Steam Nextfest preview period is up:https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_oct26_press/Post stuff off your wishlist and whatever you find that seems decent, or make a million slop posts about there being too much slop.
>>749388593 (me)I will say it's getting out of hand, though
TRY THE CURSE OF RESTHAVEN DEMO FOR ME (MY PC IS CURRENTLY GETTING REPAIRED)IT'S ALREADY OUThttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/Curse_of_Resthaven/LOVECRAFT TRADING SIMULATOR
>>749388593i can't wait for more indie early access survival crafting games!
I normally download like 30 demos but only managed to find 8 worth downloading this time.Maybe later in the week or when the event starts proper there will be more good ones, but I don't have high hopes.
>>749388593Posted it in the previous thread, but I ended up wishlisting Hemlon the grey even if what you play in the demo is nothing groundbreaking, it's a soulslike parryslop but less satisfying than in nine sols. Reminds me of Lost Ruins in that regard, if you've played that.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4348370/Hemlon_the_Grey/Just like Rain Of Lead, the game is unapologetically horny, and I always appreciate ecchi/cute pixel art.
>>749389843Even has a tub/shower scene like the Marfusha/Snezhinka sentinel girls games.
>>749389893And one last webm showcasing the art for good measure
>>749389893IS THAT
Yeah that supposed rule about games only appearing in one next fest definitely isn't a thing, I know for sure Tumor Necrosis Factor was in the February next fest because it's in my impressions document from back then.
>>749389893what was it
>>749390903yeah I got a couple repeats in my wishlist too like Neuron Activation
>>749391252Two pixels of nipples
where the games at
>>7493898432D-Sekiro?
>>749388593Why would I play any of this slop when I can play actual games like GTA 6 soon?
>>749393196Mixed with some minor platforming exploration
>>749388593https://store.steampowered.com/app/4093320/Beastfolk_Barber/
back from posting about delta and the one frog game. always monitoring the demo situation...>play thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/DEFICIT/>enjoyedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4841090/Code_RAPID_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4121440/The_Fallen_Chronicles/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4654720/Dinghai_The_Ocean_Pillar_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4911460/Violence_of_Action/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3642910/Wyldheart/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5301290/Dead_Set_Warriors_Demo/>curious abouthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4898420/CodePhantom/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4237450/Star_Striker/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4008790/Kings_Courier/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5356080/Deep_Six_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4173770/Ghost_Justice/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3876140/SUPERPANEL_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3484960https://store.steampowered.com/app/5066740/Ballisticexe_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4488770/Vaultbreakers_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5031210/Rise_of_the_Merchants/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5095050/Dungeon_Automata_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4975190/STARPHAGE_Galactic_Plague_Simulator/
>>749393560forgot the clip whoops
>>749393256GTA is not a real game lol
I'm going to guess that most devs haven't flipped the switch on their games yet and that's why the current listing is nothing but AI slop.
>Will buyDungeon Automata/Algolemeth>Will buyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5095050/Dungeon_Automata_Demo/Dungeon Automata/Algolemeth - Blueprint based programming dungeon drawler. Really fun if you like these kinds of games. It was awesome setting up my party at the end of the demo to steamroll through both floors in one go.>Wishlistedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4475210/Inkblood_Demo/Inkblood - Detective game ala Case of the Golden Idol. Has physical puzzle solving in addition to deduction with a very cool artstyle. You ride around in a carraige and everything is very tactile and immersive which was one of my big complaints with CotGI. Definitely recommend trying.>Interestedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3002010/Split_Decision/Split Decision - Boxing judging sim/VN where many sides are leaning on you to have their fighter win. Unfortunately the demo is bugged for me.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4917610/Nightmere/Nightmere - Phoenix Wright style detective game, psychological thriller. The hand drawn art is nice but the pixel art of the world leaves a lot to be desired. Started off kind of predictable but the end of the demo has enough interesting hooks that I want to see more.
>>749389893>file deleted>>749394463it's always like this during press preview>>749395660asked on the trooncord for split decision, dev said he'd be looking into the bug of the demo where you can't progress past the ricardo fight
>>749395660>Phoenix Wright style detective gameYou might enjoy Angelic Agencyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3370180/Angelic_Agency_Soul_Salvation_Unit
>>749395936>dev said he'd be looking into the bug of the demo where you can't progress past the ricardo fightGood, cuz it ended right before you were about to get pressured to rig a match it felt like. Wanted to see what the consequences would be one way or the other
>>749396026I have it downloaded but I haven't started it yet.
>>749388847Brainwashed dimwit is convinced he has to enjoy everything all the time. No personal sense of taste whatsoever.
>>749396386kys
post games you bought from previous next fests
bruh I still have 150+ demos from the previous nextfest yet to trythere's just so much stuff on steam to even sift from even with demos and shit
>>749396603Eagle Knight ParadoxCyan Heart
10/10 Tales of the CryptKeeper game. There was an officially licensed version recently but it FuCKInG SUCKED. Get the knockoff version with superior soul. Do it right now you dumb fucks.
>>749396603>post games you bought from previous next festsSinker Sound (rhythm fishing game, as gimmicky, unique and fun as it sounds once you get it)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3600990/Sinker_sound/In Falsus (unique and difficult rhythm game, learning curve is TOUGH, visual novel drags a bit but a lot of songs)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3971950/In_Falsus/CICADAMATA (score attack movement based FPS, fun to master)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3817250/CICADAMATA/Neon Inferno (arcade run'n gun with great sprite art, a bit tough to 1CC)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957720/Neon_Inferno/Rubinite (dark fantasy boss rush with cute little girl protagonist, great sprite art, true ending requires mastery of the game)https://store.steampowered.com/app/1845250/Rubinite/NanoApostle (dark sci-fi/digitized(?) boss rush with cute little girl protagonist, good sprite art, a bit too short)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2400640/NanoApostle/Mirage Feathers (shmup/afterburner clone with loli in a swimsuit protagonist, great art)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719060/Mirage_Feathers/Theta And Paralldox on Worldlines (puzzle game with cute little girl MC, gets pretty insane)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3219580/Theta_and_Paralldox_on_WorldlinesTreasure'n Trio (fantasy setting sokoban featuring 3 characters with unique powers to solve puzzles)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3214530/Treasure_n_TrioPoke ALL Toads (fairy puzzle game, /v/ dev)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2302320/Poke_ALL_Toads/Grooveyard (puzzle game where you need to create paths for skeletons, the final level has me filtered to this day)https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107360/Grooveyard/BIRDCAGE (shmup in futuristic setting, great scoring system)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/BIRDCAGE/of the devil (cyberpunk ace attorney, unappealing art but stellar writing)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2739630/of_the_Devil/char limit
Play Dungeon Treaders
>>749395936>it's always like this during press previewNah, usually I can find things among the trash, right now even if I go all the way through a category until results stop showing up, there's nothing but trash. I've only gotten 5 demos and one of them I already had from a few days ago.
>>749397201>Grooveyard (puzzle game where you need to create paths for skeletons, the final level has me filtered to this day)come on bro it ain't that hard
>>749397293dude this looks herrendous. what is it even trying to imitate? a broken pentium III?
>>749397549I know that objectively it should be easy, I suffered paquerette and baba is you which were harder and I refuse to look hints. I've been trying it here and there but I legit can't find the solution lol
>>749397598forgot pic
>>749397201nice, added most of them to my wishlistwill buy when they go on sale
If AI games in the list stop you, you are WEAK.You lack WEREWITHAL.YOU ARE WIMPY.How are you going to beat the evil artificial intelligence when it tries to exterminate you if you can't even handle it now?
will this shit ever release
>>749397598That's a "Broken Pentium III, Sir" to the likes of you.
>>749397761good morning sir
>>749396026Phoenix wright if he were a mrrowcat.
>>749397893game name?
>>749397903https://store.steampowered.com/app/3151680/The_Brilliant_Detective_Milo/
Terrible Lizards had high production value, surprisingly polished. But it is a parkour game and that isn't my genre. It might be yours though.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5244130/Terrible_Lizards_Demo/
>>749398114thanks
Breathe to the beat or Robots come to turn you into meat. Shame I suck at rhythm games though.
>>749397715I am a lifetime gamer. Every enemy I've ever defeated in games has had AI. Now the AI is much smarter and it's taking control of the real world, but the fight does not stop.
