers in japanhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3670630/Besmirch/I liked the demo, don't know how much farming the full game is going to have and didn't play the EA either. Curious that now I know of 4 farm horror games, the other being Neverway.Is there a farm similar to Sakuna, you know, real fucking farming and not watering squares with the winter veggie and fetilizer that is a simple quality or time buff?
Alright, so what do I actually *need* to play?
>>741418392>no english version yetHow do you play the nip version?
NOT from the fest>dev says it's pikmin + MH inspiredI'd say creepy cute, somewhere between souls and MH. unique and polished, at the very least, which is why I think it's worth someones time. not just another copy. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4081580/Moulder_Demo/
>>741432383Varitas Tale if you want a choose your own adventure, SPRAWL Zero if you like fps, Iron Nest if you wanna captain a tank only with maps and levers, Codex Arcana if you like monster girls and chess.
>>741432383GayBlow's Order of the Shrinking Penis
>>741395962it's like not even 1/20th as fast as ascend to zero
>>741401738I pressed the map button and it reset the gems level because he binded reset to options on controller. I promptly uninstalled.
Anyone still have the link to the Inari demo?
>>741385391did you rike it?
>still have a backlog of demos from 3 next fests ago>games ive been waiting for since 6 next fests ago still havent released
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4123280/Kitty_Found_a_Camera/Ugly main character but the game itself is very charming, lovely place to walk around and explore. It's kinda like Dog's Life on the PS2
>>741432383judging by that image, rift wizard 3
>>741401738Disappointing slop
>You pushed blocks in Hogwarts for 500 hours to meet the Magistrate, who the game compliments after every puzzle>At the end it reveals the Magistrate>It's a video recording of Jon Blow in a wizard costume
Demo is finally outhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2749920/The_Transylvania_Adventure_of_Simon_Quest/
>>741417368>>741417519roguelite*W40K*My bad..
If I had a nickel for every golf platformer I wishlisted this next fest I'd have two nickels.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4713710/Ballgame_Demo/Kind of a precision platformer. Has two modes: get the ball in the hole with the fewest strokes you can, or get it as fast as you can regardless of stroke count. Straightforward but very fun.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4549170/Sting__Swing_Demo/This one's weirder. It's Animal Well but golf. Didn't find anything too crazy in the demo, but didn't find all the holes either. I'm intrigued enough.
sprawl zero was pretty coolat first i thought it looked very cheap without any textures at alluntil i realized i had turned off textures, not set them to low
>>741418413>how do you make the actual "gameplay" challenging without it feeling like you've been kicked in the nuts for being 1 degree off in your calculations?But this is the whole point of it being more autistic, you should calculate twice and fire once. let the game be more punishing when it comes to mistakes as letting enemy know about your location if you fail to kill them in once clean swoop.
how many demos have you played so far? I'm over 50 now
I made an offline viewer for all the next fest demos, it uses a pre-downloaded list to nicely display all 4407 demos with filtersSharing it here in case anyone finds it useful, I was able to find a lot more demos using ithttps://github.com/fruitymcdoo/ViewerForSteamNextFest
>>741424252Hi I made that post >>741218225It has a very noticable "zoomer horror" taste to it, but honestly the aesthetics are unique enough to justify it's existence. Music in horror games is a criminally underrated theme, so it's a neat idea to make it a center piece.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3909660/The_Birdies_of_Egg_Island/Chinese but birdpilled
>>741440967CuteToo bad desktop idlers don't seem to work on Linux afaik
any gta or god of war clones?
>>741440967>ChineseThey learned to appreciate birds the hard way, after nearly driving sparrows to extinction on purpose and causing an ecological imbalance that lead to mass starvation of the "great" "people" of China.
>>741437228>This one's weirder. It's Animal Well but golf. Didn't find anything too crazy in the demo, but didn't find all the holes either. I'm intrigued enough.I had enough fun that I tried going for the find all holes achievement. I then proceeded to find like twenty hidden holes and I think three entire new screens I hadn't seen before and I still was missing something. I'm genuinely hooked on bee golf.Also I haven't tried it yet, but an anon recommended https://store.steampowered.com/app/2531040/Rune_Golf/
>>741442794Lots of species have been made extinct by human hands, and many will continue to do so unless they are useful to humans like the pig or cow. Sorry for the blackpill.
