Still got a day to go. Show me what you liked.For me it's Vholume
>>741558213I've only player DITTORI and Order of the Sinking Star. Both great puzzle games.
here are my top 3 and most likely to buy on release1. ascenders, very fun puzzle/ management game2. iron harvest, artillery sim but suprisingly fun and addicting3. restory, game about restoring old consoles and phones, surprisingly funas a bonus here are my biggest disappointments1. onimusha, it looks cool and plays nice but its so fucking mind numbingly easy I didnt die a single time playing the demo 2. mistfall hunter, the trailers made it look exciting its super shit3. empulse, titanfall with all the fun removed, on rails movement, mechs are pointless, looks extremely generic
Any cute boy games this time around?
how about some demons with cute hebesHOW ABOUT THAT??
>>741558213FUCKI thought it was until the 25th! Fuck!
Gonna shill some of my favorites again.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3978510/Chained_Beasts_Demo/Action game where you play as a gladiator chained to... something. Fight back, use the environment, excite the crowd, make sure the chain doesn't drag you down, and use it against your enemies. Looks stlysh, sounds nice, plays well.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4422450/DAICE_Demo/Dicebuilder where you play as a rogue AI core on a crusade against the humans. Pilot ships, outfit them with modules, shove dice into those modules, and try to win by creating outlandish combinations. I'm quite fond of the artstyle.
I feel like, if you dislike rogue likes, you're just completely fucked nowadays. Traditional level design is dead.
>>741558213Next Fest continues to be my favourite thing in gaming and these are by far the best threads on here.Like many I initially thought the AI-Sloppa was going to make it impossible to find any decent demos but thankfully I found plenty (Over 62), many from you guys so thank you everyone here who actually plays vidya.Will highlight a few favourites I haven't seen much discussion onhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2984850/Rita/Chicken puzzle game where you find letters in the world and then use them in crosswords to progresshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2798330/Dungeon_Settlers/Colony sim where you send colonists into dungeons to loot and then go back to expand your basehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2431080/Blood_Dungeon/Nidhogg devs made a fun spelunky style survivor-like (I normally hate survivor-likes)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3702100/The_Secret_of_Weepstone/D&D dungeon crawler, Liked this much more than I expected tohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2410360/Mirth_Island/Kinda a Short Hike but your rebuilding your community theater and theres rhythm minigames
>>741558213>Still got a day to go.I'm not playing anything this week so I need to download the demos so I still have them to play next week. What other ones should I download that are standout? I don't like roguelites, deck builders, clones of recently popular games like VS, or anything trying to look like a VN or RPG maker game that isn't actually made by nips.
Two lolsorandum games I'd recommend if you're looking for mindless funhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/Truckkun_is_Supporting_Me_from_Another_World/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4666390/Blood_Dungeon_Demo/
whats your favourite game in this next fest?
anyone seen new rts with company of heroes like squad units?
>>741561735had most fun with iron nestbest shooter was sprawl zerosinking star had nice visuals
>>741559119>2. iron harvestThat rts from 6 years ago? You must have mistype the title.
>>741562117the unit design was great but wow the gameplay was lacking
>>741562117yes lol meant iron nest
One day left bros. Are you almost finished playing all the demos you downloaded?
>>741562117>>741562268Speaking of rts games, any good ones beside Dusk Front?
>>741562562Lol no. Dunno if I played even half and I have plenty of free time so I got o excuse.
>>741558213For sure buyan:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2804240/NEODRIVE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4508570/Veritas_Tales_Witch_of_the_Dark_Castle/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/Penguin_Colony/https://store.steampowered.com/app/903930/Brigador_Killers/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4131730/VHOLUME/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856530/About_Fishing/Maybe eventually:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3714420/Delta/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3843410/Flux_Empyrean/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/AGX_GP/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/SPRAWL_zero/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3722660/Cosmodrill/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/Still need to try Ascenders, Over the Hill, Children's Garden, and Piroot.Honestly great fest personally, the increasing amounts of slop is painful but there is an amazing amount of high quality variety of games in there as well.
>>741563060Penguin_Colony looks interesting, cheers
>>741561367>I don't like roguelites, deck builders, clones of recently popular games like VS, or anything trying to look like a VN or RPG maker game that isn't actually made by nips.I'm afraid you've just filtered 99% of this Next Fest and I wish I was exaggerating. But if you like arcade beat 'em ups, Takeover 2 has potential.
latefag herepost the best weeb games
I tried that Stardew Valley like called Moonlight Peaks. I'm not impressed. It's basically the same exact, bit for bit, formula, but all the residents are split into hot topic shoppers and LA college students. What's the point of playing as a vampire if I'm not even allowed to feed on mortals? Hogwash.
>>741563517https://store.steampowered.com/app/3825600/Culdcept_The_First/Port of a strategy card game from the '90s that originally released on the Sega Saturn.
>>741563316>I'm afraid you've just filtered 99% of this Next Fest and I wish I was exaggerating.I know. I didn't have time to go through it all myself. That's why I was asking for what people liked that wasn't one of those types of games.>But if you like arcade beat 'em ups, Takeover 2 has potential.They're not my favorite but I play them now and again. I'll download it.
>>741561367Maybe try Oroject Turboblast (racing) and No Such Place (unless extraction shooter counts as a clone).
I find it odd that developers looked at Tarkov selling and then had their takeaway be "Holy shit, people love Extraction shooters! We should be making more of those!" when people play Tarkov for the gun autism, and not the extraction aspect.
>>741563934The thing is, Duckov also happened.
>>741563821>Maybe try Oroject Turboblast (racing)Downloaded.>No Such PlaceChinese plus chasing a recent trend.
>>741564148So did Marathon and a billion others. Duckov only succeeded because of China.
GREAT:>Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldronhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3330210/Kinny_and_the_Cosmic_Cauldron/>Shutter Storyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3798860/Shutter_Story/>Pulsebreakerhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3851600/Pulsebreaker/>Silver Pineshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2333000/Silver_Pines/>Neverwayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2318330/Neverway/>There Are No Ghosts at the Grandhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3725190/There_Are_No_Ghosts_at_the_Grand/SOLID:>About Fishinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3856530/About_Fishing/>7 Days to think about ithttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3828980/7_Days_To_Think_About_It/>Your Forever Friendhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3948370/Your_Forever_Friend/>Rizz Dungeon: Skeleton Key to My Hearthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4029090/Rizz_Dungeon_Skeleton_Key_to_My_Heart/>Lou's Lagoonhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2100020/Lous_Lagoon/>Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bellhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3355070/Ambroise_Niflette__the_Gleaned_Bell/NEUTRAL:>Spiritsteadhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3501540/Spiritstead/>Moonfrosthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2561630/Moonfrost/>Gossip & Potionshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2691410/Gossip__Potions_Tales_from_the_Witch_Shop/>Lazy Witch's Factoryhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3971650/Lazy_Witchs_Factory/>Deer & Boyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1803140/Deer__Boy/>DekaDuckhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3715040/DekaDuck/last time posting. hope your next fest was fun. this was a good one
>>741564190>ChineseFor what little a word of a random internet stranger is worth to you, I'd like to vouch that some chinks make really good games. Nine Sols, Lost Castle 2, Keplerth, all chinkshit that is actually really good within its respective genres.
>>741563934I mean, there IS some appeal to extraction that people enjoy, otherwise Arc Raiders wouldn't be so hot. I think people would just prefer PvE co-op versions by and large which is why Marathon became niche as it's more about griefing people and being aggro.
>>741564586I don't play Chinese or Korean games. I have no desire to change that policy.
>>741564670beyond based and same
>>741564425While I feel you about the theming I thought Truck-kun's mechanics were great. It's clearly just building more mechanics onto Crazy Taxi's baseline but I think balancing your 3D driving objectives and your RPG XP objectives is really engaging. In the full game I'll skip cutscenes (at least ones that don't show real-world Carrina, she's cute in her suit).
>>741564670>>741564890Nonsensical response.
>>741565038Not at all.
>>741564902that's absolutely fair. I just think the demo was enough and that formula will get stale fast. but I will gladly be wrong on that. the writing was really cringe
>>741565086Yes at nothing.
>>741565038gook or chink lolyour games fucking suck
>>741565168>gook or chink lol>your games fucking suck
>>741564658>otherwise Arc Raiders wouldn't be so hot. It is?
>>741564902Nice ass, there's more of that girl?
>>741565253you sound korean, even chinks have better memes lol
>>741565327>you sound korean, even chinks have better memes lol
>>741565108>the writing was really cringeWoah sounds exactly like Isekai then
>>741558213This was a weak demo fest imo, for me Restory and Chained beasts were the best ones so far.
>>741565316She's technically one of the main characters but she spends most of the game isekai'd into a fantasy world where she wears armor.
>>741565417>posting amerifat meme>while his country is raped by US beyond recognitionyou don't even have a culture lolt. not even american
>>741558213I've played restory and xenofeels.Restory is a fun cozy game. Xenofeels was an ok paper please like game. It's full of pop culture references. Not really my thing, but heh.
>>741565448good point
>install a few demos>play like 4>can't be assed trying the rest
>>741565532>>posting amerifat meme>>while his country is raped by US beyond recognition>you don't even have a culture lol>t. not even american
>>741565660at least she can open her eyes
>>741560959I started avoiding roguelikes at the top of the year. It just feels like the devs are giving me busywork instead of a tailored experience. Cheap way to add "replayability" too.
>>741565731>at least she can open her eyes
>>741565813Sadly that does absolutely nothing when it comes to the Next Fest, it completely ignores your filters.
>>741565843>posting AI slop memeslol lmao, you can't create anything on your own
>>741560959>>741565813I found a number of demos that weren't roguelites just by continuing to dig beneath the surface level. I played like 20+ and the only roguelite among them was Slayblade which had a distinct enough gameplay hook compared to all the Vampire Survivors, Slay The Spire, Dead Cells & Hades clones.
