NEXT FEST IS OVER

Top 50 demos are here, naturally, we didn't play any of them because we are counterculture to the core.

You can say what's good and what was bad and whine about how you didn't have enough time to play them all. The latecomers can try get in on the action but they're pretty much too late.

And in many more months from now, we can do this all again.

>we

IT'S TIME TO F-F-F-F-FISH

This was my last Nextfest. The doomposters really spoke doom to me and now I'm a doomposter. I'm joining the dark doom side.

>>712854109 (OP)
>we didn't play any of them because we are counterculture to the core.
speak for yourself, I wasted hours on my life playing dead as disco with music from Baldr Sky, Umineko and Katana Zero

Other than that yeah, haven't played any of the games in the top 50. Project Turboblast, MotionRec, Sinker Sound, Paralldox and Bits and Bops kept me occupied.

No you can't have the links to the last threads, it's over. you missed it. don't even try. you will never play dimhaven.

Project Turboblast and Giggleland not being in there is quite surprising.

I guess Dispatch and BallxPit made it in there. so a few. but majority is yeah, no, completely different.

>>712854293

>>712792130
I looked into the games you posted since I typically get a higher good game ratio than trying to find myself. This one though....
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/

In the first five minutes they mention "diversity is our strength." I continued on and every villian just about was a white male. The "good guy" team only had one, two counting the main player character.

>>712798853
>Crescent Tower
Holy shit that music gave me a fucking nostalgia boner. Day 1. I am going to put it on modern grinding because I don't like grinding. Furry shit is kinda gay though.

>>712851718
>Baki Hanma: Blood Arena
That's... a neat idea but I didn't care for it.

any strategy games (no rogueslop)?

>>712854109 (OP)
Star Birds It's a pretty good resource management sim even if all of you hate the education tuber behind it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719750/Star_Birds/

>>712854109 (OP)
>no Phase Zero or Tormented Souls 2
This is bullshit.

>>712854749
I want a do-over!

>>712854380
This game was cool, I wish they gave us a taste of the story though.

>>712854749
Seeing Tormented Souls 2 made me realize I hadn't played my purchased copy of the first one yet, and I started playing it.
I didn't boot the demo because I was worried it would spoil the first game.

>>712854293
Fishing Paradiso looks alright. Oh why not. it has a demo.

Afantasia
Gombo (with the big lips mod)
SSR Wives (play as Chudguy or Tradgirl)

I didn't get a chance to play any of the porn games because I was with family, anything worth checking out before everything gets pulled?

>>712855085
2DHD though....

>>712855132
90% of it was chinese slop

I didn't like Moonlighter 1.
And I didn't even try Moonlighter 2's demo because of it. But now I've heard that a lot of Moonlighter 1 fans are unhappy with Moonlighter 2 because of the many changes made to both combat and shopkeeping. So I looked up some footage of it and it actually does look a lot more interesting to me.
But I'm kind of worried that I'll just be wasting my time again like with the first game.

Am I making a mistake if I try the demo?

>>712855132
Literally who plays porn games on steam? That's just fucking gross
Buy them on dlsite like everyone else

>>712855383
DLSite is making it harder and harder to buy now

>>712854109 (OP)
Posting this for the last time.
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.

I did not participate in Nextfest because I kind of hate playing demos and would rather just experience the games first hand when they come out. The only demo I played recently was Dispatch because I can't wait for that game and simply couldn't resist (and have been really hungry for news of its release date, which we still don't have)

With that said, I thank you for making these threads and particularly this thread so that I can go look at these stats now.

>Dispatch
Had already played this demo before the Fest. Very excited for this. Might turn out to be the best Telltale style game ever.
>Ratatan
Hope the demo for this was good. Want to try this out when it comes out.
>Hell is Us
This one is gonna depend entirely on the reception it gets when it comes out. The way they're marketing it appeals to me, but I need the gameplay to be good and the area design to be consistent all the way through before I go through with playing it. Even if I played the demo and thought it was good, I wouldn't be convinced.
>Absolum
Woah. Never heard of this before, but I'm interested. Added to my wishlist.
>Baby Steps
I'll watch streams of it
>Mina the Hollower
Can't wait for this.

That's all that is of interest in that list. Is there some sort of poll with all of /v/'s favorite demos? Would like to check out the pages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2B6bFpozLw

>>712854109 (OP)
This is my overall experience in this Next Fest

This time I was very busy and only played a third of what I would have liked
Now who knows how much the demos I downloaded will be left collecting dust and I won't want to delete them because I'm a compulsive hoarder.

>>712854109 (OP)
RATATAN!

>>712856529
oh my god you paralldox nigs can't stop fellating it

>>712854667
Shut up, retard

>>712856529
>baby steps
>pretty good

>>712855132
>before everything gets pulled?
oh great
well anyone feels like recommending anything with mechas and/or racing/vehicle combat? Steam recced me MadMetal but that's it

or a sex-doll dressing sim other than Vindictus, both work

>>712855946
>Hark the Ghoul & Verho
Didn't have a chance to play these demos but they look neat. Which one did you like the most?

Looks like my latest demo is about an incel who is about to sperg out and become violent.

