https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestHELP I'M GETTING FILTERED BY THE DOOR CODE PUZZLE IN NIGHTMERE
>LikedEstatica 1&2 - Rerelease of the DOS survival-horror adventure game2Tumor Necrosis Factor - Biopunk Rail ShooterEulogy Of An Insect - RPGM game about weird insects with hard-drawn backgroundsMaid In Wonderland - Gothic anime action-adventure game >MehMercurius Blue - Rerelease of a cyberpunk RPGM game from '10Home Page - Momentum Based Platformer set in a Windows 2000 PCShadow Island - P&C Horror Porn Game full of hagsInto The Sand - mystery game set in a post-apoc desert, you dig up artifacts while keeping your water level in checkCornered Cadavers - Fixed camera survival horror game with pre-rendered HD backgrounds, looks and plays janky as hellDungeon Lurkers - Retro action roguelike with a meta twist>Won't Bother With itLittle Girls Espaceventures - weird game where you play as a kidnapped kid trying to escape, looks like a 32bit gameFields of Aaru - Cozy life sim set in the egyptian afterlifeAlia Domus - pixel survival rpg Fox Vanishes - VN about a male self insert and a chuuni witch girl solving a mystery in a remote village (demo is not about that though)Anomalith - TP anime game set in the BackroomsDreadmoor - Horror Fishing game Derelikt - PSX FPS set in an abandoned space stationAtom RPG 2 - ATOM RPG BUT IT'S FALLOUT NOW!!!>BADSolace Creek - boring tp horror game where you solve mysteries while avoiding monsters and hiding inside lockers, maybe a SCP game?Tinker Island - Survival Crafting Friendslop that apes Wind Waker, GERMANParasensor - DE mystery horror game, it got spooky bugs in itHaven't tried it yetElzypon - Surrealist turn-based RPGErewhon - "First Person, Turn-Based, Lovecraftian Dungeon Crawler with Visual Novel and Soulslike elements", another schizo rpgm gameThe Mystery Mist - Chinese hand-drawn adventure RPG, it had a game-breaking last week, need to try againMysery Dungeon Girl & Scarecrow - Short fantasy visual novel with clayanimation
>>750047767seriously it's driving me mad it shouldn't be that complicatedthat's what I get for thinking the demo was easy before this update FUCKprevious thread:>>750001212previous press preview threads:>>749857568>>749675606>>749503930https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/749388593/https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/749298693/
Anomalith was way too jank for my taste.
Removed games that pulled out of nextfestWilderdark download keeps corrupting, must be too good to download I don't know. I've been pretty excited to try it since yesterday.
what killed the hype?
>>750048798We already had like 4 threads before the event actually started
>>750048860I keep telling these retards to stop turning these threads into generals but they never listen.
>>750047876>tranny listshill refreshing the catalog like xher life depends on it only to post his garbage as early as possiblenoticing...
>>750049134obsessedprobably projecting
The problem with next fest is that thousands of games are concentrated into its on funnelI think valve just needs to find a way to spread that out moreThe personal calendar has been fantastic so I hope tbey take a page out of that and find a way to integrate it into the fest
>>750049856The calendar expanding to also let you know about demos outside of the next fest cycles could be cool.
>>750049953That might clog it up too much but I think a calender specifically sequestered just for demos would be greatAND it encourages developers to participate in next fest when theyre actually sure that their game is releasing in the next few monthsAnother thing Id like to see is Valve just outright letting people click the "algorithm" button so they immediately get personalized recs ibstead of the first 2 day fuckfest next fest always goes throughMake it opt in
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4863130/TeaKnights/Rail shooter the like of I guess Sin and Punishment for N64. Not amazing, but fun and mc is cute.
>>750049953Yes, this would be amazing. And yeah, personal calendar has been a treasure trove of gem finding unironically, even if more spread out than these next fests. Love being a gamer
>>750050456The calendar works because its only really pulling from a thousand "relevant" games that are releasing in the next few weeksIssue with next fest is that it pulls from 7000 fucking demos all at the same time so valve just needs to add more places to show off those demos off
>>750047767>>750048002Phone code: 12484Door code: 414
>>750050852Name?
>>750050448nice reminds me of asura the striker
>>750050912anon...https://store.steampowered.com/app/4917610/Nightmere/
to sign up for this nextfest you needed to be registered before august. claudeopus5.5 and astra, etc came out after that. thats why you can even recognize the slop. next fest in february you won't be able to recognize it. consider this a blessing
>>750048550name of games?
>>750051578browse the previous threads because this tranny hates spoonfeeding
>>750051578what am i your marketing team
>>750048550Wtf I wanted to try the one with short black hair and red hair
>>750047767So much fucking slop, though. They also need to stop re-using demos. This shit should be specifically for the Next Fest period.
>Busy with some projects >Suddenly, Nexf Festwhat the fuck it feels like the last one wasn't that long ago Now I gotta juggle demos while working on stuff aaaaaaaa
reminder that masahiro sakurai is browsing the next fest
Reblade the Spiral is my kinodemo so far.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4513800/ReBlade_The_Death_Spiral_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4513800/ReBlade_The_Death_Spiral_Demo/
>>750052407he could be browsing this thread right now
>>750052585I'm not.
>>750052585I look like this by the wya
>>750052407yet he did nothing original in decades
>>750050852THANK YOU
>>750052923kid icarus uprising was original
>>750052965Yeah and I fucking want MORE.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3849330/Chaos_The_Devil/Game very much inspired by first Crash Bandicoot with both its level design and mc's skills. Big focus on difficulty and mastering the game, with its one hit kills and paid checkpoints. I was annoyed at times because of it, but overall I like the game. It's also also 100% voiced by the dev himself with his house microphone, which I find both distracting and charming in a way.
I liked it. If you like secret labs and underground Resident Evil type of experiments lore.Playing it in the Thai language gives it some unusual character too.
THICChttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4593940/Thicc_Rogue
>>750053592Yeah the effects are really well done, i thought it was good
>>750051578>>750051625I'm fat and retarded please help me
>>750054101plz dont post sloppa
>>750054162The darkness/shadows wasn't handled well. It was literally pitch black in rooms without light sources.Cinematic and gamey darkness is not pitch black.
The time has come.So have I.
So many demos, so little time.All the ones I've played so far and my thoughts.https://rentry.org/October2026NextFest
ELTA defy all gods - love the style, like that there's no annoying voiced protagonist, love the big burly brute worshipping baby eldritch abomination angle, gameplay is on the weaker side of good but it needs more time in the oven and especially better animations
>>750047767>Steam Next Fest October 2026more like slopfest
>>750055693you're heart is in the right place but your comment is worthless
Simple nonogram game but hexagons, I like nonogram games
STARHOME - Homeworld but worse, it does not spark joy
>endless bitching about how nextfest is flooded and overstuffed this year>not even a hundred games worth looking atwe need even more
>>750051450>implying slop spammers are going to pay for the top dollar models You can take one look at next fest and see that looking good is not something they’re concerned about. It’s about making shit as fast and as cheaply as possible.
>you can pet the chatte
>>750054754>The FatumLooked interesting, and it's another Black Lantern Collective gem. They've been blowing it out of the park.
>>750038279>Before I bite, how optimized is the demo and how janky are the puzzle interactions?I didn't have any trouble running the game on my 3070 TI.The room(s) are very claustrophobic but I didn't have a problem with any of the puzzles at all.Honestly anyone that tries that demo can probably skip right over the FMV intro, as it didn't seem to really add anything to the game that wasn't already conveyed by the text laying around in the level.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4018410/Mechanis_Obscura/
Any games that let me the cat?
tfw still got 150+ demos from previous nextfest to try
>>750056456you can assume none of those are good
>>750035923Lemme give you some search terms you can use in this very thread as I know what you're looking for>roguelite>roguelike>card game>penis game>sruvival whoreMaybe you'll like this list that offers 0 links whatsoever >>750047876
any good puzzle games?