>>741564425holy trash taste
>>741565914>>posting AI slop memes>lol lmao, you can't create anything on your own
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4784720/Blacktower/This is kinda pretty good if you have a gambling itch. Basically it's a turn-based RPG where you play blackjack to activate your team's skills or disable enemy actions. Both sides' members activate depending on the cards drawn and you can control this with a limited number of re-deals.
Gonna shill 2 non-Fest demoshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3729530/Knitewings/Space Harrier with titty angels that looks like janky shovelware but plays very decently.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4421880/Catechesis_Demo/From the Yuppie Psycho devs. Story heavy top-down survival horror.
BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 4. I've finished the previous game last week. Pretty much the same game but with a double jump and a dash. I'll see when it release>>741566501>From the Yuppie Psycho devsWhat? There's a new game and a demo? Nice thanks anon
>741566251you are clearly mentally ill & koreanmy condolences
>>741566836>Broken brown is terrifying of directly replying but too petty to not try and have the last word
>>741567089>terrifyingOh noes, did I just mistype 'terrified'? How will I live it down when the porch monkey spergs out about it and starts calling me an ESL?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4358180/Shadow_Rush/Kingdom Hearts - Roguelite of Memories. You will probably like it if you played Ghost Lore (same dev), but this isn't really my kind of game.I wonder if I will find more Nomura-likes in the next demo event.
I-I'll be able to finish all my demos by tomorrowright bros?
>>741567572how was cat mail?
>>741567572Generally you can open the installdir and run the exe manually, bypassing steam's license check.
>>741567680short if you just go through it quick, it lasted me longer because I spent forever stacking everything away.If you like organizing games you'll probably like it.I had a cozy time.
>>741567852thanks, wishlisting it
>>741561735Iron Nest, and it's not even close. Sprawl Zero and Washington Prime were also alright. Most everything else I tried were mediocre.
Who are the big winners from the next fest? Not talking about hidden gems, just whatever is most popular and has made the biggest splash
Bros I just started checking SNF and its already going to end tomorrow :((Give me some fun reccs to play today, any genre is fine except VNs or artsy walking sim kinda games. I like beat em ups, roguelikes, puzzle games, and platformers the most.Bump
>>741568010iron nest is probably the winnera lot of people played it and came away positiveits gonna be chapping PVKK's dev's asses that 2 ESL retards ran in and stole some of their lunch money like this
>>741568010The ones I see most people talking about are Sprawl Zero, Iron Nest, and Dust Front. All three are pretty solid and cool.
My topmost recommendation is Witch of the Dark Castle by a former Vanillaware Veteran Artist.He's the one responsible for the Pen & Paper mode in Dragon's Crown Pro (JP only) and this game is the fully realized version of that.Basically a Pen & Paper DnD style RPG adventure with lots of branching paths and events, great art and music, and good writing with stellar Japanese voice acting. Composer is the same guy who made dragon's crown music, tooI'm typically not interested in this type of stuff (Visual Novel or Pen and Paper style) but gave it a chance because of the name behind it and it's a day 1 purchase for me now.
>>741568010You can check it yourselfhttps://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest?snr=1_4_4__118&tab=23&flavor=dailyactiveuserdemo
The Takeover 2 looks and feels a lot better than the original on the surface but for a game that clearly prides itself on being a lot like Streets of Rage they really fucked over the ways you normally defend yourself in SoR to put in a big fat parry button. The Signal-style enemies that do the slide will hit you if you neutral jump and try to attack coming down unlike every SoR so you just have to tap parry when it'll collide with you instead. The first 4 bosses get trivialized if you hold your gun ammo though I assume you're meant to spend it on those glory kills for score, and the boss in the cage seems weirdly not designed around the parry at all since it kept creating odd interactions when I kept parrying his simple windup punch.I suppose going from a C- game to a C+ or B- is a step up.
>>741568743Doesn't really work the way I hoped for. It's not showing some popular ones that I'm aware of, and showing lots of demos with few or no reviews, at least for me.
>>741567572I only played rivage from that list and it took me 15 minutes with 10 minutes trying to figure out wtf you are supposed to do and 5 minutes looping and finishing the puzzles
>>741558213https://store.steampowered.com/app/4735110/Your_Painting_Sir_Demo/not in the next fest, but it's a short demo about photobashing with cartoon humor
What did we think of Mistfall?It's Arc Raiders but high fantasy with magic?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3645410/Midgardr/Hybrid city builder/card game/CYOA with some incredibly fancy UI. Felt kinda style over substance, as each gameplay "genre" is very basic compared to games that specialize in it, and the only difficulty comes from card draw RNG occasionally fucking you over.Still worth a shoutout if the devs can spice it up a bit.
>>741568958Actually in trying it again I noticed there's no i-frames on throws which is like beat-em-up 101 so C+ is its ceiling. Parries as a centralizing mechanic need to die, how the fuck can somebody try so hard to be SoR but throw so much of its natural defensive mechanics out the window for a parry? The side roll can't be done out of your string, there's no back attack, there's no throw invuln, your special move that gives you i-frames is limited to the coins dropped by enemies instead of costing life, you just parry or drop your combo when the game wants you to combo as much as possible for its "yeah we played SoR4" scoring. Also the execution/glory kills that use up a bullet don't even give you extra points they just give you an animation that kills the enemy when you've already done 75-90% damage if you managed to stun them in the first place so they're total fluff. They can also MISS if you aren't aligned with the stunned enemy despite being a long canned uncancellable animation. They went from a subpar game all around to a game that feels good that is loaded with poor design.
>>741568958>>741570230Ngl I thought the parry was absolutely useless against anything but bosses, I just used special attacks as my defense tool, since you can cancel anything into them and they give you more iframes than anything else, on top of that they also hit multiple times. The parry's so slow and you can cancel barely anything into it, so you're just fucked if you're comboing, which sucks when the entire game is built around keeping a combo alive for a full stage lest you get a shit rank. BTW special moves aren't tied to coin exclusively, they use coins first and then health when you don't have any coins left.The dev has done some hard rebalancing and he hope he does more. Throws are useless and the executions don't do anything, as you've said.
>>741570651Actually I take throws being useless back, you can trivialize enemies that block with it.
>>741570651There was a moment where I tried to Special without any coins and nothing happened but maybe I got my input eaten. Still it's kind of fucked to have off-brand Signals that slide fullscreen and beat neutral jump attacks.
>>741558213Holy shit Trine 6 is so fucked. What the fuck were they thinking
Next feat is a blessed time for gaming, proof is that this is one of the few threads 100% about video games on this board.
>>741570858True, except that Pit boss. What's even the score requirement for a B? I got hit a couple times at most on one stage and got over 10k score and it was still a C.
>>741572082Anything that's not a full combo or close to a full combo is a C. The game is brutal like that.
Finished looking at all the demos available (Took a few days to look at a couple thousand store pages) and trying and playing the couple dozen that caught my interest. I ended up removing more games from my wishlist than adding. Anyway, my awards:Best of show:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4120310/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX/Honorable mentions:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4300500/IRON_NEST_Heavy_Turret_Simulator_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3957250/BOTVINNIK_Chess_Masters_Academy_Demo/
>>741573237Hey, someone else here has played Geppy!
>>741569005It's skewed towards multiplayer and time sinks.
>>741573237>Best of show:That's a port of an old playstation game.
>>741573619Grim.
>>741561735About FishingPerfect combination of novel mechanics, great atmosphere and interesting story and direction for my tastes
>>741573613To be honest I sucked at it but rewind made it doable.>>741573619A remaster.
>>741573728>A remaster.Are any of the original models/sprites actually getting redone? Just sprucing up the UI is hardly a remaster.
>>741564902I actually enjoyed Truck-kun but I do agree that the style could be better. Its a fun game. Also helps its a driving game arent as common on the indie front.
>>741573884Well, they rescanned the cels for the anime cutscenes, for starters.
>>741574237They didn't, they slapped an ugly smudge filter on them. One that you can thankfully disable.
>>741574237Rescanned or upscaled, because there's a big fucking difference. I'm still assmad that I spent $600 on the Slayers BDs and that they were simply upscales and not rescans of cels.>>741574295That's what I figured.
>>741574372Screenshot from the store page, it's ugly.
While I was initially unimpressed, this next ended up having surprisingly good pickings.Few things that look interesting but high proportion of things I liked. Any more recommendations?>Wishlistedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2584270/Mortal_Shell_II/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4597250/Order_of_the_Sinking_Star_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4323990/EMPULSE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/SPRAWL_zero_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3783580/Dicetris/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2548880/Divine_Frequency/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4300500/IRON_NEST_Heavy_Turret_Simulator_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/AGX_GP/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4540100/Silver_Pines_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4311980/DITTORI/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3844410/Flooded_Burials_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2783450/RetroSpace_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2749920/The_Transylvania_Adventure_of_Simon_Quest/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4245250/VHOLUME_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4714100/Veritas_Tales_Witch_of_the_Dark_Castle_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4312850/FISH/I'd welcome any more recommendations/ wishlists from other anons.I'm still trying out>Ascenders>Truck-Kun>Aenigma>GeppyX
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3789080/HIROTONFAs_American_Revolution_Smuggler/Shilling this one more timeGood game if you like economics gameplay like Recettear or centurii-chan's national girls artstyle
Anyone here played the Pulsebreaker demo? Where on earth do you get batteries to use the black light flashlight from?
>>741563060>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/Entropy/this shit any good? I like the chunky 3d visuals.
>>741575114I enjoyed it also, reminds me of sid meier's pirates.
>>741575367>singular they when it's obviously a manInto the tranny trash it goes.
>>741575439Aeman is apparently a third gender thing. So yeah, trannies.
>>741574624Well then, they can have my money.
>>741575367it's like a ps1 jrpg with weirdo sensibilities, minus the pre-rendered backgrounds
My father is dead.I don't want to be adopted. I only want demos.
