This is the last stretch.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
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>>712639797

Did you have fun during this event?
In any case, keep sharing the good stuff. Please be considerate and include store page links or at least the name of the game in the post or in filename if you share a webm or picture. It goes a long way!

Nioh 3 mogs your entire fest

>>712722046 (OP)
>Did you have fun during this event?
I feel like the threads burnt out in record time this event. i still found some games I enjoyed but nothing amazing.

>>712722036
I did not enjoy. Any turret section in Ratchet and Clank 3 was better than this entire game focused on one thing. Better feedback, better effects, better sound, better enemy paths. And that game not only pushing 20 years today, but also had turrets as a small section in two or three locations.

nah card games are just annoying bro

>>712722151
I think now, in the last day, threads still have acceptable speed. I can actually read and reply to them between demos, they're not blasting by at the speed of light. But yeah, there were nothing too exciting this fest. Or maybe just too much of everything, most of which is garbage and dilutes genuinely good experiences.

>>712722046 (OP)
>Did you have fun during this event?
Yeah, I only found 6 demos that I will buy(depending on the price) when they release but it was great
>>712722248
I agree with you, it's worse than those turret sections. I personally compared it more to Sentinel Girls series and some old flash games with similar premise(defending objective against swarms of enemies) rather than Ratchet and Clank. I feel if they change some stuff, sell it for low price(lol) and maybe add some story then game could success

I too am disappointed
the best demo I played was Terratech Legion and that's just survivors with a fun gimmick
Others that seemed playable were just clones.
Crown of Greed, Majesty clone.
Motemancer, Factorio clone.
Little Rocket lab, Factorio and Animal Crossing clone .

post interesting things

>>712722123
Then release the demo on PC you coward

>>712722567
game?

>>712722634
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602910/Gravethorn_Demo/
2D bloodbourne; not good

>download some demos
>only play like 6 of them

>>712722509
I fell like they should rework the game from the ground up to make it work, for me at least. It's a death from a thousand cuts. There's nothing DEALBREAKINGLY wrong with, I can even live with a 32FPS (lol), but there are too many litlle shitnuggets to annoy, and no strong enough core to forgive it.

>>712722672
I'm at 63 demos and I've tried about 59
for sometimes under 1 minute

>>712722668
>aislop capsule
skipping this one

>>712722509
>I only found 6 demos that I will buy(depending on the price) when they release
list 'em

Probably gonna be the penultimate thread, so I might just as well post every demo review I've written before.

> Legends of the Round Table
A very tabletop game that is also a very computer game. High production, very comfy, good amounts of whimsy, appropriately dated.
> Mystery of the Malign
An Idol-like I liked. Manages to string together the feel of a 2000s mystery game with "modern" puzzle gameplay. Feels pretty authentic and realistic (at least with handling witnesses) for what it is.
> Mage Tower Massacre
"I can't believe this is not 2005 Newgrounds!", the game. Hotline Miami home invasion score attack with spells casting bullets and lightning instead. Very simple loop that is done very competently. Lots of sounds are lifted from CS 1.6. for some reason, but I can't complain.
> Devil Spire Falls
A procgen Daggerfall-like made by a single newlywed Brazilian with a much more relaxed combat. Muskets, flails, spells, talking about religion with naked brown barbarian women wielding battleaxes to calm them down and make them teach me some survival skills. Doesn't feel like it should work at all, but it does.
> PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION
Probably one of the closest things you can get to the feeling of Deus Ex (2000): higher-than-average tech, low life, night clubs, gang hideouts, police drones, working for techno-Illuminati for a living. Good immersive simulation. I think the devs also either made Corprus Edax or are relayed to it somehow.
> PIGFACE
Snuff Simulator 2003, great melee + ranged combat. A bit of Hotline Miami and Hitman in there as well. Isn't ambitious, but does its job perfectly.
> Demonic Mahjong
Absurdly high production for a Balatro-like. "Mahjong with extra stuff" isn't exactly new already, but the sheer amount of effort put into it is pretty fascinating. WARNING: High quality gamblecore, may lose you for an hour in the blink of an eye.

>>712722781
You lost me
That's not the dev or publisher name and there's no mention of Ai anywhere on the page

>>712722795

> Legacy of the Fallen
A VN/RPG that answers questions such as "what if your mom was a party member?", "what if your mom was a divine being?" and "what if your mom watched you suck some fat priest titties?". Very fucking bad mechanically, but turns endearing once you get through.

> Touhou: Dreams of a Sunflower
Armored Core 6-like/Souls-like/Sekiro-like bullet hell. Generic environments, but a lot of SOUL put into the other parts.

> The Gatekeeper of Scarlet's Mansion
Touhou tower defense bullet hell game mixed with complicated fairy bowling mechanics. Better try than be told.

> Distant Flux: System Initializing
A text-only RPG/simulator that prides itself on the world not caring about you and going through with their own things. Takes about 20 minutes to even understand what is happening.

> The Czar is Dead 2
An RPG/Shooter made by an underground Russian hip-hop artist where you go after your son as the last emperor of Russia. Reads like an ironic statement made by a clearly mentally unwell person. Captures the feeling of playing a game in a bad dream perfectly.

> City of Voices
The Idol-like I didn't like. It's both too pixelated and unanimated enough to make looking at it a chore, which is a cardinal sin for this subgenre. Others have been fairly positive about it, though, so you may like it more.

> L8R SK8R
An Australian millenial skating platformer with millenial dialogue that doesn't get too annoying. Can be pretty fun, but also incredibly frustrating if you're not laser-precise with your controls. If you want a less stressful platformer, try Bloodthief instead. It just works most of the time.

> Meat Engine
A DUSK-like where you're Scornguy's distant brother instigating S C O R N across very spacious arenas. The artstyle and world design is gorgeous, but the dev has to seriously up his game in other areas if he wants the game to become popular.

>>712722908
> Burnin' Rubber 6
A racing game with guns that mostly plays like shit. You'd be better off playing any other game out there.
> Mythscroll
A text-only RPG that is just not interesting at all.
> Twilight Parade: Moonlit Mononoke
A 5/10 bullet hell game. You've played them all already, but this one is also not good.
> ACE Overheat
Someone figuring out Luftrausers on their own and slapping a Brotato formula on it. Not really worth playing when Luftrausers exists.
> Heroes Unhinged
Melee-based Crimsonland that could have some potential if it had more effort put into it. Somewhat, lukewarmly fun.
> Cleave
Quake if it was shit.
> Darkenstein 3D
Wolfenstein (2009) if it was shit.
> Samsara
A Dharmic soulslike with some pretty interesting ideas (exchanging health for damage at any time and vice versa) but it doesn't feel like the devs have enough experience to do the things they were set out to do.
> Super 10 Pin
Bowling reimagined as a 3D platformer/golfing with manual aim. Says you can control the ball only to drop the ball on controlling it when you're near striking. Has a 30 FPS lock on start for some reason. Not really interesting IMO.
TEXNOPLAZM
An attempt to bring melee first person games like Condemned into the modern paradigm that somehow warps itself into a first person Arkham Batman game instead. There's a good game somewhere in there, but it's hard to find.
> Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia
Platonic ideal of a WEG. 25 minutes of the most dick-drying prose ever conceived by a man. May singlehandedly make you think "alright, maybe these insane people complaining about men writing about women have some good points". Came to this out of pity.
> My Demon Family
A WEG that is actually competent. Generic as all shit, but at least gets the job done.
> Tankiro
Should be much more fun than it actually is. Don't even try this, it's shit.
> Lighthouse of the Souls
What if you combined Soulslike combat and Survivors gameplay loop and it was shit?

>>712722795
>Snuff Simulator 2003, great melee + ranged combat. A bit of Hotline Miami and Hitman in there as well. Isn't ambitious, but does its job perfectly.
Very misleading.
Its not a snuff simulator; you're just doing missions for some guy. He's not recording it. Its nothing like hitman. You just shoot things. You can only carry 1 melee, 1 gun and 1 healing item. There are no stealth mechanics. Enemies just all aggro and zone in on you at once the moment 1 gun shot is fired and half of them have gfuns.
Its nothing like Hotline either. You can take a lot of hits and you regen hp. You get a mask right at the start to regen to max. At any point you're in danger, you can just go around a corner and shoot anyone walking around until they stop and heal to max.
Its literally the exact opposite of every game you compared it to.
How does someones mind get this bad? Genuinely confusing.
Its a very basic FPS with a grimy presentation. Very, very basic FPS. There are like 2 enemy types and you just shoot everything.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about with the great melee or ranged combat either. You just press M1. That's it. Its completely average.

I think Ninja Gaiden Ragebound SUCKS

>>712722692
Yeah, they probably won't because I feel like they think fanservice is enough to carry their game
>>712722786
Theta and Paralldoxs on Worldlines
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3219580/Theta_and_Paralldox_on_Worldlines/
Artis Impact : Meiji Spa
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3537660/Artis_Impact__Meiji_Spa/
Primland The Magus Demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3305790/Primland_The_Magus_Demo_Version/
>and Roger Demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308870/and_Roger/
Three Wishes Demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2692730/Three_Wishes/
Sinker sound Demo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3600990/Sinker_sound/
and now that I think about it maybe Journey of Realm Dawn Dew
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2678640/Journey_of_RealmDawn_Dew/

There were other demos I liked, for example Bean Beats, Öoo, Motionrec or Dead as Disco but there aren't games I would buy

>>712723060
Filtered!

>UNBEATABLE
What if we took Muse Dash and made it transgender?

>>712723134
>tfw too unintelligent to understand the highly cerebral "kill the glowy enemy then kill the big enemy" gameplay
It's over

>>712723118
I can't believe I forgot to delete demo from most of the names...
>>712723189
And made it so flashy that you can't see shit!

What else do I need in my indie bingo card?

>>712723013
> Word Play
A very pleasant Wordle/Balatro mix. Could use a much wider dictionary.
> !mrak
A tactical shooter set in 2003 Russian-occupied Hokkaido. Surprisingly pleasant on the eyes. Pretty cohesive despite having a lot of store-bought assets.
> Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
Pretty fun, but a lot of design is set around "hit this guy -> get super punch -> hit the bigger guy" and IDK how much of it will stay pleasant in the full game.
>>712723024
Diegetic arsenal choices like in Silent Assassin and Blood Money, picking jobs from your laptop, grungy ass apartment as a base, masks having an effect on gameplay mechanics, focus on smaller replayable environments that can be approached in multiple ways.
IDK, it's fun tho.

>>712723189
>Musical game
>The song in the trailer is bad
lol

>>712723521
Ah yes, my diagetic choice between
>Gun
>Gun
>Other gun
>and the other gun
And 15 variations of 'melee not worth using when guns have so much ammo, which all function the same'
Masks effecting gameplay is much older than Hotline too

>>712723587
I'm sorry PIGFACE killed your dog or whatever, mate. I just liked it.