>>750057038I like this one. It's like Lemmings but with more control over characters.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3931270/Wolf_Plot/
I love it. Everyone play thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4285600/
>>750054101>bought AI-genned assetslmao
Two non-recommendations.Dark Side Void visually looked good, and actually felt fine to play, but didn't hook me at all. Each mission was just go kill some stuff in a large square area of empty space. Never felt threatened boosting around shootin stuff, and melee was too cumbersome to actually use at speed.Would rather go play more brigador.Asuka badly wants to be Initial D but about a girl at a racing school. The driving model though was rough, wants to be simcade but it's bad at being a sim or arcade. Also every time I changed gear the rpm would bounce wildly for two seconds. That's honestly what drove me the most insane, engines don't work like that unless you seriously miss a rev match. Weirdest rpm behavior in any racing game I've ever played.
>>750058121>no M&K supportbut why...
>>750059145there's keyboard controls
>>750059730ah ok, haven't booted it up. The page just lies then
>>750059794Oh, I was also in your boat. Tried launching it and Steam told me to pull out my xbox controller if I wanted to play it (I do not have an xbox controller, I simulated one ONCE and Steam hasn't forgotten).
>>750059794the default layout is kinda ass. I wish i can move with wasd and the action controls are on the numpad.
>>750058121I'm loving it, and the AI translation isn't so bad, but why does the soundtrack sound like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJbuHUbw8k
Recruitment seems OP so far, just oneshot the tutorial boss with a steak. Mariel's buddies stand off to the side and cheer you on during battle, holy fucking CUTE>>750060124I got used to it with robot girl championship. While it's not the best it kind of has a children's storybook sound which I appreciate. It kind of reminds me of the instrumental albums made for yotsuba&.
>>750060557It's kind of balanced by how much food you need to throw at certain things to befriend them and how you'll have to use crafting chances on cooking and possibly skipping dinner to have enough food to throw. The last boss in the demo takes 200.
Anons, what's your method of getting through all this fucking slop? I can't see any way to filter through popularity. Am I at the mercy of steam algorithm?
>>750060124Devs sucks at music. His last game also had shit music
>>750061105isn't it set to random until tomorrow? now is the time for the people who enjoy scouting and digging through trash
>>750061105Me? I'm just playing whatever anon recs. He does all the hard work for me.
Tried Project Exhibitionist, has potential but right now is too rough and I'd recommend just playing either of the Secret Flasher games instead.I did appreciate the autism of making an intractable desktop complete with a terminal, snake and paint.
>>750061105Unironically ask chatgpt
>>750049017You don't get to tell people what to do. Next Fest isn't all about you. You are nothing but a dumb freak.
>>750051921The Bagman?
>>749972647>IT'S MAMS>>749976750>yjk>>749986873just click the thumbnails with tits idk man
>>750061485Gimme the cute demoness at 5,5.
>tfw submitted my demo build in late august but valve still hasn't gotten round to reviewing it properly so had to pull out
>>750061613That's yeonwoo from kbj. We aren't trying to get banned at the moment.
>>750061105I sort through the specific tags I like myself and then I let anons feed me recommendations for the rest.
>>750058121There is one demo I really wanted to see, but i guess they either do not believe in their product or game is years away
>>750061462you've been kvetching and dilating for years now tranny
>>750061105I let everyone in the threads do all the work, then pick through those for games that I find interesting. While it's not perfect, I haven't been explicitly disappointed by the games I've tried.
>>750061824I'm sure the guy who designed the MSN logo wasn't expecting someone to make a game about his little guys.The world is funny sometimes
>>750061862Heh. Freak market. That's funny.
Finally I have time to play some demos>>750058121I agree with this anon>>750061105I usually browse discovery queue but this time around I have been feeling like shit for no reason at all(and playing lot of monhun instead) so I just let anons do the work for me(not counting games I already had wishlisted like Shadow Mate or Where is my Sword).
>>750056561Just like this nextfest
>>750061105use this https://weloveit.io/next-festival/
>>750062397yes, but these are new bad games, which is better than old bad games
>>750061105>Anons, what's your method of getting through all this fucking slop?>sort by female protagonist>see little girl and click on it>ignore everything elseWorked for me so far.
how do you even filter through all the ai slop
>>750062568i just have a natural sense of taste that allows me to tell which games are good by looking at them
>>750061105I block specific tags like card battler and incremental
>>750062946it is absurd how many card battlers there are. i thought vibecoding was supposed to enable idea guys to be creative here
still at work currently, but after perusing the list these five are the ones i'm planning to try when i get home
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4601100/False_Oath/
>>750063054It also enabled uncreative people to put out slop sadly.
>>750048798all the AI slop
>>750063218upside is that they'll gain neither money nor clout and give up pretty fast
>>750063054Ideas guys never actually do design work.If they actually had a complete design to work with, their title would be Designer or Director, both of which entail way more effort than some surface level concept that would be thrown at a slop machine.With card games which are static and well-understood, you can literally just steal mechanics from established TCG and slap whatever art you want onto them.Why do you think so many slay the spire ripoffs all play the same way? There isnt an ounce of creativity in their design.
https://rentry.org/Oct2026NextfestRoundupList of everything I've played so far with brief descriptions and reviews, as usual I've added more since last thread.
>>750063263downside is we have to dig through that shit to find games worth playing
>>750061105suck it up and scroll, anon. You have to work for your demomost of the anons in the thread have dogshit taste and eat up any dogshit that has a horny anime look to it (do you faggots have no shame), or atleast they keep recommending genres i dont like>>750047767https://store.steampowered.com/app/4645270/The_Final_Days_of_Olin_Earl/I liked The Final Days of Olin Earl. Simple 3D puzzle platformer stuff and the music is nice but the trailer is kinda shit.There is 0 indication that the statuette goes in the plaza diorama and it will respawn at the pedestal, though it will look empty so that's something to look out for.
>>750063415no, that's the fun part. you guys can just wait until the people who like trying new games have worked through it and told you what's good
>>750063460looks like garbage
>>750060878Oh yeah I see now. My first run gave me the wrong impression of how good it was because of a perk combo I got. The demo is fun but I think it he should have included at least one more area since it stops just as you can reasonably get a build rolling.I wonder if this game will implement character routes like dev's last game did. I would always do rub's events where her parents pool money to buy you super armor, and at the end of your route you become her personal maid.
>>750063510kiss my ass nigger!!!!
>>750063485Nah, it's tedious. I dug through 1k+ games already to find about 20 that I thought were interesting
>>750063485There's a difference between liking new games and installing every low effort piece of shit out there
https://rentry.org/bjsnf2026-3There's a lot of AI games this fest, huh?
>>750063675Queen's Domain was horrible. You already lost me.
>>750063625like i said, you don't need to engage with this part of the process if you don't enjoy it>>750063646you don't have to install every game to work through a filtering process, come on. 80% of them you can tell are garbage just by looking at the screenshots, 80% of the remainder from the description, and 80% after that by watching the video. idk, wading through trash is fun for me, it's the same thing i do for webnovels and anime
>>750063763Skill issue.
>>750048550kill yourself
>>750063809Shit's trash bro. You have to level up your weapons, enemies follow you across the map, grain filter is disgusting, throws you to a boss fight with the shrine key
pretty cool mystery ghost stories VNhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4991210/Angelic_Agency_Soul_Salvation_Unit__Demo/
>>750047767Girl here, any good horror game and or with cute men?
>>750057038UVSU was interesting
any good auto battlers or incrementals?
>>750063794>like i said, you don't need to engage with this part of the process if you don't enjoy itI enjoyed it more before, but it's gotten way way worse with the slop. Still a worthy endeavor but my eyes were glazing over clicking next over and over again
>>750063927no, but you might like https://store.steampowered.com/app/4335510/Horses_of_Hoofprint_Bay_Demo/
>>750057038Inkblood is a Case of the Golden Idol like but improved in a lot of waysYour Painting Sir is a collage maker where you're trying to piece together a painting from newspaper cutoutsHexograph. Picross but with hexes
>>750063897>You have to level up your weaponsA staple of great Japanese games (Secret of Mana, Xanadu Next, Astlibra).>enemies follow you across the mapYou're right, enemies being leashed to specific spots like dogs is so much better.>grain filter is disgustingPersonal opinion.