>>712857281
let's goooooo

Has anyone checked out THYSIASTERY? I'm diggin the aesthetic from the screenshots but how does it play? Really in the mood for some good dungeon crawlan.

what should i play first fellow procrastinators
any recommends for things not on this list, like weirdo surreal deep or obscure games pretentious retards like me would enjoy
or maybe something with a cute girl

Only played two demos but I just kept replaying them. Will look at some demos in this thread.
>Rogue Point
The first original game from the Black Mesa devs. It's a tactical shooter like SWAT mixed with rouge lite elements in the levels. You play a campaign, have to spend in-game money to create a loadout, and then do the mission. Doing things in the missions (killing in certain ways, healing, finding items, etc.) give you cash for use in future missions in the campaign. If you wipe twice the campaign is over and you have to restart from the beginning.
It's biggest issue is that it doesn't know if it wants to be a slower tactical title or an arcade shooter with tactical game elements. You're encouraged to use non-lethal takedowns for extra cash, but you don't have access to them at all outside of a CS:GO weapon lottery system ($1,000 of the in-game cash for a spin) and every mission is timed so you need to the objective done fast. The AI is also really rigid so even if you unlock the stealth items, you're ending up just swarmed because they hear everything no matter what (I genuinely think they're either broken or stealth isn't a thing).
It's rough but fun enough. I hope that they'll nail down what they want to do and fix the shit AI, but I'm not buying on launch.
>Project Turboblast
Picked it up today and played about 30 minutes of it. Definitely fun and easy to get into, just another F-Zero like high speed racer. I kept bumping into the side of the track on the second track, Vines is my favorite so far. My only issue with it is that the boost spam is intended and it hurts you hand after a bit. It's actually why I put it down. I'll buy it when it goes on sale after launch but only if they do more singleplayer stuff and make it so I don't have to hurt my thumb to get 1st.

>>712856060
>Is there some sort of poll with all of /v/'s favorite demos?
nope, although an anon in the last thread said he wanted to keep track of the demos people like for the next next fest so there's at least a list

>>712857461
SSR Wives

>>712856802
What's wrong, baby thinks Punchout is the best game ever made and hates it when someone dares slight the formula?

Keep yourself safe, or kys for short.

>>712857461
Chrono Gear if you like platformers

>>712857951
>vtumor slop
>EN vtumor slop

>>712858142
>immediately knows its a vtuber
>immediately knows its an english speaking vtuber
the lady protest too much methinks

>>712858142
Yes, and?

>>712858384
Sex with Kronii.

>>712858142
Thanks for the warning. Not playing that shit.

>SSRWives
Solid Silent Hill 2 clone. I like these kinds of games.
>Holstin
Another meat and potatoes survival horror. Reminded me of that lesbian space game.
>Brutal John 2
A "boomer shooter" that is actually good. I'll be picking this one up later.
>The Czar is Dead 2
The anon who said this was like having a nightmare about playing games was right.
>Distant Flux: System Initializing
A weird text-based game. Seemed like a bunch of pseudo-deep systems and the organ music began to get on my nerves.
>PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION
It's just a crappy version of Deus Ex. No reason to play this if you have Deus Ex, which is like a dollar.
>The RPG
Goofy silly Skyrim-lite. Not for me. Video game "jokes" are cancer.
>Clawed
Nothing but walking around aimlessly and looking at some dinos. The map is way too big and the game neither gives good indicators of where to go nor rewards you for exploring.
I may check out some CRPG demos later this week if they are still up (most of them are).

>>712857452
*cough* *cough* P-please....

>>712857452
It's okay, it plays exactly how it looks like it would play.

>>712854109 (OP)
out of those I only tried Ninja Gayden and it was shit just like everyone said

>Fest is over
>Still not even halfway done with my list
I wish i had more free time.

>>712857169
Not that anon but personally i liked Hark the Ghoul more.

>>712857461
Played quite a few demos you posted here, good list.

I would add The Little Tomb: The Maholova Club and the Search for a Dead Body, Bloodthief, Speed Demons 2, Superhero Simulator, Drunken Rogue(has cute girls), Mage Tower Massacre, DEFICIT, Pigface(you're probably a cute girl here) and The Bleakest Keep(cute girl) into your list.

>>712858672
That's fine, sometimes you just want a straightforward experience.

>>712858614
>nor rewards you for exploring.

It does actually, if you're good at it. What you meant to say is it doesn't reward you for being a failed explorer. And why should it?

He's not wrong that the game doesn't give you mission objectives, except a broad one. You have to nose around and actually figure things out yourself. He's wrong to consider not having your hand held a bad thing, though.

>>712858545
>Thanks for the warning
this nigga scared of a cartoon

any good retro shooters or roguelite card games

>>712858987
Royal Writ

>>712854738
having to go in and out of planets and having to click on the micro missions felt pretty awful
more of an idle/clicker game than resource management

>>712857281
damn. the demo ended before I got to murder anyone.

>>712858987
Depends what kind of shooter you like.

>SHUMP
Truxton made an unexpected comeback
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3323490/Truxton_Extreme/

>FPS
Literally "Serious Sam Survivors"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2607870/Slyders/

>>712858614
>playing the inferior Nikolai Romanov game

any with achievements that show up on steam? like games that don't have the 'limited profiles features' tag.

>>712858987
If you're feeling nostalgic for old Call of Duty games check out Market Garden - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3471890/MARKET_GARDEN/

Pigface is a bit too easy but i liked it - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3341650/PIGFACE/

There is also this meme game but i haven't tried the demo - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3520250/MR_DONALD_SAVE_VATICAN/

As for roguelite card games
Not exactly that but check out this - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958140/NETCRAWL/

>Aeterna Lucis has a demo
gonna pass on that one, I wanna be surprised again like when I played Aeterna Noctis

>>712857281
judging by your tone, looks like you would be a good incel and will just keep taking it, Kadan

Cat breasts.

>>712859478
pure thrills. game looks so cool

>>712859819
its not good

>>712859819
jesus christ do you like eating shit on daily basis?