>>749396603>The Message from Deep SpaceLinguistic puzzle kino>WagotabiLeaning Japanese>Chants of SennarLinguistic puzzles and stealth game>QuasimorphTraditional roguelike extraction game>Isles of Sea and SkySokoban with some metroid elements>SignalisSurvival horror with lesbian robots>ProverbsGrid filling puzzle game>Terra NillEnvironment themed puzzle game>The Crimson DiamondSierra style text parser adventure game>Case of the Golden IdolDetective game>SKALD Against the Black PrioryRetro style WRPG>TimberbornCity builder with water management gimmick>Shadows of DoubtSandbox detective game>The Wandering VillageCity builder on the back of giant dinosaur>Kaiju WarsTactics/puzzle game>RoadwardenCYOA style visual novel>ForetalesNarrative focused deckbuilding roguelike>The Life and Suffering of Sir BranteCYOA style visual novel
Nice little Halloween Christmas game:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4969370/Shadows_of_Christmas_Eve/
>>749396603Upcoming Next Fest alumni are Hubert, Tenebris Somnia, and Odd Town.
A ripoff of Blue Prince in the recently invented "Drafting" genre:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4617940/Incoherence_Dark_Rooms_Demo/It's survival horror.
PSX games didnt come on tapes but I don't really care:https://store.steampowered.com/app/5363390/Somnesis_The_PSX_Tapes_Demo/
>>749398803>PSXit's PS1
It was fun and I don't care if you seethe about it.
Horror Scrabble or some shit; you try to spell nigger but that word is prohibited.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4918680/LEXICON_Lingua_Obscura/
Ninja Gaidenhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4567120/Eclipse_Blade/
>>749399012>Optional AI-generated dialogueThat's fine, it's a good use of AI.>AI artThat's where they blew it.
>>749399547It was fun and I don't care if you seethe about. Also, you are very predictable.
>>749399012Ive fooled around with chat bots to know it'll get confused in short order or wind up doing something stupid and out of character or forget what you said within a few minutes let alone several hours.
Dungeon AutomataCanvas InfernumLast Moon
>>749399898And Paradox Tower
>>749399898>>749399938Next up is Terraclysm Survivors. Will it be the Terraria successor everyone wants
>>749357525What's funny is I was playing Path of Abyss before the Dungeon Automata demo and the music was so good I couldn't have told you which game had Etrian Odyssey's composerLike listen to Warcry. They didn't have to go this hard.https://hasu2010.bandcamp.com/track/warcry
>>749400276nta but damn that's pretty fire
>>749400523Yeah thanks to whichever anon posted it in a music thread
>>749398114>>749397893Cute but WAY too easy
>>749400276Did they get a good English translation yet?
>>749400635I don't know the drama
>>749400656No drama, it was just a low quality MTL when it first went into early access
>>749396603Welcome to Elderfield
Boughted
>>749400884Uppercute looks ridiculous but that game is genuinely rad.
>>749389843>>749389947>>749395660>>749393363>>749396026Good recs
>>749399898>my favourite telecommunications majorAntenna is so based.
>>749402335She's my favorite in Dohna Dohna. I need to make a webm of her in modded Slay the Spire.
>>749400884>Kunrei-Sh*kiI will not buy your game
Totally ignored this one when the demo became available, it was very interesting, kind like what I expected Death Stranding to be before playing it.
>>749402409Y'all need to start porting the Dohna Dohna mod to Slay the Spire 2 if you want my 1 sale
Any tank control horror games I should know about?
https://atarathgames.com/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2248150/Gunmetal_Gothic/
>>749402409That looks cool. And Dohna Dohna really has some excellent spritework and animations.
Added: Muv-Luv Gacha. I think it had no anticheat so I'm willing to try. I've never played Muv-Luv. I don't know if it's offline.>>749403495It got a retranslation recently. Idk if I'm up to replay it though. They call it "Unburger" mod kek. It feels self-hating to download retranslations nowadays.https://github.com/rsc-pl/Dohna-Dohna-Unburger-Mod
>>749395660>NightmereThanks for shilling this, I'm having fun. MC looks like Sara Chidouin from YTTD. I like the pixel art for the sprites in the overworld, reminds me of the Danganronpa Another fangame sort of. Kinda strange how they wasted some time arguing about leaving Amelia do her thing alone in a potential crime scene, surely this has to be related to the case.
>>749403769>1. Honorifics Restored>I have manually restored approximately 98% of all honorifics.That guy really likes his honorifics
>>749403206Oh sweet, I love modern games for old consoles.
>>749404105it makes sense for things that are very Japanese, it's kinda untranslatable to a lot of languages including English
>>749403769>Added: Muv-Luv Gacha. I think it had no anticheat so I'm willing to try. I've never played Muv-Luv. I don't know if it's offline.It's nothing like the originals. It's also an eroge and the Steam version is censored.>>749404105That guy is based.
>>749404212Honorifics always just felt to me like a caste system to me infused in the language. And Dohna Dohna is a game about destroying the system.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4601100/False_Oath/
>>749404217The gacha is a censored eroge?
>>749402951https://store.steampowered.com/app/4605350/Cornered_Cadavers/
>>749404462Yes. Actually I don't know if they plan to release an uncensored version in the west at all given they've censored everything else Muv-Luv in the west, but the Japanese version has been out for a while and is an eroge.
>>749404418Resident Medievil
>>749404970The cleverest thing you'll ever say and you didnt copyright it first.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5206630/LaurEli__the_Blood_Dipped_Manor_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4345960/Blood_Lily_Killers_Cant_Sink_a_Yuri_Ship_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4996240/Bone_to_Pick_Forensic_Case_Files/
>>749388593Girl here, any horror or otome game?
>>749405065I was decades late anyway.
>>749404918That sucks. Maybe I should download Bluestacks and play Haze Reverb instead.
>>749405252>play Haze ReverbI'd strongly advise against it.
>However, please do not share this preview URL. This page is for press only.>It's the same URL every time with the only the date modified
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940510/Born64/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940510/Born64/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1940510/Born64/
For me it's sexy chicken girl kisses rotten rabbit man demohttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4195090/Sexy_Chicken_Girl_Kisses_Rotten_Rabbit_Man/
>>749405483https://store.steampowered.com/app/3592020/Sparky_Rush_Purrils_in_Pawsville/
>>749353610>Bruegel's monastic landscape paintingsthat's clearly Bosch, the most widely appropriated dude of his time
>>749406052I think it's Bruegel the Elder's art and I'm sticking to it
>>749388667u wut
>>749406093that pig is sitting on Bosch signature lmao
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4863110/Numb_Digger/Do I play Numb Digger next or Tom the Postgirl
>>749395660>>749403795could tell yesterday when I downloaded the demo that nightmere would be great, my instincts were proven rightlooks like KINO inbound
>>749388593Steam has become a shovel game store. Just hundreds of new shitty looking games gets released each day.
>>749406561This is a shovelware opinion. It's low quality and it gets repeated and over and over again.
>>749407404Surprisingly this image doesn't have AI-generated dimensions
>>749402951https://store.steampowered.com/app/3628050/Tamara/
I post a description and you try guess if it is a real game or not:>Ramen://protocol is a cyberpunk ramen-stall roguelite deckbuilder. Push your toppings to their limits, then rev them up even further with skills. Master countless synergies and serve bowls so good they're synapse-frying. Chase the one bowl that will cut you free from your past.
>>749407450I did use AI actually. I just enjoy showcasing the fact that you pathetic retards cannot actually tell the difference. Low IQ witch hunters.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4475210/Inkblood_Demo/
>>749398359I wanna give signalis another chance, when I boughted it it still had the awful limited menu.
>>749407404>>749407604Kill yourself, you've been in these threads for years acting like an attention whore.
>>749407404
Big ups to all anons wading through tons of worthless indieshit to post the few interesting recs in these threads. I wouldn't give a shit about next fes if it wasn't for you.
>>749408043>everyone who called me an idiot for the last three years was the same guyI think you may be inflating my deeds and actions somewhat. I dont even have a clue who you are.
>>749397645Looks fine to me
I enjoyed Probably Stolen before next fest and it comes out at the end of the month and not TBA so give it a try if you like trader games and papers please style spot the difference(for checking counterfeits and appraising items with high price variance)
>>749394463Can't you just use your indomitable human spirit or something to trawl through the list and prove to AI that humans can't be beaten?
>>749408597Why don't they use an AI to detect AI? He could be the anti-AI AI
>>749408665That's what never made sense to me about Harry Potter. They have teleportation spells but they have anti teleportation spells to keep people from teleporting but couldn't I just make an anti-anti-teleportation spell?