>>750063927haven't tried it yet but eldread might be good. likes like a world of horror clone, but for space instead of japan
I don't know why but Tropico 7 is not enjoying me putting some farms on the right of my island (where the relevant fertility is). So I buiilt a second little village but they're still not going to bloody work, not even in the store in the middle of the village (after I moved it).......
>start game>crashes during the intro>start game again and skip the intro and get into the options menu before it crashes again>now it crashes instantly after start upNo need to play this one, I guess.
>>750063897Diamond-shaped health bars was a clear sign this was not going to end well
>>750044854
Gavehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4139580/Where_the_Seeds_Fall/A try after it got posted last thread, I'm generally a fan of weird atypical platformers.Looks like shit on medium settings, kinda had a headache from the effects and blur by the end of the 20~ minute demo level. Controls fine for the most part, the movement on foot felt slipperier than in the air which was odd.Weird little girl makes cute noises, wasn't overdone or distracting.I'd buy it an give it a play for less than $10, feels like something made by a single indie dev in a short timeframe but it's cygame's new AA studio or whatever the fuck so maybe it's all interns.
>>750064369Yeah I beat the demo I forgot to say, but compared to the other levels where I found everything in less than 2 minutes it took me 30 for the red hood painting kek
>>750064050>auto battlersAlchemortis is pretty great, I've won a few runs and got all the unlocks in the demo.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4974580/Alchemortis_Demo
legitimately awesome concept and unique gameplay for such a game, play robotekahttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4977170/ROBOTEKA/felt really hype, wishlisted immediately
getting this day 1
>>750063927If you like being chased you might like Terrible Lizards
>>750064496Looks kino, downloading
>>750048550What's that furry one on the bottom right?
>>750063927>Girl here
>>750064659That was Kopernicus: Incremental Suffering which I removed because it was incremental and suffering
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4447720/Light_From_Within/Light From Within - Zelda clone that I'm pretty sure is an actual NES rom. Good music, hard game play though not punishing like OG Zelda. Funny intro where you're isekai'd by literally dying of cancer
>>750048550What's bottom right, I don't remember you posting about it before
any good parry slop?3d or 2d doesn't matter
>ps3 controller is finally driftingit's over
>>750064732>KopernicusThat one doesn't look like the furry one at all...
>>750063537Ending it right as you're getting a build put together leaves you wanting more, which is good for a demo. You're also spared the experience of having so many things in the bag that actually getting to what you need is a bit troublesome for the most part.There's some different endings at least, it'll probably be based on follower count or having specific characters befriended.
>>750064847Kitaria Fables 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/858200/Scratch_The_Cat/Somewhat generic but pretty decent 3D platformer of big open level collectathon variety (save for the initial tutorial) .
why every game looks AI
>>750064480This looks neat, wish my controller wasn't dead.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4739130/Snooze_Control/Looks kinda funny
Haven't had alot of time current haul>Pleasent supriseTropico 7 - I haven't played since 4 and it was nice to return to>Will never buy but okayIgnite the depths - I guess FPS dungeon crawler horrible balanced but it had some jank soul>BADEmberville - just not a lot of meat to it, expected moreUpcoming demos I plan playing>Vaulted>Guns of Eschaton>Mortuus>Wyldheart>Northgard Battlegrounds
>>750065156They are. It's a tidal wave of diarrhea.
Any good Strategy/Tactical RPGs or mecha games?
>>750063927trans here any good horror game and or with cute women ?
>>750052553I smell chinkslop
>>750065015"More like Scrimblo the Cat" - AVGN
>>750053389More like Chaos the ASS
Our favorite youtubers got cancelled so we're going back to AVGN
>>750066009>>750065790How about a joke? My ass.
>>750064959Are the yellow eyes an effect of low purity?
>DevoidFirst ever Dishonored-like (encountered by me).Very simple but I like it .
>>750062416Neat thanks
How is this fad still not over?
The new tropico looks like it should 10 years ago, but better late then never. High fidelity and zoom are really nice.The demo is worryingly barren of content.And the devs forgot to disable cars in colonial era...>>750064332You need more entertainment and higher wages there
>>750047767It's all fucking AI slop. Valve seriously needs to start putting in some fucking quality control.
>>750067154why don't you just go play your organic free range games over on GOG?
>>750067083Puzzles are for women and fags, so it will never fade.
Nihei you bastard get out of my video games
>>750067083>a genre that thrives on its replay value is just a fadCmon now, everyone knows why they rose in popularity when twitch streaming became commonplace. Its episodic entertainment, the allure of one more try has been known since before the coin-op days, before computers even existed where youd get your entertainment out of watching a coin fall down and hit pins while youre hoping it falls in the high score hole.
>>750067109The houses in the second place are occupied, I have 50 unemployed, the lazy spics just refuse to work for some reason
>>750067345I don't think twitch had anything to do with the likes of hades, vampire survivors and balatro blowing up
>>750067083Arcades have been over for like three decades now>>750067551>I don't think twitch had anything to do with the likes of hadesHades was an Epic exclusive for a year, streamers and other content creators who shilled it during that period are the only reason why it's one of like three games that didn't get killed by doing it
>>750063912Will give it a try, the amount of chromatic aberration is giving me Paranormasight vibes.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5146950/_Demo/kino
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4601100/False_Oath/Resident Evil: Medieval edition.
>>750067740>>750067835Actually pretty funny concept
>>750063927TITS or GTFO
>>750067835i see the dev didn't have the balls to call it Resident Medieval.
>>750067451>>750067109I require an explanation
>>750047876nta but>Elzypondisappointed me. The graphics are pure soul, but the combat is an absolute fucking drag, the level design's bland as hell and all the text is written by an ordinary person instead of an ESL savant.
Sirens
>>750052553>chinkslop AND rogueslopI trusted you you son of a bitch
>>750067835This is awesome, thank you for shilling this. Funny that a few days ago I had a dream about a tank controls resident evil game happening in ancient times, I was wondering how this could translate well.
Mr Records is the biggest disappointment of nextfest for me so farThe concept is great and the charting is interesting but it's too easy and the songs are a complete pisstake. They hit you with the one good Beatles inspired song for the tutorial and the rest is just "what if we did this genre but got reddit to write the lyrics", it comes off as completely insincere.
>>750068321Yeah cause old times people had weird movement rules it was the same thing in chess and battles and stuff it is why they always did it in lines. Modern day controls mirror humans evolving into being able to move more freely so tank controls in medieval.times makes sense.
>>750058121>Robot girl's dream devStraight to my wishlist, thanks for letting me know
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/Ship_Miner/Any other Dome Keeper-likes out there?
>>750069340Even with max mining with 3 lasers it takes 5 years to clear a map in this.
>>750061613inferno cafe
>>750069517>that's the klutz oneWew hell sure is weird
>>750067835deus vult-AAAACKKKK!!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4970850/COMETROX/probably my favorite demo so far. hope theres gonna be guitar hero controller support in the final thing though
>>750069967>giving RE zombies half-a-screen worth of rangeSpooky.
>>750068041They are all CrimeRs
>>750066235That happens when you hit 0 Purity, which is a game over, as the sword takes over.
>>750065015This is like playing a tidied up test stage in a tech demo, the fuck is it doing in nextfest
>>750070053yeah it's a really good rhythm game, the trailer alone sold me
SEX WITH THE STEAM HAG!!!
>>750070223really hope theres gonna be support for custom tracks in the final thing, i could see myself putting a ton of hours in if so
>>750070286That's the Dota hag for you.
https://github.com/BeGe-01/nextfest-hide-aiis this useful?
>>750070339I bet gaben got skinny just to bang her on his yatch, that lucky bastard.
>>750070341Only if you don't care about accidentally hiding the tiny percentage of games where the AI disclosure isn't the kind of AI you want to filter.>used AI to filter out junk emails on Thursdays
>>750061105>First minute Nextfest starts go to charts - tranding upcoming, download ~30 demos moving down the list, sorting out anything I'm immediately uninterested in based on looks or tags>Go through the first batch>when done go to top demos chart and download anything I've missed from top 100>check /v/ threads for other hidden gemsI do this every time and it works flawlessly.
