https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest?tab=20
>Step 1
Find and play demos
>Step 2
Share and discuss demos (share with pictures, webms, with names clearly indicated)
>Step 3
???
>Step 4
Profit and enjoy playing video games

Latest two threads:
>>712398337
>>712347152

webm related is from the demo of ninja gaiden: ragebound

>>712469320 (OP)
man I was really excited but ended up unwishlisting this game. it didn't feel like ninja gaiden at all

I was prepared to not like Dispatch but it was surprisingly decent, and it has actual gameplay too. I hope they don't do anything retarded with the story and it's not an episodic release.

>>712469320 (OP)
>Share and discuss demos (share with pictures, webms, with names clearly indicated)
no

>>712469819
Same. I love Blasphemous and Ninja Gaiden Black but Ragebound felt so bland. Shinobi: Art of Vengeance looks too have more satisfying gameplay though.

>>712470669
to*

>>712469819
yeah, I'm still gonna play it, but my expectations were admittedly very high and the demo was quite a bit below those.

>demo only has xb*x for it's controller layout
shan't be playing

>>712469819
Which Ninja Gaiden were you hoping it would feel like? I assume it's modelled more on the NES games with all the one-hit kills and everything.

I'm not the biggest shmup guy but I love ZPF, especially aesthetically. It could just be the demo but it feels a little easy.

>>712471347
>"This game has full support for your controller"
>it doesn't
Fuckkkk yoooouuu

>>712469320 (OP)
Really liked Pigface, despite it being rough around the edges. Hope they wouldn't ruin the full release. Because I feel like they might if there are too few missions to play.

So, mina the Hollower...not feeling it

>>712470669
>Shinobi: Art of Vengeance looks too have more satisfying gameplay though.
You think so? The previews look pretty boring.

>>712472585
The second I see pixel art I know the game is shit

>Atlas Hands
These throwback faux retro first person have really exploded. This one is really well done and has some interesting mechanics. You harvest energy balls from enemies and slot them into generators to power different devices. Your gun can add torque to objects, which is how you manipulate enemies and their cores.
It even looks good, comparatively.

>game plays well and has nice style
>but it's a roguelite

>>712472585
it wasn't bad, it just wasn't great either. it felt like it was missing something
I get what people mean about the perspective stuff being hard to understand sometimes but it wasn't too big a problem
I think it needs a map or something. as is the world's construction seemed pretty disjointed, idk

>>712472585
I wasn't big on Shovel Knight either so meh.

Speed Demons 2 is meh.
>drive in a straight line because the AI is braindead
>if they do happen to get in your way, boost until your safe
>level ends

outrider mako
dead finger dice
morbid metal
clover pit
absolum
mina the hollower
ball x pit
ever deep aurora
undermine 2

>>712473212
Sounds perfect. Name?
Only thing that keeps me from playing a game is if it is chink shit

I tried out into le grid based on one of u fag's recs
I like it and there's good potential here for a solid cardslop game. I like how open ended it is with your choices and direction, but it can get easy to feel lost
I'm enjoying it, but I think I'm getting filtered. Have jobbed a few times to threat 2 ices. Found a couple synergies but am struggling to make them work efficiently

>>712473190
Why is the demo for Atlas Hands not showing up? Did it end up being a virus or something?

Why is every indie game trying to collect my data nowadays?

>>712474562
ez money

>>712474562
More profitable than actual products

>>712474562
What game?

>>712469819
it's a collab between a firm that makes pixel art and a game dev that only makes gamemaker demos

>>712474427
Not him but pirate Nine Sols and see if that changes your mind. You might not enjoy it, but if you don't end up at least respecting it - you have less soul than a chinese chairman.

>>712474757
Bloodthief. It's okay so far, indie Ghostrunner with the blood mechanic from Ultrakill.

>>712474562
Probably because they think they will actually scour through like 50000 error reports across all the players they get. I just say no every time and continue playing.

>>712475126
Oh wait, this came out last year? It was posted in the previous thread so I didn't check the date.

Where's the Phase Zero webm retard? It's funny watching him sperg out.

>>712475313
>Phase Zero
qrd? I haven't played that yet.

>>712475419
PS1 style survival horror.

>>712475116
Not him but Taiwanese developers are the exception. They can actually make good games. Mainland chinks have no soul to make games with.

>>712475419
Resident Evil clone. Simple, but pretty well made honestly. Stands out against all the other survival horror games I played this fest.

>>712475510
>>712475537
I mean the "webm retard sperg" part.

>>712475620
Who cares. Play video games instead.

There's a shitton of demos I'd try in this fest, wasn't paying attention until today

>>712475419
He's intentionally misnaming the game. It's an epic pwn

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2975260/PRISON_OF_HUSKS/

I guess the idea behind this game is dark souls combat and stamina system mixed with sekiro parry emphasis and none of the fun stuff from the latter game. Also the game is locked at a 4:3 video ratio for added visual displeasure. I'm glad I played this because I think I'm all DarkEldenDemonSoulsBorneKiro'd out.

>>712474539
Some devs can't find the large demo button on their settings page. Apparently it's buried beneath a bunch of other settings. As a result the demo button ends up on the right hand side instead.

>>712477040
I played that for a minute, couldn't find a weapon and quit.

>>712474539
>Did it end up being a virus or something?
They don't let zoomers touch computers these days huh

>>712477293
You have to run past a couple dudes through the prison and open a gate to find a sword. Felt odd not even being able to punch or kick.

under the island is cute, but god damn, that town theme is borderline copyright breaking

>>712477135
this is specially retarded because you can't (easily) download the demos on steam deck for games that do this. there's just no download button.

>>712469320 (OP)
wow so much rpgmaker slop

>>712477040
It's so shit. There's no weight to the hits and enemies almost never get any hitstun.

>>712473212
That's how I felt about Stand Alone Ep 0

NEW TRAILER DROPPED
>>712469320 (OP)
In a world driven mad by fads
In order to increase his coolness level enough to impress adults
One young man must unlock and equip
>laser tag vests
>slap bracelets both tie dye and camo to your liking, very bespoke
>slammers of all types, holographic, blade and exotic
>a motorcycle helmet that he can barely see through but looks badass
Only then can he wield the
POWER OF GOLDEN SLAMMER

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3640790/Power_of_Golden_Slammer/

Also toys like handheld LCDs and beanie baby things.

>>712473212
>Extreme (You) problem

>>712475535
Most anti-chink posters don't make that distinction, so I figured I'd recommend it to him anyway.

>>712477676
yeah I know I have one myself. the download button can show up on like four or five different positions on the page, two of which won't show on the deck. legacy code very boring to fix, please understand

>>712478674
poggers

Extra level in Theta and Paralldox on Worldlines made me smile stupidly, can't wait for full release

Why do indie 2d platformers insist on putting a tutorial on every game? Don't they realize their only market audience? No normie is going out of their way to buy their game. Don't they understand people have enough brains to press A to jump?

>>712479575
you'd be surprised

>>712479575
Dean Takahashi ruined platformers

Thank God that Holstin has auto-saves. How long is the demo? I've been playing for 3 hours.

>>712479575
anon even super meat boy teaches you the controls, you have to account for absolute retards like Dean Takashi picking up your game

What the fuck did i just play?

>>712474562
my guess is they want to check if the game runs like shit in common setups and see if a large portion of the playerbase doesnt use most of the abilities

>>712479480
For me it was realising I could do this in the earlier levels to collect those stars
I hope we get something similar on all the layers

>>712474562
The internet is all about selling your data in 2025 and using it to train shitty LLMs.

>>712479897
Are there different routes for Chudguy and Tradgirl?

Where's the blood and slaughter? Im so sick of all this "you must save da world" i just want to skewer, rend, and dismember. I wanna rip open the chest of children and inject parasitic offspring into their corpse till it bloats. I want to resurrect the outskirt village as undead and march them into the nearby town to slaughter their fellow man. I want to crucify the members of a religion to the walls of their church while setting it ablaze.

Where are the fucking games?

Its always like that in east Asia, huh?