>>741564670Retard
>>741575679Ching chong
>>741575114I don't like hoe centurichan only ever has women in his art. Reeks of lesbianics.
>>741575524>Aeman is apparently a third gender thing
>>741564670Koreans make the occasional fun slop, but I get it.
Any otome games?
>>741575524Really?
>>741575367>From the dev of Dread Delusion>Who fraternized with the Troonacid Dev>Comes another tranny gameBoy, what a shock, Never would've known.
>>741575367>>741576297dread delusion was a weird, but good game. this seems to be similar albeit now it's a turn-based rpg with darker aesthetic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3965780/HYPER_DETONATOR/A simple twin stick shooter with immaculate 2000s vibes, nice demo
>>741575367Yeah the gameplay feels like they have the multiple niggas in a row stuff figured out.It's hard to say how far they are gonna go with it just based off the demo which was mostly just tutorial.Good luck talking about it here though.
>>741558213>not linking to previous threadretard>>741453036
>>741575185OK, on the off chance that someone else who's stuck in the same spot reads this: you need to go into the back of the train, the mini map doesn't show you that you can enter it but you can, just not via the front.
>>741560959If I see 3 choices in a screenshot I close the tab
>>741577509>Play a game that I enjoy a lot that isn't a roguelite>Still has "pick one of three cards" progression for some reason
>>741577509Same.
Played The MerliesIt's a platformer exploration/adventure that looks really nice and seems like it has pretty high production values, but it's presented like a children's story book with a narrator and generally simple gameplay. There are light Pikmin elements, but you seem to control up to 3 birds that climb and jump, trying to find all your friends lost in the level.Really the only annoying part is that running is a contextual action that only activates after walking for a certain amount of time, meaning you can't immediately start running. The levels are big enough that having to change direction and walk a couple seconds makes it feel a lot slower than it needs to be.
>>741576694It looked atrocious when I saw it, and I have no desire to change my mind after finding out about the troonshit.
>>741577509Ditto.
Just finished Iron Nest. Did 4 missions, including Counter-Artillery. Pretty neat, but I didn't feel like going further. My favorite part was destroying 2 enemy artilleries rapidly because they were lined up.
Thanks to that anon that recommended Object Impermanence. It was quite a fun little puzzler. The secret area was interesting, but I don't really know the language, so I couldn't decipher the message. I'll have to look into it.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3595450/Object_Impermanence/
Stuff I most likely will buy at, or very close to, release>Pulsebreaker (RE clone with a focus on combat)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3851600/Pulsebreaker/>Phase Zero (RE clone)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462190/PHASE_ZERO/Stuff I'll keep an eye on>Drone Sector (gunship simulator, with an aesthetic that can't decide if it wants to be current year military or Far Cry Blood Dragon)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3279440/Drone_Sector/>Takeover 2 (beat 'em up with some questionable balancing decisions)https://store.steampowered.com/app/4425280/Takeover_2_Demo/>Culdcept (port of a deckbuilder board game hybrid originally released on the Sega Saturn)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3825600/Culdcept_The_First/>70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-X (port of a vertical shmup originally released originally on the PS1)https://store.steampowered.com/app/4120310/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX/>Queen's Blade Re:Build (card game with sexy girls that's very tame by IP standards)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3938540/Queens_Blade_ReBuild/
Very much Wind Waker and Majora's Mask but furry. But it's somewhat promising. Demo was pretty repetitive because it seems to just be a prototype to get people interested in the Kickstarter. I'll check back again in a few years.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4332870/Bunderkin_The_Ocular_Eclipse/
>>741579893>it seems to just be a prototype to get people interested in the KickstarterThat's a red flag if I've ever seen one.
i love it when you stumble across true dogshit
>>741580257Picture unrelated.
>>741580257>>741580925Not that anon but I got filtered by the settings menu
>>741581048Just set it to No Filter. It's right there in the image. :)
>>741579357>The secret area was interesting, but I don't really know the language, so I couldn't decipher the message.I'm tired of puzzle games with meta elements.
Washington PrimeI'm gonna end up paying 20 bucks for a fuckin' doom mod but i really liked it
Oh cool, a new Tri- never mind.
Just spent an hour fucking around in The Last Flight. Finally built the aircraft engine, realized the flight physics were nonexistent and alt-F4'd out.Game tries to do too many things and none of them well. It's not even passable eurojank like My Summer Car
>>741582309I only played one level and was already sold on it. I'm just a sucker for these games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3897090/Temple_Maker_64/It's rough to say the least, but it's neat.
>>741582457have you played blade of agony? it's free
>>741582879I have not. Thanks for the rec. Looks awesome.
Tried HyperwiredIt's a top-down ship-shooty game, but you have limited fuel and shots, so you have to hook up to random satellites that recharge one of your specific functions. To unlock each next level, you need to hook up to every satellite while fighting random enemies and saving other ships.Very arcade-y, because your energy is basically another type of life that constantly drains. But you still have regular life... Having to manage energy, ammo, superlaser energy, and health is kind of AIDS.
>>741582419Trine? more like TROON
>>741584116owned.
>>741582462this demo that was supposed to be part of the fest but got blocked the moment it was supposed to go up on the 15th is now available. Just barely made the fest.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4300950/Around_The_Core/Is a clicker where you aim. Should have checked the tags, this one on me.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4355710/Star_Fire_Demo/Playing random shmup game is horrible, this tag and bullet hell have been raped beyond recognition. This game is a bit like Rabi-Ribi. The graphics, the lacks of sound effect make it looks super amateurish but fine, there is an issue when you dash close to the ground after a jump and it get stuck. 3 bosses I though it was fun. Still not a shmup.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4524770/PathoBLASTA_RK_Demo/You have smaller enemies moving in the background that are no enemies yet everything looks the same, beside not being fun to play is confusing. waste of time.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4528600/LINOVICTUS/Geometry Wars but worse.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3840530?snr=5000_5100__It was alright, is an arena shooter, get in a room and thing spawns. 3 weapons, a shotgun, pistol and a homing assault riffle. You have a magic bar that works as heal for 50% and ammo for your weapons except pistol, it reffils fast and enemies drop magic. I though it was an alright game, need better music.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4641850/Maximum_Thunderness_Demo/It does look nice, it wasn't boring but it would have been ten times better without the little slugs enemies wasting my time. Overall I would say it is a fun game, a simple shooter roguelite so if you dig shooting stuff and roguelites it can be for you. didn't try any other character so maybe they are more fun to play with.Man, the bullet hell and shoot'em up tag are a disaster, I regret wasting my time with this a bit. Fuck you, don't know who made this mess but I wish all the 7 plagues befall on those dirty insects, fuck you, fuck you vampire survivor, world is a fuck, death save us all.
>>741581938I don't disagree, but also the area was hidden and doesn't affect the main gameplay experience, so it could be outright ignored.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3359110/Total_Victory_World_Conflict_19391945/This seems really cool. Shame I'm way too fucking stupid for these types of games, Victoria 2 is the absolute limit of what my brain can handle.
There are games that on Steam but their demos are in other sites like this onehttps://coomichoo.itch.io/paloo-spiralhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3690450/Paloo_Spiral/
>>741585151game looks sweetbut why though
Played Flock of the Seraphim because the characters looked cute. It's your standard survivorlike, but you recruit angels as your extra weapons.Unfortunately it runs like shit, has a weird default resolution of 1920 x 1071, and is just easy without much room for special combinations and whatnot. The map is just a small room of randomly respawning stuff to kill/pick up. There are only like 4 types of enemies too, all of which are just melee.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4536430/Flock_of_the_Seraphim_Demo/
>EmpulseBlatant Titanfall 2 clone. As a old /tfg/ man this hits pretty well (though needs some polish, sometimes I just randomly stop while slidehopping) and the paint gimmick is neat. However, the weapons look like they're all hitscan and you're forced to play as a nigger until level 44 where you unlock the white man, which instantly disqualifies this as potentially being good. While writing this I realized this is coming from the splitgate devs, which is probably also a huge red flag.>Echos of Aincradcombat is alright, map design is atrocious. Tries to be open world but is also insanely restrictive on where you can go if you try to walk anywhere but the paths. Everything either has high walls you can't climb, areas you can't drop down to because of the PATHETIC fall height, or actual invisible walls. I gave up after coming across a bridge that was blocked because "outside the mission area", despite LITERALLY going towards the objective and instead you have to take an extremely long path around. Also death game mode being locked out if you transfer your save to the full game sucks.>Iron NestPretty cool sim of controlling this giant fucking thing. I think this would be much better in VR, and some autist is already working on a VR mod which is great news. The angle controls being calculated automatically feels a little sour though, feels like something you should have to do yourself. Wishlisted>Project Turboblastthis shit really gives that Redline feel. Though I feel like I shouldn't be allowed to abuse drifting as much as I have, you can pretty much do it on straightaways and spam boost forever. Looking forward to what mod support looks like. Wishlisted>Burn 9Neat MGS-like but you're playing Hal guiding Snake instead. Like the idea but there needs to be more gimmicks to the Operator gameplay instead of just "scan thing" and "go here". Wishlisted
>>741586786>XenofeelsNot sure how much more reference spam I could take but blasting fuckers with the shotgun felt surprisingly fun. The demo felt like enough, don't think I'd play more than that. The vehicle inspection sucks though I somehow passed day 7 anyways without ever figuring it out.>Witch the ShowdownPretty sick mix of realtime combat with cards but man does it ask a lot from you. I'm still getting tripped up trying to juggle cards while dodging attacks. One of the characters is blatantly using a VRChat booth outfit which is funny.>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.>Soul AmpzFeels rather sovlful for some reason, guess since it has some decent art and characters for an RPGMaker game. Being able to swap formation mid battle is great for strategy, the card gimmick is cool and reminds me of RO. The demo only has four cards though so can't see how well the dev will work with this yet. Still gonna keep an eye on it.
>>741560959I don't understand why this happened. Are roguelites THIS popular?