Recommend me demos to play /v/

Mostly interested in horror, mystery, fun games

>PIGFACE
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3341650/
Mission-based shooter, gives off Manhunt vibes. Aiming is a little weird, melee is cool.

>Ninja GAY-den Rageblind
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3714190/
I don't like any 'vania that REQUIRES hitting enemies to platform. And this one even adds an extra step with spirit of some shit.

>Ratatan
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2949320/
Roguelite Patapon. Cute as heck, pretty fun, but I'm bad at rhythm games. Still, managed to beat the crab and that was enough for me. Maybe I'll pick it up.

>Under The Island
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1583520/
2D Zeld, but you're cute girl and hit shit with a hockey stick. I bet devs are canucks. Pretty good, but the "boss" filtered me. Too many onyos.

>BRUTAL JOHN 2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1859620/
3D Douk3D. An honest boomer shooter with actual level design and you can carry the whole arsenal with you, unlike those arena shits with rock-paper-scissors gameplay that passes for a boomer shooter these days. Also nice humor.

>Holstin
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235430/
Resident Hills with pixel sprite graphics. Much demo than the previous one. But fuck flying mimics and I say dodge is a tad expensive. Still, I'm sold.

>SSR Wives
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2880000/
RE/SH at home with shit controls. How do you fuck up something as simple as tank controls? Looks like ironic deconstruction bullshit.
>CHUDGUY
yep, it is.

>PHASE ZERO
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462190/
Now this is a good RE at home with good tank controls. m8 b cool. Great camerawork at the end.

And I really regret downloading PIONEER. What a fucking waste SSD life.

>>712722123
>rollslop the third mogs anything
i'm more excited for the next Fifa fullprice roster update than this bland shit

>>712723745
Not anything, EVERYTHING.

>>712723702
>I bet devs are canucks.
germans actually

>>712723243
>And made it so flashy that you can't see shit!
tbf that's muse dash already

>

>>712723695
well I didn't and I don't want anyone else to play it!!!!

>>712723987
True but in Muse Dash I never had trouble with reading charts while in UNBEATABLE I had to sometimes couldn't see what is going on even with almost all of the effects disabled. Maybe it's just me problem because I remember having trouble with seeing bullets in Touhou 12 and 13.

>>712723874
>germans
the canucks of Europe

>>712724172
wat

Shit game I played

>Ragebound
Simon says hit the glowing guy, Simon says hit the big guy
I'd rather just play Simon Says; it unironically has more variety

>Yokai arts 2
Plants V Zombies with no sunflower so you just spend more time doing nothing

>Brutal John
Why does every encounter have 1 or more pods spawning infinite enemies I have to instantly rush? That's not fun

>PigguFace
I just shot everything to death with absolutely no issue at all with my entire 1 single gun I can carry v its like 1 type of enemy

>OhBugger
FPS with no ammo gauge how do you fuck this up

>MindVasion
Boring survivor clone where you have troops you can possess but how they spawn is never actually explained and they're all fucking boring

>Realm
Alpha slop

>Proxy adventure
You can just be given no good options turn 1 and unavoidably die lol

>Superhero sim
Everything is a QTE

>Lumina
Can't see shit for the trees

>Liuyins world
Just shoot and win what is balance

>King Static
What if every enemy in DMC was devil triggered by default and ignored being hit just baseline

>MetelEden
runs like ass

>OddCore
You just hold M1 then press E repeat

>Saloonery
Timeslow is broken

>High Fructose
I love fighting invincible enemies in a game where killing specific enemies is the basis for all variety

>Don't Die, Collect Loot Demo
Why does the first boss take like 10 fucking minutes to die

>Morbid Metal
insanely repetitive

>Dog Witch
Nothing is explained and the first boss 1 shots my entire party sans me every turn

>VoidBreaker
Destroying ceilings in default unity assets is boring

>Moros protocol
Samey maps, boring enemies, only brought up by coomers

>Absolum
Unbirthing into XXXXY is boring; 90% of upgrades are just passives, you fundamentally never really change how you play even if you switch character

>Eden Warrior
Soulkino, but also barely seems to function

>Samsara
Runs like ass, boring maps

>Vampiress
Enemies can exit hitstun at will and kill in 3 hits lol

>>712723695
>>712724026
I actually liked Pigface.
The issue here is his extremely misleading descrioption.
Its just a very basic shooter with literally 2 types of enemies and regenerating hp and he's comparing it to a game with a ton of variety in playstyles and a game where you die in 1 hit.
Its insanely misleading.

>there are over 10000 people watching a livestream of digital market simulator according to steam

>>712724246
skill issues

Post your state of Next Fest

What is the current state of your wishlist additions?
People complained a lot but I ended up stacking a haul as big as last time.

From what I played, there are only 4 I'd consider buying when they come out
Mecha Simultactics
Okko The Exiled
Blood Thief
Abyssus

>>712724437
can you copypaste the title of the chinese spooky game?

I played this Jump Ship demo with 3 others and it was a lot of fun
Clearly they took a leaf out of DRG

I haven't played very much this week because demos bum me out when they end but I was compelled to play a few by friends
>Ball X Pit
Decent potential as a vampire survivor type clone I guess, I like the idea of the fusion system. I feel like this would be better on a phone than on PC
>Ratatan
Charm is the only thing it has. Gameplay is just poorly designed from top to bottom but I question if the devs have enough time to fix it. It's big issue is the lack of commitment to a direction that the gameplay should be going in, because right now its just a bunch of poorly executed ideas stapled together.
>Hell is Us
western developers make a souls-like that doesn't have janky combat challenge (LEVEL: IMPOSSIBLE). What little of the writing there was felt a bit questionable so I'm not optimistic but the aesthetic is pretty cool. Might buy it if it reviews well.
>Hotel Barcelona
Only one I played of my own volition and I have to say I'm quite disappointed. I haven't had much faith in Swery in the last few years and I had a feeling he was getting senile or something but this really cemented it for me. This just felt like a really shitty janky Dead Cells and I don't even like Dead Cells (though I respect it)

>>712724662
除灵事务所
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3408380/_/

>>712724437
i haven't gotten around to much because i have only been home since yesterday.
but i am really liking dice gambit.
Kinda has you manage your party members similar to darkest dungeon in that their state is preserved between expeditions and may have to sit one out to manage stamina/HP but they are your bloodline so you expand them by marrying and having kids.
combat is turn based and placed on a hexagonal grid but your potential actions you can take is determined by your dice.
Only hope the time limit is a demo thing because fuck torpedoing my save into an unwinnable situation in a game like this.

>>712724723
Forgot image

ok I downloaded a bunch that are sitting on my desktop and I'll see which ones get removed, goodnight vee

>>712724723
It's a shame that it sucks if you try playing it alone on any difficulty higher than 2. It's almost impossible in some circumstances because you absolutely need someone protecting the ship while another does the on-foot objective due to endless spawning enemy ships.
I wonder if the full game will facilitate something like stealth systems or a unique smaller ship type that would be more ideal for a single pilot laying low and not having to suffer endless battles of attrition.

>>712724881
I didn't include it in my wishlist crop image, because it launched a demo like 2 months before this NF.
Also had fun.

>>712722046 (OP)
Next Fest is still peak /v/
Played over 100 Demos over the last couple weeks, picrel is my favourites roughly in order. I will also highlight a couple games i've barely seen mentioned anywhere:

Inventorix- Inventory management Balatro/Luck be Landlord style game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2500460/Inventorix/

Bloodgrounds- Gladiator game with combat similar to South Park FBW and hamlet management similar to Darkest Dungeon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2507820/Bloodgrounds/

Oreblaze- Dome Keeper mining game but instead of fighting aliens you need to keep paying your king a tribute
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3391190/OREBLAZE/

Dice Legends- Dicey Dungeons meets Slay the Spire
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3112170/Dice_Legends/

>>712720383
I have mod that removes demo blockers

>>712725028
That’s a shame; you can’t get your little Reddit-bot to pilot the ship?

>>712724318
I think for a lot of people (myself included initially) it has a (sorry) vibe of Hotline Miami with all the calls, animal masks, ULTRAVIOLENCE (there's blood and gibs in the game, can't have much of that these days), so they compare them. Not based on gameplay -- I think if they add a timer, it can be closer to The Club (if anyone remembers that). Where does Hitman comparison come from, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe because you have a (presumably) list of jobs, a secured compound, a list of objectives? For me, demo level reminded more of a Payday 2 Cook Off job -- get in, clear the compound, get the drugs, get out.
I hope devs have a couple of aces in their sleeves to spice up the gameplay, because for now you can get a silenced sniper rifle after two farm jobs and the game is basically solved. Although I did have an intrinsic incentive to complete that level over and over with different weapons including a sledgehammer -- because I had fun doing so. So even if the full game is just 10-15 more levels of that, I would be fine with that.


Goddamn I write like a faggot with all the parenthesis.

>>712724232
You know, Germans. Known for their politeness, liking hockey and being peaceful, welcoming friendly guys for their neighbors.

>>712725912
As a German, I can confirm one of these points.

play tower networking demo

>>712725298
I'm saving that pic, anon, thanks. Maybe some of the devs will keep their demos up after the fest.
>Bloodgrounds- Gladiator game with combat similar to South Park FBW and hamlet management similar to Darkest Dungeon
That instantly reminded me of Sword & Sandals, but sadly it's nothing like S&S. There's nothing like S&S anymore, to fill S&S-shaped hole in my heart...

>>712724437
I am very casual and /v/ usually hates the games I like

>resizing the monitor resolution
unless your game was made before 2010, this should be grounds for removal from steam

>>712726380
ok fine, but only because I like you

>>712726529
never listen to /v

>>712726645
oh no its fine, I like trash

>>712723467
open world survivalcraft, deckbuilder, survivors like

>>712726529
I think I've seen at least Confidential Killings recommended a couple of times in previous threads.

Shamelessly shilling Chrono Gear: Warden of Time. Fun platformer if you're a fan of Mega Man, Freedom Planet, or older WayForward games.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3696680/Chrono_Gear_Warden_of_Time_Demo/

>>712725642
No, it always follows the pilot when you leave the ship, whether you leave it floating or dock it on a landing pad.
Even if it did stay back, that fucker is worthless on the gun. He misses every damn shot.
It really would fucking help if it did, because I had gotten a random event of enemy bots spawning inside my ship ventilation ducts and wrecking the place while I was busy unlocking a facility door and fighting big fucking battle robots.

>Crimson Tale is a short first-person narrative puzzle game where Elizabeth, a trans lesbian vampire, uses blood magic and vampire powers to defy the oppressive nobility.

>>712726814
>vtumorshit
Looks fun but I refuse

>>712726529
>One Man's Trash

I unironically had the most fun with the Solo Leveling slop in this next fest. Most of the demos i tried this time was so underdeveloped i lost my will to shift to more trash.

>>712727125
> i lost my will to shift to more trash
You're weak. Get the fucking shovel and start digging.

this next fest was pretty mid

>>712726814
It's a lot better than I expected. I like the stupid sexy pirate lady

>>712727235
Man i can't even type properly anymore. Go on without me. I will regain my strength for the next next fest.