Adventure of Samsara would be a neat Blaphemous knock-off, if it had like double the animation frames. When your walk cycle gets aggravitaing to watch after some time, it's not a good sign

Personal Favorites
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308870/and_Roger/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2912430/Platypus_Reclayed/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3135840/Hirogami/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462190/PHASE_ZERO/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1864000/Artis_Impact/


Worth checking out
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3245830/Into_The_Inferno/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3667080/Farlands_Journey/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1307960/Quartet/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/Big_Hops/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3107530/Danchi_Days/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3380950/DISCOPUP/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3339880/OFF/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1875580/Mina_the_Hollower/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1719040/Morsels/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313700/Constance/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/BALL_x_PIT/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2649860/Gombo/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1583520/Under_The_Island/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2542120/NINJA_GAIDEN_Ragebound/

not good, not bad
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1560160/ILA_A_Frosty_Glide/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994220/Azaran_Islands_of_the_Jinn/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2932150/Life_Below/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669360/UMAMI/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2189310/Letters_To_Arralla/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371890/Chronicles_of_the_Wolf/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3489700/Stellar_Blade/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3076910/UNDERGROUNDED/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3434180/project_VIRAI_DOOMERs_LIFE_ESCAPE/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3156820/project_Structure_01/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3293010/Easy_Delivery_Co/
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3323490/Truxton_Extreme/

>>712480076
>2025
its been like that since 2008

>>712475231
thats the demo anon

>>712473212
The amount of rougelike and rougelites and soulslikes this next fest (and summer game fest) is insane...

>>712480583
>there's a Platypus remaster
Hell yeah. Trying that tonight

>>712481343
I'm bummed out that there are significantly less deckbuilders this time around

>>712479985
I hope too! I wonder how wacky later layers will be

>>712480583
which ones are 3d action platformers?

>>712481561
I found few I liked
Like the Demonic Mahjong
But most of them are still by the numbers StS clones

>>712481343
>Roguelikes, roguelites, soulslike.
All the more reason for me to give it less and less attention.

Trided ninja gaiden but its kind of ass. Feels nothing like the older games. I don't care for the 'hit the glowing enemy then the big guy' system.

>>712480224
Like whart? Game was fun

>>712472585
Game looks awful, the pixel art implementation is atrocious. Even the text is jarring to read, the pixels are the size of fucking texas, it's a mess. Also, the color palette sucks
Music was awesome

>>712482051
I agree its fun
I meant hunting women in toilets

>>712479756
>>712479786
Games should never appease "journalists"

tfw passing over fun looking demos because theyre popular and im too highq to like things people like

This is literally me caught on security camera stabbing Mina the Hollower

>>712482475
They shouldn't appease streamers either, but that's a viable strategy regardless

>>712481561
I'm not that much of a deckbuilder myself, but I do see the appeal in them. I see the appeal in roguelites/likes as well, but now it has gotten to the point of absurdity. Prior to this Fest, I didn't really pay that much attention to roguelites/like but now they're everywhere to the point I find asking myself 'why is this game a roguelite?'. Absolum, which has good art, good gameplay, nice combat and a good set-up for a story felt so much 'cheaper' when I found out it was a roguelite.

>>712482051
>ghost turns into a tiktoker

>>712479575
any game might be someone's first

>>712482561
Mina... lay off the plasma...

>>712482561
silky smooth

>>712473212
Are there any good ACTUAL roguelikes this next fest? Stuff like y'know, ROGUE, nethack, Mystery Dungeon, or One Way Heroics?

>>712473212
I'm still mad about Haste from last time because of this.

>>712483101
not this fest but zorbus is actually good

>>712483101
>Mystery Dungeon, or One Way Heroics?
>Actual roguelike
>No permadeath in one
>Other has no consumables, no dungeon, nothing like rogue at all
lolethxdzozzle

>>712483332
Non-Pokemon Mystery Dungeon like Shiren has permadeath, what the fuck are you talking about? Even the Pokemon ones have perma-death post-game dungeons. Also One Way Heroics has consumables.

>>712483101
Jupiter Hell Classic, which is basically DoomRL 2.0

>>712483604
>No hp regen, so glorified puzzle game
>No exp system
>No hunger system
>Like rogue
You people are why the actual rogue genre is dead.

>>712483525
Ignore that retard, the answer is here
>>712483604

>>712483101
Both are old but I'm pretty sure they're part of the fest.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256910/Jupiter_Hell_Classic_DEMO/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/House_of_Necrosis/
>>712483525
Even Shiren has persistent items, and in the latter titles it was casualized even more. You could make the argument that there are naked run dungeons, I suppose, but those are optional post-game stuff.

>>712469819
My thoughts with the demo:
This game would've been awesome 10 years ago.

Hold me /v/, ratatan was so fucking disappointing.....

>>712482517
I'm such a non-conformist that I will not conform to your non-conformism, thus playing popular thing.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1193170/DEFICIT/
It has a very slow start and the environments could use more variety, but it's solid for a two-person project. Pretty good tension. Wish they'd let you savescum in this though, I got killed after placing a ladder in a bad spot and falling through the map, and had to restart from the checkpoint

>>712484046
I like a game where the enemies can hit each other

>>712483742
>Even Shiren has persistent items, and in the latter titles it was casualized even more.
Which in the newest game you could completely ignore if you wanted pure runs for the main story dungeon, and most of the post-game dungeons do not allow carry-in items.

>You could make the argument that there are naked run dungeons, I suppose, but those are optional post-game stuff.
Nigga, since Shiren 2 the real meat of the games has been the post-game dungeons. The main story dungeons are basically a tutorial.

>>712482667
>Absolum
>good gameplay, nice combat
We must've played two very different games. I will admit though, it is gorgeous.
>>712483992
Everyone keeps shitting on Ratatan so much, at this point I'm convinced I will not be disappointed and maybe even will be pleasantly surprised by it whenever I get to it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3576710/Star_Birds_Demo/
man, for how much effort they put into their artstyle they sure fucked up the user interface, it's been a while since a game felt so clunky to play

>>712478674
How's your Next Fest been so far? How many new wishlists and get any good feedback?

>>712483992
>ratatan was so fucking disappointing.....
hold on brother, we're almost home

wildgate has been very fun but im kinda bored already :V

>>712483698
0/10 bait. Next time quote the Berlin Interpretation, that might actually catch someone lmao

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3774290/Aeterna_Lucis_Demo/
>Aeterna dev on like his 4th game in the same setting about the same 2 people
>This time the chick instead of the guy
>It still has every fucking issue every other game had; cheap combat, boring platforming, boring stat padding progression, nonsensical writing
Can't wait for Aeterna 20 to be exactly the same

>>712478674
I was hopping on top of one of the characters and they slowly glitched into the air and eventually disappeared, the prompt to talk to them remained. Also, how did you get a kung fu movie in your game without copyright issues?

>>712481609
I wouldn't call big hops an action platformer, it's a comfy collectathon

>>712484584
Yes anon. Being right is bait. Having standards is bait. Rogue WAS a game with no health regen. Rogue WAS a game with no hunger. Rogue WAS a game with finite resources which you manage, as a glorified puzzle.
Also I'm going to go swim in the sky, drink my walls and pee on my soul

>>712482667
>cheap
What I think its just realistic game scope.
Through 30 years of playing games I seen many games that pointlessly tried to stretch their good gameplay loop to some epic proportions and could not finish the game properly.
Or they padded their gamelength with pointlessly detailed story that went nowhere.
Concentrating on what you can actually accomplish is simply being a responsible dev.

>>712474562
They want to see where you get stuck, your builds, which enemies give you trouble, etc. It's just low-cost replacement or supplement for playtesting.

either I fundamentally hate arcadey games or this is rancid dogshit
how am I supposed to care about this game? shoot some guys, die, respawn. a good sleep aid if nothing else

>>712484901
I fuck with arcade games and this game was boring as shit

>>712484717
>it has to be literally just Rogue again, or it's not a roguelike
Anon, it's retards like you with bait as shitty as yours that give roguelike fans a bad rap

>>712484901
Painful addiction to story and wordslop.
Try reading a book, maybe you will start to treasure games for actual gameplay.