>>741576297Did DD even have tranny shit?
>>741564658>Marathon became niche as it's more about griefing people and being aggro.I'm completely out of the loop with Marathon but they genuinely thought this was a mainstream winning formula?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692700/EGO_Demo/3D sort of beat em up. This is a really cool and genuinely unique game and it left an impression on me that most don't, but if you play it be warned that it genuinely has one of the worst tutorials ever, explaining its weird control scheme and combat system through little pictographs and incomplete button prompts. Figuring out what the fuck I was doing is the closest I've ever felt to being a games journalist, but once I sorta figured shit out (and got past the stupid first real level where you just fly around looking for a bus) it was fun and pretty cool. The tutorial is genuinely inexcusably bad, though.
>>741587342They're simply easier to make because you can make a smaller amount of content and let RNGseus pad the playtime vs. a traditional game
>>741587342>is the allure of "just one more run" this popular?anon you can't have just crawled out from under a rock yesterday. it's been a popular genre mashup since the mid 2000s and it REALLY took off when it became the perfect fuel for episodic content via let's plays and streaming.it's been 20 goddamn years and you're still questioning why it's popular.
>>741587395I didn't stick around long enough to look, I just used pattern recognition to figure out there's nothing good for me to look for in there.
>>741480817looks like a worse version of art of reflection from a few fests ago, try it out brohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/The_Art_of_Reflection/
Pet The CatVery simple, cute, and small scale survivorlike where you pet the cat to attack. Certain things trigger on petting, random meowing, or moving.You can sort of make a build, but it's not all that complex. The arena is also really small, so the screen can easily get cluttered without utilizing certain effects.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4605210/Pet_the_Cat/
>>741561735Favorite demo: Sprawl Zero (day 1 purchase for me, lotta hidden movement techs for boomers but plenty of mechanics for zoomers who can't into techs): https://store.steampowered.com/app/4247830/SPRAWL_zero_Demo/Surprise demo for me was Dungeon Settlers: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2798330/Dungeon_Settlers/The only other exceptional demo I played was Wind Runners which is a fresh take on SHMUPs (for me at least) and excited for the full game (may be a day 1 purchase): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1445220/Wind_Runners_Demo/Best wifeslop game I played was We Were Here Tomorrow which I'll likely get to play with my wife: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4421200/We_Were_Here_Tomorrow_Demo/If you like technical arena shooters or "movement shooters" but don't have the mental capacity to also shoot doods and just wanna move the game Delta is for you. I would love it if it was also a PvP shooter because the movement techs are 10/10, I just have no interest in surf/platform maps the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3714420/Delta/There were some other gems that aren't exactly my kind of game in the following:- Brigador Killers- Sojourn Past- Neverway- Vholume- Toem 2- BPM Bitcrushed- Duskfade- Surf Sandbox- Nova Drift
>>741577509You see the reason this is so popular is because it makes retards feel intelligent
There were a couple games in this NextFes, with Dark Witch of the Castle being the poster, just making me sad that we can't have this kind of fantasy anymore. Its nice to see some people are doing it, though.
>>741587893I mean I guess I get it, but usually its skill based and not on the metric of choices for a build. At least you can diversify a reflex check is how I perceive it in my eyes.
>>741580257If I had a nickel for every game that was true dogshit this fest I would have a small fortune
>75 demos from past Nextfests>12 still to install>just got done installing 118 demos from current Nextfest>50+ more demos waiting for me to free up the disk spacehalp plsI sure hope all of them remain playable after the fest ends
>>741589221Breh Nova Drift has been out for years.
>>741589765I think its probably safe to say if you saw the "add to library" next to download those demos will stay after.Not sure about the ones that have a button elsewhere.
>>741585151I don't understand why devs sometimes don't add a demo to their steam page even if they have one on itch.io or something. As far as I'm aware once you have a steam page anything you add to it is free so why not get the extra eyes on it? Strange. Anyway here's a game has a demo on itch.iohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3695630/Project_Landsword/https://mezzaninesoftware.itch.io/landsword
>>741587528people saw tarkov doing well with a new formula so everyone raced to get their slice of the pie
List of anon-made demos I got from old thread, maybe there are more.>>741321428
>>741559119I was interested in Ascenders until I played the demo and realized it's just Darkest Dungeon.I thought it was going to be a cool climbing puzzle game, not a "YOU NEED TO GET FOOD EVERYDAY OR ELSE YOU LOSE THE GAME ALSO YOU BROKE A BONE AND YOUR TEAMMATES ARE DEPRESSED AND INSOMNIAC SO THEY DON'T RECOVER ENERGY" cortisol raising crap
>Witch of the Dark Castle ends with you fighting against thieves and then them giving you the game and thanking you for playing the demoFucking kino holy shit
>>741560959dumb fucking whiny freak. glad you got what you fucking deserve. if you weren't such a little bitch these kinds of things wouldn't happen to you oh well no use crying over bitchy milk
>>741590948>it's just Darkest DungeonNo shit, the blatant DD art ripoff didn't tip you off? DD still has 1.5 clones worth anything (more like one because the second one is never coming out)
Demos I've played the most:>Train 45>Echoes of Aincrad>Culdcept>About FishingTrain 45 is interesting because it's not the same old "you have to fight and lose to see the sex" and the voice acting is really good.Pretty weak Fest, but I'm also pleasantly surprised that Anon's game from /agdg/ made it so high into the charts (FISH).
>>741582738It isn't part of the Fest. This has to be some sort of grift.
>>741592409Saw it in a random thread last night that probably was a grift and just wasn't paying attention to Nextfest banner shit with how late it was, so whoops.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3162900/Oh hey the demo Valve originally rejected got approved.Not part of NextFest though. And it's entirely in jap.
So anyone ever released a Dark and Darker clone that has zero multiplayer whatsoever or entirely optional one and isn't pure ass?
>>741592735Exanima
>demos and whatnot are ending tomorrow>summer sale is on the 25th instead of right after itwhy exactly?
>>741593027Don't the seasonal sales always start on a Wednesday?Plus, need to make room for all the Steam Frame/Machine reservations tomorrow.
>>741593027What is the difference whether it's right after or somewhat later?
>>741592367I guess the 3d aspect of it and the weir kind of isometric camera threw me off, my brain didn't immediately connected it to Darkest Dungeon. I started playing it and as soon as I saw the food mechanic I realized it was kind of a clone, then once I finished the tutorial and got to "the base" where you can recruit climbers and shit I was like "ok, yes, it's the same game again"
>>741589307Like with any genre, framework, narrative, or artstyle: a skillful implementation is down to the designer.There are a ton of bad games just as there are good ones. We're all finding our way through the muck to hopefully unearth something we genuinely enjoy, and as with all matters of taste, what we find enjoyable will differ.you don't need to like the idea of a run-based arcadey experience, some devs will deliver well on it, some won't. that's life.The roguewhatever paradigm resonates well with people who want to make episodic content for viewing, to have "endless replay value" for what they pay for a drop-in drop-out ad hoc experience, or just want to get super entrenched and familiar with a singular game. To them, a static game that is unchanging can stagnate and they specifically do not want that, or they may want a balance of games that keep them on their feet to play alongside ones that are designed by hand rather than by an algorithm. Not all genres could possibly work in that framework.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1785580/The_Book_of_Buja/I don't know if this game will have something more, the intro was cool as hell but the gameplay so far is basic zelda shit, I suppose it was ok, maybe worth checking out? is not like this will be a 20 hours game anyway.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/Truckkun_is_Supporting_Me_from_Another_World/Not very isekai that the girl has too much armor, no ambigous gems and not overdesigned and without a catgirl slave. Anyway, it was a fun game but I don't see myself playing it, is a fun chaos shitpost although the police cars can become annoying if it reach max threat level. It drives well I would say.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4554480/Wilderings_The_Lost_Spring_Demo/I couldn't play it, I waited 5 minutes for it to load.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4728020/Washington_Prime_Demo/Is a doom wad, I can even do idkfa. Well, is fun, the enemies die fast and you die faster, I didn't play much of the second level because of low health and being untrained in rifle is a bad idea, at least for the demo. not much to say honestly. Did wishlisted.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692700/EGO_Demo/So...yeah, I don't know, the trailer is awesome but when I tried to play it I didn't understand shit, I am not wasting time here learning when they didn't put a tutorial. Shame.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4770760/Reflection_Witch_Demo/This one was hard as balls, is an Arkanoid but you can draw anywhere on the field as long as you have stamina. It was good, it has a curious magic build, you get a main spell and you put buffs on it, didn't manage to play too much 'couse I bad. Only issue is that the leftover lines can fuck you up if you miss the ball in your magic zone, draw a line below and it bounce against the leftover, lines tneed to be more visible. IS a good game.
i have totaled two wishlistshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/OFFBEAT/this is niche and im getting into music so i guess thats what made ithttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3605570/Hyper_Bun_Buster_Rocket_Hammer_Action/this would be improved if it were played on a beat
there are much less gameplay webms this time around
>>741594864if you enjoy rhythm games try thesehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3690850/Asterika_Phantom_Rose_Refrain/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4348420/PIERCING/
>>741580257True dogshit is always 100x than Ai Manure
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4316200/The_Carcass_Demo/Turns out this was AI generated. Unfortunate. I only did 10 out of 200 pulses.
>>741596105yeah man of course it was
Every first person dungeon crawler gives me motion sickness. Do i just have to buy a shit ton of dramamine?
>>741580257I played like ten minutes of this. On one hand, the atmosphere and level design seemed like they had a lot of promise, but on the other hand the actual gameplay seemed horribly unpolished. Still wishlisted just in case it turns out good.
The Steam algorithm is fucking dogshit, I play one fucking incremental game and now its all that they recommend me on the next fests, fuck my life.It also keeps fucking recommending me horror games even though the only game I have on steam that is somewhat terror is Tunnet.Meanwhile RTS and Racing which I have tons of games and hours I get no reccomends.