>>712725298
>Inventorix
>game starts at 50% volume
Thank fuck somebody understands.

Antidote to despair is a neat game reminding me a but of Paper Please. Your just is to look over people symptoms and give them the right antidote. Or just send them away if they aren't poisoned.

>>712725298
Drifter is really good.

>>712722123
>snoyggers being proud of a demo for a mid game from a washed out studio

Help I'm getting filtered

>>712726016
neither of them apply

>>712724437
Thanks for the Break Shot Hero rec, that looks cool. I hate that there's so much cool shit I miss when looking on my own, there's just too much to slog through.

>>712725298
>Inventorix
Pretty fun. Dev would lose big time if it wouldn't be released for mobile. It's a perfect mobile game.

>Radioactivity
Yeah I'm surprised I survived this much radiation as well anonymous pager man.
I was interested by the idea of a game about nuclear cleanup/being a liquidator, and there's the germ of a good idea in it. Having the radiation you pick up be big glowing crystals though is kind of lame. Seems like a way to make a fun radioactive prophunt.
I like the gun reloading mechanic as well, Receiver-y.

>>712729825
(for reference, 50msv is the maximum permitted dose for nuclear workers in the US - 2000msv is severe ARS and can be fatal)

What's the most shameful reason you've wishlisted a game

>>712730040
I have no shame at all and just wishlist what i like

>start davy x jones demo
>computer shuts off
I see

>>712730846
Yarrr ye bank account is gettin' sent straight ta Davy Jones' Locker!!

>>712727720
>papers please
here's a zombie ver that has a bit of base management and drone shooting defense sections reminscent of modern warfare ac130.

>>712730040
I am shameless and wishlisted this because a friend mentioned it. Its alpha test felt pretty good for how limited it was. Unfortunately, the dev seemed to have taken the playtest down after a few days, either because the few people who bothered to post in Discussions were complaining about being unable to find matches (mostly people not on the NA server) and not actually discussing the playtest for what it was, or there was simply nobody left in a multiplayer-only test and he pulled the plug.

I put in about a dozen matches over the first two days before it seemed everyone fucked off. Looked like I and two other people even knew there was double jumping and sliding. Everyone else was trying to play it like CS and barely got out of spawn before I was already jumping on them.

>>712730040
I'm certain my webm a few threads ago got several people to try and wishlist Moros.

>>712724437
Did you like flick shot or break shot more? They seem similar in concept and I really enjoyed flick shot.
>>712730846
You got double Teached.

>Caput Mortum
I liked it. Spooky survival horror game with weird controls that makes me think of Trespasser, or Black & White.
I think it definitely benefits from playing with a controller though.

>>712729689
Mobile games sell like crap, though.

>>712732234
God this shit is so cringe

>>712732234
>that walk away
WEW

>>712732470
Depends. On ios they do sell decently, the Dicey Dungeons guy does not complain.

Played ca. 40 demos so far, these are the ones I actually liked. Nothing has truly "wowed" me yet though:

>Good
Blood thief - Similar to Neon White but with a thief-like aesthetic
Metal Eden - Very polished doom 2016-esque shooter
Ascend to zero - Good music and interesting premise. The resource-management aspect to builds/ combat is cool too
Jupiter Hell Classic - DoomRL good
House of Necrosis - Surprisingly fun RE dungeon crawler

>Has potential
Era One
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
Dead as Disco
Phase Zero
Glaciered
Holstin
Turbo Blast

Are there any standouts so far? Any general recommendations? Playing pic rel next.

Didn't try anything. Quickly recommend platformers. gun&run, ,metroidvania, shmups or any other arcades.. And maybe VNs with cool style.

>>712732963
Noted. Selling anything on Android is borderline hopeless, so most devs decide to either run ads, or go exclusive with Netflix or Crunchyroll.

What are the best "Gaming is healing" games this fest?

I've been liking okko but it's more on the gay side of that, anything that rivals the gachas for girls?

>>712722567
>>712722668
Time to play the superior sidescroller.

guess this is my theta stop

>>712734175
nvm I got

>>712733674
Steller Blade

>>712733674
vindictus I guess counts, but you can tell itll be a monetized grindfest

>>712734175
I did it but I did not understand the solution. Like I had a vague idea of a solution, and after fiddling with it for some time it worked, but if you asked me to explain every move, why I did it and what it achieved, I couldn't do it.
And then I got filtered completely on level 6 or 7 in chapter 1 (past the tutorial). Really cool game, but I guess I'm just too dumb for puzzles.

>>712734385
I guess that does have a next fest demo
>>712734631
Yeah I feel if it was a boxed game it would be good but will 100% be a grindfest

>>712724737
>Hell is Us
combat was okay imo until you had to start fighting floating geometric shapes. Level design also takes a nosedive onec you get to those trenches. I liked the opening at least, reminded me of Silent HIll 2

>>712734956
after that you hug the right wall the problem with hugging left is that you're forced to move back due to the spike, which eats the distance you just gained

>chapter 1
you mean here?

>>712734956
Basically you plus 1 square between the clone and you in the corner then reposition yourself to do that again until you get enough space between them

Any game where I can be this chick is a win in my book.

>>712735680
game?

>>712735747
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3219580/Theta_and_Paralldox_on_Worldlines/

>>712727125
Solo Leveling is based and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. I won't play the game though.

>>712735851
wow looks really gay

>>712735746
Dumb tranny made this girl his avatar instead of marrying her ten minutes later in the game.

Since the fest is almost over, here are some demos released recently that I thought they would be in NextFest:

>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3060340/Steel_Carnelian/
A weird fixed camera shooter. Kinda rough but it worked for me, needs polishing. Luckily you can skip fast the obvious AI voice acting. You may want to select a higher difficulty since normal is too easy.

>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3042790/Scirocco_Thugs/
1st person beat em up. Quite simplistic but fun.

>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3549280/Bulbos_Belief_System/
Puzzle platformer where you can "forget" how the world works to progress. Has a charming Flash / browser feel.

wheeeeeeee

>>712736397
I don't think i had ever read a manga/hua/wa where the protagonist had less personality than its necromancy summons, then I read solo leveling

>>712732253
Break Shot Hero actually feels more inspired.
But at the same time I'm unsure about its long term gamelloop plan.
They are essentially using the Angry Birds style of level competition.
People complain about roguelite elements A LOT but they are perfect for little games like this.

>>712736471
I made the girl, that's my character, there are other hot chicks too

I installed brown zelda expecting to laugh at it but it's actually fun and the dungeon design is solid if derivative

>>712736896
You marry a wife part of the way through the tutorial, and you can customize her appearance too

>>712733674
ratatan

>>712733221
wow he didn't get wows. no wow. wowless. can i get some wows for that guy. wow. wow is mom upside down. this guy is an orphan. He can't even be sexually attracted to his mother like they says he's supposed to. she's dead. wow.

>>712736975
Oh cool, now I get two hot chicks

>>712730040
I wishlisted this because the girl looks like Elsa and I love Elsa

>>712736656
I guess you should watch Overlord instead.

>>712736928
It's competent and the movement feels like it was specifically borrowed from Twilight Princess. A shame the demo suddenly ends right before the boss fight.

I have spent 4 hours on the project turboblast demo alone, just enjoying going fast. I need help

>>712737167
Actually I did read that partiially but left after the lizard civil war arc, I don't really remember much personality from the things mc summoned, but the surrounding cast did definitely have more personality than him

Really liked Slyders. Despite what anon in a previous thread said, if I got good upgrades it doesn't turn into Serious Sam -- hold S+RMB and pray -- but rather allows me to aggressively push crowds of mobs. It looks good, it plays good and rewards you for doing at least decently. Style reminds me of Roboquest, not an insult.

>>712733345
Oh yeah. If you take a look at digital board games, just a couple of years ago 90% of the them were available only on ipads. Average android user will not pay for anything -- will either ignore it, or pirate it. ios users a) conditioned to pay much better b) have little to no options to pirate.

20 demos down, 9 to go. Please don't suggest any more good games, I'm out of time.

>>712736471
your character you make at the start is nothing special.
If it dies NPCs just start to refer and talk to the next one in line.
If you have currently no one else alive in your family it just shows that letter from the beginning and brings in some random dude.
You can also always remake their appearance. absolute zero attachment.

>>712737029
what's the game and what do you do? besides looking at cute girls.

>>712737029
Understandable
But what kind of name is License?

>>712737890
It's a british name

>>712737848
>what's the game

>>712727125
>had the most fun with the Solo Leveling slop in this next fest
Isn't that game regrettably a mobile port complete with gacha and real-time stamina gated progression and IRL money microtransaction purchases?

>>712723467
a game about depression
Not actually indie

How many hours left? Approximately.
About 8?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444020/__Demonic_Mahjong/

>>712738146
Do the demos stop working after the fest has ended?

>>712738047
arigatou
google lens working surprisingly well

>>712737848
I wouldn't know. I don't die in vidya.

>>712738389
i got my shit wrecked by the last demo mission with only my lvl 1 daughter surviving.
and that's on the basic difficulty without any positive or negative wisdom.
please share your wisdom.

>>712738321
Some will. Some won't.
I reckon about 60%+ of them will stop working either at the designated end of the next fest or shortly after.

>>712738389
Not even in the ones where death is required to pass?

Don't forget to apply goldberg cracks where applicable and make backup of your favorite demos/games before they get taken down, get deleted by steam automatically or refuse to work for some unknown reason. This always happened to me after the next fest ended so I started pirating demos.

>>712738321
Roughly 10% will right at the end of the fest
Around 40% in the next week
Those that surevive two weeks (40% give or take, tho it was almost 80% for me last fest) usually stay until release
I just drop and forget if demo actually stops working in two weeks, it's not like I'm short on games to play

>>712737848
Galvatein
its like Papers Please but you are a guild owner and approve if the heroes really completed their quest. Also has relationship/dating and VN elements

>>712737695
The average androidder picks up whatever washes up on the frontpage and he takes all the ads up the ass. I actually wish mobile gaming had a piracy 'problem' because then people would stop playing adware, and start playing quality games while making them more popular in the process. A lot of pirates do become paying customers and I think piracy is a big reason why PC gaming even caught on worldwide.

>>712738321
Faggot devs who were born mid 00s think that "Demo" doesn't mean "Demonstration", they think it translates to "Advertisement for Nextfest". You don't have to remove the demo, it's just that opportunistic faggot developers remove it because "Well the nextfest is gone now, I don't need to advertise anymore. What do you mean just leave it in? Then people won't impulse-buy my game because they can check out what it's like before buying!"

>>712739393
It's kinda hard to find good mobile games on google store, even if going out of your way to search for them.