>>712859952
Cute game but it looks like a massive grindfest so no thanks

>>712860004
>>712860130
Don't tell me you got filtered by Aeterna Noctis.

>>712854109 (OP)
Which nextfest graduares do we expect fo do well brehs?

I think ball x pit will hit big
Dead as Disco was SEVERELY overvalued because of its import music mode
The actual songs in the game are eh

>>712859967
Isn't that Gabriel from Ultrakill? Or am I just being retarded

>>712860149
Didn't seem that grindy to me. I made it to level 10 out of currently available 15 in about an hour maybe.

>>712860149
nta but im confused what about that game looks grindy, it looks like a typical 2D tbs

>>712854109 (OP)
>top 50
>femboy futa house
lol

>>712860235
"LOL!"
said Scropion calmly,
"LMAO EVEN"

> yes I do like eating shit, how did you know?

>>712860235
The game bored me. It should have just been a straightforward action platformer.

>>712860301
I don't know what the fuck Ultrakill is, but Gabriel and Michael are both names for the ArchAngels. Most people are just ripping off the bible. And to a lesser extent, Dr. Who.

But usually all our stories come from the bible.

>>712860297
Verho is yet another addition to the ever-growing list of first person dungeon crawler/kings field likes that are never actually gonna come out, otherwise that game

>>712860390
As I said, filtered.
>>712860427
The game is basically 80% platforming.

>>712860349
> Developer: IT'S A TRAP

LMAO

>>712860528
Hark the Ghoul is better anyways

>>712860587
That's another one that's never coming out

>>712860349
>blatant ai slop in top 50
>zero attention to detail
>also shills other ai slop in-game
normalfags really just dont give a shit

>>712860473
he means the character design

>>712856475
This demo had great vibes but there's just nothing else to it. Wishlisted anyway.

>>712858987
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3137010/Meat_Engine/

Great movement. Although it feels rough in the enemy design department and it feels like you're shooting pixels most of the time due to how much they blend in with the barren environment.

>>712860606
Roleplaying with predefined personalities has been cringe in 99.999% of the games that tried to do so. The 0.001% accounts for the Wolf Amogus which just barely managed to pull it off.

>>712854109 (OP)
>still no Bustling World demo
I sleep

>>712860964
do the choices you have as bigby even constitute as roleplaying

>>712856936
forgot noone gives a shit about mech games/no one shills them (except for the one with the brown tomboy pilot)
never mind that ill stick to the AC6 general, fuck this gay earth
>>712857505
>just another F-Zero like high speed racer
picked up

>>712858384
>>712858526
While I watch

>>712860335
>>712860331
You randomly get loot from enemies (and chests, and the dead yamcha) whose only purpose is to fulfill these progression quests, which require multiple dungeon runs. I found myself just click click click clicking through easy dungeons just to level up, get gold and items

Another NF
Another chink domination
Remember to visit Spirit Breeding Room

>>712860235
im not a fan of metroidvanias but most of it was just backtracking and platforming

BALL X PIT sucks balls, zero engagement on my part other than maybe focus a particular enemy that was a bit too close to me. Killed the boss in my first run, it took like 10 minutes cause the only way to damage him was from behind and you need to wait for your balls to come back to you every time you shoot them.
I got almost no "arkanoid" moments where the balls actually started bouncing between enemies and doing cool shit.

>>712861204
where do these chinks get these 3d models? i can't find any like these on asset stores.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3461580/One_More_Bang/

>>712861327
It's very similar to that vampire survivors game except instead of enemies coming from every direction they just come from the front. But vampire survivors is very popular for some unknowable reason

>>712861327
its a trash game being pushed by devolver digital

>>712856936
>>712861059
Never heard anyone talking about Granvir here https://store.steampowered.com/app/3668270/Granvir_Zero_Front/

>>712857461
Lots of good stuff on there.
>and Roger
>Easy Delivery Co.
>SSR Wives
>The Drifter
were my favorites of the bunch.
>Prison of Husks
>Gas Station Story
>Dead Finger Dice
were laughably bad.
Still making my way through a lot of them.

I should get to these demos but maybe I'll just play Stardew Valley.

>>712857169
I spent more time with Hark, it's, IMO, more inspired by Bloodborne atmosphere-wise, while Verho -- by dark souls, down to Patches. Hark is slightly more light-hearted and cartoonish, Verho is full of despair, hopelessness and gloom. Can't say which one I liked more, but would probably play Hork first.

>>712861634
>Stardew Valley
GAAAYY

>>712858987

I'm a card game degenerate here are the ones I liked:

>my card is better than your card
card crafting find stickers to put on cards which alter effects and cost. Demo the effects are pretty simple tho different from a lot of these that are just 1:1 StS copies

>One Turn Kill
A typical in that get random abilities after battles but do all deck building before a run. Structure is you have to combo off and win each fight in one turn but enemies will have after you play X cards do Y effect / all cards cost is drawing a certain number of cards and have to win before deck runs out.

>Dice legends
spellrogue / dicey dungeons where cards have slots to place dice in except unlike those games you draw the cards with slots in them each turn. Cool art / music

>Moonsigil atlas
rather than typical energy costs, cards have shapes that need to slot in a pattern to play

>frostbound
Kind of wave defence; place units on a grid that enemies march toward your base each turn

In the played but worse than above

>replicat
memory matching game + rogulite + kind of balatro scoring

>doomspire
hearthstone with some kinda cool effects but very snowbally / very obvious hard combos (if get a good dragon card run becomes clicking the dragon card in every choice)

>Command deck
spaceship themed + kinda neat have visuals of ships fighting in background as play cards but card effects are really simple

>Into the grid
sci-fi themed kinda similar to last one cool visuals but actual effects are simple

>>712861715
check out my hours played

>>712861495
On the one hand I have rougoue like fatigue and the mechs dont have front to back shoulderpads and I doubt you can color your mech

on the other, it's a mechgame with customization! thanks anon!