>>741442947Missed the point entirely
rizz dungeon is kinda funhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4029090/Rizz_Dungeon_Skeleton_Key_to_My_Heart/its also a demo that knows its a demo so its a prologue to the actual story, which I always appreciate
>>741443591Very trans and pride pilledhttps://youtu.be/WCSmXAaSKu0?t=1109
>>741392634I'm waiting for Vampire Syndicate to enter EA when Summer Sale starts.
>>741435495He is just he villain of the north world. And even in the north, you quickly leave the castle. It's castle->forest->desert, and the puzzle graphics slowly shift from one area to another as you progress.
>>741428395wishlisted, thanks for the rec
>>741427378i liked the visuals gameplay is super barebones tho
>>741370906any good porn game demos
Kill the Man in the House has really satisfying dismemberment.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2475830/Kill_the_Man_in_the_House_Demo/
>>741444980Yeah. Lots.
>>741380236>20 different endingswhy can't devs into this?
>>741443814you lost incelniger
>>741440816thanks anon, this is pretty good
>>741381559>>741384805I'll give anything with original models and a bit of color a shot but that looks like cancer
>>741445513thanks for not linking any
>>741427956So a Vanillaware game.
>>741445896No worries bro. Wouldn't want to deprive you of the experience of ctrl+f'ing the last few threads.
>>741445946Vanillaware is usually better.
>>741393336>Silver PinesCame here to post about this. I was surprised at just how good it was. I was expecting just a generic narrative game using Twin Peaks as an aesthetic, but it's a genuinely solid Metroidvania. The voice acting was really good too and they all knew what they were doing with their inflections. I want it to come out faster.
>>741379813Very cute, but as the others said, really depends on how much you can do. CYOA live or die based on how many paths there are and how meaningful your decisions end up being.>>741380697I really don't miss them to be honest. Hopping between the pages was a hassle.
>wind runners>demo released 6 years agoWtf?
>>741447749Let me tell you about something called Radio The Universe
This game is really goodhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/Chants of Sennar but with math. It really feels like this is how we'd end up communicating with an alien species starting with basic numbers then basic arithmetic, then logical operations, and eventually concepts.Haven't finished it yet but I know I'm going to get this game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4735110/Your_Painting_Sir_Demo/I suppose it was fine, a nice gimmick, not much fun so...eh. Is worth checking out if you really like puzzle games I supposehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4348610/Codex_Arcana_Grimoire_of_Monsters/I had fun with this one, is Chess but with monster girls. you have to mind the terrain, how they moves and range and form of the attacks, most things die to two hits. There is the interesting mechanic that comanding units uses mana and stronger units use more so you have to a bit mindful to not move everyone and forgot to attack. I reccomend this one. I am sorry Chick Harpy, you got your ass handed everytime, I failed you.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4732160/Blighthold_Demo/A Side-scroller RTS, I think it wasn't bad. I think it feels like Frostpunk with moral and creating laws that are perks. Main issue is that it lacks a tutorial and wasted too much time without purifying things, send workers to the center barricade building. It was meh or maybe it REALLY needs a tutorial.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4215900/World_Inverted_Demo/Is a tactical exploration game? I didn't play much as I didn't wanted to waste hours in a single demo. combat is simple passing turns and interrupting the oponent if you can, it uses a timer system, faster attacks gives you a little bar strong big bars, ya know. The art was good, it has that Blame feel a bit, main issue is that the menu for equipment doesn't fit some words and the menu is kind of bad but no deal breaker really. Maybe I should have played it a bit more but is late. I did wishlist it.