I enjoyed those:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2235430/Holstin/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162860/Keepsake_County/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1620730/Hell_is_Us/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462190/PHASE_ZERO/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/

>>712739484
You can literally "demo" any game though. just refund before the 2-hour mark. Next Fest is, as it says, a demo event for upcoming games, which are usually in early development. That’s why developers take down their demos: they don’t represent the final product. Keeping a demo updated also takes time, time that could be spent actually developing the game. Stop being so entitled, damn.

>>712733345
>>712737695
>>712739393
>>712739708
I just wish there was some sort of compatibility mode for games that were released on older Android versions. I miss Zenonia 1 and 2.

>>712739719
I wish I liked horror, so many options

>>712739484
Some demos are so raw their devs are better off deleting them and releasing something better in the next fest.

>>712739719
cute ratty

>>712739838
I'm genuinely not sure if this sarcasm or not, especially with how over the top yet still barely realistic the last sentence is.

>>712733693
is there GRAPE in full /decen version?

>>712739963
But that's not why most of them do it.

>Shorts under skirt instead of panties
Death to devs who do this

>>712739708
MiniReview is still good for finding mobile games. You get filtering, sorting, tag searching, user collections, it just werks.

>>712739838
>a demo event for upcoming games, which are usually in early development.
no you dumbfuck a demo is meant to be for games that are near completion and some may even be entirely feature-complete, with just some polish remaining before the release date.
If your demo doesn't represent the final product, then you didn't make a demo at all. You made an alpha or beta preview build. The most generous that you could name it is an indev build if your demo is literally just "here is literally everything that we've done pls pay us to make the rest :^)" that you see with kickstarter and early access games

>>712735746
Is this game as gay and tumblr as it looks?

>>712739838
>>712739484
It's literally short for "demolition" which is why they implode after a pre-set period of time that gets entered into the explosive device.

>>712740261
this

honestly I played like 20 demos and ninja gaiden is the only one I'll probably buy. Like half the games I played felt too derivative and the other half at an unacceptable level of polish (I'm not even too picky on this front but this shit is seriously like below the level of shit I made for college projects)

>>712740446
Not as much as you'd think, it's mostly the artstyle.

>>712740261

>>712740681
I'll try to give it a chance then.

>>712740397
>If your demo doesn't represent the final product, then you didn't make a demo at all
Nobody will ever care or say "this wasn't a real demo" and even if they did they would be ignored. Demo comes first now, then you build the full game and a playerbase with the demo as you update it, then you launch without crawling on your belly in obscurity into a flop.

>>712740760
Which game? This one of the demos?

>>712736559
walking on walls is very cute in this

>>712739484
>Well the nextfest is gone now, I don't need to advertise anymore
It's not like they can advertise it on Steam anymore, people only dumpster dive during steam sales and events like this one.
Their only option after NextFest (especially if you aren't planning to release the game in the next two months) is to go back to posting development updates and short gameplay videos on social media using the usual gimmick tags.

>>712739843
Yeah, Zenonia was the shit. I remember playing it on my first android device, no-name (literally, didn't have any name: not on the box, not on the case, not even on ali wereh I bought it) ipad knockoff.
>>712739393
It's a catch 22 type of deal. There's nothing good to play because nothing is releasing; nobody releasing anything good because android users will lap up anything you throw their way, so why bother; and so on and so forth.
I paid for Dicey Dungeons and I think it was the best five or so bucks you can spend on android games. Not because the game is stellar, but because bar is really that low.

>>712740760
source

>>712740261
No gooning for you, pissboy.

Yeah this game was very clearly toned down mid production. This texture was obviously supposed to be skin but make clothes

>>712741139
It's very nice overall. Did you manage to eat a butterfly yet? It reminds me of Snake Pass.

>>712741137
>>712741203
nta but maybe Lunar Eclipse

>>712741137
>>712741203
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2953480/Lunar_Eclipse/

>>712741274
Game name?

>>712741430
Athena something something

>>712741341
that's literally a child, you sick fuck

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3076910/UNDERGROUNDED/
Oh yes, japanese game inspired by the best culture in the world, AMERICA!

>>712740631
>I played 20 games
>and they were worse than my college projects
If they were that bad you wouldn't have played them.

>>712741769
Generally, you would expect "evidence" to point to a single age. You can only have one, after all. You can't be twelve and sixteen.

>>712741769
>depending how you read the evidence

.....is mathematics generally open to interpretation like that?

>>712741906
you'd be shocked how a game can have a great art style and cut a decent trailer but then feel like complete shit once you play it with your own hands

>>712741769
The steam forums and reviews of this game are full of clown farmers pretending to care about this.

>>712742012
>>712742285
Are you guys genuinely retarded?
"It happened to me in the middle school, ten years ago".
How old is the person saying that?

>>712742460
ten!

>>712742460
>"It happened to me in the middle school, ten years ago".
>the middle school
Well I wouldn't know because this person is ESL so their middle school could have been anything.

>>712742521
Is this the best you can do?

>>712742460
math is just too hard for the high school dropouts trying to make the pedo-baiting youtube channel hit it big

You'll never be Chris Hansen until you learn how to add.

>>712742808
>all boobs deserve love, even medium, like hebe

>200 demos downloaded
>Big Gulp cup of coffee
>boxed mac and cheese, freshly microwaved
>What to play? Dragon March? Look at that Dreamcast-era SOVL. Damn what a relic from a better time.
>zone out at the Dragon March page for 10 hours
>alright it's bed time

>>712742808
I mean if she went into stasis at 9, then 4 years later she is 13, not 15

>>712743138
>not even KFC mac and cheese

>>712743292
I miss the Boston Market kind.

Deep Space Exploitation https://store.steampowered.com/app/3656660/Deep_Space_Exploitation/
My only "bottom of the bin" wishlist this fest. Basically what could be a flash game, but a pretty good one.
You get saddled with a hefty debt that accrues interest constantly, have to choose between paying it down or upgrading your mining ship to get more money in. On the job you have a few minutes to get the most out of a bunch asteroids using the slow and free hammer that sends shit flying you have to chase or using faster tools that have limited ammo you have to buy back later.

>>712742808
So what is the real answer, anyway? Is there a billion of these hot blondes and they are all clones and that's what's going on? Or was she just locked in the incubator for longer than she thought.

It just seems so obvious to me that she's a fully grown woman, and so this bit where she thinks she was only in the stasis tube for four years is probably in error. Like in Fallout 4, but christ, they made it so obvious in that one and people didn't get it then, either.

>>712740261
>nintendo now censoring indie games on pc
grim

>>712743425
I think she's either been in there for a very long time, or she had accelerated growth. It's obvious from her behavior she is mentally very young.

Only schizos care about this though, she's hot so that's all that matters.

Demonic Mahjong is excellently made and the waifus are top tier, it's a shame I don't understand anything and that it's not an ero game

guess im retarded. got this liquid out in aeromachina but I dont see it changing anything, I still can't read the other platforms, there's another route around the initial container room but the patht here is too tall for me to grab onto the ledge

>>712743938
3D platformers always sucked.

>>712743938
You can now reach the wall on the opposite side of the room.

>>712744138
ok, I'm blind AND retaarded then, I had reached that plarform but completely blocked out the column next to the door platform

>>712741637
Not finding anything like that. Please try to remember harder.

>>712743938
are you playing the game windowed

>>712744704
Sorry it was "Altheia the wrath of Aferi"

Anyone played Away From Home? It looked interesting but I tired it, fought some mushrooms and I have to say I don't like the combat. Don't like how it force you to focus on one bar and you end up not even looking at sprites and animation. Maybe it because my keyboard isn't responsible enough but I also think even in these earlier fights there are too big cluster of buttons to press in quick succession.

>>712740681
>>712740895
I tried it. If I had to describe the overall vibe of this thing in one word - my word of choice would be "Latinx".
The core combat system is servicable and I'd play that, but these bells and whistles revolving around family and randomly generated characters are ass. If I spent 40 minutes making my character, I want to be able to make his build as well, and I don't want to have to choose between 2 different mystery niggas as his spouse choices. The artstyle wasn't gay enough to dissuade me by itself, but music helped a lot in turning me off as well.

Give me horny games. Like not necessary porn, but with something to look at.

>>712741191
Dumbarse.

>>712743425
all those Reis, exploding

>>712745798
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3479420/Okko_The_Exiled/
Side-scroller platformer. Seems to have some mildly horny designes even beyond the protagonist.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3148560/Project_TurboBlast/
Racing. Not sure if counts, because the dev released the demo after the beginning of the nextfest, but you have a robbit mascot with a fat arse and your driver also has a fat arse if you pick the motorcycle.

>>712743720
I'm winning every match, but I have no idea why or what's happening

>>712738958
based retard kun

Any decent coop games this fest?

>>712746896
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2937090/Hunters_Inc/
Wish.com Monster Hunter but you play as orcs. For once, despite being made on Unreal, doesn't look like a godawful asset flip and doesn't have totally abysmal perfomance.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1757300/Jump_Ship/
I haven't gotten to play it myself but it's one of the bigger demos this fest, it seems.
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1833200/DuneCrawl/
Action-Adventure with a giant siege crab serving as your mobile base. Short as hell but comfy.

Turns out I was sleeping on Rushing Beat X. It looks like Unity jank (and it is) but it's the most combo autism beat-em-up I've ever played. I love all the shit you can do. It's like one of those jank fighting games that let you chain whatever into whatever. You can almost see this on an arcade machine in a random chinese laundromat, like some 90's game you never heard of.

It probably gets annoyingly cheap and hard later but the first level is super fun. Will definitely buy if priced decently.

>>712738958
Genius!

>>712747214
I'm a wee bummed nobody cared about Hinters Inc the few times I posted it. I liekd it.

>>712747730
Monster Hunter is a really hard genre to make good so forgive people's skepticism

>>712747663
>it's the most combo autism beat-em-up I've ever played. I love all the shit you can do
You really need to elaborate on that, because all I've found is a single combo you can do by simply holding the button, a launcher, and an aerial combo where you also just hold the button. Rinse and repeat, occasionally throw a guy into the wall or pop your rage super if you're getting too bored.

>>712745506
Everything you said plus the fights just drag on too long. It was fun for a few minutes though.

>>712746896
>>712747214
An alternative to Jump Ship would be Wildgate. Both have the same kind of 4-player-team running a spaceship and jetpacking outside to do objectives and swipe loot.
The former is coop with randomized zones, while the latter is more intended for ship-v-ship versus multiplayer (but not necessary?).
Jump Ship also has a mellow serious tone to it, while Wildgate has more typical quippy upbeat colorfulness.

>>712747959
Direction + Y or B gives you different moves. I'm playing the brown girl and you can go for a dive kick mid air or an air forward moving kick after a launcher. you can also cancel the auto combo to do any of your other moves as well. There's also double jump to continue your combo. You need to be more creative instead of just holding B.