>>712858812
>>712861706
Alright, good, that was also my impression based on the screenshots. Hark looks great.

>>712854109 (OP)
Post some WEBMs and convince others to give these games a shot

>>712854667
>Furry shit is kinda gay though.
Agreed. Thankfully, once you unlock the adventurers guild you can bench the furry you get early on and just create an all human/elf team if you want. Unfortunately, the tackle skill is really useful to fight the npc's you find in the tower for a good source of exp and money which is very useful in retro mode, which is what I played.

>>712862256
Anon, there are different torso types some of which have shoulder pads. You can also colour your mech here.

>>712861585
Prison of husks impressed me in so many ways. Square resolutions only, invert y axis option does nothing and probably the worst combat in souls like I've seen.

I enjoyed KuloNiku, it's very comfy, the different characters are a lot of fun and the gameplay is smooth. Instead of managing multiple customers and timers like most cooking games, you just manage one, but their orders are more complex and require some ingredient minmaxing (like a sauce gives the dish a spicy flavor but it reduces saltiness, so you need to add something salty but maybe that ingredient also increases sweetness, etc.)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3357960/KuloNiku_Bowl_Up/

>>712863063
im not a game dev, how are different resolutions programmed
>hello computer, make the game more bigger when i press the more bigger button

>>712861758
>my card is better than your card
Seconded.

>>712856060
>Is there some sort of poll with all of /v/'s favorite demos
Easily abusable with shills desu senpai

Unfortunately, Ratatan sucks and feels like a facsimile of Patapon. Shame.

>some demos are already getting pulled

AAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEE I HAVENT PLAYED ALL OF THEM SAVE ME GABEN

>>712861053
Depends on your definition of roleplaying. You're not given freedom to play whatever role you want, but Bigby is sorta kinda a role that you can play in different ways.

>>712854109 (OP)
I enjoyed After inc.
Fun little phone game port.
Will pirate if it costs more than $10.

>>712864446
if youve already downloaded them, try accessing them through the install folder and just run the exe

Top 10?

>>712863506
With modern engines it is basically that, yes.
Square resolutions were a conscious choice on a dev part, and I don't get such pointels commitment to PS1 aesthetics.

>>712864683
It will cost more than 10 bucks on release date

Any good narrative based games you guys enjoyed?

>>712865245
and Roger as well as No, I'm not a Human

>>712854109 (OP)
>most played demo of the event
wait was Vindictus even part of the Next Fest?

>>712865245
Legends of the Round Table

>>712864398
Yeah, they made a bunch of changes that fuck with things that worked perfectly fine in Patapon and feel like they were only made for the sake of being different

MIMESIS was so fucking disappointing.
For one thing it only supported playing with friends, not making servers for others to join, but I was still able to play solo to see the mechanics.
It's literally just "Lethal Company but worse" in all aspects except for when a mimic occasionally shows up. The whole schtick of the game are the mimics replicating player voices, but going in, I thought it would be an AI sort of thing where it synthesized new speech and tried to respond appropriately to things humans said in order to actually fool them.
Instead, it literally just parrots speech that gets said over voice chat, verbatim. There's no intelligence behind it, which means that what they say is almost never going to make contextual sense, which makes it incredibly easy to identify mimics.

Dead as Disco is so fun.
>>>/wsg/5901200

>>712865492
Can't stand the woman. Writing sucks. Combat sucks too.

I played Mina The Hollower and liked it

>>712865980
Can add your own music huh..
ive yet to see any that can match Speedcore/Splitter but giving it a shot before it goes.

>>712861204
theyre kino at the very least

>>712861059
Not every fest is going to have the niche you want and have it actually be fun bro.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3767370/Girl_Frame/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3395330/MechAnimals/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3286730/BATTLERCORE_TEAM_BLAZER/
These are all mech games I played.
But what you asked isn't
"Are there any mech games"
Its
"Any you recomend"
I wouldn't recomend any of them.

>>>/wsg/5901200
>>712865980
aint it just arkham slop combat

>>712866264
thanks for the recs!
>But what you asked isn't
>"Are there any mech games"
>Its
>"Any you recomend"
>I wouldn't recomend any of them.
I actually asked the former since only the top 50 showed on the app, including that weird femboy/futa ai game

same reason I mentioned MadMetal I could no longer find it using the regular nextFest search feature

did anyone else play ratatan and how did you enjoy it? i really wanted to like it and maybe im playing it really wrong but i felt like i was really struggling to do damage

>>712866905
The enemies really are just that spongy. You need to grind weapon levels and hope you get good element upgrades so that anything that isn't a mook dies before it nukes your army.

Mina the Hollower was super fun
Aeromachina was also super fun

>>712855058
2 is a sequel to the first game's best ending so you chose correctly.

made me realize indie games are all shit

>>712867285
You suck dude. Just use your abilities.

>>712854109 (OP)
pretty mid fest, still fun

Haven't seen this posted anywhere
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3278310/LANESPLIT/
>drive bike fast on highway simulator

it's really cool and immersive, sound design is fantastic

>>712867661
I do. Yet for some reason the developer still felt the need to nerf the HP of the enemies. Curious.