>>712473212
I simply have the roguelite and action roguelike tags filtered so I don't see them. except for the ones that get posted here of course, so that disappointment does still sometimes happen

>>712484695
yeah im skipping that kiddy mobilephone mess. why cant games be cool

>>712485117
>it has to be literally just Rogue again, or it's not a roguelike
Correct
>No argument, just 'its bait waaah'
casual

>>712484901
Why is Jin Kazama smoking a cigarette?

>starlight revolver
>propped up as the next big thing
>even had an animated trailer shown in some big name show
>it plays like fucking trash
is it really that hard to copy what spiral knights did more than a decade ago?

>>712485495
The argument is that the "like" part of "roguelike" implies allowance for alteration - such as addition or removal of elements to a reasonable degree. The Berlin interpretation actually covers this nicely by defining core concepts, important aspects and less important aspects.
What you are describing would be a "Rogue clone."

>>712485716
Or a game like rogue...
A rogue... like if you will

>>712485817
It's "roguelike," not "exactlylikerogueonetoone."

>>712485618
maybe they lack greed to drive them
>game looks like this
dont ever compared this to spiral knights ever again

>FTL clone
>Backpack clone
>Balatro clone
>STS clone
>FPS roguelite (never an actual FPS with a proper singleplayer; maps are 2 hard)
>Anomoly petting zoo
>Survivor clone
>Nintendo game I played 20 years ago, but with your ugly OC
>The above but roguelite
>Russian roulette
>Any of the above but also coop
Its so tiring, indies are literally soulless

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3531260/Superhero_Simulator/
>Fly around town saving people and beating thugs
>But you need to eat
>Earn money by doing various odd jobs like being a taxi driver
>Maintain your hygiene
>Acquire drip as your prestige rises
Fun concept but there is not enough in the demo to tell how much variety there is going to be in your superhero activities and mundane stuff.

Also, anon is represented in this game.

Can't post pictures, but I think I'm in love with this game.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/Little_Rocket_Lab/
Sure, it's just babby's Factorio + Stardew, but it somehow just works. Also the art is incredibly cute.

>>712484046
>>712484134
The music is decent in of itself but feels a little....upbeat, or at least not foreboding ominous enough to my ears for the mood they are setting. I do need to give the demo more time though. The voice acting seemed on point.

>>712481343
Minecraft, Binding of isaac, slay the spire, and balatoro are some of the most successful indie games ever and all of them feature procedural generation or roguelike mechanics it's absolute hell and I can't wait for indies to get sick of it

>>712486118
I don't have anything against people who enjoy these games but man, it looks too much like another job
Automation games are exactly the last thing I would want to do after 8 hours of work

>the developers fetish

is there a better way to browse demos other than steam's dedicated page?

>>712486435
This thread

>>712484901
I think you have brain problems. Although the game would feel better if the gun didn't sound so fucking weak.

>>712486068
>Backpack clone
Doko? And I mean actual backpack clone, don't conflate autobattlers with it.

>>712486380
It's fun figuring this stuff out, but I kinda get where you're coming from. But for me it's like that meme of a worker coming home and playing work simulator.

>>712472585
removed it from my wishlist

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677100/AiliA/
Simple, cute and funny Chink puzzle game

>>712483101
House of Necrosis is a pretty faithful RE styled Mystery Dungeon game

>>712486871
>Chink
shan't

Any action games that are actually fun? I don't care if it's character action, rolling, parrying, whatever I just want to fight and have it feel good.

Am I understanding the lingo correctly

Roguelike = We couldn't be bothered with proper maps
Soulslike = We couldn't be bothered with proper balancing
Survivor like = We couldn't be bothered

>>712487220
>Am I understanding the lingo correctly
No

>>712487220
>Roguelike = We couldn't be bothered with proper maps
Nah that's procedural generation, Roguelike is when they can't be fucked making content and just want you to replay the same shit over and over and pad it out.

>>712486871
>>712486871
Would you a cute bitcoin miner, anons?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3600980/RitualRX_Demo/
One of the more blatant clones I've seen
Indies are the peak of originality

>>712480583
>those artis impact cutscenes with the panels
really wonder why more games don't do this. To my knowledge only phantasy star iv did it and I loved it.

>>712487637
I like the genre, but holy fuck "blatant" is an understatement.

why is it the same images and webms posted over and over, they aren't that interesting.

Its over lads, no one likes nudity; its officially gay

>>712487839
People ain't posting shit to appease you

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2611170/DAVY_x_JONES/
DavyXJones.
Fps 3d doom that lets you play as half Davy, Half Jones.
Jank as hell, but even more charming.

>>712487701
I think Nine Sols also does it. Probably because unless your going for a comic aesthetic, you'd probably just use the whole screen for a scene

>>712488015
Seriously, someone tell these lil niggas we aren't their Twitch streamers

>>712488015
> no one likes to see it
retarded american prude

>>712488278
That's a japanese game

>>712487220
>>712487305
Anyone that thinks making maps takes skill but automating the generation process to create a finishable map that plays properly is "the easy way out" is seriously fucked in head or just never tried to.

>>712488015
>underwear nudity
... I don't think he knows what nudity means

>>712488278
>america
>one of the few countries on the planet where you can legally marry and fuck cunny
>prude
My fucking sides.

I'm enjoying the survival horror resurgence.

>>712488334
Okay skillet

>3 days remaining
>I've only played 2 games
>Dungeon Drops
2d Platformer where you have to constantly go up while jumping on dungeon parts falling from the sky to evade the spikes under you, pretty sure a /v/irgin made it
>A Flame in the Dark
Puzzle/Platforming 3d game where you have to explore a dark dungeon looking for an exit before your torch runs out, if you die you start with another character but stuff like unlocked shortcuts are permanent
both nice and simple games

>>712488429
Make your game already
You are better than all those no skill devs right?

>>712488510
That's your job lol
I work as a lawyer

Wasn’t expecting the pregnant black goddess in absolum with that aesthetic wtf

>>712488334
The problem is a lot of the procedural generation sucks

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3319560/Bofyne_Unit_The_Omega_Contract_Demo/
>Try shitty looking meme game out of curiosity
>Its actually good
Any other such cases?

>>712469320 (OP)

can you play ninja girl in the demo ?

>>712488573
Make the game jew
>>712488815
And so to thousands of "handcrafted" levels

You know what, this dead as disco thing actually fucks

>>712472585
Something about the controls feels weird. Ironically I just tried Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo which, at least at the beginning, has basically the same gameplay, and it feels a lot more natural

>>712483101
I played a really boring game that was a Legend of Grimrock-like but with optional permadeath.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/THYSIASTERY/

>>712486248
>>712484046
>>712484134
Impressive, no nanite bullshit, no lumen, runs even on GTX1070 on low/mid

Monster Crown has pretty good sprite art.

>>712469819
>>712470669
>>712483837
What the actual fuck are you guys on about? It's amazing. It takes the spirit of the OGs with a smart mix of one of the main mechanics in the 3D games. There's a lot of depth and optional challenge to S rank missions and i'm sure the full game will have even more cool shit.

Never been to one of these threads before as I usually don't play demos but I tried the Dispatch one and thought it was pretty good.
So weird seeing actual game discussion on here.

>>712469320 (OP)
Looks fun. Guess I'll be trying NG next.

>>712488015
yes they are retard, bet you got all giddy seeing a (you)

>>712477040
I'm glad I played the demo so I could remove this trash from my wishlist.

>>712483332
Mystery Dungeon is 90% of the way to being a "true" roguelike, come on. Half the dungeons in Shiren force you to start every attempt at level 1 with no items which is effectively true permadeath rules, and even the PMD games have at least one dungeon each like this. And just in general the mechanics are some of the closest to the original Rogue out there.