>Aeromachina 5/10
>ÖOO 8/10, but the demo was only 10 minutes long and idk how much the systems can be expanded upon in a full game.
>Absolum 5/10
>Ai deal Rays 5/10
>Crimson Capes 5/10
>Dragon March 5/10
>Disaster Arms 5/10
>Easy Delivery Co. 5/10
>Mecha Simultactics 7/10
>House of Necrosis 7/10
>Ninja Gaiden Ragebound 7/10
>Mina The Hollower 5/10
>Phase Zero 5/10
>Primland The Magus 4/10

Really had a talent for picking out shit games this next fest. Any other recommendations?

>>712744943
I was, perhaps it's not a good idea to default to windowed AND have a pixelation filter on top of that

My takeaway as an aspiring dev:

You need decent graphics or nobody will even look at your game, pixel art is OK but it has to be polished.

Cute girls help a lot because most next fest browsers are guys

Girls who are overtly sexualized hurt because it limits its appeal to women

People love non-furry anthropomorphic animals

Randomization mechanics are still the most popular as tired as people here are of them.

>>712748732
>You need to be more creative instead of just holding B.
The game really never gave me any incentive to. You've convinced me to give it another go tomorrow if the demo doesn't go down.

>>712749001
>Randomization mechanics are still the most popular
fuck that shit
kys 0 imagination uck

>>712748875
If you liked OOO then maybe MotionRec? It's another puzzle platformer, demo is also short though.

>>712749509
You're so angry.

>>712749142
I'm pretty sure the first level in these games are meant to throw fodder enemies at you so you can feel good about killing them in various ways and learn how all your stuff works. Later on it usually all ramps up, and hopefully forces you to use your full moveset.

I'm hoping there's a way to optimize stuff so that certain combinations lead to more damage over just standard auto+launcher but that might be asking too much.

>>712736928
>>712737225
Try Valkie 64.

>>712749001
>appeal to women
who cares

>>712749001
>Randomization mechanics are still the most popular as tired as people here are of them.
I think they're particularly popular for demos since you can get a relatively large amount of playtime out of little actual content.
If you only end up playing a 30 minute level I think most people pretty much instantly forget it and move onto the next one.

>>712749001
>You need decent graphics or nobody will even look at your game
You need a coherent artstyle, not graphics. PS1/N64 themed shit is popular now but if your game is just butt ugly like hark the ghoul you have no chance even if you swap to ultra realistic graphics
>it limits its appeal to women
Which doesn't matter because of your previous point. Women don't play videogames outside of very specific types of them. What you should consider instead is that delusional coombrains are just as much of a minority as women
>non-furry anthropomorphic animals
People are okay with furry characters if they are not butt ugly or oversexualised. See nine sols, pseudoregalia, laika for examples
>Randomization mechanics are still the most popular
You have to build your game around randomisation or you will get a crippled game of the original type

>>712749705
>if your game is just butt ugly like hark the ghoul
I thought it was fine... There were plenty of demos this fest that looked much worse and not that many that looked better.

>>712749660
The girlfriends of the guy who buys your game.
>>712749705
Mhm, artstyle is a better word for what I'm going for

>>712748339
Wildgate's trailer screams borderlands at me, and I'm not fond of PvP because that means online-only while Jump Ship is planned to have an offline mode.

>>712749705
>if they are not butt ugly or oversexualised
>pseudoregalia
what

Kaizen Factory Story is good if you like Zachtorinics stuff. The demo is really basic though, just the tutorial essentially

>>712749001
>Girls who are overtly sexualized hurt because it limits its appeal to women
Partially correct. Women love "overly" sexy characters as long as their outfits don't make them look like clowns or trash hookers. Give them stylish yet simple, striking outfits with proper sex appeal that won't be get someone in trouble if they were out in public wearing it, and those characters may be getting some cosplayers.

>Randomization mechanics
The issue is leaving entire aspects of the game to procgen, especially environments and equipment. Hand-crafted environments (with randomization limited to overall layout, side rooms and interim locations) and unique tools with unique functions (with random modifiers) to play with will blow out pure Diabloot and stitching a bunch of no-effort copypaste squares together.

>>712750198
Artstyle is still something you need to make and adhere to, it's not just random concepts mashed together into slop painful to look at
>>712750496
Write a 100 word essay how exactly her ingame design is oversexualised. Weak copes like "f-furfags" and "dev gave her some decent animations that games in general should have had as well" don't count

>Raygun Gadabout
I didn't like it. Blasto + BioGun + a hentai game featuring Starfox that I played that nobody else would know about
I recommend BioGun over this.
>Dragon March
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKq167-dVgI
>Triumvora
Llama roguelike? You play as a llama and drop fruit in shrines for your llama god. Maybe it will turn into a llama shmup. Currently all you can do is kick the llamas to death, but it's discouraged in the first area.

>>712749001
>You need decent graphics or nobody will even look at your game, pixel art is OK but it has to be polished.
To be more precise - you need a decent graphical style. If the pixel art is too generic, even if pretty, it won't grab attention. If your unrealslop looks like an asset flip without a coherent style - no matter how far you crank up the shaders, it will look like sludge.
>Cute girls help a lot because most next fest browsers are guys
Same as with the artstyle, the girls should look distinctly appealing rather than simply conventionally attractive.
>Girls who are overtly sexualized hurt because it limits its appeal to women
You added this as bait to manufacture engagement with your post. I'll reply in good faith anyway because I'm a fucking idiot.
Sexualization is tricky. Once again it has to be stylish. If you just slap a microbikini on a whore with a fat ass and giant tits - you'll be seen as "yet another one". Sexualization that looks intriguing can help. Project Turboblast and Atlyss are games with peculiar yet completely shameless sexualization that turned heads and created more hype than backlash with their saucyness.
>People love non-furry anthropomorphic animals
The fuck does that even mean?
>Randomization mechanics are still the most popular as tired as people here are of them.
Popular among DEVS, because they're simpler to implement than actual game design with thought out levels and power ups and whatnot.

>>712750814
>the way those butt and thighs are modeled
>naked butt in full view mind you
>that walk cycle
>the way she sits
>not sexualized
okay dude, i guess sexualized means full on porn for you

>>712749001
>>712751003
As an example of how artstyle and well thought out sexyness can hard carry the fuck out of your game - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133650/Gold_Gold_Adventure_Gold/

Fairly generic city builder with nothing particularly interesting to it, but it's been one of the more talked about games in these threads because it looks beautiful and distinct.

>>712750814
Just imagine a human woman in that outift. It's a very sexual design. You chose a terrible example for that one.

>>712751321
Pants option is canon

I have no freakin' idea on how to solve the puzzle on Always With You. The drawings on the walls tell me nothing other than that blocks are supposed to be pushed and those wooden poles are supposed to be positioned in the right manner. What confuses me the most is the wall that shows a sun, half circle, and square. What the fudge is that supposed to mean?

>>712751321
>Just imagine a human woman in that outfit. It's a very sexual design

>>712751321
>just imagine a human woman
that doesn't exactly work when it comes to anthro characters.
characters like mickey mouse and donald duck are half naked but it doesn't LOOK sexual because there are no distinctly sexualized features. Cartoon animals can get away with being naked by human dress standards because their fur/feathers/whatever IS effectively their clothing.

>>712751258
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150530/Wizard_with_a_Gun/
This one is downright generic garbage and look at thise 2.5k Very Positive. No other reason than those expensive cartoon trailers with good quality music. Granted, the dev studio imploded anyway because they're a massive gaggle of overpaid lefties with bullshit jobs, but the point stands - this might as well be considered successful for how little it offers to the player. And the game itself doesn't even look nice, it's all in the trailers.

>>712751564
>characters like mickey mouse and donald duck are half naked but it doesn't LOOK sexual
Well she's not shaped like mickey mouse or donald duck, is she? She's shaped very much like a human woman in those parts.

>>712751481
>>712751564
Never mind. I shouldn't have butted into that argument. Never played the game and I thought she was in a leotard. But she has legs for days and anyone who isn't delusional would look at the game and think it's a sexual furry game.

>>712751824
she's sexual because she's shaped like a sexually appealing human woman, not because of how she's dressed or not dressed.
if you can't control yourself from compulsively masturbating while platforming around you can make her put pants on.

>>712736559
What game?

>>712752184
>she's sexual because she's shaped like a sexually appealing human woman
Which is precisely what the argument was about
>if you can't control yourself from compulsively masturbating while platforming around you can make her put pants on.
You don't need to be a hostile asshole about it.

Can you give your Gombo big juicy lips

>>712740760
Heh.

>>712752716
Gecko Gods

>>712748875
have you tried being less miserable?

My problem is that I have found way too many demos I like. The backlog will just keep on growing and growing.

Best highlights were: Orbyss, Hirogami (similar to Okami but with origami forms), Holstin, Tamashika (like Post Void but better), UVSU, Rue Valley (in a Disco Elysium style with a time loop), Ooo, Dead as Disco.
Others that were pretty fun: Morbid Metal, Tormented Souls 2, Kaizen: Factory Story.

Two demos left in my backlog, but I think I'm done for today. If they aren't gone tomorrow (or I set up goldberg for them), I'll try them. If not -- no biggie. I know Parkside is good, and I like Corpus Edax, but I'm just not feeling it anymore today.
My takeaways:
Buy on release:
Slyders -- roguelite FPS, yeah-yeah, I know, but I enjoyed it as much as I did Roboquest. To anon who claimed it becomes "Serious Sam-like" with S+LMB -- you just suck. After a couple of first levels I'm rushing until every single fucker is dead.
Pigface -- I like Hotline Miami vibes and the idea of speedrunning individual levels. Reminds me of The Club which I never got to experience fully because of how bad the PC port was.
Buy on sale:
Hark the Ghoul & Verho -- new strange breed of souls inspired first-person RPGs. They might not be the greatest games out there, but the novelty hasn't worn off yet, so I want to jump on it before the definitive game comes out.
Inventorix -- I think those are called balatro-like now? Building crazy combos to beat an arbitrary score goal, but instead of cards it's inventory management. I liked Backpack Hero, so it's right up my alley. Also don't even try Backpack Hero on switch, controls are so butchered it's not even funny.
Under the Island -- I'm now regretting selling my deck earlier this year, would be a perfect game for that. It's a Link to the Past clone, you know how it goes. My only complaint is that the music is not good. Very generic, sounds like royalty free shit.
After Inc Revival -- a city builder that I hope just comes out on mobile so I can play it on the tablet laying in bed. Reminds me of Townsmen and damn I miss that series.

>>712754764
(dis)Honorary mentions:
Necro Siege is the worst game I tried this fest. It's COD Zombies, but everything is bad. The worst gun feedback and sound I ever encountered, dips down to 4 (FOUR) FPS on 7900XTX, generic assets and absolutely hilarious EULA. Highly recommend reading it for a good laugh -- and keep in mind what kind of game it is attached to.
Generation Exile -- It opens with a thousand words scroll, and then immediately proceeds to bombard you with a "millennial writing" in the worst way possible. While running like shit. And it is turn-based for some reason.

>>712754764
>Hark the Ghoul & Verho -- new strange breed of souls inspired first-person RPGs
They're technically King's Field inspired. Hell, Verho doesn't even have the "die but save progress and get your souls back later," you straight up get booted to your previous save.