ONE JOKE
>>741448684And it always puts a smile on my face
>>741445703Every fail state in a game would be an ending according to that book, it's around 30 endings and 20 of them are you lose start over
>>741445703Because most of those endings are copypaste, dead ends or gags, just look at automata
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4516190/My_Beautiful_Faraway_Please_Dont_Be_Cruel_To_Me/15 minute walking simulator, sets up a neat atmosphere and has a cute goth fairy passed out drunk in the woods who asks you to find her boot and her smokes but otherwise not much going on, will probably end up being nothing but I'll keep an eye on it
Veritas Tales is interesting but it doesn't grip me, good music and art but reading this story I don't feel engaged. Played for around 30 mins.I'll be taking a few ideas from this game for my own game however.
>>741445745>you lost incelniger
>>741449315>My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To MeI can tell that this is a Russian game just from the name.
>>741449475Entirely possible, they do seem to like their foggy woods and drunk women
>>741427665>>741430217Same devs made a very bad beat-em-up based on The Phantom with this game already announced before that even released so I knew to avoid it. Shame since they do a decent job with capturing the look of the IPs they get.
>>741449683I believe this title is a line from "Visitor from the Future", a Soviet TV series.t. east yuropoor
Any good TB RPGs?
>>741385626a few more games>Project TurboBlastA lot better than two fests ago but still too chaotic and boost focused for me. You're always boosting so the boost does feel like a boost, it's just standard speed. >UDONGEIN X2Cute touhou action platformer with good spritework, it seems pretty good. >HYPER DETONATORSimple twin-stick with Gradius powerups. Enemy mass spawning on top of you gets you nine out of ten rather than bullets or veering too close. >Ten Years of Rain Cool middle-eastern Zelda clone with a few neat ideas, starts off fast>VoidHue Good sokoban, easy to understand premise and decent puzzles. Wishlist. > Bunderkin: The Ocular Eclipse Seems like a cute game with a decent way to present "social issues" for younger kids. Dialogue and animation and illustrations are all great, although the colour palette and character design is a bit samey. You're left a bit aimless, the level is fairly open but still contained in corridors and areas. Too easy and simple, even though it's made for younger kids. > Echo Weaver Time-loop metroidvania with good controls. Looked cheap at first but is pretty decent. Writing is too quirky and it feels too easy. We'll see. >3-Bit Explorer Promising 2D puzzle adventure. The box moving ability is snappy, which is always a big potential hurdle for these games. Well written, short dialogues that don't get in the way. Good design, although the white sprites are drab. Funny character design and good level layouts. Some SFX reminds me of BotW. The soft piano tones in the music does as well, in a way. Impressionistic, a bit of Harold Budd maybe. Wonderful. Scene scrolling could use some work, it's a bit laggy on a Steam Deck which it really shouldn't be. I stopped playing and wishlisted it. >Flock of the Seraphim Cute survival clone with a very drab level. Cute but boring.
>>741450372>Wilderings: The Lost Spring Combat feels good, don't like the bamham counter icons though. Feels early-ish. Light and heavy attacks have the same animation. Very cute flying animation. Fantastic design, modelling and animation. Feels like Beyond Good & Evil X Wind Waker X Dofus? Detail is still a bit sparse in some areas, you can tell it's a wip. Writing is decent. Creature AI is cool, they try to flank you and have varied and well animated attacks.Needs a more fun movement option, talking around gets old. Runs pretty badly on the Deck though. Having to load between areas on death is crazy. Wishlisted, I did not expect to like this. >Nimbit Frontier Roguelite take on the mine from Stardew Valley, set in Made in Abyss + pokemons? Controls well and looks decent. Dialogue doesn't get too much in the way. Cute art. Quickly got into the action which was a good sign. Feels good, but even on "Spicy" and supposedly an "advanced floor" there's zero challenge. Bad placeholder music. Not worth it, sadly.
Just finished playing the last demo that caught my eye. Gonna get my thoughts together for next thread. Crazy how I always expect to play 3-5 demos and end up playing ~20.
>>741382475Man, I was recently fantasizing about a game like this but based on the Toy Story 2 repair scene. Cool to see.
>>741449475>>741449683Seems to be Finnish, which also doesn't seem surprising.
Geppy X was amusing. The demo was surprisingly lengthy for shmup standards.
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