>>712488375
well, is the underwear wearing clothes on top? didn't think so

this game is really cool but im too stupid for it

>>712483332
Mystery dungeon has the actual core and important mechanics of Rogue (the actual fucking gameplay) and is only missing a tertiary feature (Permadeath).

>>712477040
did you fuck up your ps2 emulator settings? this looks like shit

>Black Raven
What the hell is this gameplay

>>712488573
make the next ace attorney

>>712491315
slavjank but even worse, indie slavjank

Wow Quartet fucking sucks.

>>712488436
What do you mean "remaining"? Do the demos get taken down or something after it ends? This is the first time I'm really paying attention to nextfest, so idk
That wouldn't really make any sense to me desu

>>712489947
The artstyle is quite soulful. Boring skill trees, abilities or whatever else? You should Tower of Mask, pretty cool grid-based dungeon crawler and also has a demo.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2918410/Tower_of_Mask/

>>712488819
Sure why the fuck not

>>712491708
There's no obligation for devs to remove demos when the fest is over, but an annoying amount of them do get removed. If there's a demo you're interested in it's best to fall on it asap rather than gamble on it not being pulled.

>>712491315
Yeah, I couldn't be bothered trying to find the trick to the combat system after getting swarmed by 6 enemies at once in the first encounter.

>>712491708
I didn't get around to a bunch of the demos from february. decided to play them now, and 1 out of like 6 didn't work because the devs removed the demo

>>712491708
Some do, but the real issue is that they'll no longer get signal-boosted and be harder to find later.

>>712491854
>>712492228
>>712492237
If a dev removes their demo, then I will simply not play them and will likely not buy their game
It it, quite literally, their loss and their loss alone
Feel free to (You) me and tell me that I'm based now

Games with cute guys aside from Okko?

>>712491708
why would they remove the demo, aren't you only able to do these steam-fests one time only as a developer? Wouldn't you want it to stay if its your one only chance for advertisement before eventually releasing their game?

>play jupiter junkworks
>a fucking tetris clone makes me feel like a complete retard
At this point i should just kill myself

>>712491771
Looks interesting. Thanks

>return to top button doesnt return to top
>show more button just stops appearing eventually while scrolling down
why is steam so shit?

>>712492106
they get aggrod based on distance, the best strategy is just spamming attack and the demo is really short, there are like 6 enemies (all the same) and then the demo ends

>>712488618
kek that was surprise from me too
they did good hiding it from the trailer and promotional images

>>712488334
I'm sorry you can't visualize the apple in your head.

>>712484323
I'm definitely an underdog, my numbers are tiny! Feedback has been good but sparse and I usually have to get it from various places, I am acting on it right away though.

>>712484641
Thank you for the bug report I will patch that by tomorrow's build! The videos are public domain, the kind that used to end up on Mystery Science Theater 2000. I'm still wary of using the awesome classic cartoons that are public domain and might ask some experts if I should.

>>712485618
>>712486045
these guys raised $15m in venture capital to produce this piece of shit btw. hell of a grift.

>ctrl f
>not a single mention of metroidvania
wtf? is there just no good metroidvanias right now?

>>712486068
>>FPS roguelite (never an actual FPS with a proper singleplayer; maps are 2 hard)
this one is a real game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235550/GLUM/
early access though

>>712493275
what's the name of the kung-fu movie?

>>712488618
Shame the game itself is a pile of shit
>Yea lemme just do this area, this area, this area, this area, these 7 more areas of braindead combat v enemies with literally 1 fucking attack each and then FINALLY fight a boss and get an upgrade for 1 single attack
>Not a new attack, an upgrade
>So I still mash the same fucking combo I did every area up to now, it just does a little more damage

>>712484323
Problem with his game is he's advertising to the wrong audience. It gives off "streamer game" vibes.

>>712493418
That's not part of the next fest and doesn't even have a demo.
If we were to just include all FPS obviously there are actual FPS with actual effort put in, but in this next fest, its just indie roguelike coop survival slop

>>712474562
At least some of them have the decency to tell you. You should assume every game is doing it even if they don't warn you.

>>712493643
>doesn't even have a demo
oh shit i thought it did, whoops

Tried Edens Zero and I remembered why I hate JRPGs. Still I'll get it for the tits at a discount.

I always downloaded 50 demos and play less than half of them

>>712477040
Wasn't this in an Iron Pineapple video like 2 years ago?
(Yes)
https://youtu.be/F69wyU-gYOo?t=3454

Wanna play more DMC games.
I played the reboot of 1 LONG time ago, and 5 a while ago.
Should I just go for the HD collection and 4?

>>712493836
name of game
NOW

>>712477040
it's a shame this sucks because i do like all of the elements that are obviously copied from ico
>alas, picrel
should have known

Why did no one tell me there was a warioware game in the demos? I gotta get on that!

>>712493968
I don't tell the game names, that's sort of my gimmick
Marisa of Liartop Mountain

>>712493991
It was in the previous fest so we didn't bring it up

>no games where you have fun
this sucks
its all
>kill these dudes
>eat this rock
>do this job
wheres my
>be comfy
game

>>712494040
thanks!

>what killed the hype
This.
>>712470487

>>712493295
its been almost a year since the announcement trailer and the whole thing looks incredibly unfinished, barely any visual feedback, stiff animations not the mention the
"tutorial" is a link to a barebones website
there's no way this will release in Q3 if at all

>>712477040
>>712493972
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2975260/PRISON_OF_HUSKS/
>has X link
>https://x.com/hex0sphere
>tranny flag + she/they
Also reminder that ABYSS X ZERO also has tranny devs, so don't buy it if you don't want to support pedophilia.

>>712484847
I get what you're saying. I put cheap in quotations because I lacked a better word to describe it. I would've rather them just made a traditional beat-em up with a short story. Like Streets of Rage 4 for example. I feel like a lot of Roguelites/likes justify throwing a coherent story out the window in favour of a vague sense of "choose your own adventure".

Haste, for me, was the same way. I would've rather the game had had ""normal"" video game progression with ability unlocks and boosts etc to make the character faster and faster the further you got, maybe some different builds even. As it is now, whether you get a fast run or a super-sonic power fantasy is completely up to RNG, and if you fail or the game crashes-- too bad. I guess I don't like the rug pull.

>>712494089
oh that makes sense, I didn't have time to try much last time.
You are excused.

>>712492595
pressure people with FOMO into playing it, demo no longer represents final product, demo requires a centralized server that is no longer online (multiplayer only).
Demos are a net positive so it still makes no sense why they'd want to take a demo away long-term, you don't need to be participating in a next fest to have a demo, you can just have one available.

>>712494173
No one fucking asked. Why are you still clinging to the idea no one is having fun?

You are alone in your funless purgatory.

>>712490194
>There's a lot of depth
t. what retards say about games with no depth because the word doesn't have any inherent meaning anymore and it's just noise people make to sound like they know what they're talking about all the while never managing to define what it is.

ninja gaiden ragebound's gameplay is completely prescriptive, the levels and encounters are specifically designed in a way that gives you very obvious sequences you should be doing things. execution is another matter, but the routing is done for you, you don't figure it out, it is shown to you. and when the game is so prescriptive about the order you should be defeating enemies, then where exactly is that supposed depth you're talking about?

there's no depth, you're just making noise.

>>712493428
>The Guy with the Secret Kung Fu
https://youtu.be/U6qt6zP0BBg&t=976
>Lady Whirlwind
https://youtu.be/qMv5a-VIN2A&t=491

>>712494262
not to worry, nightmare chud is on the case

>>712494315
In one of the first threads for this fest, people posted all the good games from the previous fest
You could check that out if you're interested

>>712492817
The art is great there's no way, i'll watch it on youtube some time after it comes out.

>>712494586
Thanks king.

>>712493643
The game is for millennials. They're the most gate kept demographic on the internet because they actually play games and are worth marketing to.

>>712494672
t's an incredibly short demo, almost feels like a teaser trailer

>5 demos in
>No new wishlist additions
>1 remained on wishlist
>1 removed from wishlist
It's not looking good lads

>>712488429
lol

>>712494262
>pedophilia bad in the threads that have been constant uoooohing over three wishes

>>712494661
oh sweet, I'll have a look at that. Thanks!