>>712755153
Oh, that would make sense. I just never played King's Field, so never made that connection. Thanks, that's good to know -- maybe I'll check out the King's Field too at some point.

Hello. I like platformers, puzzlers, and casual sandbox games. What demos do I play?

To the people that like 2D platformers. Do you actually buy the ones that you played in these fests? Do you end up beating them?

>>712749001
There is always time and space for random mechanics.
They exist in gaming since before computers.
Most people forget that games like XCOM or Civilization rely heavily on procgen and randomnes.

>>712756162
Nextfest games don't release lol
I feel like Dragon March will get finished so I can see myself buying that eventually

>>712754764
>souls inspired first-person RPGs.
it's literally the same type of game as dark messiah of might and magic except bad and ugly

>>712756928
>spending actual money on tranny games

>>712757074
I didn't know it was a tranny game. I guess maybe we need to be better men straightbros.

>>712753214
topkek

kino

>>712757074
unironically there is the entire rest of the board to screech about trannies or whatever retardation is the fotm outrage. i only care about the game

>>712751429
I see that the chink infant's tier puzzles are too much for some
You just have to open the walls by entering the sequences of symbols with the girl on the floor above, and then see how many faces each pillar should have and move them with the cat to their corresponding place

The game is full of puzzles like this and the girl's voice is very annoying, but overall it feels like one of those PS2 games.

>>712757195
>>712757740
>i'm perfectly okay with funding scat/tranny fetishism
i'd rather not >>712613578

>>712758298
i will now do so out of spite because you are annoying me

>>712755570
This is kinda bog-standard, but I don't want to leave you without recs at all.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3116870/Deus_Mantle/
There's also Gold Gold Adventure Gold as a city builder but it's anything but casual.

>>712756985
I played Lunacid and alt tabbed 10 minutes in as it was so slow and painful to play
Dread delusion was a much better experience

>>712758536
gross, you don't have to share to everyone that you're jerking it

>>712758594
>Dread delusion was a much better experience
are they not two completely different styles of games

>>712758710
Yes, I'm saying I dislike the "genre"

>>712758841
i see
with regards to those games, the label you're looking for is kings field/shadow tower-likes, games fromsoft made before they did the souls series so not completely off

>download racing game
>bunny robot with thighs and ass that put 2b to shame
why

>>712759136
you cant just come in here and say that and then not say what game it was

>>712756162
I did buy curse crackers but that's about it

>>712759324
Pretty sure over half of us here knows what it is from the 2nd greentext but just in case.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3148560/Project_TurboBlast/

>>712756985
Can't agree with you here. Messiah is fast and fun and athletic. These are slow, dreary, barely above turn-based in speed. Just how I like them.

>>712759936
ahhh okay ive seen this in the next fest discovery queue but i just skipped because i saw cars and brain went 'racing, skip'

>>712754502
I'm not, I really like good games

>>712760498
Yeah maybe the devs put this as the cover instead, some non-racing fans probably be more interested.

>>712761153
What if there were loli car washers in between rounds and they sprayed each other's white t-shirts with spray bottles? and they could whip each other with towels and other sexy things.

A singular chuckle

>>712748732
No you don't
>>712747663
>that let you chain whatever into whatever.
You say yourself here, you can just mash whatever into whatever.
You don't need to do shit, its just a super easy game

>>712762035
What

>>712761297
LA RANURA

the fuck do I do in 'gold gold adventure gold'
I said yes to the tutorial and it bugged out or something and hasn't told me shit beyond how to make buildings
do I just afk and hope some guy does what I want?

>>712762656
It's a majestylike
You make heroes do things by posting bounties for them with rightclick
Then theoretically they get stronger with the money from doing so (it seems a bit early for display, didn't feel they got much stronger except by levelling)

>>712722046 (OP)
if any of you CHUDS dare support Project Turboblast you are now a pedo enabler, I hope you're happy!

https://bsky.app/profile/happyelanoises.bsky.social/post/3lrnorv525s2k

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3148560/Project_TurboBlast/

>>712762932
Thanks
I think the issue is the mode I picked is also bugged or something. I have 0 adventurers and 0 cap to recruit any.
So the day just ends, then I instantly lose because I have no one to do anything

>>712762995
wow i didn't even know it was that guy, very based.

>>712762995
Holy based I will now buy your game, also the fuck is chuds?

>>712722046 (OP)
Unbeatable was a mixed bag.
Incredible presentation but I'm not a fan of the Muse Dash gameplay.
The story felt all over the place too though I suppose it's because the demo starts off after the beggining.
Cute duo.

>>712763318
They live in the sewers!

>>712762995
>another zoo pedo
wtf

>>712763426
I love Muse Dash so I wanted to like this, but the music maps are so busy it is hard to read. Otherwise it is cool. Got a Scott Pilgrim kinda vibe. I wanna like it but unsure. If it gets a Switch 2 release I'd probably play it on that. But wouldn't bother on PC.

>>712762995
Ah yes, video games

>>712763465
Like the Ninja Turtles? Awesome

>>712763559
>>712763465
>>712763318
And they have a great theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqF3blpPS8

>>712762995
>Kingofacesx
Dude, he was one of my favorite animators until he went like 101% into homogay and hamplanet asses. I'm so glad to see Tempo the way she is currently if he's the one behind her design.

>>712763426
It's a shame it has shitty lesbianism and such a dramatic and cringy script, well, it's pretty obvious seeing that protagonist design

>>712762995
I just told you I've already bought it, Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

>>712762995
stop doing this retarded catalogfaggot forced drama shit
i only care about the game

>AEROMACHINA uses the sticky keys beep whenever you lock onto an enemy
This is rustling my autism

>>712763426
>Incredible presentation but I'm not a fan of the Muse Dash gameplay
This pretty much.
Honestly I haven't had a lot of luck yet with rhythm games this next fest. Didn't like Unbeatable, Sinker Sound nor Ratantan.

>>712762995
>if any of you CHUDS dare support Project Turboblast you are now a pedo enabler, I hope you're happy
Genuinely kill yourself if you type "ironically" like this

>>712762995
you his ex-boyfriend or something? Don't you have some bird hypnosis to be afraid of?

>>712762995
I'll gladly enable straight pedos but gay furfaggotry is a no go for me.

Was this nextfest a good haul for you brehs or did you remove more stuff fron your wishlists?

>release a demo of your game
>the main character is fucking invisible
10/10

>>712764574
Best demo I played was Stellar Blade. Make of that what you will.

>>712764626
we know that you are a retarded gooner

>>712764730
Who's "we", tranny?

>>712764574
It was decent

>>712764768
this entire thread coombrain
obtain taste and cure your terminal porn addiction

>>712764574
i removed SSR Wives and Outlying Island
idk, nothing really caught my interest enough to add it to my wishlist for now, but i still have 11 games to go

Why are Next Fest threads always full of obvious tourists? I'm sure reddit has a mega thread or something.

>>712764574
Egging On ended up being better than I thought, it just validated itself in my wishlist

>>712764574
It wasn't fantastic but it was a net positive. I have like half a dozen games I wishlisted from it.

>>712764574
It was pretty bad to be honest, the only game I played that stayed on my wishlist was Abyssus

I was really surprised with this game, it's Wizardry meets Final Fantasy 4 with its 5 person party and row system, along with FF1 presentation.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3524160/Crescent_Tower/

>>712765018
I don't know. But yeah, thread full of people discussing and playing videogames - absolutely disguisting behaviour.

>>712764962
I like the presentation of SSR Wives but the camera is super wonky in the worst places. The chase scene at the end is hard to navigate when you can't see ahead.

>>712764574
Was the best fest in a while for me. Removed a few but added a lot more.

>>712764574
>AI and asset flips weren't spotlighted
>favorability algorithm actually worked instead of shoving the gay H-game into everyone's face like last time
>solid games to play, didn't knock too many off the wishlist after playing
overall there was a solid amount of games that I discovered, as well as a modest amount of those that I enjoyed enough to keep on my computer. A previous fest had a game I was much more excited for personally, but was a weaker fest overall in comparison due to them making algorithm changes and it was really rough starting out.
would say it's been a good fest

Just the good/okay stuff. Realistically I don't think anyone cares what people think sucks

>>712764574
About on part with the last few.
Haven't really had a good one since vampire survivors came out and indie devs collectively realized its much easier to copy current thing

>>712765269
what game is this from

>>712766408
The Söyhorror Tapes

>>712766408
Fire in the Dark

Paris Transylvania was actually sort of fun, despite what the Peggle purists were saying in the reviews.
Just don't choose Marie. The frog is OP at the beginning. The boss fight was kinda fun. I will say that the physics of the ball are a bit wonky (artificial acceleration when a ball enters a ramp, for instance) but I got used to it pretty quick. Though I do see that you can adjust these things in the settings (Bounce & Ramps, but I don't know why they let you change this at all, honestly)
After you beat the boss, they replay the map but at higher difficulty. I looped the map until it circled back to "world 1" again. Makizushi, toaster, and gemstone are the balls to look for.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2459560/Paris_Transylvania/

>>712765158
Yep, a real standout for me. I can already see myself sinking hours into it which is why I quit the demo early. Doesn't seem to have much traction though. Maybe the classic FF1 graphics were a bad call since only super autists care about that style.

>>712766650
>Though I do see that you can adjust these things in the settings (Bounce & Ramps, but I don't know why they let you change this at all, honestly)
Upon looking at my own screenshot, I see that this is actually just adjusting the calculation of ramps and bounces, not the speed. I'm a bit dumb.

>>712765685
Were the homosex games actually shoved in everyone's faces? I thought the meme was that they only kept getting recommended to homosex enthusiasts while everyone else was making fun of them. I never got that femboy game in my nextfest feed, for one.

>>712766909
I think everyone got it recommended. I have LGBT blocked on Steam and the gayest game I own is Skyrim and I still had it in my recommended.

Tamashika makes me feel like I'm curving the bullets

>>712766650
I dropped it when it had a Breakout stage. Especially after playing Ball X Pit in this very fest. And having Peglin in my library, I just don't need this game.

>>712767084
>I dropped it when it had a Breakout stage.
That's fair. Those occur only on the vampire spots on the map. The final boss is done in a simplistic pinball format, so you probably would have hated that too, haha.

>>712764574
I added a bit more than I removed, but honestly getting rid of trash from your wishlist is also a good thing.

>>712767210
Yeah sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Maybe do some special stage designs like Peglin does. Arrange the pegs in the shape of a shield when you fight a shield boss. Remove physics customization, etc.

>>712767030
I'm not joking when I say I went rifling through my recommended just to see if I'd get it and didn't get it.

>>712767613
I have like a hundred hours in Tales of Androgyny so maybe Steam just scans your hard drive while you're not looking.

when does the fest actually end? I mean the exact hour

i was able to get all the stars in theta, but are there supposed to be ways to win the level with the star? what do the collections do, and what's with the eyes in the first overworld? is there any more content to this game? after completing it all, i checked youtube, and there were some old versions of the game with more stuff, but idk how to access that.