>>712867661
Anyway I probably shouldn't defend Ratatan or RatataCHINK as I like to call it. Owned by China. Just like AstLibra. Just like Turretgirls. Just like every game you'll hear mentioned not by me because you are all chink hiveminded.

It's a real shame that there is a big Zhang controlling all of you.

>>712866905
I think they expect you to spam the special attack songs until you're out of mana and then only use the regular attack to kill time until your mana is back but even when I was doing that it still felt pretty slow due to how much they'd just miss both regular and special attacks and the few times the flying enemies glitched out and flew away and I had to wait like three minutes for them to come back definitely didn't help.

>>712867912
>Collector cove hell no
I knew i should've played the demo. first looks were great and i rarely make bad calls.

>>712868146
the controls were incredibly clunky and the game doesn't offer much. if they charge more than 5 bucks, it's a rip off. you can customize your water snake though, that's the best part about it. and it's unfortunately no windwaker kino, you just select the destinations that's all

>>712867912
What do you have against Stellar Blade germanon?

>>712868402
snow movieslop. you barely even play the game, it plays itself

>>712868091
I was wondering why /v/ was sucking up to this game full of childrens' music. If it's Chinese, then it makes sense.

for the retards who didnt get MIO and thought i was joking about making an indepth thread on its demo
>>712864447

>>712869068
what is this guy's deal?

>>712854380
>>712854994
>Most obnoxiously shilled game award

>>712869495
what is your deal, that youre asking what is some guys deal, for talking passionately about videogames indepth on the fake videogame board for fake superficial, mostly tangential "videogame discussion"

>>712869736
goes to Mina the Hollower!

>>712869495
It's essayfag. With a name like that, you can already infer how insufferable he is. Don't reply.

>played 185 demos
>still have 130 I want to play
I need another week.
Devs who don't keep their demos up for at least 1-2 weeks more are fools.
Anyway, I've downloaded them all.

Very dissapointed with how Ratatan plays and feels

Honestly, it wasn't even that bad. But I think I am passing on this demo. I got enough survival horror, I don't need to bother with this one. It's focusing on multiplayer anyway, so I wish them luck with that one.

Maybe it'll be popular, but I don't need to bother with a solo campaign that is tacked onto a CO-OP game.

>>712868091
I'll buy them all to support the destruction of muttmerica

>Be a narrativefag
>Only good game for me were Artis and Dispatch
Oh well. I actually got a cool (though woke) game I'm looking forward to releasing this week, so I'll have to make do with that.

I tried and Roger, Ooo, Dimhaven, Eriksholm, Every Day We Fight and Mystery of the Malign. What else am I missing that's good? No roguelite shit, city or deck builders, or games with trash gacha-tier girl designs (so basically no Chinese or Korean games).

>femboy futa house

pretty mundane mystery in this one. pass

>>712871625
Yuri????

what the fuck is an enby? fuck it, I don't care. demo deleted. go to hell, whatever you were

>>712871796
lol china knows what the hell that is?

>>712871591
>think it's a game where you play as a femboy in a house full of futas
>instead the MC is a normal guy and the house is 50/50 femboys and futas

>>712871796
Non-Binary. It's basically "retarded normalfag wants the brownie points from being a tranny without having to commit to dressing in drag or taking foreign substances".
Never play games like that.

>>712871625
Gone Home, but chinks

enh, enh. I mean, I'm sure this is way better than most "broken home and depressing childhood RPG maker games." But why should I play this? I got to do it for real? It was probably more fun in real life than it was in RPG maker.

whatever, pass.

>Gorepunk
Eye-bleeding knockoff of Citizen Sleeper. This is just literally Citizen Sleeper with hideous graphics. On the fence about this one.

>Mindflux: Dead Man Walking
Tagged as an RPG, but not really an RPG. More like a CYOA where you have different dialogue options representing different approaches to a situation (e.g. Bureaucratic, Bargaining, etc.), and you have to talk to people and solve a mystery. Think Disco Elysium but in 3D for who knows what reason. The banner image on Steam makes it looks like it's going to be some crappy mascot horror game. Terribly unoptimized. What moron makes it to where you can't go back and read tutorials?

just a stylized text adventure. may as well read a book.

>>712871358
here you go
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3789400/

Second playable character. This is a strangely large amount of effort into literally everything but the beasts the game is supposed to be about.

>>712871796
"enby" is a tag used to denote works featuring or relating to non-binary characters or themes. It's a shortened form of "NB" or "non-binary"
Chinese women love this kind of thing, almost certainly a female dev.

Maple is pretty hot, I'd buy her game for like $1.50

>>712872785
I'm glad that you're making a game, but I'm not interested.

>>712872785
Based
>Entire thread of people recomending games
>Dozens more he could go read
>SPOONFEED ME
Lazy fucks deserve nothing

>Null State
Neat little puzzle game themed around "hacking" things. I am absolutely sick of cyberpunk settings. They are all uninspired.

I don't know about all these fishing demos, man, fishing is supposed to be a minigame in the real game, not a game unto itself.

methinks

The only game I ended up wish listing was Artis Meiji Spa which I'm not even sure is a real game.

>>712873352
What a strange assumption to make that I haven't read through the thread. I hope you're just replying to your own post and there aren't 2 people retarded enough to find that funny.

>>712873602
>Waaaaaah spoonfeed me
You just say
>What is good
People have been posting what they think is good.
You can go read it.
You lazy fuck.

>>712873659
Stop trying so hard to fit in. Your asshurt is showing.

>>712873735
Okay lazy boi

>>712873583
it is a bit confusing, but you should be wishlisting plain old artis impact. I'm not sure if anything else will come of meiji spa, or if that content will even be in the main game, but it's definitely a demo for artis impact

>>712873762
I'm not playing your gay furry game, sorry.