>>712494793
How is that not looking good. 1/5 games was good. That's bad how?
I'm 40 demos in 'cause I was day off on start of fest and like 2 have been not bad
I haven't even really played shit since then 'cause of how bad they were

>>712485618
>Game with high production values and animated trailer + expensive voice acting and marketing
>The gameplay is bad to mid
Many such cases! Actually though. Lots of companies see the "gameplay" part of the game as an afterthought.

>>712494897
Ok? Drop the Death Note at my place then, I'll get rid of them as soon as that happens.

>>712494975
20% is a bad grade

>>712487220
No
Soulslike = We couldn't be bothered with a proper story

>>712477040
>Die to the first enemy like 7 times
>Beat the boss on the first attempt
Alright.

I like how this fest is unintentionally training me to spot AI art assets on first glance. Especially the logos devs think look good, it's all slop.

>>712495969
zanzibart...

>>712496479
false flagger.

>Game says press any button to start
>Press my belly button
>It doesn't start
nice coding lmao
>Game says use controller
>Use keyboard instead
>It controls like shit
Nice game design lmao

>>712494513
Literally not true. You didn't play enough of it. You can S rank stages doing multiple different things. You can play slower and explore to get collectibles and add shit up or you can try to maximize your combo and maximizing combo is a mix of different things. You have multiple moves at your disposal and that's just the demo which is very early on. The only thing that is "prescribed" is where the glowing enemies are but that's only part of the gameplay, really you could just skip those enemies if you wanted and it wouldn't hurt your score if you got the minimum combo for the level which from the levels available are pretty lenient.

YOU are the retard for not exploring the game enough and are looking at the surface and are ASSUMING there is nothing more. Go fuck yourself.

Absolum is fucking fantastic. Beat-em-up chads we are eating good. DotEmu is like the Beat-em-up Arcsys at this point.

It let me do MMX style dash jumps so I'm sold. Combat is underwhelming unfortunately

I am here to talk to the PS1 graphics game devs. The next game you need to rip off is Sheep Raider.

no one has done it yet. you could be first! if you're quick.

>>712483992
I didn't want to admit it, but holy shit... It's not that doing something different from patapon is a problem, but whatever they've got going is just plain bad. Like, why make it a roguelite??? The demo is so unpolished I can't believe they've been working on it for so long.

>>712474562
billions must collect

>>712496760
I think I just missed half the mechanics because they had like a 1 sec popup during a fight explaining them.
And what I played didn't make me interested enough to go back and check what rules I missed.

>>712483992
Conversely: I loved ratatan, I thought the roguelite layout made it fresh and fun

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3600990/Sinker_sound/
Amazing Fishing/rhythm game, hard as fuck but it feels great when you get used to it

>>712482667
Absolum being a roguelike is the only way you'll get 40+ hours out of a beat-em-up, which are traditionally more like 40 minutes long, especially once you get good at it. Sure there's routing and scoring and higher difficulty modes, but for the majority of the gaming public these aren't things they consider when they play these games. This is also why Shredder's Revenge's story was four times the length of an average Beat-Em-Up. Otherwise it won't sell.

As a FUN GAME, try name a demo you liked that isn't inspired, ripped off or somewhat genesised from another game you already like.

my choice is Dancing Bones.

>>712494162
Comfy isn't fun, it's stagnant. Hardship builds character, and a good tale needs to be ery characteristic.

>>712496726
Is the level design and/or movement interesting at least? I put up with Pseudoregalia's shitty combat because the game was fun to explore and move around in.

>>712497348
>Yea bro I had a hard day I played like a videogame bro the struggle is real GAMERS ARE SUCH AN OPPRESED MINORITY
lmaooo

>>712497305
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3034180/Witch_Way/

>>712497305
Does Kuloniku count?

Cooking Mama exists, I suppose. But I feel like it's a reasonably original game even though other cooking sims exist.

not every first person shooter in the festival is a rip off, right?

>>712497465
You're a sperg if you think fiction isn't a simulation of adversity made to fill the lives of miserable masses with fulfillment by proxy.

>>712497305
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2738660/Mecha_Simultactics/
I don't know which game this is inspired or ripped off by, so I choose this as my answer.

I fucking hate that I got hopelessly addicted to BALL X PIT

>>712497619
>bro I read a book it was sooo heavy
looool

>>712497697
Yomi shuffle

>>712497813
>>bro I read a book it was sooo heavy
>looool
I'm talking to a complete knuckledragger. I'm not doing this in a comfy vidya thread, scream into the void by yourself.

>>712497879
Lol you absolute fucking brainlet. Follow the convo you're part of
>Guy wants comfy thing
>Nooooo comfort bad you need to be a bad ass and play miserable games to make yourself feel good about how hard your life is
>Lol, that's dumb
>Nooo don't call it dumb life is hard I played an edgy game waaah
>Lol, that's dumb
>Stop ruining my comfy thread
I though 'comfort bad, its stagnant'?

>>712497381
Movement is great, level design is alright but I got lost for a bit.

>>712493869
>demo had better visuals 2 years ago
>features don't seem to have changed
genuinely impressive. is this the power of estrogen?

>>712497381
>Is the level design and/or movement interesting at least?
NTA but that's the good part of it, the combat is what's dragging it down.

>>712498246
Please understand, xey can only program for 20 minutes a day in between xeir dilation sessions.

>>712498239
>>712498274
Definitely trying the demo then, thanks.

712492398
fag

712492398
based

Wishlisted this one before i even finished it. Simple enough to pick up but engaging enough to stay in for hours, amazing art, and I love the invader-zim-style artstyle. Plus, booba

>>712498959
that's crazy

THEM is a pretty decent horror game that I haven't seen anyone mention yet.

>>712498959
Nice game.
>>712499119
>Pronoun
That's pretty damn gay dude.

Oneway.exe I think is getting dismissed by jaded losers who judge everything by it's cover. It's really not what you would expect.

It is a horror game. But there's more to it than that. Try it and you'll see what I mean. It's probably better I don't try to explain it.

>>712497305
Holo Hanafuda

Anyone play the Tormented Souls 2 demo?
The first game's demo surprised me with the intro nude scene (which was sadly the only one, and the model doesn't have a vagoo either) and the gameplay is alright.

>>712493972
>>712494262
Well this is news to me which now explains the fundamental design flaws. I saw the older demo from itch and even though the game was updated visually (for the worse) the gameplay was not.
It makes perfect sense they/them'd focus on the superficial things instead of improving the soulsKiro gameplay formula.

Also as a palette cleanser I recommend checking out the cute yet ballbustingly hard fishing rhythm game recommended in a previous thread.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3600990/Sinker_sound/

>>712499359
fuck off

>>712499359
I played it yesterday and it's almost exactly what I expected from the cover, only worse. It was novel for the first room and then each additional room you do lifts the veil more and more as it's the same room with the same basic wandering around and clicking on things gameplay each time, hell the first room with the furry theme park girl was the most interesting one in terms of presentation and mechanics.
It's also too horny to be scary. Especially for Ophelia.

>>712497305
>Well congratulations, you got yourself caught! Now what's the next step of your master plan?

>>712499393
Anon, I...

Is Star Birds a game made by that dogshit youtuber or something?

Oh hey a game with sex instead of gender

>>712499393
Wow, Hololive invented Hanafuda???

>>712499507
Was in a pleasant surprise?

>>712499519
I tried that and it bugged out in the tutorial and wouldn't let me progress because at the part about pulses it never started making pulses so I couldn't do anything.

>>712499704
I like games with SEX

>>712499393
Needs more player characters.

Any good JaP demos?

>>712499746
>>712499612
The questions was
> from another game you already like
and I had no idea how to play Hanafuda

>>712497528
Now imagine Kuloniku but as a coomer game

>>712499853
Drunken Rogue

>>712480076
Hey I also downloaded that! Did you play his previous game?