>>741596704there are a lot more horror and incremental games to show you
>>741596284you can try pic related. They look very silly, but apparently they help some people
>>741582419There was a Trine 3, 4 and 5?
Anyone who likes Pathogenic you should try BioGun :) You save a doggo from the dooper virus and there's no roguelite elements just pure metroidvania (for the very vocal roguelite haters)Pathogenic is cooler conceptually though because you actually get to be the infection though.
>>741596073If you like Phantom Zero, you might want to give Pulsebreaker a try.
>>741597372I never knew a packers hat had that power, but at this point i'm willing to try anything
Tried two rhythm shmups. The first one, Shmandala, had absolutely nothing to do with rhythm and the visuals were vomit inducing.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4269330/Shmandala/The second one had a bit more rhythm game elements but the sounds made my epilepsy act up. Apart from that it also wasn't very good. Cool presentation though. >https://store.steampowered.com/app/4776310/DepthOrigin_Demo/
>>741596284Maybe you shouldn't play first person dungeon crawlers if the head bob triggers you so much
Here's where I'm at, I'll explain any of these if asked though if there's anything you'd think I'd like let me know.>Great, Will Gethttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3202580/Signy__Mino_Against_All_Gods_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4163480/Dewdrop/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4315900/LURRUNA__The_Island_of_Towering_Automatons/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3965780/HYPER_DETONATOR/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/Truckkun_is_Supporting_Me_from_Another_World/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3605570/Hyper_Bun_Buster_Rocket_Hammer_Action/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4332880/Blades__Battles_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4692540/Choo_Choo_Defenders_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4692540/Choo_Choo_Defenders_Demo/>Good or Interesting, Wishlistedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/OFFBEAT/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4015070/BASED/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4012150/BREKEKEKEX/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4663130/Normal_Golf_Game_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4682290/Slayblade_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4120310/70sstyle_Robot_Anime_GeppyX/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3148560/Project_TurboBlast/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3715040/DekaDuck/>Worth Checking Out, but I Didn't Wishlisthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4425280/Takeover_2_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4377480/Burn9/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4769220/Kick_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4293000/SWAT_God/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4612870/Hard_Edge__War_Zone/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4078160/Changeable_Guardian_ESTIQUE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3266440/RoboGAL_Gaga_Delta_Lady__Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692680/EGO/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4459850/NAMCO_LEGENDARY_Mountains/
>>741598728Ran out of room in my post but these five were actively bad, don't bother:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954890/Lady_Death_Demonicron/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4383380/XeGrader_plus_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4593460/HYPERFIGHT_2_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3773640/Garuda_Emblem_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718570/The_Walking_Dead_Streets_of_Survival_Demo/
>play Bonehold>get item that lets you leave a damaging trail behind you>win
>>741561735Geppy-X. In terms of gameplay, it isn't anything groundbreaking or particularly refined, but the presentation just hits me hard as someone who loves old super robots.
>>741596073>Sundet DevilsIs in the fest again? for the love of god I hope it is coming out soon, I played it and it was fucking great, one of those gems that you would play the instant it come out, except is been 2 years.
castleon is fun. It reminds me of the original stronghold. Just a game about building a cool castle, supporting the economy of that castle and army, and defending it from waves of dudes.But this is turn based
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4130560/Forgotten_Blood/wow, it looks like it can be a competent game but when you play it, it feels horrendous. You can aim with your mousse, look around blah blah blah right? well, your weapon only hit the spot in front of you, so you are always desiglined, why do I have mouse look if the game doesn't uses mouse? I also got lost quickly and menu control is abysmall along with the controls too, I run with ctrl and open my inventory with E. this is ass.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3715770/Oh_Robot_Legendary_Mechanic/IS alright, nothing to write a lot about, you have parts, drop everyone on the wave of enemies, try to clear the objective, pretty generic twinstick shooter, just wish there was a way to buy weapons instead of praying to rngjesus to give me something. Walking against walls is weird and get you kind of stuck.and that's it, I am not playing anything more, tomorrow I'll make some posts about the highlights for me.
>>741602394>I also got lost quicklyBrainlet
Shroom and Gloom has a fun aesthetic but it mostly just feels like a lesser Slay the Spire with a bunch of issues. The final boss being a complete pushover because my build scaled off of him giving me food constantly was hilarious though
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2913610/What_Awaits_Aleksey/I beat this and went "thats it?", turns out there are more days in the demo but if you solve the one person you can solve, you instantly end the demo.I wishlisted it though.
>>741602589that exploding shroom made me go "eh" and turn the game off
>>741602589The theme and presentation is neat but yeah all tgese new deckbuilder demos are getting hardmogged by StS2
>>741561735Blood Dungeon
>>741597585Thanks for the chuckle, king
Anyone wish similar wishlisteds please share some recommendations I wishlisted>Phase Zero>Silver Pines>Blood Dungeon>Sprawl Zero>About FishingI also wishlisted retrospace and cargo hunters but not fully sold
>>741606153Foghorns Drown
>>741606153Meatook is pretty good and unique, wish it was longer since the first few levels are tutorialsPulsebreaker was my favorite out of the whole event, just a flat out great and polished classic survival horrorFey: Distant Dream has a lot of potential The Long Wake: What Remains Observed was a sleeper hit for me, but I can't see it being a full game, I'll have to check the full release laterThe Old Flesh of Nuraga was also a nice surprise Shutter Story is also very unique and charming
>>741607115MEATHOOK, small misspelling.
>>741606153Got all of these except sprawl zero, I'll dump what else I wishlistedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3411220/Dreadline_Express_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1101370/Wind_Runners/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4311980/DITTORI/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3932580/Diorama_Break/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4739030/Pulsebreaker_Demo/
Is there a reason why the card dealer in the first town of Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest references the Dealer from Hand of Fate in all of his dialog?Not complaining it's just that I haven't thought of that game in years and I didn't think it was popular enough to get a reference like this.
>Booted up Penguin Colony>First thing I saw was some disclaimer/notice about indigenous land and how 'this land isn't ours' or something>"Huh, that's weird, was this game made in Austr-">Next popup is the Australian Government emblemWeird first impression. Interesting exploration game though, but didn't see much point in soul-swapping to other penguins.
>>741610423Oh that's disgusting.
>>741558213>Show me what you liked.The thing in the basement got me. I hope I can finish it tomorrow. Pretty good game so far.
>>741610423Yeah it's a stupid thing that still shows up in media down here every now and then. I always kind of just zone out whenever those show up because 99% of the time it's not even relevant to the actual content, and this game's no exception, has no purpose other than making you go "Huh?" at the start.It's an okay demo otherwise, would rather not see our retard government's fingerprints on it however
>>741610823Ive never seen it that anti-white before though, usually its just "we pay respects" not the rest of that hateful shit.
played a good handful of demos, the big standouts to me were choo choo defenders, signy & mino, and sprawl zero. about fishing, ambroise nifelette. fish, magical blush, and adventures of simon quest were also pretty decent
>>741602589What sort of decks have you guys made? I'm assuming the second boss startoff 50 damage kamikaze unironically just kills 95% of decks unless every deck has some form of max HP stacking. Still ate shit afterwards anyways because the max HP damage scaling card only scales if you draw it and another max HP+ card in the same hand and the second boss scales absurdly + has 3+ phases.
>>741610708Another twin peaks ripoff?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3711050/BeaterCore/I decided to give my personalized list one more look before the fest ends and I found this. Holy shit, I had no idea I wanted a shitbox racing game. It even has light sim elements where you have to physically fix your car in first person and bring any spare parts you think you'll need during a race.
>>741614125Didn't know of this, sounds neat.
Very simple and casual city-builder with 2 gather-able resources, plus gold. It's really bare bones, but I can sort of see where it's going. I've played other games with similar looks and themes and really liked them (Islanders), but I feel like a lot of branching or decision making needs to be implemented in order to give the player more motivation, whether it be optimizing or just battling the elements/geography.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1530850/A_Little_Age/
>>741558213Dead Reckoning is really good bros. Check it out.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4557340/Dead_Reckoning_The_Long_Drift/
>two good witch games this festIm satisfied
I'm still waiting for a game like Myst to appear. I searched without a success.>>741558213ultimately this one's charming in it's own way:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4061790/Skyes_Repose/the elementals and puzzles are nice but the dev needs to figure out if they really need farming, sim and puzzles in one package
>>741614125At 140MB, that's one of the best filesizes I've seen so far this Fest.
>>741616530>I'm still waiting for a game like Myst to appear.Dimhaven is coming out in a few hours and I'm pretty excited for it.
>>741601483I checked the k*ckstarter before the fest, they're still working on it and there's still no release date. I've got it filed away in the "might release before Half-Life 3" category along with Scramble Vice and Death Trash.
How many hours left?
>>741610423I cloes the game the seond I saw that screen.It's actually hilarious that they don't realize they are making a gigantic red flag before the game even launches that makes the game sell worse.
>>741587395Yes, one of the quests has you hunting down information about the alternate clones of a woman created as an 'experiment' by the mad, realirty-warping computer god of the clockwork realm or something and in the forbidden archives there's a line about how one of the clones petioned the computer god for a magical sex change.
>>741617652you have to do it when your game is government funded
Do we think the next Next Fest will have a bunch of Pokopia/DQB clones?
>>741595412Most of the games I liked this fest are puzzle games so they're not very exciting to make videos of.
Thanks for trudging through the sloppa to find some good shit anons, been trying most recommendations in the past day or so
>>741619037you played all MY recommendations right anon?
>>741619070Even yours anon. Even that game.
>>7416174896.5 hours.
https://rentry.org/JuneNextfestRoundupFinished my haul, 70-ish demos played and I did mini reviews for most of them. Altogether a good nextfest, even if I had to spend more time than usual scrolling through slop and posts about slop.