>>712873790
the question with artis is it actually cheery like it says or submersiveslop
the images on the page dont look cheery or happy they look boring and sad

>no overly ambitious collectathons
This next fest STANK

>>712873993
swap to slop: teenage cop
swap to slop: teenage cop
swap to slop: teenage cop

>>712854109 (OP)
Any good fishing games?

>>712871796
>>712872809
>/vpol/ kept telling me China was gonna save the industry from the wokies
KWAB

Game good:

why do people post in this thread without playing demos

>>712877085
Because I don't like playing demos but I like looking up upcoming games and other people's impressions on them so that I can try them out later. I'm just treating this thread as another version of "Post upcoming games you're excited for".

Added Absolum and Hark the Ghoul off of this thread. Slightly less excited for Ratatan now because people don't seem to be loving it.

I already had Gecko Gods wishlisted, but the demo might make me unwishlist it.
It's not "bad" but it's not what I was expecting. I'm pretty sure I wishlisted it just off the teaser with the climbing mechanics, but that's basically all it has. All the puzzles are easy and there's no mechanical depth.
I'm not a fan of "comfy puzzle games."

>>712877456
It's A Short Hike lizard edition

To think that I postponed the Dice Gambit demo until now. But I finally played it and I'll have to shill it.
It's now my favourite demo of the entire Next Fest. I'm surprised. But the tactical SRPG combat combined with dice is honestly a really fun way to introduce an RNG element that isn't just your ordinary hit/miss&crit percentages. It's simultaneously more predictable and manageable while undeniably still RNG which introduces an unpredictable element that can force you to react or adapt.

But I also like the choices the game has you make outside of combat. The relationships with the different houses and individuals of the city and the perks and potential benefits that you can unlock and acquire by gaining their favour, that in turn gives you more options in how you build your growing family. Is cool. I like how the paths you take during expeditions will leave you choosing between opportunities to combat for loot, exp, and favour with the different characters. Or other events that can strengthen your different family members or other odd encounters. All while you've got limited energy limiting how many expedition steps and events you can realistically go for in a single expedition, forcing you to make choices.
Even such a simple thing as the region itself of your chosen expedition, affecting the likely events, encounters, and characters you're likely to find. Also ends up giving you choices that are relevant.

And it's fun to build your characters. To choose the different classes and to level them up. Choosing perks and abilities alongside various status options that both raise and lower stats. And then you can fish for suitors and breed your characters and try to optimize these stats.
It's a lot cooler than I expected.

>>712854109 (OP)
Interesting twist to the "spot the anomaly or start from ground" But this time you have schizophrenia and you literally have to discern between "normal" abnormalities and lethal abnormalities that restart the progress
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3690010/Whos_at_the_door/

>>712870549
the demo I played 2 steamfes ago was pretty much, you either play this coop or its gonna suck.
which is too bad, because I liked the overall style/game

>>712861175
The eyeballs were the only roadblock for me. Took me a few extra runs to get that quest. I don't consider that grindy. I guess if your baseline standard is a normal linear game.

Demos I Enjoyed:

>Neon Inferno
I like me some Run n' Guns and adding with Wild Guns is a must buy for me

>Project Turboblast
The Bunny Butt Bot is the reason ngl, but it's actually a fun racer that needed some optimal fix

>Funi Raccoon Game
I rarely play Delivery games but this is one I like despite the wackyness that's going on there

>Slyders
Seems to be a literal Serious Sam Survivors and a good one so far

>Dragon March
A fun take on classic Snake

>Dead as Disco
Not really a Rhythm Beat em Up as I thought but it is good that I can add some music in

>VonGarland Castle
As if I played a Resident Evil x Castlevania game on Newgrounds. It was good times I had

>Brutal John 2
Never thought someone would do a Duke Nukem successor but there it is and it's fun

>Aeromachina
If Ratchet replaced Clank with Spyro. Hope it has more weapons in the future

>Truxon Extreme
Unexpected return and I liking it even though it can be tough

>Chrono Gear
Yeah it's a Vtuber game but I like Freedom Planet 1+2 so it's a pass

>Texnoplazm
Nice balance of melee and shooting

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2920030/UnderGirl_Submission_Path/

>>712880052
and to add a few more:

>Phil's Contract
MS Paint Pizza Tower I actually like. Pretty cool escape music as well

>Yatpig
Who would've thought playing as a Sassy Black Mama could be a fun yet very challenging action platformer

>Dancing Divas
A pretty gud take on classic beat em ups and the Divas are nice especially that chunky one

>Primland The Magus
Dark Action Platformer with a girl who put on her Angry Eyebrows

>>712880052
>I rarely play Delivery games but this is one I like despite the wackyness that's going on there
I liked how unpredictable it was. The place that kept spawning exploding chickens however actually made my computer struggle somehow and my computer isn't too weak.

I only played Construction sim and that's it.

play Clown is Hungry

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3351330/Clown_Is_Hungry/

>>712877489
A Short Hike had more going on than just climbing.

Bloodthief is really good. The only criticisms I put in the review form are that I wish the homing attack pinged faster, and it could use more aesthetic styling and exploration.

>>712856060
>Hell is us
Tried this one. The combat felt similar to bloodborne. You can heal by counter-attacking after taking damage.
It has the barebone exploration elements they have been marketing, but the demo was somewhat linear and it ended as soon as the map opens up.
The story seems interesting enough.
Few potential red flags though. The demo had some Skyrim-dungeons tier puzzles. The demo had few enemy types and no boss fights to showcase. I hope it won't be a problem in the final product.