>>712497465
>Witch_Way
Chinese slop
Shit post
Peas in a pod

>>712480961
Yeah, from last year... I don't want old demos, I want fresh ones.

Eden Zero is fine for what it is (mobile game repurposed to a normal game) but I don't know if I pay full price for this

>>712496726
>>712498274
maybe one of you can help, am I not supposed to be here yet? That circle very obviously is meant to boost my gliding in some way but it does nothing, do I need an upgrade first?

>>712499030
Yeah. Check it out for sure

>>712493972
trans folx are so talented

>>712500098
Huh, Steam didn't tell me there was a demo for it. I'll check it out now.
You can get at 20% off on Fanatical.

>Dotemu finally makes their own original beatemup
>Yet another big muscle lady appears
Based frogs

Which fest was better, this one or the last one?

>>712499772
Could try mashing E incase there was a dialog box that didn't advance properly. And if that doesn't work the I hope a reload can fix it because it's a different take on the rhythm genre if not an insane one in its implementation.

>>712499853
yeah

>>712499704
what's this?

>>712500518
not everything fits into categories and lists, man. it's not a contest. Even if it was, what would be the point? Everything from last next fest is still here. it never went away

you've got some growing up to do

>>712500518
Last one had slightly more games that I liked but this was bretty good too.

Cell Command https://store.steampowered.com/app/3362040/Cell_Command/

Snake, but turn-based with unlockable upgrades.

>>712483101
Yes, BallXPit and Brave Writ are both pretty good.

>devs have to beg for review demos now too instead of just when they release the game for real

grim

>>712470669
>I love Blasphemous
why? it's fucking shit. the combat sucks, the map design sucks and the movement is so fucking sluggish and boring.

>>712497305
Dimhaven
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2458980/Dimhaven__The_Lost_Source/

I don't like Myst

>>712486068
where's the Backpack clone pls

>>712501256
Because they have funny helmets

>>712501132
this i9s good though it lets people know which demos are worth trying, so we dont onl have 4chanjk threhad abp;p9out iuepshgsp uuughhhh...

>>712501132
does it even do anything? maybe boost the demo's visibility?

Nigga, the fuck is CROSS?!
Man I guess Rain World was a fluke because this shit is horrible. Bad UI, bad art, shit controls on foot, online only. Only decent thing is the actual racing controls

>>712500640
Dungeon Mori, dungeon crawling RPG that reminds me of a more basic Buriedbornes

>>712501408
what gaem

>>712500159
man this is really pissing me off, I was close to the end too, I could tell

>>712500316
In what world is this trash a beat em up?!
The move set is fucking tiny. I pick a character with a sword and they only have 1 sword swing animation.
and the last thing beat em ups needed was rogue shit slop.

this shit is trash.

>>712469320 (OP)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2488290/RUSHING_BEAT_X_Return_Of_Brawl_Brothers/

Basically it's like the Arcade Games you missed and still wish existed. Play the demo now.

>>712501539
>didn't unlock the orc lady who teaches you all your tools
>pressing Y which is your heavy instead of X which is your standard light string with ender
BASED retard

>>712500098
This is peak Japanese humour.
I don't know why it opens with a bunch of condensed cutscenes only to then have you replay the segments it just rushed over, though.

>>712501731
X is a shitty punch kick string (and it wont even combo unless it connects)
What's the point in packing a sword like that if you're not even going to use it.

if you give me a sword without even a combo string or directional specials I'm dropping your shit game right there. simple as.

>>712502027
She uses it when you use her super as well. It's a fun game, I liked it a lot, and the systems are just different enough to be refreshing, but not obtuse enough to be frustrating. Dotemu really knows what they're doing when they make a beat-em-up, gives me hope for Marvel Cosmic Invasion too, whenever that comes out.

>>712501434
lmao i was just playing this. the UI is indeed dogshit. surely the player character waddling like a retard on foot is uhh... a deliberate design choice. driving feels fucking great though and i like the aesthetic. i would probably pay for a single player campaign.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133650/Gold_Gold_Adventure_Gold/
City Builder with a defined cartoony artstyle. One of the characters is clearly the husband-poaching gobbo. I didn't like playing it because it's not my kind of colony sim, but I respect its style and effort. Want more drawn games like this.

>>712469320 (OP)
Bouncy Kenji. That was a fun demo. I wish games like this were more popular, they're cool and way more interesting than 3D action rpgs and FPS and such

>>712471568
It's nothing like the NES games, which is fine. I loved Ninja Gaiden on the NES, I'm proud of the fact I actually managed to beat it when I was really young, but it's the most bullshitty pitfall baiting trial and error perfect execution bullshit I ever had the pleasure of overcoming. (couldn't ever finish Ghouls and Ghosts, I didn't have the patience remaining)

>>712480583
This time I was very busy and didn't have time to do my usual deep dive at this SNF and just starting today, thanks for the list germanon

>>712472585
It's about as good as a faithful Gameboy Color game can be, which as it turns out is not really that good. I don't blame them. They did a great job making what they wanted to make but what they wanted to make just doesn't score very high for me. It's still on my wishlist but not a high priority.

>>712501515
I finished the demo without ever getting over that chasm, it's not necessary to reach the boss. IIRC the signal decrypter thing is in the room across from where you get the ability to dodge upwards, you have to shoot the switches above it to access it.

Boobs

>>712503556
Isn't this that girl from Fairy Tail

>>712503556
why won't she friend?

>>712503295
I finished it recently and thought it was pretty good. You do have to memorise a lot, but it's not so bad. I like how the constantly respawning enemies kind of force you to move forward without ever stopping, like a ninja would. I worried Ragebound wouldn't have the same time pressure but it seems like they did manage to find ways to add it.

Finishing the NES game as a kid must've made it feel rougher though for sure.

>>712503693
because he's a baka hentai

>>712502817
not a beat em up.
it's shallow garbage infested with rogue slop.

>>712503693
She hates long hair on men

>>712503556
I heavily dislike aneemay.

>>712494262
lmao thanks for the heads-up.

>>712503869
It's basically Mr.X mode from SoR4 expanded into a full game. They've done a great job with it mechanically. There's air combos, juggles, parries, guardbreaks, sidesteps and punish counters, and of course the aesthetics are great. I think anyone into beat-em-ups/fighting games should give it a try, it's a free demo after all!

>>712499519
Steam has me clocked.

>>712503556
this game has such a "PS2 anime tie in game" energy, both in good and bad ways

>>712499519
This game would be more visually appealing if the UI wasn't all modern clean design.
Bespoke custom retro style UI elements would give it some sovl.

>>712469320 (OP)
You are a handyman in an isekai who harrass/fucks married women in order to feed a succubus who enslaves you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2690010/Handyman_Fantasy/

>>712504405
>energy
stupid zoomer

>>712504528
Its not even modern clean design its amateur hour UI

>>712504557
>having sexual relations with married women
Sorry but no thanks, I'm white.

>>712494586
How easy is it to replace the videos, are they just webms? I wanna put on The Five Deadly Venoms.

>>712504557
NTR is a shit fetish.

>>712505045
Not when you're in the lover's role

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2571410/500_CALIBER_CONTRACTZ/

Demo got updated for Next.

>>712505179
Not him but highly melanated mindset.

>>712481343
A friend of mine plays nothing but them, he buys a new one every week. I thought the point of those games was supposed to be high replayability but he seems to hop from one to another.

First difficult deck builder I've seen this next fest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2449390/Vegangsters/
The random events are ASS

>>712496747
They need to get over the VHS grunge horror PSX filter they bought off the Unity store and start making bright and colorful low-poly games.

>>712505179
No, it's still shit. Even putting aside moral qualms you're getting off to the idea of there being another man whose woman you're taking, and that's faggotry of the highest level.

>>712505252
Will your game ever come out bro? It's been on my wishlist for years

>>712505825
idk I'd have to ask the dev.

There's too much fucking ps1 horror now.

>>712505767
If the woman wanted it that way, perhaps her husband isn't worthy of her or the opposite way
One might even do them a favor and show them that the relationship isn't as strong as they thought

The real faggotry is holding back yourself from getting a woman for something so mundane like a marriage.