I am once again requesting your puzzle recommendations
>>749408864https://store.steampowered.com/app/4200250/The_Wizard_destroying_Space_and_Time/
>>749388593Didn't realize it was already up.As usual:>post is a steam store page link with no explanationskip>post is a list of steam store page links with no explanationsskip>post has steam store page link, doesn't have a screenshot or webm nor an explanationskip>post is a screenshot or webm but doesn't have the name of the game in filename/steam store page link/any description or indication of what it isskip>post contains AI garbage in any formskipLet's show basic courtesy and respect toward each other, we anons love games. No need to make it harder to find gems amidst the demos when the AI flood and social media algorithms work against us. Thank you for making the steam next fest fun to browse.
>>749408753often in magic systems anti spells are more difficult to cast, so an anti-anti spell would be very hard for most shitty wizards.
>>749409550Effortposting was rendered obsolete with that DLSite extension. Most anons won't read any actual descriptions and just browse through all the links in an instant.
Oh yeah, it's time for Japanese schizo-kino.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4912280/PATRICIDE_Demo/
>>749409710I use the DLsite extension and pay attention to posts ITT
>>749409550Seems more that you like writing gay little lists of rules. You're probably the same guy who came up with those dumb BDSM rules too. We all have to be very ethical when we tie people down for sex.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4580990/FINITE_JEST/Can't be worse than Cruelty Squad
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/Home_Paige3d momentum platformer
>>749403364this game is bizarre. the player moves around like a modern TPS but the enemies move like they're stuck in a PS1 game
This one had a dumb little mouse I know you freaks like that sort of thing.
>>749410116on one hand - its a nice little platformer, I liked the first demo from a few months back, on the other - guy is clearly trying to steal Anna-logue's thunder, and that's not cooloh well, Anna-logue guy takes ages to make anything, so you snooze you lose, I guess
>>749410734cheesed to meet you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4421250/Liminal_Brutalis_Physical_AgilityBrutalist 3D platformer in the vein of Source engine jump maps
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985970/Brain_Hack_Squad/Door Kickers with Hotline Miami esthetic and feel. I haven't played DK so I can't really compare it, but it seems at least decent. Plenty of maps in the demo from what I've seen.
>>749409550>hates lists>posts a list
Any JRPGs?
>>749412181Try out Bravest 2. Apparently the first game was a hit on flip phones.
Play the Skin Stapler if you like stuff like Hellraiser.
>>749410734>first-person physics based incremental fishing gameSigh, fine...
>>749405318better not share the url again! or else something may or may not happen!!
Misery DungeonI'm waiting to step on a tile and it gives me tetanusIt also started with a big questionnaire and then said the game isn't about me afterward lol. I think that was also in Deltarune.
>The Citadel ProjectDude, what if Thief but Dark Souls and you're heavy and move slowly, and levels are linear, and objects are non-interactable, and sounds mean nothing?
>>749409145YOOOOOOOOOit's alright, I fucking hate how the music loop restarts every time you use the reset mechanic
i miss the time when agdg trannies were the biggest threat to these threads, AI sloppers and its defenders are 100% worse and are ruining the steam next fest
>>749389893Mr Advertiser didn't like this one
>>749413945Jannies can, at best, only handle implications.
>>749409710Sovless
>here play this demo>the game is already out btwNo, fuck you
>>749414435Get back in your strait jacket
>>749412181This one is a cute retro jrpg although it surfers from "where the fuck I'm suppose to go?" design.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065270/Crop_and_Claw_2/
>>749398868it's psx and has always been psx and will always be psx, seethe and cope
>>749414503>strait
>>749413871You can't ruin something that is already ruined. It'd be like losing your virginity twice.
Next Fest is all about ME. Everything has to be done MY way. If the thread isn't 100% demos that I love immediately without even playing them then you are rUiNiNg NEXTFEST. Every one on earth should get on their knees and beg me to play their demos and I will look down and say no. From now on only PS-aesthetic games can be posted cause I like those and I refuse to buy into the dichotomy that I have to choose between X or 1. I merely call it PlayStation. And I am right. Because I am right about everything.
>>749397293>not catpeople, it's literally just catslmao
>>749406631kek, bodied that freak
>>749412181read the thread, dipshit retard
Play Dungeon Lurker.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4669960/Dungeon_Lurker/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5043510/I_Keep_Reincarnating_as_a_Rat_in_the_Mad_Scientists_Maze/Very realistic rat model. I actually thought they were recording a rat in a maze.
>>749416949It's also unfortunately too early for a demo
>>749416863Hell no. Ultima 8 flashbacks.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4318080/ALTEREDBLOOD_AB/One of these zooming-around fps in which you parkour and fight waves of enemies in dystopian megastructure. Quite fun, but the devs could fuck off with that flashing diagrams blocking the screen every once in a while.
>>749388593I constantly get "no licenses" error while trying to get a FUCKING DEMOSo far the solution I found is to first add it to library and then install.
>>749416605No
Gay furry here.Where the furshit at? My fursona is a bull btw.
>>749418531Have you tried Numb Digger?
>>749418531theres literally a metroidvania with a bull as the protagonist
>>749409550niggas posting links are literally the besti don't give a shit about the fanfic you've written, just give me the link and let me decide for myself
>>749419068posting links is shit, fuck off shillboy
>>749417829then you have no business playing rpgs to begin with, if you're such fucking a lazy illiterate fucking niger retard
>>749416863why does everything nowadays have to have a shitty filter overlayi'm guessing its brain damage from playing emulators with shaders
>>749403364Trying way too hard with the "retro" aestheticthe text shouldn't be fucking illegible, even on a CRT it wouldn't be this blurrythey just lazily slapped a pixel filter on everything and called it a dayat least they had the forethought to allow disabling that shit
>>749419440We're still searching.
>>749419216ok lol uhh cope and seethe
>>749419513Then I shall await results while searching myself
Everyone thinks they're a pirate until you have to start whalingThis isn't a Disney movie
A kino has dropped:https://store.steampowered.com/app/5084230/Bathroom_Please/
>>749420361
>>749419440its not cunnycore but maybe cunnyadjacenthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3736800/Dungeon_Picnic/
>>749420806GEM
>>749389893nice to see pixel boobies getting a pass on steam, one of the beholder games had those as well plus a sex scene
>>749420361>>749420672What game is this?
>>749420925Mythical Whalers
I will not play your shitty rougelike
>>749421015Traditional roguelikes are winning bigly
can anyone open this? https://store.steampowered.com/app/4690890/Living_with_My_Bratty_Neighbor/It used to exist and there was supposed to be a demo for it but it just redirects me to the front page now
>>749421272Looks like it was delisted.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/5018420/Biryado_Demo/Ultrapool if it was good. Though the doppleganger boss is bullshit and bricked my run completely.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4653050/Sushiamo_Demo/It seems very polished but I'm not exactly enthralled by it.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/5052530/Hellmate__Chess_Deck_Builder_Demo/What if chess used cards and a king needed to be hit by a queen 6 times to die? Nobody wanted this.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4578780/Hell_Wait_Demo/Mahjong with extra steps but it works better than aotenjo or demonic mahjong.
>>749395660>InkbloodThe interactivity is really crazy. I beat both Golden Idols and they weren't this interactive.
>>749391284>>749390903Games can drop out right up until the actual public next fest date. So they can be in the dev/press preview multiple times.And if you look back at a previous next fest (e.g. june) you will see games there even if they dropped out. I know because mine shows in the june press preview page even though I dropped out of that and will be part of this one instead.
>Ballistic.exehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5066740/Ballisticexe_Demo/It really scratches that itch of just shooting things that are far away, demo is packed with content, you get 3 guns and shitton of parts/bullet types for them so you can go ham. I did every challenge and unlocked most of the stuff in around 8 hours. Is cool.
It's like Battle Network but really slow, no program advances, no styles, you get chips randomly so your folder is always full of garbage, and you can't really combo enemies because they have iframes on hit... at least the art is cute.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4320750/DeVILSTOPIA_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4756940/ECHORIS/>really cute girl on the cover art>but you play as Takeshisad
>>749425094Exactly how I felt when I watched Fairy Tail and found out the cute blonde girl wasn't the main character
>>749423084What do you mean? There are like more possible answers or something?
>>749425268You can just drag more stuff around and inspect the same thing with different lenses. I think anon saying it was more "tactile and immersive" was a succinct and better way to say it.