>>712764574
Mostly mountains of garbage, but I also found a few new things.

>>712768151
3 months of post-preview threads, then we do it all over again. :D

every day will be a fest

anyone else noticed that there has been a stark increase in games larping as Japanese by putting the title in katakana in the steam title card? and then it turns out they're russian/chinese/whatever.

>>712768461
that's been par for the course since before genshin impact lel

>>712768461
Any example?

is claude right?

Post your top 5 demos out of this entire event

>>712768742
What is a gacha theme LOL

>>712722046 (OP)
I got 1 game cos im a poorfag
Critters cove.
Very indie crafting and chill game, needs content, polish and time. Still, i liked what i played.

that Baki Punch-out game looks fucking terrible

>>712768742
Absolum could be kino if it weren't so ugly and if it didn't have r*goue-like elements.

I usually play dozens and dozens of demos and write reviews during these, but I was busy this time and only tried a couple of games. Give me your absolute best games. No roguelites or porn games, and nothing Chinese or Korean. Just actually good games.

>>712768243
>Posts garbage
>BUT MY DICK LIKES IT

>>712768830
it thinks SSR is a reference to gacha rarities, maybe it's right?

>>712769196
it's not right

>>712769150
>It has women in it, so it's actually shit and you had fake fun
OK.

>>712769594
Its shit because its shit

A refresher from the crappy sts clones out there. You actually pre-construct your deck instead of building it by the piecemeal and use it to fully combo out or die trying
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3151270/One_Turn_Kill/

>>712769795
> deck
keell yerselv

I've been busy all week, what are the best demos?

These are the ones that made it to my wishlist. Not that much sadly but I do have a few left that I haven't played yet

I feel like Nextfest is getting better and better.

These past few Fests had tons of graduates whose demos I loved qnd promptly loved for their full release as well.

Snappy arcade game, shoot obstacles and maneuver yourself with the kickback. Would play this on a phone
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509950/Gun_in_a_Well/

they need to work on the discovery queue, it feels like they front loaded it with asset flips and ai slop for the first 300+ titles

>>712770032
And I forgot my image

>>712763426
I mostly agree. I'll still pick it up when it's on sale, but I do have some worries. I'm fine with the gameplay, but I agree with the other anon that it can get a bit too busy and hard to read. and yeah, the story is needlessly obtuse, and part of me we worries that that's intentional, to try and make you feel as disjointed as the protagonist does. because of course the story is actually about depression

Two demos I tried:
>Word Play
It's ok, but I'd only buy the full release if it was like $5.
Basically, you have 16 random letters, and you have to make the longest word you can with them. As you use letters, new random ones get added in, and you can shuffle everything a limited number of times.
Each letter also has a value, with "rarer" letters having more score. You also get modifiers after each stage that can boost your score in a bunch of ways.
It's simply ok, fun enough for a word game, but I feel like the modifiers weren't cool enough. The game promises more and cooler modifiers on the full release, and it does have a cool feature of adding community-voted words (stuff like coom and spaz work), but eh.

>Magical Girl Escape
An escape room with a cute girl theme, not sure what part of it is Magical Girls aside from maybe the aesthetic of the girls. The demo is unbelievably short for some reason, I solved one puzzle and that was it. Has light gore death CGs if you fail which I don't really care for but I guess you have to do it since it's mahou shoujos. Demo was kinda trash and it lacks a ton of QoL like speeding up text or skipping it altogether. Will probably not take a second look on it, but the puzzles did seem to be interesting.

>>712750594
>story story story dialogue
jesus christ shut the fuck up and let me assemble already

>>712769196
SSR absolutely is a reference to rarity ranks. It predates gacha though.

Does anyone actually try out those RPG Maker demos?

>>712770495
>>Magical Girl Escape
Doesn't bring up anything

>>712768765
unbeatable
dispatch
artis impact
dice gambit
I'll get back to you if any of my remaining demos make it onto my wishlist
>>712770781
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3230470/Mahou_Shoujo_Escape/

>>712724770
>8.2gb
jesus christ what

>>712770753
Honestly I'm surprised so many people play RPGMaker games at all.

>>712769196
SSR Wives

SSR Ives

SSRI's

>>712770519
That's how most the Zach games are like too but you can skip it all and just go to the puzzles

why does everyone in this hololive metroidvania have such huge tits

For something a little different, New World: Bonds of Shadows is a live-action FMV game with co-op gameplay. Me and a friend just played the demo and we were amazed at how it shows two different perspectives and we make separate decisions in a live-action FMV game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3319700/_/

>>712771025
In Japan/China, porn VN's made by RPGMaker are a esteemed genre
That, and horror/shock value VN's

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3598550/Atlas_Hands/
Atlas Hands is really fucking good

>>712768243
For a game that put so much emphasis on creating and customizing my first character it sure doesn't seem to like customization in other departments a whole lot. Didn't get to pick my spouse (2 mystery niggas aren't a real choice), level ups provide a 3 option choice of random bonuses, it's all random, no proper buildcrafting.
I also wonder what the race of the developers is, because those locations and that music reeks of "white college girls who are 0.05% mexican trying to represent their latinx roots".

>>712771613
got filtered mercilessly, I put the ball thing inside the blue forcefield which looked like it should allow a door to open but it didn't do shit

>>712770753
in the same way that I won't try out a demo that's just unreal/unity store assets, I won't try the rpg maker games that look like a 14 year old's first game. but I don't hold being made in rpg maker against a game, I tried and enjoyed break wolf a few fests ago and artis impact this fest
>>712771626
you can customize your spouse after marrying them. same for kids you have, there's an icon to go in there and give them a makeover

>>712769196
I'm working on it. Religious overtones means it could be a seminary student thing, but same sex relationship might make sense. It does refer to wives, which is a plural word. That means, more than one! And if you have a harem of women, you know, sometimes they have sex with eachother too, or something.

I'm working it out.

I'm gonna shill a game that I played like 2 fests ago that I really liked, it's Aethermancer.
It's a roguelite RPG where you collect monsters and use them for battle. The monsters have a lot of different builds they can grow into, and you can develop a ton of different synergies between them which is really cool. The game uses a mana system for attacks, and you can get mana by the default collection from your monsters at the start of each turn, from doing basic attacks, and from using some special skills or getting specific equipment.
Really, really fun game, the demo has a lot to play since you can just go back in the runs and play with different monsters. The graphics are also pretty charming and the animations are great. Will definitely buy day 1.

>>712771720
>I tried and enjoyed break wolf a few fests ago
Yeah. There were no lewds in the demo though so I might need to buy it :^(

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3116600/Gate_Project/

Can stargate-like be a genre?

>>712770885
dispatch seems really popular. what's the hype all about?

Cute and funny Halloween game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3451930/Tricks_Treats_and_Mirrors__An_EoG_Side_Story/

>>712771879
it was announced at the game awards, telltale guys are behind it, the main character is voiced by jesse from breaking bad. I honestly had no interest in it from the announcement, I only gave it a shot after someone in an earlier thread said it was actually pretty good and because notsupergirl is p cute. the writing is right on the edge of being too much for my tastes, but I still enjoyed my time with the demo enough

>>712771879
A modern Telltale game crossed with 911 Operator/This is the Police gameplay. Premise is interesting and the writing is alright.

>>712771720
>you can customize your spouse after marrying them. same for kids you have, there's an icon to go in there and give them a makeover
Well that's dumb. Shoulda just given me an option to make one from scratch. Now I uninstalled the demo because that was the last straw, and can't be bothered to reinstall.

>>712770337
Is Galvatein a porn game

>>712771839
Remnant I & II are stargate-like. You take stargates to explore other worlds.

what tags should i use to filter all that WEG garbage that infests steam? i swear all i see in the store is that shit

>>712772827
take a tag and sharpen it and stab it directly into your eyes and you won't see WEGs ever again

>>712772620
No

>>712772827
don't your slanted chinese eyes filter out most of the tags already

>>712772827
You mean other than filtering out Sexual Content? Visual Novel, I guess.

I tried a pretty cool horror game called Caput Mortum. Has pretty strange controls (on controller, you turn with LT/RT and look up and down with LB/RB) with your hand being controlled with the right stick.
Honestly I would have prefered if the game was more like Myst and have it be a mostly entity free puzzle game, but I get people prefer a bit of spooks.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3651330/Caput_Mortum_Demo/

>>712771798
It's a reference to anti-depressants. SSRIs

>>712774178
nah I think the same sex thing makes more sense than a weird play on words involving drugs.

>>712736975
I didn't see the ability to customize your waifu(s) in the family/marriage mechanics, i thought that was just random gen shit

>>712774762
I don't recall where I clicked. It was somewhere on the left

>>712774887
Well shit i dont know what that says about me that the ability to customize all of your family instead of just the first one makes me want to go back to the game

>>712774762
>>712775038
Hover over a character's picture while inspecting them when not in combat or a dungeon and a little purple pen icon will pop up. Click it to customize them. You can even change their gender.

Last one I'm posting
>Dead as Disco
First game I tried of the fest and definitely my favorite. Similar to hifi rush's beat em up synced to music, but this one lets you import your own music which lets you do a lot of fun stuff. Even now, a few days later, I keep opening it up to try out more songs. Full game seems to promise a much more in-depth editor which I look forward to. Wishlisted. P.S. Try Train Roll, it works strangely well: https://files.catbox.moe/iytxtg.mp4
>Zakon
somehow couldn't get past drifting around the statue. Might try again later.
>mecha simultactics
Love yomi so a mecha version of that sounded right up my alley. The isometric style and destructive environment is great, but the controls feel clunky. Rather than just having all your moves onscreen you need to constantly go in and out of menus to get to your move/attack/special movelists. Still wishlisted, I'll keep an eye and pray they improve it.
>star birds
cute resource management game and I enjoy birds. I believe this has some tie to some educational youtuber but I've never watched his content. Camera control over asteroids is a little weird at times.
>Gold Gold Adventure Gold
Honestly have no clue what I'm doing. Boss came day 3 and just instantly deleted my tanks and castle
>Love in Tiny Spaces
Puzzles are pretty simple but there's a rather strict time limit which made things pretty fun.
>Mahou Shoujo escape
hilariously short. I solved a single puzzle and then the demo ended
>WiZ
bog standard 4 niggas in a row. The fusion gimmick could be interesting and I enjoy the monster girl sprites, but the combat is as basic as it gets: spam skills, hit the things with their weak element
>Morbid Metal
don't see the WF comparison desu. Sure it's metal suit dudes w/ powers but the parkour (read: flashy run button) is worse and the gunplay doesn't exist. ok/10

cont.