>>712506026
and that's a good thing!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2052300/Glaciered/
Okay so I thought this one would be more DMC-like but it's actually a mash a trigger to attack, occasionally shoot with controller aim, spam the dodge button, and press X to awesome (sword slash edition).
I didn't die once during the demo and that's probably due to abusing the spammable dodge. It has an upgrade system and what looks like tiers of weapons with levels to swap out in and out of in addition to a levelling system for upping damage from the mentioned damage types. Very disappointing gameplay from the demo but it could get better with more upgrades, and the frozen-over underwater world is interesting enough despite the bombardment of dialog.

>>712506272
Not him but
>If the woman wanted it that way, perhaps her husband isn't worthy of her or the opposite way
You're bedding a whore. If her husband wasn't worthy - she would have left before jumping on another dick or better yet not marry a man she's not devoted to enough to spend the rest of her life with like a spouse should. You, meanwhile, are subjecting another man to the life of unknowingly being with a whore, at least until she either gets caught red handed or tries to fuck someone with integrity who will sell her ass out. You're pathetic AND evil.
>One might even do them a favor and show them that the relationship isn't as strong as they thought
If you're planning to coax the whore into proving she's a whore only to then snitch on her to her husband, maybe. But no. You're fucking a whore who is someone's wife. You're just pathetic and evil, that's where it begins and ends.
>so mundane like a marriage
You actually are LITERALLY brown, aren't you, ESLkun?

>interesting concept or game
>deck builder
STOP IT

>>712506867
I don't even mind it anymore as long as the deckbuilding has actual synergies and not just generic non-strategies where you spam some regular bullshit with no fun combo potential.
I played the demo for https://store.steampowered.com/app/2118810/Breachway/ and it straight up just had nothing strategic going for it.

>>712480583
Thanks for the chart, anon. I got really burned out trying to sift through all the garbage entries myself earlier this week.

>>712480583
>little girl
>dementia

>>712480583
>Artis_Impact
Where the fuck is the demo? Did it get taken down?

>>712500518
february, easily

>>712500316
are there arts of her big orc boobs?

>Era One
It was cool building your own space installation but weapon range is kinda low and the missile spam the AI does is absolute faggotry. I never found a counterplay.

>>712507225
oh yeah i forget he had that..

>>712507356
The demo is called Artis Impact: Meiji Spa

Just finished the Memory in Orbit demo; I really like the artstyle of this Metroidvania - are there any others this year?

>Moonlighter 2
Like the improved sale mechanic, but I cannot seem to get past The Herald for anything

>Undermine 2
A graphical improvement, but not that wholly different from the first game. I do like how secret rooms are sometimes highlighted now.

>Mina the Hollower
Once you get past the NES era graphics, this starts to come into its own.

>Spinny Dungeon
Luck be a Landlord with combat, I suppose?

>>712507225
I'm no expert, but children can also have dementia. It's super rare and only occurs in 1/100,000 cases
A shame because it's a terminal condition.

>>712507717
That is not the demo
Looks like they indeed took it won, it was there a few days ago
>>712507786
Trash Heart
Crimson Capes
Ayna: Shattered Truth

>>712507894
*down

>>712507786
>Like the improved sale mechanic, but I cannot seem to get past The Herald for anything
Is it anything like Recettear yet?

heartworm is clearly taking based game design from old re but story seems more in line with silent hill. You have a camera that temporarily fucks with enemies bu as far as I can tell tehre's no way to permanently defeat them (but maybe that changes later). Seems higher effort than the average re clone but I'm not too interested in this kind of game.

>>712508078
So the way it works now is that items you get in your runs can have their values increased by other items, but if you die in the dungeon, the values are cut in half, so now you balance between going all of the way or cutting it short to have higher value items to sell. You still play as Will and the demo had two melee weapons to go with; regular sword or metal gauntlets.

>>712508253
Meh.

>>712507894
Oh yeah, it looks like the original demo got taken down when Meiji Spa went up.

>>712507894
Looks like the dev took the Trash Heart demo down, but Ayna looks to be up my alley; somewhat strong Kena: Bridge of Spirits artwork with this one. Thanks Anon!

>>712508710
>Looks like the dev took the Trash Heart demo down
No, it's still up, they just moved the button for some reason

>>712473212
BALL X PIT for me

>>712507612
You can research point defense miniguns, but they're pretty far down on the tech tree and I think you can only put them on the modular ships, not any of the prebuilts

>>712507894
Okay guess I won't play Artist Impact then lol, no skin off my back.

>>712469819
felt like nes games to me gameplay flow wise

I don't think I have played a single good demo this fest...

>>712469945
yeah, I wasn't interested in it at all when it was revealed at the game awards, but I saw a positive post about it here, gave it a shot, and actually enjoyed it. the writing could very easily cross the line into being annoying, but what was in the demo was fine.
because this fest was lacking in games I personally found interesting, I decided to try some demos from february that I hadn't gotten around to. one of those was risimon. I think I remember someone saying it was actually pretty good if you could get past the cringe, and holy fuck I can't get past the cringe. if they dialed back their attempts at humor by a factor of 10, this could be a great game. they're clearly skilled at a lot of things, the pixel art in particular looks great, but I just about shot myself when my mon learned the move hawk tuah
if any mysteryfags are disappointed by the offerings of this fest, check out type-noise shonen shojo and detective instinct if you haven't already. only got around to their demos now, and they're both really solid

>>712500159
>>712501515
you need to fight 3 hidden bosses (they're gold colored and bigger version of the mob), you trigger that by using radio at the gold mob statues, and then use radio at certain location to trigger the fight. After defeating all of them, you will unlock the door that has the upgrade that use the circle.

>>712510723
>and then use radio at certain location to trigger the fight
How do you even know where to go? Is it just trial and error?

>>712511693
use the radio near the gold statues. each gold statue give you the hint of their location.

Despite abusing QM terminology which irks me as a physicist this game is kino

favorite women-led demo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0beWw-Df4

>>712512232
only playthrough is women-led as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAWl7LeyoLQ

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2692730/Three_Wishes/
Cute trailer.

Fest is almost over.

Who are the winners for you? Pick three.

>>712512047
Watching the trailer, it looks like the only "parallel worlds" mechanic is the protagonist splitting. And even then not really, since both copies occupy the same physical space.
They should've just made her a slime girl with mitosis powers or something.

Gold Gold Adventure Gold (what a horrible name) gave me brain worms that burrowed into my eardrums and keep chanting the title music to me ad nauseam.

>>712512523
DEFICIT
Black Raven
Jupiter Hell Classic

>DMCA takedown speedrun

>>712505045
NTR is a genre on the rise

>>712502867
I enjoyed this demo and played it, the balance is off but the bones are there, now it just needs better performance and meat. I do hate you can't set an area to be patrolled or beckon adventurers because when the waves spawn at night, you just get fucked. Those little piddly archer towers do fucking nothing.

What are the best units to recruit? I was using Angels and Zombies

>>712512523
It's just getting started for me, don't say that again

>>712512523
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2849500/Lost_in_Prayer/
Trad roguelike.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2937090/Hunters_Inc/
Dollar store Monster Hunter.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646460/Devil_Spire_Falls/
Open World /v/ermincore.
Honorable mention to https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597590/Dungeon_Mori/ because it looks cute.

>>712512915
Isn't the Defend Quest supposed to make adventurer patrol the area? That's what the tutorial told me - the adventurer takes the assignment and patrols the area until the bounty runs dry.
I didn't play anywhere near enough to figure out good units, so with that in mind my vote goes to Gobbo because sex with midgets.

liteally never heard of dotemu before, now im having to read the eula one more time before dowloading another game, this is so boring

>>712510142
Already played both of those last fest. I'm completely satisfied with mystery games this fest too with Dimhaven and Mystery of the Malign.

>>712513092
I'll try that and report back.

>>712512523
Shut up! I still have 20 demos left to play, stop hurrying me!