>>712854109 (OP)
Only demo I played was jump ship, just as I got into the lobby with friends the host crashed but they said they weren't impressed anyway and didn't restart, I gave it a bit of a solo run anyway but didn't finish that basic mission because I couldn't be assed to figure out how to make more ship ammo, I could only seem to make more guns themselves.

It might turn out alright, i'll see what people are saying once it's out

>>712876675
What game?

>>712878827
>shutterbug
is that from starting with a random class unlocked? What's that class like? don't think i saw who would unlock that otherwise.
Also what did your characters end up like?
i had my character on the knife thrower class so i was able to prepare 4-6 knifes for the next turn. and my other character got a signature skill through a random event from a class i haven't even unlocked that puts a spotlight on a tile giving anyone on that tile constantly fragile to take every damage.
Needless to say i melted every big enemy like the portal wardens.
And then i got fucked up in the reactor because there was more than 1 big target and it was simply "kill big guy and fight is over".
Shit's fun. definitely a day 1 buy.

Any cool space games this fest?

What killed the hype?

>>712886780
The closing of this fest edition... literally

Pretty bad Fest, didn't really like any of the games I played. While Ball X Tilt is my most played, it got boring very fast. Mina The Hollower was one the better games but I'm tired of pixel shit so I'll be skipping the full game.

The best Fest was the one that happened in June (?) of last year, never played so many new games in row and actually bought a few.

Any good vampire survival clones this fest?

>>712887128
here you go bro

>>712854293
Already done
Huha

>>712868091
>>712866905
Ratatan literally gave me a migraine in 3 minutes and I'm not even exaggarating. There is a reason why Patapon was mostly dark colored.

You know, demos are pretty commonplace on Steam nowadays.
It'd be pretty nice to have a demo sharing/recommendation thread every once in a while, even outside the context of Steam Next Fest.

>>712885957
>Also what did your characters end up like?
nta but i ended up with two vanguards - one with spear dash that gains some shields when damages something and another damages every enemy around him when he gains shields (really helped survive fucking chaos that is reactor mission ended up being), knife juggler (really liked his ability to throw 10 knifes at random targets) and scorcher with two abilities to put plasma burn on enemies and passive that gives you some dices if you didn't damage anyone this turn.

anyone noticed an uptick in agreement disclaimers on demos? they selling my data to make ends meet now?

>>712887796
Maybe it could be a monthly sort of thing like the hidden gem threads we do every now and then.

I honestly cannot believe that dogshit solo leveling game is still going, one of the worst gachas on the market being carried by IP alone

>>712886363
Jitter....kinda
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2877660/Jitter/

Was there anything good in terms of character action games or action rpgs?

Demos in the library used to indicate when they're playable or not, but one time they stopped doing that, they still have the 'Play' button but when you click on it it shows 'no license'. Does this happen only on my end or is this the same for everyone?

>>712888669
happens to me as well

>>712886363
Exospace Combat Engineer. It's got some similarities to Battleships Forever.

>>712880052
That's the first time someone described Aeromachina like R&C in these threads. I hope you aren't wrong, anon, because now I have to try it.

>>712886363
I thought https://store.steampowered.com/app/2509200/ERA_ONE/ is pretty coo with potential. The only sad thing is, despite it being in space, its not really using the 3 dimensional space and is only on one plane.
and also this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3129930/Nonentity_Galaxy/
you built fleets and then let them auto battle it out against the NPC
needs more content doe

>>712885005
Witchway, says right there in the filename.

Dead as disco's aaaalmost good but the game feels more like arkham rather than a rhythm game

>>712889146
Lacks the polish of hifi rush definitely

>>712888323
Got exactly one out of 30 or so demos I played, and it was absolutely hilarious. You can see the dev wrote it himself, and he has no idea what he's doing, but it all boils down to "I'm not obliged to make a full game and there's nothing you can do about it".

>>712888669
Same. Try to launch exe from the folder; or take a look at the gbe_fork project on GitHub.

>>712889224
It's got no beat meter and that tells a lot.
Syncing everything to a beat is going to be a pain and they still have to fix up how to end songs instead of just silence.

>>712888963
everyone said that about aeromachina, the ratchet and clank inspirations aren't exactly hidden

>>712889379
Missed that particular thread, but in the ones I've been no one compared them directly. But the demo is still up and I'm glad I've seen them compared and now can check out.

>>712888290
>knife juggler (really liked his ability to throw 10 knifes at random targets)
This literally carried me, shit was OP

>>712854380
name of gayme?

>>712859448
I'm never going to forgive you fuckers if you let Truxtron Extreme bomb.

>>712890409
SSR Wives: The Murder of My Winter Crush

>>712890525
Shouldn't have gone 3D with shit optimization if they wanted me to play it.

>>712855132
The streamer was the best of ones I tried. The isekai fantasy shop made by a chinese dev was also decent.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3591500/Nogood_Streamer_Miraichan_Now_accepting_lewd_comments/

My game didn't even get 50 downloads

>>712891974
Post it

>>712892051
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3744090/Three_Legions_Erosion_of_the_Abyss_Demo/

Problem is I already own close to a thousand games on Steam, so time spent playing demos I could just spend playing games I actually own.

>>712888558
>>712888804
>>712889001
Thank you friends

>>712892312
i mean anon what did you expect?
it just looks like something to get burried in a sea of other low effort looking slop

>>712892312
>0 follows on Steam
>0 follows on Twitter
>three tweets with zero engagement
>1 player all-time peak
>no forum posts
>a Reddit post with 5 upvotes and no replies
Jeez. I don't really believe this is your game but if it is, you didn't seem to do anything to market your game.