Heres some games i playedhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4735110/Your_Painting_Sir_Demo/10/10 - Puzzle game about recreating paintings with newspaper cutoutsReally fun writing and fun gameplayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5095050/Dungeon_Automata_Demo/10/10Goodhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4652090/Stay_on_the_white_lines/7/10 - japanese game about walking home from schoolThe demo is 2 minutes long, you can almost see a full playthrough in the trailer on the store pagehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5039980/Chat_Should_We_Head_Over_There/ 6/10 - Streamer girl reacts to your backseating and does what you tell her to. Works with or without LLMInteresting, But English Voice acting is REALLY bad and UI is overly busyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4920000/Beastfolk_Barber_Demo/3/10 - Game about talking to furries while pretending to be a hairdresserReally western writing and very little gameplayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5034520/Captive_3000_Demo/1/10 - Ai-infested dungeon crawlerGraphics are shit, gameplay is shit and its a browser game that somehow lost its way onto steamhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4424750/Moeka_Exposures_Temptation/2/10 - Flash titties simulatorToo wonky right now to be enjoyable. Controls don't work half the time.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4688700/Project_Exhibitionist5/10 - Flash titties simulator Mk2Has potential, but is too limited in the demo to really enjoy
Really fun gun-blasting around, but really shorthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3980250/RATSHOT/
>>749396603In no particular order (but mostly alphabetical)Rubinite, Redline Crooks, Sinker Sound, Randomax, Mirage Feathers, Poke ALL Toads, Of the Devil, Slots & Dungeons, Balatro, All In Abyss, Frogun 1 and 2, Bits & Bops, Buckshot Battlemage (formerly Magetower Massacre), Brave x Junction, Bullet: Surge, Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation, Crypt Custodian, Dancing Divas, Cuiisineer, Dolls Nest, Drapline, Drunken Rogue, Endless Alice, Goblin Nest, Gruel, Haste, Homura Hime, Kemono Teatime, Love in Tiny Spaces, Nine Sols, One Turn Kill, Rabbit & Steel, Ratopia, Revolvgear Zero, Sentry, Slipgate, Turretgirls, Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, Well Dweller, Pastel Parade, and more that I'm waiting on releases for.I love next fests.
>>749423084Yeah, my biggest complaint with Golden Idol is that it feels like you're an outside observer looking at these little dioramas. You're invested in learning the mystery but you're not a part of the world. In Inkblood imo, you actually feel like an investigator going to places, collecting and putting together clues to piece together what happened. It's really cool, I like it a lot already and it's just three small cases
>an innovative platformer in 2026 the year of our lordI am shocked https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186140/Wishknot/
>>749431939Nothing innovative about yet another fucking roguelike
>>749428046Claude: take pizza tower and replace all the sprites with anime girls.
>>749396603All in Abyss, Asura the Striker, Card En Ciel, Doll's Nest, Gal Guardian, Majogami, Mirage Feathers, Randomax, Staffer Retro, Tatsujin Extreme, Trials of Innocence, Virtua Unlimited Project, Yuri Sword Saga.Also going to be buying Psycho Sleuth and Fox Flare Night when they release very soon (the later of which caused me to buy Like A Dreamer retroactively)
>>749432293Oh and TurretGirls. I though for sure it wasn't included in Next Fest, but it was.
>>749416863It's a crypto-incremental where they pretend it's a roguelite but you just farm gold and die to get +20% on two stats after each death. Until you farm enough to kill a boss.and the combat is closer to rollslop than beat 'em up, some enemies have homing jumps that force you to dodge.I unwishlisted.
>>749416863what the fuck, the game looks awesome but the capsule art is terrible, I would probably have skipped it without the screenshot accompanying it
>>749427330>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4424750/Moeka_Exposures_Temptation/>2/10 - Flash titties simulator>Too wonky right now to be enjoyable. Controls don't work half the time.This is just a knockoff of RJ01389782 right down to having the same NPC models from that game.
>>749433006Damn thats blatant.I only ever played the original RJ01062825 But i don't really mind as long as its fun in the end, even just a different girl would be nice, even if the borderline flatty from the steam game isn't all that amazing
Any good nip games so far?
>>749433006>>749433909This might be a retarded question, but why are you guys using these codes instead of the game's title? Is it just because there's no universally agreed upon English translation of the title?
>>749434039because theyre faggoty weebs that have to be cringe
>>749420910it likely got a pass because the girl isn't "underage typed"
>>749434039thats just how it isporn games have retardedly long names and the RJ code you can just hover over if you've got the dlsite script
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4739500/JOHN_GLEEP/A combination of simple arcade and pachinko where you play as an alien in debt kidnapping people to put them into your casino (represented by the pachinko board). Pretty fun, but dunno if for the long term.
>>749434039Code makes it easier to find on sites like F95, ryuugames, even google or the archives here sometimes. English TL title can also change depending on who you ask, so you had the right idea.
>>749405126Haven't found anything good that wasn't AI slop, I'm afraid. But I'm still looking.>t. yumejo
>>749432293based
>>749434039No agreed upon English translation, people aren't going to bother to memorize the untranslated titles of the porn they jack off too especially if it's really long, and an ID is just very useful for other people to use. You go to your porn folder, copy the code, and paste. Couldn't be simpler.
>oh hey this indie JRPG looks cool>it's JC Nigger Rape Simulator againMaybe they need corporate chains after all.
>>749434039If you're looking for sauce it's the best option
>>749434897Based fellow Trials of Innocence enjoyer. Chs 3, 4, and 5 were all pure kino.
From the dood who brought you SEGAGAGA, Astro Boy Omega Factor, Gunstar Super Heroes, and Thunder Force VI. Uses a lot of AI, since I know some tranny is going to cry about it.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5004790/_HIJURA_SCARLET_GEAR/
>>749435089Wait until mom drives into them with a car
>>749435305To this day I'm still regretful about somewhat calling in advance the Annie = robot twist on a whim during case 3, it wasn't supposed to be real. Shame the TL is still kinda jank, I enjoyed trials of innocence more than the 3D ace attorney games. Compared to yamazaki stuff the criminal organization actually kind of felt threatening. Final confrontation with the "annie device" against the mastermind was fun. A lot of aura farming moments, some plot contrivances that irked me at the time of the playthrough but fun experience nonetheless. I unironically think Luna did Edgeworth's character arc better
>>749396603ADENAbyss KitchenAgreeeeBlue PrinceBrno TransitCIPHER ZEROCONERU -DIMENSION GIRL-Candy RangersCaptain Wayne - Vacation DesperationChants of SennaarClub SokoCrimson CapesCrow CountryDECRYPTO ProjectDREDGEDead as DiscoDetective Instinct: Farewell, My BelovedDetective WordenDimhaven - The Lost SourceDyping EscapeE9uationsEMUUROMEarth Must DieEl Paso, ElsewhereElecHeadEn Garde!Esoteric EbbEternal StrandsEverdeep AuroraGoodnight UniverseGreat God GroveGunboat GodGunbrellaHROTHarold HalibutHasteHauntiiHe Who WatchesHelix: Descent N AscentHomura HimeIRON NEST: Heavy Turret SimulatorIZON.Inhuman Resources: A Literary MachinationIs This Game Trying To Kill Me?Is This Seat Taken?LOK DigitalLast Train HomeLigoMagical PrincessMesmalieMotionRecMouthwashingMystery of the MalignNanoApostleNine SolsOPUS: Prism PeakOne Turn KillOut of SightPanic Floor!!PanthalassaPatrick's ParaboxPenelope Pendrick and the Art of DeceitPhoenix SpringsPlacid Plastic Deck - A Quiet QuestPoke ALL ToadsPup ChampsPâquerette Down the BunburrowsRewindGirlRoboCop: Rogue CityRotwoodRubiniteRue ValleyRusted MossSAND LANDSPRAWLSWORDHAVENShady KnightSkin DeepStudio System : Guardian AngelTactical Breach WizardsThank Goodness You're Here!The Artisan of GlimmithThe DrifterThe Many Pieces of Mr. CooThe Message from Deep SpaceThe OperatorThe Tragedy at Deer CreekThree WishesTrepang2Turbo OverkillUrban Myth Dissolution CenterWebbedWildfrostWorldlessZAKO NO AHIRUand Rogerof the DevilÖoo
show me your game journalist license NOW
>>749436879
Anyone tried this? Roguelite FPS horrorhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4709270/DEEPWARD/
>>749435551you troons are the ones who like and shill for gay eye slop, ACK yourself 41%er
>>749437581>boomer shooterthe fuck is that tag even supposed to mean anymore
>>749437581>main gimmick is character swapping>not shown at all in the trailer or the clips in the description
prison of husks looks cool for soulslike appreciatorshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2975260/PRISON_OF_HUSKS/
>>749438562Bloodborne if made by a tranny.
>>749437581>hey this doesn't look too ba->roguelitefucks sake
>>749413290The durability was really fucking gay too.