>>712512523
I NEED MORE TIME

>>712513176
I'll be asleep by then but hopefully it helps someone else in the thread.

>>712503556
it seems like he was supposed to fondle her breasts but they censored it to her cheeks

Bro, Swery is fucked washed, isn't he? Barcelona fucking BLOWS

>>712514076
He was always a hack.

>>712478674
alpha build seems pretty buggy, i couldnt get out of the journal after I beat the skateboard tutorial so I restarted(literally pressed every button)
and the same shit occured during the start of the skateboard tutorial

>>712507225
She THINKS she's a little girl. Big twist would be that she's actually a disguisting HAG! And that guy is her husband.

I feel like playing this game has put me on a list.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3617620/My_Card_Is_Better_Than_Your_Card/

>>712514213
Yeah. It's probably going to be something like that. Regardless, the presentation of the game is neat so I'm interested.

>>712514282
Shotashit?

>>712514446
Lolis and shotas

>>712512752
I have a hearty chuckle every time I see this one on steam.

>>712512523
it's almost over???

>>712513414
Holy shit you're right. Anybody read the manga to confirm?

>>712513414
>>712514586

jej

this is kinda hard

>>712515083
ok i'm getting the hang of it

>>712515083
Whut gaem

>>712514756
Damn, the game really is censored. At least the manga is based.

>>712515404
Fingerdance

>>712492572
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3409760/Sloppy_Fields/

>>712514282
It's a really interesting card battler actually, being able to custom make your whole deck is great

>open game
>first thing I see is this

>>712512523
Dimhaven
Phase Zero
Aeromachina

>>712501475
EDENS ZERO

Quick, post a demo you liked that you HAVEN'T seen mentioned in these threads.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2183670/Hotel_Galactic/

>>712477040
That interface looks like fucking shit, it completely clashes with the retro style, doesn't the dev see it?

>>712515996
Yeah, it's pretty good. More variety of backgrounds (and maybe music) would be nice.

>>712516875
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3077570/MOMO_Crash/
fun rhythm game

>>712517429
It's frustrating that games like this don't have something so basic as button mapping

>>712517429
I hate Yunyun Syndrome never got a demo

>>712516875
Dead Station Files. It's a puzzle roguelike where you're navigating a space station in the midst of collapse.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3687410/Dead_Station_Files/

>>712516875
Gloomy Eyes, Panik and Penelope Pendrick.

>>712517429
>in which the player purifies souls by pinching them with girls' thighs

>>712512752
It's been there for weeks already.
I'm convinced that Steam has now decided to just allow whatever garbage applies even if it's blatant bullshit like this so they can pocket the listing fee and then ban it later, rather than rejecting it from the start and not getting the listing fee.

>>712514756
Well, guess I'll cancel my pre-order. Unfortunate.

>>712516327
Wow, he's literally me.

>>712518524
>Women thighs
>'Fetish'

>>712499591
>plays exploration puzzle game
>gets upset said game that requires walking around to explore and clicking things to interact with puzzles
maybe the problem is that you're a retard

472 replies in....
GIVE ME YOUR MUST PLAY DEMOS

Bloodthief is rad as fuck
Would recommend, might get it

>>712519184
>>712517429

>>712519058
When it's a fixation, yes.

>>712519184
Baby Steps
Theta and Paralldoxs on Worldlines
Handyman Fantasy 水電工幻想

>>712494513
>there's no depth, you're just making noise.
I need you debatelards who try to turn /v/ into your high school debate club to realize ending your posts in these dramatic one liners makes it 100x harder to take you seriously

>>712519184
Play Vindictus Defying Fate.

Is Mimesis any good? The voice mimicking (presumably using AI) seems interesting.

I wish I were smarter so I could get through Mahou Shoujo Escape or get the timing down for Sinker Sound. Maybe I'm getting bad at video games with age finally.

>>712519184
Drunken Rouge

>>712477301
viruses have appeared on steam before

>>712519373
>50GB "demo"
Still worth it, ngl

>>712512523
Chrono Gear
SSR Wives
Trash Heart

>>712519603
looks like an open-world sandbox sex game [UE][Abandoned]

>>712519184
Dead as Disco is going to blow up, mark my words

>>712519740
idk nigga
with that artstyle, this shit will most likely bomb
totally tranny coded

>>712519740
Blew its load with the import song feature

>>712519184
Ball X Pit
Pigface

>>712517825
It comes out end of October and there'll be another Next Fest in mid-October so it can still happen.

>>712517429
>songs: William Tell, Pomp and Circumstance
Fucking. Why.

>>712520478
Maybe the artist doesn't know where to find copyright-free music.

>>712512523
Mina the Hollower
Aeromachina
Little Rocket Lab

>>712496747
The OST for sheep dong n' wolf is way better than it has any right to be.

>>712500036
but its updated..

>>712479897
im asking myself the same thing anon+ gameplay was cool but no idea what the game is about, has anyone found any secrets?

>>712513361
fanart

also the gobbos die en masse, very squishy unit

>playing The Trolley Solution
>get to this part
>if you choose to save the people, it actually opens a URL intent in your web browser that, as far as I can tell, would actually make a Twitter post
>thwart it by not having a Twitter account at all
The "controversial" message was just "tacos are a sandwich" but still, I thought that was kind of neat.
Still not sold on the game overall, though.

>>712521264
It drafts a Twitter post for you but it doesn't send it right away. They'd get in a lot of trouble otherwise.

>>712499591
Let's see. One room based on word puzzles, a room with a tamagotchi, a room with a murder-detective puzzle, a room with radio puzzles and general fuckery, a room where you read through emails to answer questions, a room where you find newspapers and trip balls, a room with a dress-up game, crackers, and scalping some bitch.

Say what you want about Oneway.exe but claiming all the rooms are the same is plain stupid. I spent hours playing and I still never knew what to expect in the next room.
It's definitely not for everyone but it's undeniably unique.

>>712519154
There is no exploration in that game.

>>712488819
>no porn included
wtf is the point then

>>712521767
Walking around a space and clicking on objects IS exploration, especially when the game is a series of escape rooms. You're allowed to not like things without changing definitions.

>>712494262
>ABYSS X ZERO also has tranny
man what a disappointment should have guessed by the fact that all the characters in the game are women

>>712519184
FISH3

How many upgrades can I get in aeromachina for hull/ammo/ booster upgrades?
I haven't beaten the pig yet but I've already spent over 2hrs fucking around and enjoying the game but I need to go play other things this fest

>>712473212
>game plays well and has nice style
>but it's some legacy genre like boomer shooter or RTS without any extra mechanics like roguelite
>you're basically playing the same game you played in 2002 but worse

>>712488436
>3 days remaining
haven't downloaded any games
This shit sucks there's too many shit games and I can't be bothered to try to filter and find hidden gems

>>712522294
Just play thread recommendations then.

>>712474562
As someone who has actually worked on games instead of just playing them: this isn't data collection for the purpose of reselling it. This is stuff like how long you spent on a specific level, how long you used each weapon, where you had the most retries, etc.

Utterly useless for reselling, but very useful to determine what weapons players prefer, what levels players find hardest, etc. It's also a much better way to know what's going on in your game than listening to loud dickheads on Steam forums who may be loud but are often less than 1% of the players.

>>712522226
>you're basically playing the same game you played in 2002 but worse
Not necessarily. You can iterate and improve on old genres, like improving the controls, the smoothness of the gameplay, the balancing, also adding extra features that are not shameless padding like the roguelite shit.

>>712522126
you can check everything in the pause menu, there's an equipment screen that shows you how much of each thing you've got.

>>712521964
Calling it investigation would at least make sense, calling it exploration is nonsense.

next bread is here people
>>712522772
>>712522772
>>712522772

>>712522226
No-one tell him when rogue came out

>>712522494
Oh ok thanks, I still need to comb it because I'm missing a bunch of the hull ones and I went though f1 mostly.
Is b1 accessible outside of that area where you get the stomp move

>>712522226
>without any extra mechanics like roguelite
I hate you. I wish I could hate you to death.