>>750070124you are meant to parry them, but I wasn't confident since I broke my shield earlierbut this time... "I" got the "timing" right
>>750070824welp demo stopped here right in the middle of what I assume to be a cutscene with no way to pause or quitgot the achievement thoughfun game and concept. wishlisted
I usually enjoy dredging through the unfiltered list in the first few days, but this time I might be at my limit
>>750070341Seems to work as it says it does, but I feel like this is going to get you rate limited like the DLSite script.
>>750070824Yes, "I" can see that you're "scaling" the "walls" and ramparts.
>>750067245>Lorn's Lure teamYeah, that's a wishlist from me.
>>750070701It must be great being a retarded normalfag
Forgive me, Father, but I must play this Furyu game.
Crazy how something as simple as the next fest threads devolves into elitism and attention whoring over playing demos
>>750071414blame the freak tranny
>>750067245>in the trashWhat did xe mean by this?
>>750071414the early press threads have been nothing but a blight upon us
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2678490/Mages_Adventure/?curator_clanid=39049601PEAK
>>750071414What are we crying about now? How can one act as an elitist by playing a publicly available demo?
>>750071675Begone schizo
>>750071675Cause some people are too stupid to play demos, apparently.
is the discovery queue only shitting itself for me? The trailers are taking forever to load and even then it only loads 5-10 seconds.
>>750071865its tuesday
>>750071310what about the other Furyu game?
>https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest>not using https://weloveit.io/next-festival/ for maximum efficiencyOP confirmed faggot.
I had fun with Stupid Never Dies. Love the title screen track too.
>>750072329Oh that's a cool site thanks
>>750072305yeah, I noticed 2 seconds after I posted it.I have been so busy I thought It was still monday.
Wow Dreadmoor is... fine I guess, I was really hyped for this game but it really just feels like a worse Dredge so far, why the fuck did they think that keeping you outside of your boat for like 1 hour to talk with NPCs and do random chores was a good idea?
I think I've had enough for today. This "capsule art" broke me.
>>750073239>muh artwho gives a fuckis the game good?
>>750073239looks badass
>>750073509it's survivorslop so no.even if the capsule art was good, it doesn't even look like the game itself
>>750061105I used the stones to destroy the stones
ok im gonna dig in. will update couple of hours from now.
>>750073509I'm gonna take a wild swing and say no.But be my guest and try it for yourself, if this appeals to you.
usually i try like 20-30 demos but ive got 1 to download this time gonna be lazy the ui is still ass and there are too many slop games. not just ai, its still like 20% v sav clones
>>750061105https://weloveit.io/next-festival/
>>750073034Good art though, although the graphics themselves are quite poor somehow
>>750047876>Estatica 1&2 - Rerelease of the DOS survival-horror adventure game2You are that lizard guy from /agdg/, aren't you?
Damn it feels good to be a gamer
To the Moon upped the budgetOr maybe it's actually one hour long
SHIT I LIKED SO FAR:https://store.steampowered.com/app/5019650/Glowstick_Pirates_Harem_Conquest_Demo/>GLOWSTICK PIRATES HAREM CONQUEST>Eroge RPG where you play a pirate who's been cursed with a glowing penis and tries to undo the curse. Surprisingly high production value, liked the H-events and the writing wasn't too bad either. Will definitely pirate hehe. Might actually buy it to support the dev afterwards though.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5242870/DERELIKT_Demo/>DERELIKThttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5242870/DERELIKT_Demo/Survival horror game that takes A LOT of inspiration from Alien and Dead Space, looks very similar to Alien Resurrection on the PS1. Very pretty, guns feel good to shoot, will keep an eye on.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5300460/Medium_Rare_Demo/>MEDIUM RAREGrimdark Dungeon Crawler where you cannibalize people on your quest to save your wife. I am STARVED for non-rogue like dungeon crawlers and this one satisfied that itch.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5004790/%E7%B7%8B%E4%BF%AE%E7%BE%85_HIJURA_SCARLET_GEAR/>緋修羅 HIJURA SCARLET GEAR>The entire game is one giant AI powered AI shitpost. I'd never ever buy it but it made me laugh. It's to be noted that I waded through an enormous amount of shit to get just these 3. AI tag so I can filter this garbage fucking when???
>>750070994Same thing happened to me, funnily enough.Worked the 2nd time.
it needs to be $1000 to add your game to steam
I'm here to tell you to play Culdcepthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3322630/Culdcept_BEGINS/?curator_clanid=39049601
I'm giving a run. It's mindless but fun
>>750074684That's the dumbest hat I've ever seen in my entire life.
>>750074839I've developed a deep inner hatred towards anything that involves cards and isn't at least 10 years old.
>>750070341considering the amount of games that have ai assets that aren't disclosing, it would only help somewhat
>>750074908that's a pretty significant timegap anon, not even slay the spire was in development at that point
>>750075034
>>750075034Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories is exempt
>>750075010I'm paranoid about it. I inspected the assets in some games without AI disclosure lol.
>>750074908That Culdcept is the new iteration of a year 30+ yr serie
>>750075127you may as well just say you don't like card games at all and call it done. no need to seethe about them existingthere are some phenomenal card games that have come out that aren't shameless spire clones, and the entire tabletop space, but if you just aren't interested you can just go play on your side of the line drawn in the sand with genres that you actually like
>>750075265I like card games, I don't like Rogue Lite garbage. If pic related is your game it can fuck right off. This is like saying "if you don't like Marvel movies, you don't like film as a medium".
>leave feedback on the forum about a UI bug>same day patch
I'm sorry for ever making fun of low poly retro indie games. Please, I take it all back, just no more AI slop.
Gaming has peaked. The only way left to go is down.
>>750075710christ
>>750075710Someone spent 100 bucks to put this on the Steam store.
>>750074684why is she wearing crocs for a hat
>>750075710The thing that concerns me most about all of this is that a human actually thinks this looks good. There are people out there that are so subhuman they have no sense of aesthetics. I honestly struggle to even consider them human in the first place.
>>750075518deckbuilding mechanics have existed before slay the spire was conceived. the very idea of variable start conditions or a shuffled shop/loot/event deck is a physical design phenomenon and not something that STS invented.You're free to dislike the mechanics that STS popularized that have been copied to high hell on repeat since 2019if anything I adore card games that do interesting things that are not possible to play on a table and are also mechanically distinct from having to play something that's just copying Dominion without realizing it.to blanket this game structure as "all games within the past 10 years" is not what you are saying in this post. say what you mean instead of expecting us to read your fucking mind.
>>750075221Freaks are known to obsess about stupid nonsense.
>>750075795it's a BR dev too, probably half a year of rent for him
>>750076068What are you scared about
Kinda shitty to dismiss a game just because the dev wasn’t lucky enough to be born with the talented artist gene or can’t afford to pay a professional artist for capsule art.I for one am glad to see so many creators diving into the scene and showing their creativity and ways they might not have otherwise been enabled to without these tools. The future of gaming is looking bright.
>>750075710honestly 8 year old me would have loved this as a flash game
>>750076150Nothing. I don't have to search any game files whatsoever.
>>750076463Bro thought this was the post when he hit submit
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4755950/Absolute_Dap/Extremely soulful co-op game made by some shitposting indonesians. Meant to be played by two people with one controller but you can play it solo and control both characters. If you have someone to play it with it's great.
>>750076241You don't need the artist gene. You need the aesthetic gene. There are artists, mechanically proficient artists, who COULD draw the most beautiful art, yet they CHOOSE to draw aesthetically horrible shit instead. Now multiply that amount of aesthetic-less goblinoids by like a thousand and you have most AIfags. If you had actual aesthetic sense people would not even be able to tell it's AI.
>>750076463destroyed that guy
>>750076517You asked a question and you got an answer. If it distressed you, perhaps you could find a way to turn your weak will into a strong will?