>>741615002Seems alright, but not having a pause of some sort to skim over your settlements and make plans was a bit odd.Didn't much like how it just boots you out of the game when you reach level 7, didn't even have time to optimise my production lines
Are all these demos going to be unplayable when it's over? I don't recall that being the case before but just want to make sure
>>741621143It's up to the dev. Most keep them up, but some will block access to it
>>741621143It's completely up to the individual devs. Demos getting taken down (at least immediately after the event ends) has become much less common than it used to be, but it still happens. At the very least assume that any multiplayer focused demo will be removed.
FUUUUCK next fest is almost over. I just got VR so I spent all fucking week playing that and didn't play any of the demos I downloaded
>>741621143Adding to what's already been said, as long as you have a demo downloaded, you should still be able to play it even if it's removed just by going to the .exe directly
What do we think of the top demos this fest?
>>741560959There's no better example of traditional level design than retro shooters but I bet you cried every indie being a retro shooter around 5 years ago
>>741621214>>741621250>>741621445Thanks bros, went on a big download spree and will play these over the next few days
>>741558213too much ai https://youtu.be/-0D1cWt3F_I
tried order of the sinking starI think I just don't care about sokobans enough to suffer through haughty brown woman yapping about nonsense
>>741622529buy an ad
>>741563606greatest stuff of all, can't wait for the new one in July
I just wanna say thanks to EVERYONE that has posted recommendations. I really appreciate it.
>>741597540i did. it didnt work properly with my controller for some odd reason
Dropping in my almost final list from this NextFest, still have ~5 demos to go through. Let me know if you need detailed opinion on any entry.
>>741625419what about sir we have an orc problem made you drop it?its kinda just exactly what it advertises itself to be imo
>>741558213>MIHASHIRAInteresting score chaser. Playing with the solid option is so much harder, no clue how to survive while spinning my ball and chain around. Laser is super easy on the other hand, at least in the demo level. They managed to lewd a tetrapod, incredible.
>>741582309I thought it was sickI also liked Necrofane it was fun
>>741625573Personal preference, the style itself is way too basic for me
>>741558213Did anyone come across any casual fanservice games? Pic related
Tried 142 demos. Here's a list of stuff I wishlisted. I like puzzle games and adventure games so it was a pretty great fest for me.https://rentry.org/NextFest062026Vidya
Heres my final one, i really didn't have much time this week.I feel like 90% of games this time around were friendslop or games that already existed with a new coat of paint
I really enjoyed Iron Nest and I'm sure the devs of PVKK have to be pissed about it. I half thought that was exactly what I was downloading for a while too. The sound design and how everything felt was really good but man did my frames tank when I cranked its settings higher.
>>741628886the devs of iron nest have realistic expectations for themselves with setting their pricepoint at 10-15everyone whos played it seems to think theres gonna be substantially more, and there really isn't.
Off to a really not good start.
>>741610423I noticed the different penguin species had different "abilities". Some had multiple jumps, the baby penguins can enter small holes which act as shortcuts.One of the last species of penguins you find can make the human's heads explode by chirping, so it could get weirder and more useful, I hope.
>>741629218I did one of those surveys at the end of a demo and it genuinely asked "which influencer would you like to see play this game?". Its literally over.
>>741628216Question: Do you actually have any quality control or do you just hit install on everything? I couldn't even find 30 demos i was interested in, let alone 142.
>>741614125I played only a few minutes and got hardlocked, the concept is neat but it feels way too early still for a demo, will keep an eye on it.
>>741629430Really not a fan of twitch bait.
Hit new epic indie incremental best game you've ever played coming through.They need to quit this shit.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4135570/4x4_in_a_Furniture_Store/This one is AWESOME if you like tricky driving games, holy shit!
>>741586846for some reason Witch is the demo that I keep going back to. The duels are just really fun once you get the hang of itShame a bunch of the assets are just directly from Booth
>>741610423Bro, wtf is wrong with the modern devs.
>>741573237>>741573603Geppy was cool but some of the spaces were super tight. I'm not sure where my hitbox is located. Enjoyed it and beat it but I ate a lot of bullets. check this one outhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4462650/Infinity_Lancer/
>>741630871holy shit man, I gonna have nightmares that will look like this...
>>741615405Surprised this isn't getting a bit more attention.
>>741633117this isn't a dev problem, soon you will see this shit when you open Office/outlook and your banking app on your phone.Jews just have to remind you every 5 mins how bad you are.
>>741610423Guess you guys never played Umurangi Generation? The devs just hate the government and globalist bullshit. It's genuine anti-authoritarian sentiment, not virtue signaling.
so was there anything even good this next fest? I got so bored I stopped a few days in
>>741635260Nah nigga it was all trash, you should go ahead and set your house on fire.
>>741635260Yes, do your research yourself lazy retard
sort of wondering how much of a phenomenon order of the sinking star would be if blow contracted a peak JP design company for the art
>>741636445It might have gotten a bit more attention but it's still a sokoban at the end of the day.
>>741636445It won't be, average roguelite deckbuilder shiteater hates the games where you need to use brain (even as basic as sokoban) and here you also have characters interacting the blocks in annoying ways, suspiciously wokie designs are borderline a nonissue
>>741636445sokobans suck manit could have the best art in the world and that'd still be true
>>741636926>sokobans suck manWhich is why you losers were deepthroating a certain finnslop for like half a year nonstop?
>>741636982I have no idea what game thats referring to
>immediately recognize artstyle of XenoFeels>game is entirely SFW
>2000 fucking demos>AIshit fucking everywhere>no guarantee any of the indiesshit won't disappear for 6 years>half are set to be Early Access dumpsterfires>not even 1/10 games released to EA ever get to 1.0How does anyone even give a singular shit
>>741637095boy do I have another disappointment for youhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4294490/KOTAMON_My_Sis_Found_A_SuperRare_Card_In_Her_Cereal_Box_So_I_Became_A_Garbage_Man_To_Find_The_Entire_Collection_And_Earn_1000000/
>>741637187By all means, artists should make what they want to make, but...
>>741636873I don't think it's woke the in-game art quality is lacking and doesn't live up to the characters. There are plenty of unique JP artists who could do a slightly artsy fartsy style that blow wants but superb like it doesn't have to be Helltaker or include otaku tropes.>>741636926>>741636840it's a fun game and seems to be getting good traction though and JP work for peanuts in this economy
>>741637340they should consider making a good game before they hmm and haw over it being sfw or notyou can either get carried by your nsfw art or you can make a good gamehe tried to make a bad game with sfw art.
>>741625419>Don't dfrett
It's ogre. Make your lists.
Didn't try too many demos... in no particular order:>Witch of the Dark Castle>Burn-9 Both CYOA games, both interesting enough to run through the demo multiple times to see if I could find extra paths.>Labyrinth of AetheriaSimple retro dungeon crawler. Nothing outstanding, but I'm a sucker for the classic RPGs letting you make whole teams of custom characters.>Fantasy World ManagerDemo doesn't have access to the deeper layers. Full thing could be interesting for setting up a complex world, but in the end it may be... an ant farm idle game.>SlaughterhouseThe demo doesn't give enough time to accomplish much. I see the potential it has for the player being the orchestrator of a series of murders, even turning the victims against one another... but also how it could be lacking, a little too routine.>OmenSolid top-down space shooter, random missions/upgrades but avoids roguelite powerup aspect, but the sprites are so small.>Truck-KunCute, but I got bored pretty quick after a few monotonous runs. Maybe the full thing will have more elements.>Heroes of Aincrad>OnimushaNot bad higher budget action games, but not worth close to $70. I like the slower, more committal combat, can't dodge out of anything at any time.>Wind Runners"I'm spending 350/360 of the time doing loops around giant ships so I can peck at them for a fraction of a second." Also heavy roguelite incremental powerup slop where my turrets and special reactions were doing more than I was after a few missions. Not for me.>Kernel HeartsRoguelite hacknslash, Risk of Rain 2 style fixed map with random events. Maybe it gets better with more unlocks, but I got bored after a few runs (maybe shouldn't have played Sinner Mode).>Edge of MemoriesSomewhat stiff XXX and YYY action game with Dodge Offset. It was okay, but the demo crashed on me. Not for me.
>>741636298>>741635603>can't even name a single gameyeah...
>>741640595why isn't your house on fire yet?I told you what to do you mindless golem
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestmostplayed>#1 BOMBANANA!>#2 IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator>#3 Echoes of Aincrad>#4 Mistfall Hunter>#5 over the hill>#6 EMPULSE>#7 Dust Front RTS>#8 The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu>#9 XenoFeels>#10 Embers of the Uncrowned>#11 Casualties: Unknown>#12 Mortal Shell II>#13 Double Dealers>#14 GRAIN ROT>#15 Order of the Sinking Star>#16 ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs>#17 Friendly Steps>#18 Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis TD>#19 Invokyr>#20 No Such Place>#21 Enginefall>#22 Onimusha: Way of the Sword>#23 Valor Mortis>#24 Cozy Game Restoration>#25 The Guild - Europa 1410>#26 Project: Doors>#27 VOID DIVER: Escape from the Abyss>#28 DragonSword : Awakening>#29 Gold Mining Simulator 2>#30 Nomad Drive>#31 County of Fortune>#32 FreeStyle Football 2>#33 ZeroSpace>#34 Bus Simulator 27>#35 Corsair Cove>#36 As One We Survive>#37 Trash Day>#38 Slayblade>#39 Train45>#40 Deep Dish Dungeon>#41 Sir, We Have an Orc Problem>#42 1666: Amsterdam>#43 Car Mechanic Simulator 2026>#44 Demon Bluff>#45 Strikers Club>#46 IGTAP: an Incremental Game That's Also a Platformer>#47 VHOLUME>#48 Trees Hate You>#49 Dungeon Settlers>#50 Last Pirates: Die TogetherSurprised Iron Nest is that high.