>>749438562eh, should've just made a kingshit like. i'll still try it out
>>749406401Tom the Postgirl wasn't as funny, weird or as unsettling as I'd like. I just went "Okay."
>>749438562This has been in at least two other next fests already. It's also bad.
>>749438562Is it updated? I remember playing the demo last Next Fest
Still waiting on Parasite Mutant.
I have yet to finish the demo but SeverLink pleasantly surprised me. I was dismissing it all this time while it was called Kvasir because I was convinced that it's an MGS clone. Turns out it a Splinter Cell clone.Visuals are nice but animations and some other details need more work.
The updated demo of split decision has an extremely low volume for some reason now
Too tired to try games
>>749416863This is basically Inscryption as a beat 'em up. Kinda interesting but also not because indie games pull this shit all the time.
>>749438732Not just gay but also pointless. Usually when game do durability it serves one of two purposes>to keep the player on his toes with resource management - common for survival games>to force the player use different weapons and that way keep the combat fresh - common for action gamesThis game has neither resource management nor action combat. And judging by the demo you have only one weapon so why even introduce such system?
>>749431939its fun
>>749440512Presumably for resource management. The sickle allows you to insta-stealth-kill the enemies. Otherwise, you have to push them into spikes or off cliffs, which is probably intended to be much riskier and can get you killed. But as it is now, it's just a more tedious way of getting rid of the non-threatening obstacles in a boring game.
>>749439971>bald White protagonistsovl
>>749423048>Mahjongnobody knows how to play this shit>with extra stepslol
>>749439971>Q4 2028Damn why even have a release date on the page if it's that far out? Maybe that's the farthest steam would let him set it to and he chose it just so it wouldn't say coming soon.
>>749439971>>749442482I'm rooting for the game a lot, but it's weird that they got 8000 euros in kickstarter money and considered that 100% backed. With a release date far, far in the future. I don't really know what to think about this project.
>>749388593oh boy, more shitty ai slop games I can rent and not own
>over half the games have AI artGod damn, indie gaming is gonna turn to such shit
>>749443324>gonna
>>749443452I'm able to sift through the garbage and find about 4-7 indie games I really like every year. If AI games become the standard and I have to sift through those as well then I might as well just give up
>every next fest I immediately go to the "stealth" tag>want to find the next Splinter Cell, Mark of the Ninja, whatever>it's all horror slopI'm so fucking starved for a good stealth game. I know about SeverLink, but I'm not interested in a literal prototype.
>>749419109>posting a link with no extra horseshit is advertisingOk retard.
>>749441518>nobody knows how to play this shityou should have learned how by watching akagi as it aired two decades ago
>>749443792>demo festival>not interested in demosSounds like it's the wrong festival for a stupid freak like you. Wtf did you think you were going to get besides prototypes?
>>749443575Another weakling defeated by the festival :)
>>749436720Huh. I have 12 games from this guy's list and consider myself a reasonably dedicated fan of obscure games but this guy blows me out of the water.
>>749432802I got your back. It's a festival for finding and sharing the hidden gems!
>>749419068Yeah, it is a demo festival. The idea is that you try the games out yourself. Why would any stranger value my opinion higher than their own? The game is right there, you can play it and find it all out yourself.So I just post a link if I found a game I enjoyed and leave the rest to them.
>>749443575>Ifanon it already became the standard a few fests ago.
>>749443575Ngl I almost appreciate AI art because it allows me to instantly skip garbage simply based on the thumbnail. Previously I might've actually clicked on the store page of some of those games.
Any survival horror recs? Stuff like Psychobreak, Parasite Mutant, Phase Zero, those types of games.
>>749432721>It's a crypto-incremental where they pretend it's a roguelite but you just farm gold and die to get +20% on two stats after each deathI hate this. Roguelites that give you more stuff over time are nice, but those like ball x pit where you are required to incrementally get stronger in order to progress at all are shit.
I saw that Boom Buster's comin out on the 28th this month. At first I was happy cause I wishlisted that game almost two fuckin years ago. Then I learned about why it was releasing when it was. Turns out that even though they made a successful Kickstarter campaign where they got in excess of $70,000, they came up with another game and started developing it, it's called Buster Jam. So then they announced they were going to scale down Boom Buster to work on Buster Jam. As a silver lining, they plan to refund all their backers.Can we just talk about upcoming and newly released indie games in general? I played so many and I'm gonna combust if I can't spread the word about the ones I played.Turnip Mountain - twin stick climbing action.Night Hazard (Demo) - 3D low-poly hack 'n' slash. Combat feels pretty basic, but hopefully the game will evolve as it goes on.Acrolyte (Demo) - a visually impressive 2D adventure game in the vein of Metroid with twin stick keyboard controls. Takes some getting used to, the demo's over an hour long.Airframe Ultra (Demo) - I think from the map shown in the tutorial that this game's gonna function as both a racing game and a battle arena game. From the Rain World devs. Controls took about twenty minutes to get used to.Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional - another bullet heaven game inspired by Vampire Survivors, but with enough going on and a great presentation to be its own thing.Bad Pixels - a VERY low-poly FPS mission-based campaign, with visuals and sounds based on the Commodore 64. Early access.I thought about getting Well Dweller cause it's a Metroidvania, but after seeing gameplay it looks boring. Don't know why it's scored so high.
>>749444826You're a retard if you don't know the difference between a demo for a game near its completion and a vertical slice. The game in question literally has its release date set as late 2028.
>>749446683Just posting in this thread to say I saw this thumbnail on the front page and thought the OP was saying Steam Sexfeet instead of Steam Nexfest.Ok, well have a good day everyone.
>>749447513You should take a vertical slice off the top of your skull because it doesn't sound like you are using anything up there anyway.
>>749447120I had fun with turnip mountains demo, from whatever last nextfest it was in
>>749447910That would be a horizontal slice, smooth-brain. I'm not gonna talk further with a literal brownoid, it's beneath me.
>>749447650>Steam Sexfeet kek, I'd play the games feetured.
>>749447990The whole game's out now. It's frustrating at points because it's tough to flick the twinsticks at the same time for a jump, the timing is very tight. Otherwise you fling yourself way out to either side. Thank god the controls can be un-inverted. It's probably only ten levels but I'm okay with that.Also gotta honk the horn for Zexion, this amazing Metroid like game that came out in March last year and only has 500 reviews even though it's now easily in my top 5. It's so fuckin good. It's hard, but good.
>>749447120>Boom BusterHaven't heard of this game and the other one you mentioned but is that even legal to get away with?Yea sure they did the refund, but I feel like that'd just completely damage any form of credibility the devs had>Airframe UltraI was into this game until I saw it had the battle arena focus thing then my interest nosedivedI was hoping for a cool racing game in a unique setting with neat physics from the hover bikes but the focus on combat just turns me away majorly
>>749445334Some games end up being not worth trying out even if they look good (to you), and some games are definitely 100% worth trying out even if they don't look appealing (to you) at first glance. This is why feedback and reviews are helpful, people with similar tastes to yours might (and often will) relate to your experience if you go into a little detail. Which will either save them time (not playing the demo) or give them a new gem they would've otherwise missed. (playing the demo)An example I find relevant to illustrate what I mean is the demo of the game HINO:https://store.steampowered.com/app/3946090/HINO/I knew watching the trailer it was going to be a slower paced platformer, but figured why not since I liked the "japanese horror/cutesy" aesthetic. What I didn't expect was the sheer amount of handholding during the exploration or puzzle solving, cutscene interruptions, and ultimately the janky combat during the boss fight. It's closer to a walking sim designed for children. Still a very cute game, my sister enjoyed watching me playing it, but I wouldn't recommend it to people like me who (erroneously) thought it would be more challenging, don't take control from the player as often and focused on creepy atmosphere.
>>749450027>don't take controldidn't take control as often*
>>749448202https://store.steampowered.com/app/4799620/Thiccfoot/
>those times when you get to talk to the devs of a demo you liked directly and give them words of support + promise them you will buy the game, and later willthis is the true appeal of these events
Office Party, the sequel to House Party, is supposedly getting a demo this festival my sources have told me.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3154460/Office_Party/
>>749450478>buy the game on release, leave a bad review, refund
>>749436720I kneelI have finished 21 games on your listbut I kneel holy shit
>>749447120This is my recent tab. I play indies.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063700/ProtoDungeon_Episode_III/
>>749411657looks neat but the trailer's trying too hard.I miss shooting the shit on Sass climb server
there are so many games literally no one will ever play.steam should have a auto cull that terminates your shit if no one views it in like a two week period.phase-zero is the only resident evil clone i've played that was actually any good
This one looks like one of those offball niche weird obscure thingers that turn out to be surprisingly comfy. Dunno if I heard of a bird watching simulator except for those fake horror type games where it is really the birds who are watching you.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5380220/Feather_Trail_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4693780/Trouble_in_Our_Skies/
>>749451798That game looks soooo good. Like the way it does dithering and stuff, it's not exactly PS1 but I don't think it's trying to be either, definitely the prettiest low poly retro game I've seen so far.
why are there so many ramen shop games?