>>750076569>live action trailercool>live action boss like it's fucking MUGENSOUL
>>750076990Live action cutaway too when you beat a boss
>>750076569>daps you
>>750077227my nigga
>>750076569>co-op rhythm game that uses only one controllerkek, how does someone even think of this
>>750047767>Its all AI slopGrim
>The Serena Villa FilesI will now play your demo!
LET ME INI CANNOT TAKE THE SLOP ANYMORE
>>750077595I'm about to do it. I'll take my ban.
including demos released after the last next fest because I look at Every Game>play thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/DEFICIT/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4846360/Heatwarped/>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/3581910/Victory_Banner/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3078760/LIVING_HELL/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5095050/Dungeon_Automata_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5411910/Nether_Abyss_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2379350/Scramble_Knights_Online/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4237450/Star_Striker/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4173770/Ghost_Justice/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5066740/Ballisticexe_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3876140/SUPERPANEL_Demo/>jank but interestinghttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4718160/_GATE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5301290/Dead_Set_Warriors_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5356080/Deep_Six_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3484960https://store.steampowered.com/app/5241340/Inner_City_Unit_Demo/
>>750077959>curious abouthttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4898420/CodePhantom/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5218400/Restikon_Foundry/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2919170/The_Mystery_Mist/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5316350/Maid_in_Wonderland_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5281980/Tactics_Cartographer/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5206590/Tactful_Tactics_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552260/Phantom_Havoc/https://store.steampowered.com/app/2860280/LAMINA_BRUISE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5095510/Touhou_Sky_Cruiser/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221770/Homeplanet/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5205890/THERMOCLINE_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4151050/Divided_Empire_SENGOKU/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4681380/BLUE/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1024950/Starship_Horizons_Bridge_Simulator/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4163270/Half_Grip/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3218230/ArcheAge_Chronicles/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5401090/just_volleyball_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4650000/CRIKEYMAS/https://store.steampowered.com/app/5152030/Cargo_Calling/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4932360/Gloam/https://store.steampowered.com/app/4634350/ALTEREDBLOOD_Demo/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3450920/Remnant_Humanity/
>>750077775Sorry pal, it's all SFW.
>>750077473rhythm heaven fever had some coop games that you easily could have done by yourself, and when they ported the endless games to 3DS they made it singleplayerbut in all seriousness fucking around with 2 people using the same controller has been an old passtime that I used to do a bunch back in gradeschool and onward for couch coop when not all games actually supported multiplayer. always was a recipe for disaster and laughs so I'm glad people are going out of their way to replicate that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4348280/Princess_and_Conquest_Queen_Of_ClubsI wish I could take a screenshot but the goblin's nipples are right in the fucking dialogue box kek>You're really staring at me, Mister AnonI haven't seen this guy shilling his game here yet but he specifically chose to include screenshots with the MC named anon
>>750076569This would be great if I had friends.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4876650/Never_Sort_By_Color/Lego sorting game. This is good shit, I’m actually into this stuff irl and I’m genuinely impressed. The piece variety is amazing, the pieces come only in actually released colours and in the full game you can even import your own builds.On an entirely unrelated note it it has recently been recommended to me to look into getting an autism diagnosis...
>>750079228needs a foot meter
>>750079294I presume the player is navigating the environment like this, as the only reasonable option.
How do I stop Steam from recommending me friendslop games in my queue?
>>750079228>how can we capitalize on autism?
>>750079675kill your friends
>>750079675blacklist "co-op"
>>750079746I don't have them.What now? I suspect it's literally all because of one game I play that has a co-op tag even though it's mainly a SP game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2671300FTL meets Rimworld type thing where you're in a big crab-mech. Seems cool, the tutorial's a bit slow for my tastes but the actual gameplay is solid so far.
>skim over popular and hidden gems>mfwfuck I hate video games.
>>750079991oh neat this finally has a demo I'm not sure why there aren't a billion rimworld+FTL clones yet because it seems like a winning formula
>>750079991Looks comfy.
>>750074839>Calling their own unreleased game a "hidden classic"based hopeful devs manifesting their game is good enough to be a classicunbased hopeless devs manifesting their game is unknownbut for real cringe as shit this is like the people who tag videos hashtag meme as if adding the label means it is. how the fuck is a game that's not even out a classic
Not really feeling this Fest at the moment but I still have a lot of demos to try so who knows, unfortunately there's a severe lack of sexy bitches, how am I supposed to enjoy my indie games without sexy female characters?
>>750080521early fest is always garbage, because it's completely unfiltered
>look through the shmup tag expecting vampireslop >find actual shmups>try them>they're all shitwell okay then
I've had a lot of fun with the War of Banners demo. It's a turn based strategy that is like Mount and Blade crossed with Battle Brothers/XCOM. Demo is pretty vast, I already have 250+ hours in it.
>>750080563I keep reading this but it's not true, im getting the same feed regardless
>>750080563Yeah I know but I am autistic enough to scroll for hours just to find something that looks interesting and didn't really find a lot of stuff, but at least Your Painting, Sir gave me a chuckle
>>750080785>im getting the same feed regardlesstry clicking this when it unlocks
Clown Around had no right being that fun. Jumped to the top of my list, man.
>>750079228I'd rather just buy giant buckets of legos from yard sales and sort irl
>>750048550Every fucking time, every fucking time one of you idiots do this and I don't get the point
>>750081223>one of youIt's always the same person. The collage literally looks the same every time. And he's going to continue doing it for as long as people like (You) give him replies.
>>750081278Then that's on me, I guess.
>>750058121I like it but the translation sucks ass, it's significantly worse than his previous game's was which already wasn't great so I don't know how he managed that. Makes it even harder to interpret items' effects than it should be.The music is still terrible too.
>>750081278I like posting pictures of Nextfest games.
>>750073702>GoodWhere's my sword - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4285600/Where_is_my_sword/Ship Miner (Slower than Dome Keeper but very simplistic and fun, very sovlful ost) - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3113690/Ship_Miner/Derelikt - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810510/DERELIKT/Life Blood - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2629670/Life_Blood/Knuckle Paradise (Very fun, but I do not like the character art at all) - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864220/Knuckle_Paradise/Iron Dawn - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2765070/Iron_Dawn/Cannon Keep - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3755200/Cannon_Keep/Tamara - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3628050/Tamara/>Bad/MehDark Side Void (Monotonous)Home Paige (Jank camera and controls. Game made for speedrunners, so if you're into that it might be your jam)Sil and the fading world (Crashed my PC Twice)Spirit CrossingSecretlab CleanerFFS
Try out Elzypon. It's like Hylics plus Baroque (Sega Saturn) and turn based.
So anons, what demos were you playing during the php kerfuffle? I dumped 5 hours into Probably Stolen, more addicting than I expected. Also played the Rip It Card Collector demo to completion, but that one ran out of steam much faster and I doubt the full game would add enough spice to make it worthwhile.
>>750082430Second Stone. It was like a Naughty Dog game if Naughty Dog didn't make Uncharted.
>>750049017They are exceedingly brown, at least one of them actively brags about how much he's glad that he's making nextfest worse for the anons who don't fall for the severely broken press release.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2835380/Nomadica/Janky gathering, absolute dogshit combat, but an extremely adorable artstyle. I'm wishlisting it and hoping it'll get a passable combat system.
>>750052553Do you make the character or is it a premade?Chillyroom is a dev I'm very wary of after seeing what they did to their mobile games. I had No Such Place wishlisted initially from them, but they made an EULA with all the usual "Don't insurt the grorious chinese peopre or we exprode computer" schlock and I unwishlisted it.
>>750061105My method is to go here and hope someone else sifted through the sloppe for me.
>>750079745>how can we capitalize on autism?steal my idea: trains autism + cleaning autism = pick up train models and put them on appropriate track model.
Holy FUCK I can finally browse next fest againValve should really extend this event for an extra two days because the first two days are always fucking wasted on thw algorithm filtering games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5084680/Sails_of_Salt/I have finally found a sailing game that's fun to play. Satisfying naval combat, pleasant visuals, and a button to fast forward the process of sailing through the ocean while nothing is happening. Mwah.