>>74164286990% of it is online slop...lmao
>>741597513>>741512547>Kusan: City of Wolves Reminder to always replay demos you're split on. This is soo much better now. One the one hand, silly it took them so long to get on par with the original game, on the other hand, it's awesome now. Story seems basic but still got me hooked. Stays on wishlist. >Infinity LancerVery fun patterns in this. Positioning is important for score collection, or you have to play aggressively close. Pretty hard for me. Wishlisted. >70s-style Robot Anime Geppy-XExcellent production values in this and you have loads of tools to play with. Wishlisted. >DoDonPachi Resurrection ReigniteIncredible patterns. I'll play this one day, but atm it's way too hard>Flooded BurialsVery nicely done, but the combat wasn't that fun to me, a bit too repetitive. >Changeable Guardian ESTIQUELooks fantastic, plays OK but is very simple. The slower mechs recharge system is a bit unintuitive. It's too easy, even I was able to beat it on hard.
My top shit that I'll probably buy day one>Brigador Killers>Void Diver>The Message from Deep Space>Vholume>Normal Golf Game>About FishingGood enough to wishlist but might not buy>Ambroise Niflette & the Gleaned Bell>My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me>ReStory: Chill Electronics Repair>Object Impermanence>Anonymized>Cuboid>Rivage>Lou's LagoonUnenjoyable, not wishlisted or removed from wishlist>Dust Front Tactics>Iron Nest>Kaido Genkai>The bird of the North>There are no Ghosts at the Grand>Order of the Sinking StarOverall pretty good fest
>>741642869>a porn game is the 39th most playedThe masses have spoken. Add train sex to your games, devs.
>>741642869>1666 got beaten by We have an Orc Problem and a porn gameGood
>>741630871they make those because of me, I play all of them, I suspect theres some cookie cutter framework or an ai makes those and I dont care. more mobile idle game should adopt this upgrade tree
>>741642869wtf is bombanana? Didn't see a single person here mention it yet it hit #1?
>>741642869>fucking xenofeels is in top 10damn shiteaters really love their shit huh
>>741609573>Dreadline Express is a 1st-person, psychological horror metroidbrainia>metroidbrainiabruh
>>741642869I got No Such Place, Void Divers and Demon Bluff. NSP being that high is weird.
>>741644479A coop game. All you need to know really. People don't talk about coop games here because of a lack of friends or, more charitably, it's harder to get friends to try out random coop game demos.
>>741642869>No Such Place is in there<3>DAICE and Chained Beasts aren't</3
>>741643503>>Void DiverLooks neat for an extraction shooter but I'd rather play No Such Place cause I can make whatever character I want in there.
>>741644686I don't know what they're smoking either. But what made me try the demo was the trailer, not the word salad.
Wind Runners is a true work of passionSuch a well made game
>>741645929Okay, José da Silva.
>>741637396>I don't think it's wokeFor now, the artstyle and their obsession over voicing are already red flags. Maybe dev will grow a brain and don't go any further though
so who won the most popular
>>741647167Some friendslop nobody here actually played because none of us have friends.
It's between Sweet Dance, Paddle Together, EagleRoad:WorldRise, or Devour Three Kingdoms.
>>741647384how unfair they're selling 2 copies like pokemon sun/moon
>>741642869>Order of the Sinking Star is the highest ranking puzzle game, rivaling casualshit and griendslopCommon Blow W. Shame that DITTORI didn't make the list, though, it was also really good.
Indie gaming makes me hate early access more and more
>Jonathan Blowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et9Jjp6p9js
>>741649808Skill issue, learn to filter scams
>>741636445If it looked like baba is you or void stranger instead of some cheap westoid mobile game from 2016 maybe. Right now it's an insulting game + it runs like shit
>>741648868VoidHue, Mimic Meadows and Woiims were my favorite sokobans this fest. Sinking Star had too much dialogue, constant yappin
>>741650780>it runs like shitworks on my machine
>>741651156I dled Mimic Meadows. It looks charming enough
>>741651309please tell me if you manage to get past the frogs with the plums cause I don't understand the mechanic for them
>>741651404You need to turn yourself into a plum in at least one of those
>>741642869A singleplayer game like Iron Nest topping the charts is actually pretty insane. Hope the devs are happy.
>>741642869>Surprised Iron Nest is that high.A whole bunch of top 200 streamers played it so it got a lot of attention. Sucks for that one german game with a similar premise that was announced like a year or two ago getting beaten to the punch on an artillery simulator.
>>741643503>>The Message from Deep SpaceWHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
>>741655620They have been developing this shit since forever, germs just can't stop themselves from inserting way too many pointless details
>>741655620It's their fault for spending so much time on Dome Keeper after releaseStill though, I'm sure it will do fine
>>741651404have you tried pushing the blocks?
>>741655923Use context clues to translate signals into words and concepts
>>741656104It definitely will on graphics alone
those are the wishlist that I added because I want to play the game, others are simple to not forget the game exist.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4508570/Veritas_Tales_Witch_of_the_Dark_Castle/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3748520/SPRAWL_zero/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3648350/Dream_Walker/yes, is slop but also an rpg game made by one dude, for me this is almost like one of those rpgmakers games that use asset from the forum that looks jarring between all the different artstyles.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3798860/Shutter_Story/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3725190/There_Are_No_Ghosts_at_the_Grand/I'm surprised this one didn't make into the top 50 but is a well known fact that people have shit taste.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4323990/EMPULSE/Titanfall copehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4348610/Codex_Arcana_Grimoire_of_Monsters/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2548880/Divine_Frequency/This one is my top choice, I even played with all the classes.
Were there any good games with open worlds or sandbox gameplay or character creation?
>>741657270Lou's Lagoon was alright, though the character creation was pretty limited
Any demos that are confirmed gone?
NextFes is so fun. I'll miss these threads until next time.
>>741617715I'm genuinely not sure how to feel about this because its implied to be magic but usually I think I like it with the intent for deception or its a curse or something. Having it be sought out feels like tranny shit. Am I mad for thinking that?
>>741660445Browsing the catalog again after a week of mostly staying in these threads and playing demos is fucking depressing.
>>741642869I'm surprised Catechesis didn't chart. It did at the start of the next fest.
A porn game made the most played, huh. Can't recall if that's par for the course or its a unicorn in an open field.
>>741660521It can't be helped. Even if it is possible in that fantasy universe to have a genuine functional swap to the other sex, and the creators not doing it for any reason other than "magic should be capable of doing it," the taint of transhit lingers... Of course, a true sex change is not something the freaks actually want. So if it's magic, it's fine.
>>741558213The only good one was Dust Front>>741559119>Iron HarvestYou would like Dust Front for the points you put in there, I personally didn't like back then and I'm worried over DOW4 because of that.
>>741661589I guess its whatever. I kinda sadly accepted that there are games out there I like that will be compromised to some degree so its a matter of tolerance. If its a fucking line, I can probably handle that. But if its "Pick a third gender" at the character select, that's apparently my limit. Would rather not have to fucking tolerate it in any capacity whatsoever but I can't deny that every now and again those faggots know how to make a decent (DECENT BEING THE WORD HERE, because these fuckers like to pretend Celeste is the greatest platformer ever created) game every now and again.
>>741660965I simply don't touch /v/ outside of these Next Fests. It's just not worth it
>>741656130The only clue is a bunch of numbers from the signal and if I repeat it back the signal changes some numbers
The October next fest will be in much better shape bros. Steam choked with their console release but this is great news
>>741662626Okay, and what's the pattern on the new numbers?
>>741642869Horrorbros...is it over?
>>741662996Does this only apply to AI assets and etc. I believe code is still okay, right?
my only recommendation is "batomon showdown", the truth is if you play today you will probably not even buy the game when it comes out because there is TOO MUCH gameplay in the demo so you will get your fill of the gameplay loop and move on. The other recommendations are dustfront and demonbluff, but they are both top 10 so you probably already played them >>741559260catechesis, but its shota
>>741662996I have seen MANY ai games with no disclosure. Steam has no reporting feature and there is no reason to self report since there are no consequences
>>741663485yes, generative ai is what the people hate.
>>741657881Is my uncle a swarthoid in this game? I can't tell if these are shadows or melanin.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2523510/Piroot/Late nextfest tentative recommend.Demo was clearable in 10-15 minutes. Definite potential for satisfying metroidvania upgrades as it goes further but hard to say.So short I forgot to take a screenshot.In other news Over The Hill ran so fucking shit on my 3060 even on low with DLSS I'm incredibly disappointed. Cranked graphics to ultra for this screenshot and it's mostly just vegetation in the distance and shadows.
>>741663509is this a pokemon clone? looks great
>>741665186its a super battlepets clone, you win or lose in 30 minute games. it just has a pokemon skin. still i would say try it its next fest after all
>>741628216>https://rentry.org/NextFest062026VidyaAmazing and incredibly useful. Thank you. Using this as a framework to check out things for myself, helps a lot. Huge respect, and appreciated.
>>741642869>>#3 Echoes of AincradIs it just the brand name and big studio backing that gave it #3, or is the demo great? I avoided the demo because of file size reasons.
>>741667779It's the next big title from a popular anime franchise so obviously people are going to check it out. Don't worry, literally everybody was shitting on it.
>>741667779It's an okay action RPG. The basic combat feels pretty deliberate in its slow pace, not too flashy with attack animations, like it's trying to be "grounded." Of course it's just the demo so it probably gets more egregious with its abilities later.BUT it feels like it would be a budget title you'd have gotten during the PSVita/PS3 era in terms of feel and presentation. I wouldn't pay $20 for it, let alone $70.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3949050/Frontline_Logistics_Isarian_Warfare_Demo/Logistics focused RTS, never played anything quite like it (if you have, please tell me) seems to have a steep learning curve.
>>741663509cute butt
>>741667779>$100 buucks
>>741668689yes
>>741660445I think the sales threads have kinda similar energy, although no demo playing for the most part
For the last time, no body gives a fuck about the curly fries!!!
Valve just posted the top demos this event.https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestmostplayedThoughts bros? Surprisingly good list all things considered.