>>749452361it also uses fixed camera's well.there's a bathroom in the hospital where the shot is just a pair of bloody feet in the foreground before you walk forward that actually had me on edge a little.its also very pretty and the end of the demo is straight up cinema.
>>749452476Hard agree. Hope the final game doesn't disappoint.
>>749452580ye.if they make it a bit more difficult (or include a harder difficulty option) it'll probably be the first survival-horror indie i enjoyed.
>>749452361There is a whole world of survival horror out there. Dead of Darkness 2 was just announced. It is not even 3D, just isometric but it leaps and bounds ahead of his first game which was nothing more than basic RPG maker stuff. The developer is getting better. That is nice to see.I got a real kick out of the first Dead of Darkness because they straight up shot the villain in the head during his evil monologue. Lots of games and movies mock the monologue but they still let the villain do the monologue even if they make fun of the trope. Hardly anyone had the balls to say "nah fuck you asshole rot in your grave I don't care why you did it."That is what indie games are supposed to be about. Do the stuff big corporate studios won't. Alas a lot of the time they take the copying too far. Copy the gameplay, it is fine, Resident Evil gameplay was pretty perfect, but make your own story.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3947120/Dead_of_Darkness_2/
>>749451798>steam should have a auto cull that terminates your shit if no one views it in like a two week period.iron nest had under 100 wishlists in the first month, iircthey launched with almost a million
>>749450478Stop grooming the indie devs
>>749453205that still counts as people viewing it.im talking about the ocean of literal $1 flash games that have no reviews and no one even brought a copy of to seed / make a magnet link for that just sit there doing nothing.
>>749453325Counterproposal: you just grow the fuck up and stop seething about games that are just sitting there not doing anything to anybody. It's a free market.
>>749453205I'll never stop laughing about the PVKK autist getting lapped by two dudes in a shed
>>749454302
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4288970/Snowboard_Rogues/
>>749388593oh boy i can't wait to find 9000 ai slopgames
>>749450996Haven't heard of a single one of these. That only speaks to just how busy the indie game scene is now. Crazy. I'm gonna watch the trailers and see if anything jumps out at me, I'm more geared towards arcade type games. I'm very bad at puzzle and strategy games. Action puzzle games I can kinda manage.
>>749455175Next Fest Bingo! Play along while you play along!
>>749396603Cute game
>>749454302ironnest sucks and the devs are mental midgets, dear god I hope PVKK isn't just a prettier worse running version of it
>>749443792https://store.steampowered.com/app/4890770/Intravenous_3_Borderline/
>>749443792>next Mark of the Ninja
>>749450478you realize they don't care if some smelly neckbeard anon gives them their 12 dollars which after gabens cruise whore funds cut is more like 5 dollars. tell them you're a streamer next time with a huge audience
>>749456196Big if true, added to wishlist. But it is from a dev that makes nothing but abject slop so my hopes aren't high. Though Dotemu is publishing them, so maybe they have put on some retard reigns. I'll remain open-minded, for now.
Baba is yooooooouhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4854690/Cat_Eats_Sushi/
>>749456248Do you think 5 is 30% of 12?
>>749456248>>749457163No wait it is even worse. He thinks 7 is 30% of twelve.
>>749445334>Yeah, it is a demo festival.Yeah. >The idea is that you try the games out yourself.True. The problem? There are more demos than you have time to actually try, even if you dedicate every day to playing demos fulltime, you won't actually have time to play them all. So in these threads we curate demos for each other. And to help people make more informed decisions, we actually try to, at least briefly review the demos we share in the threads. And you can maybe claim that's unnecessary. But there are still retards, or literal shills, sharing genuine bottom of the barrel garbage. And with nothing more elaborate to describe the experience of the demo, you can't really tell. Without trying the demo. Which means you lost the time you needed to try a likely much more preferable demo.
Why do AI sloppers like deckbuilders so much?
>>749457373Seems like your whole premise is based on the notion that "shills" cannot post a favourable game review and are only capable of posting links for some reason.In reality, a shill is more likely to attempt to sell you on the game since their job is that of a salesmen. People with no stake in the matter either way just leave a link and call it a day.But anyway, this is a tradeshow, man. People try to sell you things at a tradeshow. It is the whole point. Seething about shills makes no goddamned sense.
>>749457764Requires next to no writing and it's turn based, so less coding and bugs. I do love my deckbuilding slop though.
I think anon is going to have a bit of a meltdown here when he realizes "free samples" are just a marketing gimmick to get you to buy the full product.This place cracks me up sometimes.
>>749458135Yeah but if the demos are shit I remove the game from my wishlist.
AI game that's in the same genre as that one library game but you chop down trees instead
>>749458286But if the vampire is the person hiring a lumberjack, isn't it the vampire who hates trees? Lumberjacks traditionally have ambivalent feelings towards the trees they cut.
>>749457974>Seems like your whole premise is based on the notion that "shills" cannot post a favourable game review and are only capable of posting links for some reason.No. But provided the reviews aren't just full of fucking lies, they still help you tremendously with self-selecting and filtering what demos you try. Even if you're communicating with a straight up shill. Links with no context though? Shill or not, you're blind to whether the demo is garbage or nothing to your interests. >But anyway, this is a tradeshow, man. People try to sell you things at a tradeshow. It is the whole point. Yeah. Which is why in literal tradeshows, shills actually try to sell you their products. They don't just leave their booths unattended for people to window shop without context.
>>749458479Oh, okay. So you do want shills to try pitch things to you. Just say that next time. You freaks make everything complicated.
Mystery Link here:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4264000/Orion_Blue/It could be anything! Only one way to find out. Are you man enough to click a link without any details about where it will take you?!?!
Patricide is fucking bizarre, but in a good way. The cutscene direction is good and it mixes surreal comedy with horror and violence. The insanity also extends to the gameplay though which is the hardest part to stomach. It's buggy and has several fields where the translation is missing too.I'm also surprised it managed to get onto Steam given the content.
I know Earthbound rip-offs really make that one guy have a tantrum so here's one:https://store.steampowered.com/app/5126550/Passion/A demo is supposed to release during thr festival.
>>749458941iirc their first game got removed from steam, so they probably learned from that and removed what was problematic or just got lucky
>>749458384>They couldn't even title their game themselves
>>749459207Even from the demo I'm not sure the game could possibly be any more problematic than it already is.
>>749459207This is just the first game under a different name
one of these demos fucked up my computer so bad I had to do a system restore most likely the angelic agency VN since it's the one I was playing before my pc crashed (windows 10)good game that said
>>749458672>Oh, okay. So you do want shills to try pitch things to you. Just say that next time.I did. I said that people who are sharing links just briefly review or otherwise share their experience with the demo. Somehow describe what the demo is and what's actually meant to be appealing about it. Nor not appealing. But then people come and just 100 random links with no context.
>>749461331If you clicked on the links it takes you to a magical realm full of context. You are one fucking useless whiner. Why continue this pathetic existence?
>>749461331How did a dumbass motherfucker like you even get into this thread? It required clicking a link.
>>749461331https://store.steampowered.com/app/5060530/Ribbit_Robber/
>>749461512You are a retard not worth arguing with and got BTFO
>>749461331
>>749461652You are a little baby who hides under the covers because the links scare you so much.
Let me know if you find dev tears on reddit and twitterNot enough wishlists, having to compete against AI slopI'm ready for it
>>749458672Yes, I want that. Otherwise what would be the point of these threads
>>749456013>demo of intravenous 3>no announcement what the fuck it's been out ofr that longthanks KING
Play my chocolate slut's game
Friendly reminder there are plenty of good games hidden behind AI cover art. Plenty of these solo devs cant afford artists.I consider it a bit of a toss up whether it's generic AI or low quality ms paint stuff or even RPG maker assets. The gameplay is usually more important.
>>749462087Humor me and post some of these, I want to see if I really missed out on good shit
>>749462173Well there is neostalker, looks like kind of a portal style puzzle game but with a grapple hook instead.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4826430/Neostalker/I will check if I have any more.