>7000 demos>at least 90% of them is low effort slop that shouldn't be on steamcan we just ban the jeets already
>>750065261Emberville's combat was awful. There's no way it's gonna get reworked before its release, it's gonna be a slog to play through. Nobody's been enjoying it.
>>750047767play the demo of Up-Beat ASAP if you liked punch-out, despite (or inspite) of the gooner arstyle and newgrounds vibe the game has it really is excellent gameplay-wise. I liked the demo more than Leftovers K.O or Big Boy Boxing, this game is soulful, patterns etc are very readable. Genuinely amazing content even as a demo alonehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4650840/UpBeat/I missed you, game journalists...
>play Dungeonbound>it's autobattler with inventory management and crafting/forging/etc slop with pseudo PvP >finish the demo>keep going deeper>level 75>still going deeperNot sure what it was about that game, but it was like crack to me. At the end of the day it's really simplistic.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5200620/Dungeonbound
>>750082430>Probably StolenHaven't played this fest so I can't speak about the fish farming, but what was there in the last demo was pretty dissapointing once you see how it works a few hours inI'm still downloading it day one on release but I hope that either the mechanics not in the demo are far more advanced or the ones we have are missing some lategame complexity, because right now only the rats were somewhat engaging, metal refining was braindead from the moment you unlock it, water purification quickly becomes braindead the second you put enough efficiency (?) modules in the purifier to bruteforce it (and the only scaling is buying more purifiers and modules to purify more water at once) and the lack of a time limit means stuff like checking contraband is meaningless since it's easy to spot and you don't have any pressureI also remember the reputation system being pretty shit since it climbs at a glacial pace (except when I called security on some thief near the start and instantly got -18 points with black market in exchange for like 0.04 with sec)
>>750082430I tried Snaptic. Good platforming, atmosphere, and even well-optimised. Hopefully it doesn't turn into another unfinished Kickstarter game.
Damn brat, holding concerts right in front of my village and attracting otaku pigs who mess up my lawn. Needs branch correction.Warota is a game for autists like me who want to build a village, stick toilets facing each other so that the villagers will have battleshits, and kill things.
>>750074738>You know, I wonder if I should try drafting a design doc for an imsim survival game where you're the last survivor stuck on a huge cruise spaceship overrun by aliens>I would call it Derelikt>With a K>Suddenly this gameWell I feel silly now.
>>750084762I really like this design. Shame it's in a DQ builders clone.
>>750084951I'm fucking autistic so I don't mind. Give me blocks to play with and I'll amuse myself for hours.
Oh shit we're back
>>750047767I can only describe The Bagman as "Clock Tower but actually designed for modern sensibilities without losing the appeal of what made CT great" I had a lot of fun with the demo, even if sometimes I got frustrated with the mouse controls.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3718500/The_BagmanBut don't watch the trailer at all lol, it feels like a cringe 90s TV advertisement that doesn't do the game justice at all in terms of horror atmospherespeaking of horrific atmosphere,
>>750084762>>750085172Seems a bit too weeby for my tastes. I would try it out if it had coop.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4589260really cool trad roguelike, definitely picking it up when it comes out. WARNING: You can pick pronouns in the character selector
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4578780/Hell_Wait_Demo/I fucking love mahjong
>>750085606Demon Lord holds idol concerts every 5 days and you're treated/threatened with her singing every time, which includes a lot of ZAKO ZAKO. It's not for the faint of heart.
>>750082430>Shifu: Traffic MastersSome Chinese car modeling autist's pet project. Drive shitboxes in lowpoly 90s China. Cargo and taxi missions aren't nearly as fun as chasing other some shitbox in a cop car and trying to box it in.>Tie DownDelivery driver sim. Customization for the main car is good, cargo has different weight/size properties to consider. Advertised like friendslop but isn't really "zany" like that.>AblahshikarASCII piracy roguelike. Opening crawl is long but well written. Very stylish, very confusing.>UnglamorousLowballing boomers on craigslist was more fun than the driving model, unfortunately.
>>750079991Why are those colonists so sweebabyincy?
>>750085667Been playing that on itch.io for quite a while now, I guess they plan a steam release for it then if it's in the fest.
>>750085573I reallllly wanted to like this game but it frustrated the fuck outta me.
>>750085573...for people who've played the demo of Nightbound (https://store.steampowered.com/app/4970020/Nightbound/) and thought "damn I wish it wasn't turn based and had more traditional exploration" then I'll be shilling for The Road of Dust and Sorrowhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3895110/The_Road_of_Dust_and_Sorrow/Enemies are samey and gameplay a bit too easy, but the main character's personality (she's clearly not a goody two shoes) and her daughter sold me on the game. great atmosphere and sound design, dialogue sometimes lacks punctuation which makes the characters sound weird. But the in-game lore documents read fine. High effort pixel art too
Games with character creation?
Whatever they did today is awesome, press preview and the first few days of the next fest I had to scroll past 200 slop games before finding anything good but for a few hours I've been seeing a good demo every 10 games or so. Maybe the steam algorithm slop isn't that bad after all.
>>750085957Thanks for the reverse recommend since I played the latter but I prefer turn based games to action games
>>750086220I prefer the anon algorithm
>>750086285I liked nightbound too don't get me wrong and I find the main couple to be cute but I need my games to be gamey you know
>>750063927https://store.steampowered.com/app/4972460/Seasons_of_Books_and_Keys/>>750064726we exist and enjoy videogames too you knowmake yourself useful and find us some good fujokino
>>750087425this looks gay
I don't need these threads anymore. While 4chan was dead, I played through 21 game demos. I have ascended.
>>750076569I will never laugh at indians or SEAniggers again what the fuck, this is fucking awesome on so many levels I fucking kneel
>>750084091>fun sailing game>can skip all the sailinguhh...no thanks...
You DID play demos when 4chan was down right?
>>750088298I played a released game
>>750063158>>750067835>>750069967locking up the zombies in their cells without dying or killing them to get the achievement took me a very long time
Some of these deckbuilders look like what I thought Slay the Spire looked like before it became popular
>>750088656also you can perfect parry even when your shield is broken, but if you fail you take half damage
Any bullet hell (not bullet heaven (not vampire survivors clone either)) games that are not shmups? I tried Mythfall but it just made me think that RotMG is an excellently designed game by comparison.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4264410/STEP_THEATER/Rhythm Heaven clones aren't very special anymore with there being not only several indie ones but also a new official entry, but it's fairly cute and competent
>>750088923last command but it came out in 2022
>>750088971thanks for shilling thistry rhythmania if you haven't already, it's rhythm heaven but brazilhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3647530/RhythMania_Demo/
>>750073702 (Me)>>750082012 (Me)I am gonna dig in again. Also giving Spirit Crossing another try. Will update in a couple of hours. if 4c doesn't go down again kek
>>750079228>lego sorting game>yet the game is set in a japanese house>upgrade currency in yenIt's just a weird choice
I don't care if it's a meme game, it was fun. Played good and the animations are weighty and satisfying.
>>750089880this is just rocket league
hello hi play my demo https://store.steampowered.com/app/1706960/The_Mysterious_Cat_Tower/
Carnosis is like Fear & Hunger but linear. There are no books in the game to tell you about the world.
>>750090017It's actually Bayonetta
Aaaaaand dropped.Fucking shame
>>750091142idgi
>>750090346I should also say I recommend it so I don't sound like a hater
>>750088272>SkipSpeed up. When I sail I have fun fighting other ships or exploring new areas, not looking at wobbling water for 15 minutes. At least not unless I can do other things in the meantime, like I could in Salt 2. If I have to legitimately sit at the helm for every second of the voyage like in Windward Horizon then it's ass.
I tried Misery Dungeon and my ally just kept killing himself on enemiesI tried Where Is My Sword and the music was so bad that it took away a lot of the charm that the art and story had.I tried Project Exhibitionist and... it was just kinda lame. I don't know if it's just because it's a demo, but I ended up just going back to Secret Flasher Manaka instead.
>>750047767so much shallow garbage only an idiot whos never played a bideogame would touch, as per usual
>>750093485Wind Waker made sailing fun even when you weren't doing anything but sailing. It's the bare fucking minimum of a sailing game.