>>712775369
>No-good Streamer Mirai-Chan
Cool idea, but 1/2 of these chat triggers make me feel like an indian
>Speed Demons 2
these controls and camera are actually liquid ass
>galvatein
Cool fantasy mix of Papers Please during the day and VA-11 Hall-A during the night. Hope they manage to get the translation reading better. Wishlisted.
>star overdrive
20gb demo is insane. Extremely blatantly a BotW clone, you explore a giant open world powering up towers. Combat is insanely floaty. Hoverboarding is cool but couldn't be bothered to do much more than that
>terra tech legion
vehicle building survivorslike is pretty cool. I end up spending a lot of time in the garage though, which feels like it sorta contradicts things since these types of games are usually quick bursts
ended up being worst than last time I guess, I played way more but wishlisted less.
See you all next time since I don't bother with this place outside of these threads, especially now that more people are aware of and use 8

>>712771478
Council/Promise just had big tits. Every other gen followed the formula of loli, small, medium, then big afterwards.

>triple k, juetube, yacub
I'm sure you're lurking, do you have to be this transparent, anon?

Breakshot Hero has great core gameplay but after playing it for a while it's kind of like.. Is that it? I assume it'll get a full campaign on full release at least.

>>712775496
>especially now that more people are aware of and use 8
I don't know what that is. Is this it?
When 4chan was down I only checked out basedjak-party and sturdych0n

>>712775496
>especially now that more people are aware of and use 8
the threads there are always either breakneck speed or ghost town, no inbetween. it's not great.

>>712771695
you have to rotate the ball while it's inside the generator until the 3 bumps on it get sucked by the blue light

>>712740124
You can say rape here, tourist-kun

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3616300/AM_Demo/
Horror game that takes place in your car
You have to drive to safety while a monster chases you and try to break into your car
Very nice but for some reasons it turns meta as fuck halfway through

>>712722046 (OP)

I feel like NextFest should extend to a two-week period at least or do away with the time limit on demo availability, and the beginning of Next Fest is just the period where developers on Steam decided to all release their demos at the same time
I get that FOMO is i guess a part of the strategy of NextFest but it's fucking annoying that you *already* took the time to snoop out and download all the demos that interest you only to fucking run out of time trying them all out

>>712776667
valve doesnt impose a time limit, devs are free to leave their demos up

>>712776761
Well fuck the devs that leave an expiry then if the end date of NextFest is simply the time period the stinking advertisement banners show up on the Steam store
There should be a sticker icon or something noting which ones are temporary

really enjoyed Bubblegum Galaxy
one of those games where 70% of the enjoyment comes from the aesthetic and charm but I'm fine with that
I'm just a sucker for the weird Japanese Gamecube game aesthetic a la Katamari, Chibi Robo, and Ribbit King

>>712777058
Think of it this way, if a dev takes the demo that you were entitled to playing away, he does not want your money anymore.
Respect his wishes by blacklisting his game and never giving him the time of day.

>>712777058
This pissed me off with Home Safety Hotline before

I had it installed and ready to play then they killed their demo

I'm still mad

>Well which is it, then?

>>712777779
The game is out already, you can just play that.

>>712777092
My curator says it's bad and they have good taste

>>712770753
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3688760/Kid_Kharagma__Wermwood_Demo/
this is some kind of Earthbound-inspired rpg, nice animations for the attacks but nothing else
I still have to play Dome RPG

>>712778542
Why do you care if the game is published by a chink editor? It's a Chilean game

Thanks to whoever rec'd Threadbound in a previous thread, probably my favorite puzzle game demo this Fest. Ooo was fun but based on the demo I'm skeptical that the mechanics can be stretched into a reasonable-length game, MotionRec was ok but a bit fiddly, Theta and Paradollx is interesting but hurts my tiny brain

>>712777779
if you have it downloaded you can usually launch it directly from outside steam

So far this is the demos I liked the best of this go around.

>>712777092
>Bubblegum Galaxy
i hate pastel colours games
makes my eyes hurt

>>712780183
>Vlask Yavei
Чтo oн имeл в видy пoд этим?

>>712780232
And a potato and sour cream to you sir.

>>712732234
Just finished this, I hate how you can’t do anything while reloading but god the thicc robot lady is SO HOT

>>712780314
Both of those things are taste althouwhatsoeverbeit. That's not insulting at all. You should have stuck to vodka and balalayka, a horrendous stiff drink and a horrendous musical instrument.

Why are there so many games ruined by the addition of roguelite elements just make a fucking normal game

>>712776637
This game felt like to me an unintentionally captured vibe of having to fight for your life against a deadite.

What's the most FUN game you've played so far?

I need some joy in my gaming

>>712781746
why is this guy so ruined by anger. just be a normal human.

>>712781854
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2937090/Hunters_Inc/
I played a Smith and the hammer strikes felt pretty chonky as I bashed a giant croc and shattered its armored scales with it.

>>712781854
of all time:
deus ex human revolution with no deaths
rune factory frontier with no runey mod
dragonquest builders 2

this fest
jump ship and critter cove.

>>712781746
Either too lazy to design proper systems or scared of ADHD kiddies crawling into their steam discussions yelling "WHERE IS MY METAPROGRESSION?!?!?!?!".
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1975580/Wild_Woods/
This lovely and cute little game where you only unlock skins as you progress is currently facing threads with "WHY NO METAPROGREEEEEESSIOOOOOOOOOOON?!", and it hurts to see. The developers are currently evaluating ways of catering to these spergs, too.

>>712781676
No insult intended, just responding kindly to a string of gibberish

Me being absolute garbage at Tamashika
Really fun
This, BallXPit, and Ratatan were my top 3 roguelites and I look forward to their releases

https://files.catbox.moe/pgsq1q.webm

>>712781854
my top 3 fun approved for girls who just wanna have fun™

you can
a) bounce the ball at skeletons
b) make the ratatan sing. they sing zun-taka-tan for damage
c) shoot the scrimblo with pretty colors

>>712781854
Cleared Hot was probably the most WOOHOO I got this fest

>>712782507
It may be a third world language, but it is no gibberish. There is very clear intent behind it.

>>712782181
What the fuck is metaprogression? I've literally never heard of this.

>>712782181
I bought that game a little while ago when it was half off. My main complaint was that it's way too easy. Beat it solo on my second attempt so I can only imagine co-op is even easier. And yeah, meta progression is pointless when you're expected to have everything unlocked in order to do the hardest content. Just skip the middle man.

any Kemono/Anthro demos?

>>712782659
when you progress outside a single game. like regular progression would be getting the ice beam while playing so you can freeze stuff, metaprogression would be an unlock making all your future games have 10 lives instead of 5.

Roguelikes are just the natural evolution of arcade machines you retards

>>712782659
>You have died
>You have collected: 500 shitcoins
>Choose permanent upgrades to buy: +1% damage - 50 shitcoins. +2% max HP - 40 shitcoins. +0.05% crit chance - 35 shitcoins
>etcetcetcetc

can i just send my wishlist and you guys decide what to cut
i have 40 games

>>712782762
Coop nerfs your carry capacity down to 1 instead of 2 and may or may not scale the HP a bit. I only did coop once.
There's also a hard mode currently, not sure if it was there when you still played. Plus some cheevos can be pretty tricky. I 100%ed the currently available content because it's comfy and because I liked doing some of the cheevos, plus I wanted the skins.

>>712782781
critter cove

>>712782946
I played the demo of that. The artstyle is kinda ugly but it seems fun

>>712782910

>>712783149

>>712782781
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597590/Dungeon_Mori/
Somewhat simplistic turn-based dungeon crawler. Looks real cute though, I like the pixelwork here. Cat ladies are pretty cute too.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3133650/Gold_Gold_Adventure_Gold/
City builder. Not just anthro, a bunch of shit is in there. Artstyle is peak.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646460/Devil_Spire_Falls/
Open World RPG made by one of ours. Deranged option. Has cat and lizard people, but the artstyle is meant to make you suffer.

I'm glad Aeromachina is getting recognition. I've been following the devs for long. It's good too because it's a Godot game

>>712757417
What game?

>>712783207

>>712783281
on a side note i think i'm going to play through the 3 castlevania collections

>>712783281
Buy Nine Sols next time it goes on sale for 40% off.

>>712783356
Tamashika is being made by a huge zionist that donated 10 million to the IDF I'm genuinely not fucking with you right now

>>712781854
This fest? Gecko Gods 1000% it was so cute and fun.

>>712782781
Crescent Tower

>>712783149
>>712783207
>>712783281
>>712783356
buy and play
>Aero GPX
>Katana ZERO
>Mullet Madjack
>Pseudoregalia
>Rain World
NOW

Before next fest ends I just want to say that these threads have consistently been my favorites on /v/

Keep on dumpster diving, demobros

>>712782825
Wrong
Ordinary action games are the evolution of arcades.
Roguelikes evolved into "progression" gambling where you're forced to lose through sheer random chance because you were given shit powerups and your permanent upgrades weren't enough to brute force through the bad luck.

will you get Possessors if it looks like this

>>712783762
>>712783356
Do not buy Rainworld for 25 dollars. Wait for it to hit a sale. It's good at what it does, but it doesn't do a whole lot, so your mileage will drastically vary depending on what you like. And don't buy the DLCs either.

>Yoram - Question Arc
An interesting visual novel borrowing something similar to Your Turn To Die's debate mechanic, with a background system of being able to raise affinity with certain characters (which doesn't tangibly come into play in the demo).
The standout story element is that you yourself are the murderer (though the demo ending indicates things won't remain so simple).
Steam description says the demo is 85% of chapter 1 of a 3 chapter story. Interestingly, the "about this demo" steam tab partially spoils what happens after the demo's ending.
There were very minor translation issues and the occasional bug. Art looks nice and I'll definitely be purchasing it once released.

>>712736397
>gookshit
>based
lol

>>712736397
holy abysmal taste

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3104410/Terminull_Brigade/
this one has potential

>>712779246
he's a mindbroken muttoid

>>712784393
quite bad for a demo tho
only 2 character and 1 map

wtf event too short

>>712736397
Got /a/ mad. Yup, I'm thinking based.

>>712782781
Crescent Tower has beastmen. It's FF1 styled though so just tiny sprites aside from this shot from the intro
Under the Island has random anthros that live with humans (you play as a humangirl)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2561460/Burning_Sword_Death_Sun/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2527710/TEXNOPLAZM/

>>712782781
Brew looked cute, but some anons said it's no good.

Oh, Morsels looks kinda coo-
>Annapurna

For any of the brave and big dicked anons who observed most of this showcase. Any titles that involve slaughtering humans while playing as a monster?

Think carrion, but actually good and less walking sim

>>712785902
yeah, sure.

>>712770885
update: crescent tower made the wishlist. I tried playing the first wizardry a few years ago and while I did enjoy it, it was a bit too brutal. I went with modern difficulty, and it was just the right amount of difficulty for me. I know some wizardry fans might be put off by how final fantasy it is, but I don't mind. good game

>>712785943
Are you going to share or do I have to flash my hairy asshole to make you spill the goods?

>>712786038
i dunno whatever, go play this

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597880/Cat_Named_Mojave