>prologue of intravenous 3gideon is still alivenot canon in my version
>>749462237Thanks, I'll give it a try. I would've skipped this game entirely based on the capsule art for sure kek. Because if they use it for the art, there's a good chance they're not even working on other parts of the game.That said I heard AI got better
>>749462301I am sure plenty of the games in my wishlist used AI but because the quality is better now there is no real way to be certain. The AI haters are just close minded fools living in the past.
What's the /v/erdict on Anomalith?
Tags that make me instantly X the page:>incremental>multi-player>rhythm >precision platformer>sports>anomaly
is "incremental" what we're calling Vampire Survivor clones now
>>749462625>rhythm:(
>>749388593>Friendslop>Friendslop>Roguelikeslop >Friendslop>Horrorslop>PS1slop>Friendslop>Deckbuilderslop>Roguelikeslop >PS1slop>Horrorslop >Deckbuilderslop>Horrorslop>FriendslopPLEEEEEEEASE, MAKE IT STOOOOOPPPP!!! AAHHHHHH!!!!!
>>749462724Might as well say I don't play video games
>>749462670No theyre bullet heavensIncrementals are like nodebuster games and clickers
>>749462724no friends alert
>>749462625It is nice to see complaints about things besides deckbuilders. You are allowed to hate more than one thing at a time, you know?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3867020/Delete_the_World/
>>749462724Another casualty of the next fest. He let the games filter him instead of him filtering the games.This festival is NOT for the faint of heart.
I didn't create this game but it would still make me happy if you played it. I like spreading the good word.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4058240/Shroud_of_Gloom_Demo/
>>749462465It's a FuRyu game.
>>749408864https://store.steampowered.com/app/5230880/Whodunit_Sudoku_Demo/
>>749409550Linkdumps haven't even really started yet people are still sorting and categorizing their lists.
>>749463074Looks awesome, thanks for posting
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5201040/SNAPTIC/if the op who made the snaptic thread earlier sees this, good demo
>>749409710I uninstalled the DLSite script. It does something that makes Steam pissy and give me Access Denied every so often.
>>749462724It stops whenever you want it to.
>>749464513it did this to me if I used a VPN, otherwise I've never had the issue
Rhythm Heaven, Bits&Bops, PastelParade, Rhythm Doctor, Melatonin enjoyersI present to you the following:Rhythmaniahttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3647530/RhythMania_Demo/and...
>>749464841...Rhythm Animal Cafehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3859210/Rhythm_Animal_Cafe/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685100/NOIR_BLOOM/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3131340/Lelu/
Will Cashgrabvania Deckbuilder of Sorrow be part of the Nextfest
Hate the devs of this game and their stupidity on twitter, but still somewhat hyped for shade protocol. I hope it has a demo this next fest.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3581730/SHADE_Protocol/
>>749465062>pixel art>smooth textI will not play your game
>>749465854Bro hasn't played a new platformer game in 20 years
Latecomer to all those backpack loli games. It's okay. One of those "air dash and reset it mid-air by hitting things" platformers.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5178740/Near_The_Sun_Demo/
>>749466124Cool visuals.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1865270/Custom_Hobo/Feel like a Newgrounds game, in a good way.
>>749467096Is that a pun on Custom Robo?
>>749458941>The insanity also extends to the gameplayYou can easily break it by maxing out WIS and INT, load out the party with Plungers and Tokarevs and nothing survives past turn 1
>>749467565Visit Gaben's underwater research base
>>749410975First time hearing about Anna, I've seen Home Paige in threads a while back. oh boy two cakes etc
If you like autobattlers and want something more complex, I think Alchemortis is really goodhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4974580/Alchemortis_Demo/
Any weebkino?
>>749467235Could be. Who knows.
>>749443792Nigga, read the fucking thread. >>749439971
>>749467565>>749467895Played it in VR last NFPretty good
>Ah, demos. I love them. I wonder how that game demo I played two years ago is doing.>RELEASE DATE: TO BE ANNOUNCED
>>749390903Sell me tumor
>>749468631>last NFSee, I had no idea.
>>749468865MANY such casesIts why I like the personal calendar because at least the interesting shit is coming out in the coming weeks
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4733660/KRENDEL/
>>749469734You could tell me this was Amanita Designs
I'm gonna harpoon this zigga's airtank
>>749467565>>749467895>>749470460game?
>>749470484I can't say the name because my curator list said IndieArk is owned by China
>>749470547FUCK YOU NIGGA IM CHINESE
>>749470484https://store.steampowered.com/app/3188510/Project_SEVER/
>>749462072She cute, gimme a name
Any good horror game?
where the ground zeroes, house of necrosis at
>>749450996Flower in us looks kino
>>749468865At least you got a demo>Falling Frontiers demo was announced for fall 2022
>>749463074kino game, go in blindty for sharing
WHERE ARE THE 4CHAN DEVS
>>749471294>Falling Frontiersoh man..
https://store.steampowered.com/app/673100/Code_of_The_Savage/Ultima 7 meets Gothic. Rather interesting rpg.
>>749472484I didn't enter next fest because I have 30 wishlists and what's really the point of it all anyway when steam thinks you're a piece of shit who should die?It's always a popularity contest....
>>749471294>Falling FrontiersIn my mind I had that game confused with IXION. Fuck.
>>749472906work on your social media, anon. no one can discover your game organically anymore.
>>749472951https://store.steampowered.com/app/5113860/BIOSUBMARINER_DX/Discover THIS
member when only actual gamers cared about new indies coming up and /v/ only discussed the latest AAA slop and there was only a little bit of deranged anime shit like 2hu and everyone made fun of furshits? and the notable indie titles were made by people who had to actually learn shit to make their passion project instead of flipping assets, stealing fotm ideas and using pig disgusting AI? brainless cattle normies ruin everythingEVERYTHING
>>749472951But first they need to discover my social media posts, which also doesn't happen organically anymore
>>749458941I had a bug where Tsubaki couldn't move because after a few steps she would get stuck flying and realoading/restarting the game wouldn't help.I only did story without exploring other areas yet but I really enjoy it despite all the junk.>>749467383I find combat weird because sometimes doctor with umbrella would either tickle enemies or kill them almost first turn. During last fight in the story he just one-shotted the last boss.
>>749473262I don't think this guy has a clue what he is mad about. Cause I read his post and I am not sure what he is mad about. It was all over the place.
>>749472484I already posted my game in this thread :)
Not much longer until I can join in the demo playing. I have been scrolling the list at work and building my queue.
>>749439971looks more like manhunt
>>749434897>>749435305>>749436058>Trials of Innocence mentioned Nice
>>749474628Nope. It's a pretty blatant copy of SC.
i am nearly done making my first game, anons. you will see it in the first half of 2027 :)
>>749475991Nice ദ്ദി( ˶^ᗜ^˶ )Post a screenshot of your game
>>749476540hmmmm i dont wanna doxx myself, so ill post this out of context screenshot from an older build.it's a first person open-world narrative with many different characters and endings
>>749476958
>>749476958>i dont wanna doxx myselfThat's dumb.
>>749478013ive been down this road before anon>post your game. ok, good, now post your bare dick and ballsyeah not falling for that again
>>749476958Quick, everyone, doxx the guy!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4481680/Nulphia/I really like this one. Very much in the style of the oldest Zeldas. You got your exploration, simple fighting and puzzle solving on segmented but open and rather big world.
>>749388593I know I will catch some flak for asking this but do you anons know any good AI genereted games coming out?
>>749479543https://store.steampowered.com/app/3623630/Code_9/
>>749479928No I mean games fully generated by AI. Like, code, art, story and so on
A working mirror in a game that doesn't require 5090RTX? Grok, is this real? Should I report this to authorities for undermining the hard work of Nvidia?
>>749476958>i dont wanna doxx myselfthe bigger issue nowadays would be someone making a carbon copy of your game with claude in 3 daysbetter not show any gameplay until you're close to release
>>749479383it doesn't look horrible, but those characters look like they escaped from a weg
>>749476958grok steal i mean copy this guy's artstyle, but better, in HD and beautiful. make no mistakes
>>749471010Uppercute
>>749480034i don't think they existi have a few demos lined up that use AI but none of them are super blatant about it or might be shithttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4696520/Arena_Bot_Manager/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5039980/Chat_Should_We_Head_Over_There/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5236070/Trade_or_Threat_Demo/
>>749399938So I played 40 minutes only to discover I am softlocked because I don't have a way to get higher health to tank the demo boss because I fought enemies out of order or somethingand the only way to do it right is play smarter from the startyeah, nah.