>blacklist co-op tag>discovery queue is 75% H-gamesWhy can't steam just be normal
>>750094042Videogames have 2 audiences...
I don't know what's happening in Hysterical Strength but I like it and I want more of it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/812910?snr=2_9_100006__apphubheader>Zodiac LegionVery cool SRPG that tickles my armor autism with a neat penetration system (armor has coverage, multiple layers, accurate hits can bypass armor, and so on). Lethality is high. Grappling also appears to be an option to deal with heavily armored dudes. Got my ass kicked by a bunch of minotaurs, but I had a good time. Will be playing more later.My one big complaint is that there's no numerical indicator on how much movement a character has left, and I wasn't able to find the specifics on the effects of the different damage types (slashing inflicts bleed, but I'm unsure about bashing/piercing)
>>750094264The spritework is also very nice. I wish there were fancier death animations and alternate attack animations (thrusting with a polearm is the same animation as slashing), but what there is currently is well done.
worth?
This game got incredibly low attention. You should go and give some.https://store.steampowered.com/app/5132950/Lyden_Lys_Demo/
>>750047767qrd i only play aaa slop or like 1 indie every 5 years
I know these 1st person sword swinging games aren't too rare nowadays, but I had fun playing this one. I actually missed the one secret and had to start backtracking to find it. In retrospect, it wasn't subtle. 1 point subtracted for the devs not resisting the urge to shove their cats into the game.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4081520/Queens_Domain_Demo/
>>750094801why are you even in this thread
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3895110/The_Road_of_Dust_and_Sorrow/The Road of Dust and Sorrow - Very well crafted 2D survival horror game. A mother doing whatever she can to protect her daughter from some sort of alien(?) zombie plague. Writing gives me the feeling she's not a good person and I want to see more.
>>750095030last of us if he trans
>>750091859Hentai scanlating site that went legit and started sending copyright strikes left and right. Headed by a former /h/fag so it was betrayal from within too.
>>750095078So....Last of Us.
>>750094932i dont have any games to play
>>750082319Trying out Blighten. It reminds me of Baroquet. man who recently played Baroque
>>750094042Well? Share em.
>>750076569would be 10/10 if the sound effect for the handshake was better, i feel like that is one of if not the most important thing in the sound direction of a game like this
No diamond in the rough porn games this time around
Has anyone tried Half-Grip or any other racing game?
knuckle paradise was probably the best demo ive played this fest and the effort put into breaking random objects alone was not expected since it is a indie game in the year 2026.
>>750047767Slopped up and good to go, until I add more stuff the algo recommends or via the thread.
>>750097137Ive played like 7 porn demos so farTheyre all mostly known quantities for me
>>750097842Oops forgot my chart
>>750096070I'm very picky so I already put most of them on my ignore list. The only H-game this fest that has my definite interest is the one yuri anon game, Exhibition of the Heart.
>>750098006I didn't know they were making another peeping game, neat. Hope they don't do any freeuse epilogue bullshit again.
>im so starved for attention i put games i haven't even played into a collagesad!
played some of thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5148820/Arcostate_Demo/another trad roguelike that's pretty clearly inspired by Caves of Qud but a bit more grounded and seems to have some crazy ambitions like having armor and weapons be drawn on sprites and building settlements.
>>750098527I take multiple pictures. Which one haven't I played.
>>750068494Ye. Love the idea but the actual songs are just pretty poor. I get that they obviously couldn't afford real licensed music but it still brings the whole thing down.
>>750077959>>750078002What did you like about deficit? Admittedly I only played like 20 minutes but it was extremely meh to me
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4619020/Magical_Magic_World_2/Mega Man-like with chibi anime girls. The feel of the gameplay could definitely be better, but the presentation is pure soul
>>750052923>yet he did nothing original in decadesthis doesn't invalidate his point
>>750082430I recommend kopernicus if you want a poland simulator
>>750100159>a poland simulator
>>750073239the biggest hand in the west
Prison of husks is truly a abomination of a game. the dev wants it to be demons souls but it forces you to use rally/parry with a incredibly jank animation and input buffer. Also starting with no weapon so you battle the camera in those shitty rooms for 5 minutes until memorizing the layout and getting a sword. and holy fuck the first boss is a total joke so he went lol xd ads!!111 and you once again fight the shitty lockon system that feels awful to use.
What happens when a game is removed from your library while it's installed? Do the files just rot on your hard drive till you manually delete?
>>750079991I tried this due to it for some reason being on my wishlist. Felt very incomplete and kinda jank. The intro was pure kino.
>>750080439it's a remake of a game from the 90s
>typos and bugs in their official screenshotsQUALITY NIPPONESE GAMINGhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3891160/CRYMELIGHT/
>>750101982It's FuRyu after all.
>>750101982probably vibecoded
>>750094575it's Chinese and a rogue-lite so make of that what you will
>>750089880>guy sees a meme animation reel>AI slops up an MGR clone around itI hate AIniggers
>>750102331It's the same guy who made the animation, retard.
>>750102359No it isn't.
>>750094892I felt retarded when I realised the name was just a synonym of King's Field.
>>750102331it's so sad that the first thing anyone thinks of now is it's stolen/slopped by AI
>>750102403You are smarter than I, who had to have you tell me in order to know.
>>750102331I'm waiting for the dinosaur one personally
After playing both Queen's Domain and Life Blood, both very similar but different clones of Kings Field, I have determined Life Blood to be the way more fun to play of the two.
>>750075710>>750076279>>750075848>>750075795>>750075793someone has to try it
>>750102823didn't that already come out?
>>750075626>complain about something relatively minor but it annoyed me>developer writes 3 paragraphs and apologizes about itWell now I feel like a cunt
>>750074738Try thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4555310/Fenestra_my_focus_her_future/
>>750097220Half Grip is schizophrenic and I love it. Only downside is some of the best upgrades just kind of ignore the core premise of being one handed and sometimes I feel like it jitters my mouse but I just moved and don’t have a mousepad yet so that may just be me.
>>750073702>>750082012where's my sword is unplayable M+KBThe controls are so fucking badbut I liked their robot girl game
>check demo reviews>see a long negative one>read picrel>ignore the rest of what it says
>90% of unreal engine games will instantly crash to desktop for me>but that 10%I don't think I care though. I'll just uninstall games that don't pass that simple test.
>>750062560zased
>>750102924huh, so it has
>>750102852>After playing both Queen's Domain and Life Blood, both very similar but different clones of Kings Field, I have determined Life Blood to be the way more fun to play of the two.Unacceptably incorrect opinion I'm afraid.>dodgeroll>parry>shitty UI with decimal points in it>dark souls levelling>'combat feedback' that's just 12pt arial text>tells me to lower my firewall when I launch itI do agree that King's Field clones don't need to copy the aesthetic on top of the gameplay, and think that Queen's Domain is a little derivative in that sense. But I can't believe you're not trolling.
>>750103878That's cool and all, but its combat aka 90% of the actual game isn't just awkwardly backpedaling to charge up 1 hit every 10 seconds on enemies that do nothing but run forward forever
Dunno if it fits the thread since it doesn't have a demo but https://store.steampowered.com/app/4409620/ARCS/ just released. It's derpy at the start since you randomly unlock new weapons by completing missions. So far lasers feel like the best main armaments to use so far. Also all your allies are flat girls in swimsuits and cat ears.
>>750104120>awkwardly backpedaling to charge up 1 hit every 10 seconds on enemies that do nothing but run forward foreverIt's kino. It's unironically elegant once you get used to it.You sound like you got filtered.
>>750104621Yes I find boring and tedious combat filtering, you caught me
Found a game for Pokemon lovershttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5133900/Can_Em_All/
>>750103878I agree, anon. But trying to convince a Dark Souls fag to not be a Dark Souls fag is just silly.
>>750104908>title>get flashbacks to Can Your Pet, babby's first bait and switch violent flash game back in the day where you mince your pet and stuff them into cans>click link>more pet violencekek
>>750104120Yeah that was my problem with it too. Enemies take multiple hits to kill and you run out of stamina in 2 swings, leaving you to just... wait around until you regain it?