>>741671778I think you should start reading threads before posting in them.
>>741637014Baba is You
>>741642869>mfw sprawl:zero didnt make the fucking cuti'll admit, the first one was ass, but ZERO definitely deserved to get SOME love
>>741672010What a very schizophrenic post then
>>741672063no it didn't unc, that shit was busted
>>741643503>Iron Nestit GETS FUCKING TEDIOUS AND BORING everytime when the stupid piece of shit elevation section takes its sweet time to adjust its distance especially when you have to deal with multiple targets or spam STAR to search for those nonsensical counter batteries
I wishlisted 0 demos this time aroundHow's your wishlist looking anon?
>>7416723412 ESL retards shamelessly copying better people's idea, please understand
>>741642869>Exit 8 but hentai got inKINOOOOOOOOO
I wonder if his dialogue changes depending on what fish you provide.
>Leave long negative review on a demo>Dev friend-requests a day later>DMs me some questions about my issues in a nice way>Says they're looking into implementing some of my suggestions
Fucking reddit spacing ayys
>>741674797you choose the spacingI actually got really annoyed with being unable to contextually change how -2 is handledI wanted -2 to just be no space inline, and -2 -2 to be a new linebut noooo bautista fucking SUCKS at his job
>>741674854Anon that is an option too, maybe it got added after other formatting though.You can set any code to be inline when used once with new line after double use.That's what I did.That's what reddit does.
>>741610423Aren't Australians forced to put this in their shit or am I misremembering?
Reminder to ignore any posts that don't have all three of the following:>Screenshot of the game>Description of their experience with the game>Link to the store pageIf you're not gonna do the bare minimum to shill a demo you don't deserve the time of day
>>741656128I don't recall my void stranger's titties being that huge.
>>741634414no one plays umurangi generation, its not a game
>>741676543I think so, at least if you're getting government funding. I could be wrong though, since I never really give a shit about the 'acknowledgement of country' stuff
>>741634414>Guess you guys never played Umurangi Generation?I did, and the political preaching was the worst part of that 'game' and the DLC. I actually mostly enjoyed Umurangi too if not for the DLC shoehorning in gay ass 'muh powice bwutawity muh riots rise up people!!!' as if the game didn't just spend the rest of it's runtime showing you humanity is at risk of fucking dying to FUCKING KAIJUS NIGGER YOU DON'T GET TO BITCH ABOUT AUTHORITARIANISM IN A KAIJU SETTING YOU MADE IT A KAIJU SETTING YOU STUPID FUCK YOU SIT DOWN AND DO AS YOU ARE TOLD OR EVERYONE DIESAlso>hates globalist bullshitThe devs are communists thoughbeit, they love globalist anti-white bullshit. Lead dev is like 1/16th maori from NZ (and hilariously ran away from NZ to Australia because the policies he voted for ran the country so far into the ground that fucking Australia looked better economically). Imagine being a 1/16th native, gassing up how native you are, and then abandoning said 'ancestral land' to go to the next country over purely for money instead of having a spine and trying to defend what you were LARPing was your blood-and-soil.It's a billion percent virtue signalling because that slimy fuck doesn't have a single genuine bone in his fucking body.
>>741642869>half of it is just friendslopUnfortunately, this isn't a very helpful list.
>>741677832That's pretty funny>We acknowledge that Australia is built on stolen land>Can we get our land back?>No
The only demos I played that didn't have major problems were Corsair Cove (which was kind of mid) and Shroom and Gloom
>>741564425hello marketer
>>741655923Math, mostly.
>>741678981It's always been a popularity contest of multiplayer games. Valve should make a separate list for singleplayer games.
>>741680463you played awful demos?
>>741680813I didn't play that many but most were not ready
>>741628216>The Button EffectCompletely missed this. Thanks for the rec.
>>741676724It's fan art but also canonical
>>741676543They are, yeah. First time I ran into it was Goose Game, I think.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4519130/MOLDRISE/Enjoyed this, doesn't seem like it'll be a very long game but the demo was enjoyably strange.
bros should I become a curator?do curators still get free keys just for reviewing random indies?
>>741655620From what I've seen of PVKK and played of Iron Nest, they play very differently, so I'm sure there's room in the market for both.
Iron nest was truly one of the most boring games I've ever played in my life like maybe it is interesting if you're a retard or something.
>>741674797>reddit's mascot is an alienDamn. We made contact with aliens years ago and they're fucking faggots.
>>741686746Post favorite demo
>>741686746post a game thats better while being that kind of thingI like artillery
>>741687808Dragons Crown DLC
>>741662996all this will accomplish is having more devs not disclose it, it means literally nothing with punitive measures towards devs that don't tell the truth, which is an entire can of worms steam will never touch
>>741689562*without punitive measures
>>741662996>AI games filter steam soon>will be>this is great newsThis is an old extension. What the fuck are you talking about?
I pretty much only played puzzle gamesGood:>Order of the Sinking Star>Outpour>Trifolium>OnimushaMediocre:>Object Impermanence>Dittori (yes I know there's secrets)>Bloody Grids>Vholume>Mimic Meadows
About Fishing was cool.
>>741660445Nextfests are always the best part of the year because we are bombarded with literally hundreds of games that NOBODY has any opinions on yet. It's pure gaming discussion.
>>741668412ngl this game is filtering me hard and I have no idea what Im supposed to do
>>741561367I have been told repeatedly that once the demos are down you won’t be able to play them, even if they are downloaded.
>>741692069Wishes it was a Suda51 game. Pathetic.
>Will buy:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4549170/Sting__Swing_Demo/Golf exploration game, tons of hidden stuff even in the demo. My surprise hit this Nextfest.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4361710/FrogStray/Simple platformer, would have depended on price, but actually just released for like 2€.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4079110/Otterly_Lost_Demo/Cute exploration game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4065500/Fallosophy_Demo/Pinball platformer but not complete rage game bullshit. Also some fun mechanics shown off.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3722660/Cosmodrill/Chill space resource gathering.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4151000/Fading_Echo_Demo/Action Adventure. Annoying dialogue, but I’m a sucker for elemental mechanics.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4250680/AGX_GP/Time trial futuristic racing.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3655180/Nowhere_to_Run_Demo/FMV, always hard to judge from a demo, but seemed pretty solid so far. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3062420/Echo_Weaver_Demo/Metroidvania with time rewind/retry mechanic.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3836760/Ten_Years_of_Rain_Demo/2d Zelda(1) clone.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499130/Lous_Lagoon_Demo/Comfy Island delivery game.>Might buy:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4267860/Ascenders_Beyond_the_Peak/Darkest Dungeon but you climb a mountain.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2876290/Sojourn_Past/Hyper Light Drifter Moth-Souls bullet hell.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4782580/The_Old_Flesh_of_Nuraga_Demo/Atmospheric eldritch thing with digging mini game. Mostly depends on price, since it’s supposed to be very short.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4058470/UFOntastic_Demo/You fly a UFO and collect cows. Simple but fun.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4504330/Utopia_Haven_Demo/Just straight up Metroid.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4666190/Quantum_Quartz_Demo/precision platformer.
>>741696686Most demos stay up after the fest. If the dev did remove them, you'll still have them in your library but can't launch it. Instead, you can go to the file directory and launch the .exe directly. If Steam shows up and says you can't play, then you'll need to use a generic Steam crack to get around it.
>>741697542the fact that people need to crack a free demo is fucking stupid.demos should simply always be available. it does no harm to let people sample a game before buying it, since the worst case alternative is they try it and refund it anyway.
>>741642869useless list like always because multiplayer/ coop games dominate the list while being subpar and doado people really think empulse or mistfall will get high player numbers? even if they go f2p they be instantly forgotten for being shit
>>741696928You gotta relax, guy
>>741697854I get it when the demos are from early in dev, after a while they stop being representative and they just make your game look shittierIt makes no sense to take them down for stuff that's near release though
>>741643503>>Rivagea strange situation where they rebranded the game for some reason, it used to be called Strandhttps://steamdb.info/app/3391890/
>>741698108>empulseI don't envy them for the task of needing to break into the incredibly saturated f2p shooter space. the game itself felt compenent and ran well, but also very basic like they didn't want to take many risks. It's more like a stripped down Titanfall 1 than a Titanfall 2 clone
>>741700867Yeah. I noticed that too. And the devs claim it's a "different game" now even though it's the same game with shuffled some puzzle elements around. Strand is a pretty generic name so maybe they got hit with some copyright issue but framing it as a different game is weird.
>>741691009>TrifoliumI found it boring. As in the puzzles weren't interesting.>DittoriNow that's the good shit. I think you got these 2 games mistaken.
>>741701628the presentation and art direction in Dittori was so bad it ruined my experience
>>741702040What did you dislike about it? I liked how it looked.
>everyone dropping duskfadethought it was cute
>>741702089it looks really cheap
Btw, Order of the Sinking Star's demo got extended by 4 days.
>>741702138It's an indie game, so I assume it was indeed pretty cheap. But the art direction great.
>>741702317I'm comparing it to the other Sokobans I played of which it was the cheapest looking.Outpour looked great for example>But the art direction greatI disagree
>>741702384>Outpour looked great for exampleIt's not bad, but just like the puzzles, it's pretty boring visually. It's just a catholic cathedral for the overworld and above-clouds for the levels. While Dittori has lower definition graphics, it does a lot more with color, which I prefer.
>>741702695it might be the strong perspective but I think that looks so ugly
>>741702168So it's confirmed the demo will go poof later? Sad.
>>741704426Just crack it
>>741696287Doesn't help that the tutorial seems to break really easily.
>>741704426Uncertain.
>>741576694>but good gameno the fuck it wasn't
>>741702168no one cares about this astroturfed slop
surprised this game escaped the notice of cunny enjoyershttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3192590/Labyrinth_of_the_Crystal_Princess/
>>741710503>I'm not personally interested in this game, therefore it's astroturfed