>>749476958Shill it in the next fest in 2027 since those are the only threads I actively seek
>>749482539Thanks the chat one looks like. and I was just trying to find it but there seems to be a game about a cooking, dungeon crawler that was build entirely with AII want to keep track of fully AI generated games in the upcoming years.
my game didnt make it onto the press preview. I think I submitted it too late trying to polish it. real nexfest number probably over 10,000 games kek
>>749480034The best one is this:https://store.steampowered.com/app/4364310/Cook_The_Dungeon/He let Claude generated code, assets and whatever else.
Look like shotafags are eating good.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3230070/Duat_Beyond_Light__Shadow/
>>749462724This
Aren't that dystopian.
>alt+tab a demo>it crashes
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4669160/The_Zibbo_Show_Demo/Who would make a game about dice but remove the satisfaction of actually rolling dice?And why does it have the slowest dialog known to man?
>>749485425Played this one, combat needs polishing, right now is very clunky. Platforming is fine. Visuals are good.
>>749485425why do these incredible pixel artists decide to work on metroidvanias every time?
I miss when these were full of retro shooters
>>749488565what should they be working on
>>749487839That cat is fatter than me
>>749488619>thumbnailPathetic
>>749463171I did filter the games.Many games these days have numerous features, and Valve's tag system only uses like 3 to 5 tags, so it doesn't filter out all the games I'm not interested in.There's just that many damn games.Even if there's a game that looks neat, the level designs are usually empty blocky test maps, and that sucks.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4017880/ANOMALITH/If you want some anime in your shooter.
>>749488780balatrolikes
Came out a bit before next fest but pretty cool: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1917990/Being_and_Becoming/
Some cool ones to watch. Their demos release on the start of next fest.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2974160/Blighted/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3313880/Hexborn/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5186750/Stars_of_Icarus_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3574750/The_Dark_West/
>>749489875I played the demo and it was alright. Not that great but not that bad either. Just a lot of fuck ups and annoyances that really sour the whole experience for me.
What's the best porn game?
>>749469708The personalized calendar is the best feature Steam’s had in years. The hit rate for games I buy is way, way higher than the discovery queue.
>>749493026Eh, it gets boring after a while and I didn't care about most of the girls. Siren best girl.
>>749464508I was excited for it because of the original teaser the creative lead put out https://youtu.be/T2K2Dksi40s , but I was kind of worried since on the kickstarter it said it was the guy's first time making a game... but I just played the demo a few mins ago and it was fun. There was some good variety in how the level design played with the magnet ball ability, and the teaser showed at least one minigame/puzzle type that wasn't even in the demo (the selection-box thing), so I'm more confident now that they have enough material to make a full game without running out of ideas and padding it out.
Shilling my own game. Download demo if you like slaughterfests.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1757100/Curse_Of_Gutterdeep/
>>749494985no trailer?
>>749495250Damn, Steam admin is so weird. I have it on the demo page, which is separate, it's so confusing Hang on, I'll link the Youtube vid.https://youtu.be/yBU4lpMDzEM?si=Qy-F4f_tse6gxsko
>>749495250>>749494985strange, for some reason browser version of the page shows only screenshots to me but steam's one has a trailer
>>749495402Oh weird. Like I said, Steam page admin is so confusing. It's a full time job just understanding everything, or maybe I'm retarded, that could be it as well. Was rushing to make it to this Next Fest, gonna do a proper work through for early access later in December where I will add traps, more weapons, enemies and later on different biomes. Also full economy.
Apparently, Steam does not have a maximum time limit for release date. You can set your release date to 2050 and Valve will allow it. HOWEVER, Steam does not like games that change their release date often, which is probably why many devs which have games that look almost done set their release date to 2028, even if they actually have an earlier release in mind, because that way they'll only have to change their release date once. Reason why a dev should care about this is because of the algorithm. Steam just forgets about "Coming Soon" games after a while.TL;DR: 2028 games are not an automatic scam.
>>749481857If Claude can copy your game in 3 days, just from an image, then it was never worth anything to begin with. Claude could never properly copy Factorio just from a screenshot and have it actually work, the only thing it can repolicate easily is slop made by humans e.g. deckbuilders, vampire survivors, walking simulators.>but what about recompsClaude has access to the actual files of those. Not just an image.
>>749496014bro it created terraria in a single nightnot the full game obviously but it worked
>there are more games than ever!>the game:Holy fuck, literally nothing seems good.also the ai slop on the literal cover is insane
Any cool shmups or Japanese games?
>>749496119>bro it made a tech demo that barely works in a single nightCool? That's exactly my point though.
>>749494985Is the barman supposed to t-pose?
>>749495402>>749495618flush the homepage after you publish it
>>749496421Dude, there's so many flaws in the demo if you pay attention. But no, he's not supposed to t-pose.>>749496624Do you mean flush the demo page?
>>749396603Not much, I think only these three, though I might be missing a game or two:The Message From Deep Space, Poke all Toads and Time To Live
>>749472984Thanks doc
>>749496810>Do you mean flush the demo page?Whichever one isn't getting the trailer in the browser
>>749496810>>749494985Did one easy run and died, lol.Pretty fun for a prototype. Reminds me of Exanima but action focused. Needs more variety in everything. Different enemies, mini and not mini bosses, different attacks such as piercing dash, sword spin, jump with an AOE crush landing, etc.Obviously needs sounds and music.
>>749497303Also, a hammer weapon that will make a satisfying *dunk* on landing a hit.
>>749497303Thanks for playing, I appreciate it!Yes, variety is on it's way, I actually cut a lot of features for the demo, a boss and a medium enemy. More combos is not a bad idea though, I'll take note of that, thanks.>>749497353A hammer is my next weapon in the pipeline! Ever since I played Warhammer Online, two hand hammers has been my favorite. That weapon will crush/smash the enemies instead of slicing them.
Oh, and a negative feedback. The dash is very unpredicatable and has a will of its own. Half of the time it throws me in a direction I wasn't pressing/moving to.
>>749497642It's actually meant to be a dodge but I fucked the anims up just before releasing the demo...
>>749497591On a second thought. Since it's not a diablo type of game combos may take away from it's main feature - physics based weapon swinging. So instead of spamming various combos undermining the swinging a better idea would be to give each weapon a special attack:sword - piercing dashmace - spinhammer - jump with an AOE crush landingThat way the focus will stay intact and each weapon will have its own identity and a little bit of its own playstyle.
>>749497983Weapons will define the playstyle, instead of character classes. So it'll be more, how do you like to kill your enemies? Slice, splash, or...? I might be working on a flame throwing wizard.. and an archer with piercing arrows instead of wide slashes. I do like your idea of more defining finishes at the end of combos, that could help define it even more since visibility is a bit hard at the moment.
>>749497983cont:And to keep players from spamming it either add a cd or make it rechargable with blood/kills.
>>749498265I've thought about that and I'd rather go the route of throwing more enemies at the player than having cooldowns. I can spawn up to 300 enemies at the same time as of now.
>>749494985This isn't ready for Next Fest. Keep the demo up, get feedback, keep working on your game, but pull out of this Next Fest and don't enter until you're almost ready to launch. You get ONE chance to get as many eyeballs on it as possible and this is lacking way too much polish. For actual feedback:Bones of the game feel good, it's fun mowing through hordes of goblinsThere needs to be way more variety, more enemies, more weapons, more attacks, more things to pick up in the dungeons, etc.Need a main menu and brief tutorial explaining controls. Prompts in front of interactable like the bounty board. An arrow indicating that you're supposed to lift up the bounty, etc. I like how immersive it is but you have to account for people not experimenting their first time playing. You don't want them to quit before even getting to the combat.The damage flash effect looks very amateurish, I'd look at how other games do it and try to copy that.Hard to tell what's a death pit and what's progression. I assumed since we go into a dungeon through a pit that the next similar looking pit would go to the next level, but no it was just death.Need death screen instead of just kicking you back to the tavern, maybe put some stats up too.All in all, a lot of potential but you got a long way to go to get there.
>>749498636Thanks for the honest feedback, I agree with most things, variety in general, absolutely.Death pits are meant to take you to a sub level if you fall in, but not in the demo. I really wanted to try without overexplaining things, like arrows, or UI and such. I know it's lacking, but might not give up entirely on the idea yet though.A lot of valid points, I hear what you're saying and you're not wrong. I'll see what I'll do.
>>749499421>I really wanted to try without overexplaining things, like arrows, or UI and such. I know it's lacking, but might not give up entirely on the idea yet though.I get it, but you're going to have to balance your vision with accessibility (aka retards buying your game). You can do something like prompts showing up the first time then fading away afterwards, kind of like how Rain World shows you the basic controls in the first couple of screens and then never tells you them again (and doesn't teach you the advanced controls either, you just have to figure it out)