>>750094932Carlton, are you by any chance Carlton?
there's a million deckbuilders, but are there any actual card battlers? something like yu-gi-oh forbidden memories
>>750107048Only one I can think of is https://store.steampowered.com/app/2510020/Placid_Plastic_Deck_A_Quiet_Quest/
>>750079745There are like 17 million cleanup games already, autism was plenty capitalized on already.
>>750085769>AblahshikarI'm not quite sure what I'm doing or how to properly get scrap from wrecks, but it's neat.
>>750047767Just finished the Nightmere demo. What the fuck was that?>the door puzzle doesn't tell you what order the green digits are in so the game just assumes you checked the rooms in the right order>the reveal of the body is just a rectangle censor in the overworldThe arguments aren't very well written and this is supposed to be the tutorial, wonder just how obtuse it'll get in the full game.
>next fest startsfind only 2 somewhat interesting demos>personalized exploration mode startsinstantly 6 interesting demos
>>750108719algorithm'd
>>750065015Hey you, thanks for the rec!
>>750107048It's not in the Next Fest and it's not really what you're looking for, but I'm going to shill it anyways. Sakura Arms has had a demo that's been getting updated for a while now, and it's fairly unique, and it's a digital version of an actual existing game. Before every match, you and your opponent select what card pools you can use and then build a deck from the cards you have available to you. Basically all actions just move the same tokens around between various locations. Unfortunately the tutorial is kind of bad, but once you figure out the core mechanics everything comes together easily enough. It helps to think of it like a fighting game turned into a card game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3446770/Sakura_Arms_Radiant_Duels/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/Save_the_Forest/Nice little Into the Breach type game with lovely spritework. Desperately needs a better name.
>>750089472>GoodHigh Roller Penny - Don't like the hardbass music even though im a dnb fag, very addicting gameplay, who would have thought that pachinko would be addicting...https://store.steampowered.com/app/4944410/High_Roller_PennyPrison Of Husks - Excellent souls-like, very good map design, I have no idea if the developers will be able to maintain this level of quality throughout the game, highly recommend this one if you're even semi into souls-like, the last one I played was elden ringhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2975260/PRISON_OF_HUSKS/Deus Exia - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602210/Deus_Exia/>Meh/BadCranked - Solid foundation but as a racist I'm not into these mountain descend games. But I will likely pick this up on a sale only because I'm into racing games.Acts of Blood - bamham moment. Play Sifu, its miles better.Spirit Crossing - Ran out of time. 2:30am. Will play tomorrow.
>>750109190Oh hey I own that in board game form
>>750110154It's a cool game. They keep updating the demo with things too, at this point half the cast is available and there's a Rules page with nothing on it.
don't need to point this gun at the enemies when they come from behind
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4618810/Geareo_Demo/Might have found coolest thing ever
>>750097137the only way to find them is on that porn game pirate site
>>750111294Baffles me that that site manages to have a better filter system than Steam.
>>750110572I like the offbrand Scopedog aesthetic.
>>750110572What a weapon, it can shoot at any angle it wants and the bullets simply pass through the user without causing any harm. Now that's something revolutionary.
If you want AI gen mecha shootemup mission sloppa Dark Side Void exists.
>>750098006estella is two keys falling notes with mouse
evil is on the move...
Has anyone played these? It's the third entry in a series but it caught my eye for having some decent polish to the gameplay in the trailer. Tried out the demo and thought it was solid. It has a similar exploration approach to classic Zelda as Tunic did, except they're supposedly short games and probably won't be as convoluted as that, and with less of a focus on combat. I'll probably check out the rest of the series after the fest is over.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063700/ProtoDungeon_Episode_III/
>>750112404I gave it a try, I'm obligated to try things with mecha.It's shit.
Deus Exia feels like an offline Maple Story or whatever that style of game is.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602210/Deus_Exia/
>>750052553>30 gb demolol, maybe later
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3648820/Directive_Intercept/Ok plane shooter,only issue is that the lockom for missiles +reticle for aiming feels too tight and restrictive with the size of the planes that you dogfight against
>>750056456I've spent three days just watching recommendations, reading all the threads, making lists of games to play. I'm at 500 titles to try now lol
>>750114109>see boss>up z up z up z up z up z up z up zup z
>>750114250What's up z?
Recommending TREMEN to fellow shootan heads. It looks kinda ugly but designs grow on you and it feels great to shread enemies into meat pieces. The game is somewhat comparable to Quake.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1641570/TREMEN/
>>750072464>Stupid Never DiesThe characters and setting is so out of touch, sad when it's so incredibly polished in all regards. Much too easy though
I played 12 demos and I still have 20 more to go but I don't have time to play them because of uni... UNI HATEAnyway demos I liked so farhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2603850/Shadow_Mate/A third-person shooter where you explore ruined laboratory with your parasite dragon companion https://store.steampowered.com/app/4801980/Rain_of_Lead/Katana Zero with yuri elementshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4720410/PATRICIDE/Weird and soulful japanese turn based RPG with good cutscene direction and interesting storyhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/5070070/wagamom/VN about living with helicopter mom, I saw one anon saying if you liked and Roger and Am I Nima you might like it and I agreehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4395870/Magical_Girl_ER/You play as a doctor that admits and take care of magical girls. It has some horror elements.https://store.steampowered.com/app/4285600/Where_is_my_sword/Mega Man Battle Network where you play as fox turned into foxgirl who wants to eat human food. You can throw food at enemies to befriend them. Made by dev of Robot girl's dream -RobotBattleChampionship-
>>750114880>The characters and setting is so out of touchit's perfectly in touch with the era it's aping what are you talking about
>>750108513The game has style but it really lacks polish in writing and scripting, you can get softlocked if you don't pick the mirror fragmentStill can't wrap my head around why there was an entire argument debating whether they should leave amelia investigate alone as well kek
>>750069340https://store.steampowered.com/app/3465440/CitaDrill/this seems similar
>>750114972the era itself is out of date, the theme of the game is out of touch with what will sell todaythey nailed it look and sound of it, sure.
>Night PlaneWell, that was a disappointment.2/3 of the demo was introduction and tutorial and the core part of the game felt very on rails.
>>750095030it was boring as fuck and way to much dialogue/ cutscenes
I didn't think I'd like this H-game due to the content, but those larvae things did something for me. The trailer has other bugs/tentacle monsters so I might actually pick this up.>encounter enemy once>can just go to the gallery to fuck them freely aftwardshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4651080/CelSector/
>>750080439zoom zoom
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3788140Wanted to like this one but the controls felt a bit too jank and I didn't like the demo being an endless wave killer. Maybe the former was just my sensitivityI do like the idea of having freedom to select for main and sub while being able to mix and match
>>750094768Interesting game. Catholic space cats metroidbrania with phoenix wright style arguments and pretentious poems and shit. I have no idea what the hell they're going for in the story but it's intriguing for sure
>>750061659>valvesorry anon, they were too busy checking rasheeds 47 AI deckbuilders. maybe next fest, eh? surely things will get better by then :)
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>>750061659Lemme play your demo
>>750081432>>750077775>>750077595>demo won't start without internet accesslmao
>>750081432Léa Seydoux on the left
Dungeon Automata fucking slaps holy shit
>>750119168Yeah, love the artstyle and few games nowadays commit wholly to the Megadrive sound, that's nice.
>>750107048https://store.steampowered.com/app/4077320/Cardaire_Eternal_Aces/
>>750118529https://store.steampowered.com/app/4519180/The_History_of_Everything/The button to join the playtest near the top will get you the latest build. I'll take the opportunity to make a few more improvements to tutorials, UX etc before I release the demo, but as far as the actual gameplay goes it's very representative. Hope you enjoy, and if you want to play it with other people there's a link on the steam page to a discord I use for running playtest sessions twice a week
>>750119901oh lmao I'm already in the playtest. I was pretty overwhelmed with making a deck though so I haven't played it yet
polite redirection to the next thread when this dies>>750119928>>750119928>>750119928