>>712892701
>>712892849
T-thanks

>>712892953
This is an itch io game bro.

Post the demo there first to see if people will actually play it.

>>712892953
If you're going through the trouble of supporting four different languages, then you need to advertise your game four times as much. Your game could be amazing but nobody's going to find it unless you put it out there.

>>712892312
The art is kind of bad.
Not just that it's crunchy pixels, but it's got no style.
The UI looks even more barebones.
Downloading and playing a demo is less of a commitment than buying a game, but it's more of a commitment than doing literally nothing.
If you want downloads, your game has to at least LOOK good. If you've got no art skills, find some decent-looking royalty-free stuff.

>>712892312
The visuals looks like whatever, but the big issue is the header image. Does it look like something you absolutely can't resist clicking on?

>>712867912
If it weren't for the fact that I live with a grandma with stage 3 Alzheimer's, I'd think that 'and Roger' is just a bland variation on Florence, but ended up hit me like a truck
A very ingenious and raw way to portray dementia and all the pain and desolation that it entails

I haven't tried the Danchi Days one, but I'm guessing it's more cheerful at least.

>>712892312
This anon >>712894079 got more of a point than this: >>712894124 IMO
First impression is always based on looks, always, it's not even up to debate. And there's nothing to look at.

>>712892312
Well, what else did you expect? (no offense)
Just by its aesthetics, it seems like the kind of game I'd look at for five seconds and discard immediately in seek of others. Unfortunately in these days, and especially in the current context of Next Fest where 2,000 demos are the minimum and increasing, visual appeal is everything, far more important than playability and music, because without a proper introduction, a game repels and scares

>>712894124
>Does it look like something you absolutely can't resist clicking on?
He just needs to add big titty waifus.

>>712885957
>is that from starting with a random class unlocked? What's that class like? don't think i saw who would unlock that otherwise.
And yeah, Shutterbug was my random class I got from the Spoiled for Choice game modifier I chose at the start.
Otherwise it turns out you unlock it from Rank4 with Victorin. And the class is an "Exposed" focused class and comes with picture related being its skills and abilities (the tooltip for the Exposed Status effect in the bottom right corner). And Profiling is real powerful. Doesn't do much against bosses but it's been the MVP of my expeditions.

And yeah the multi-throw knife ability is really nice. Got that on my non-Shutterbug daughter. She doesn't have much HP at all though so I'm a bit worried for her. Her crit is nice though.
Sadly I accidentally chose Dig Up Dirt on my main character since I didn't know clicking on it would instantly teach me it and then lock me out of the skill choice. But I really like the signature ability he started with. But maybe the MC's signature is the same for everyone.

>>712874067
>>no overly ambitious collectathons
Considering how the others had multiple I'm kind of surprised this one didn't seem to have it.
But maybe it's just because Big Hops had its demo before the next fest. But we could always include it as an honorary next fest demo.
In other words go play Big Hops now!

>>712896428
Really liked your game, great movement controls and physics. My only complain is that you can't use your tongue everywhere, act like Tarzan, only in the specified points, but I guess that would be another type of game.

>>712891442
I wonder if there's going to be anything more to working so that you can get more money to donate with.

>>712896428
Turn the frog into a loli

>>712854109 (OP)
Well, I did play 6 of those on that list, but I went out of my way to dig deeper in the pile because I wanted to actually give some feedback to developers.

One thing that confused me is dev anons coming into complain about how many downloads they got... but refusing to post their games the entire fest. Fuck are we supposed to do about it if we don't even know what game it is?

>>712854453
yeah you went on about how your trans-coded game will "pop off".
glad the other anons didn't recommend any other garbage. 4chan is based sometimes

>>712875242
Sinker Sound was really good

>>712899975
This, I still remember dev of Poke All Toads shilling his game here

>Give feedback on how a demo is way, way too easy if you use 1 action and just slow otherwise
>ESL dev misreads that as "the game is hard" and gives a 5 bullet point guide on how to get good, all the tecnhiques they think you should lose, even though I literally said "Most options are pointless and i killed nearly every enemy in 1 hit"
ESL's I kneel

>>712900341

LMAO indies are bitching again.

>>712901675
He's not saying it's bad just that it's way harder now. Having demos for everything is good for us consumers because we can filter out the chaff easier now with a quick 10 minute demo

>>712901790
Nah there's an undercurrent with these indieshitters. The replies fo it are already trying to imply that Valve needs to gatekeep again.

This fest had by far the most questionable decisions by devs. You can get in one single demo now.

Like, if you're going to enter one of these, shit you should be avoiding

>Your game runs like shit
>Advertising your demo is timed; it just pisses people off
>No resolution options or insanely limited; not everyone is using big screens
>Controls that literally don't work
>Doing no testing at all; it took me < 5 mins into a run in one game to clip through the map and softlock the game so hard I had to force close it. I pressed 1 button.
>No trailer video
>A trailer video that's literally just the devs speaking, because you have that little faith in the gameplay (a trailer made largely of panning shots of the world and cutscenes is fine though, even though i don't like them, most people do)
>Not looking at other games in the same genre and making sure you at least have the basics; I was so fucking confused when I played an FPS and they didn't even show ammo on the hud. Its the most basic shit.
>Unskippable cutscenes; most people will just close the game before its over
>No tutorial if your game plays weirdly, but also
>Don't make the tutorial super slow and plodding
>If your content is placeholder... why is it in the fest? Ie king static. 2/4 weapons are 'placeholder'. Put it off 'till next fest then.
I have to assume this was the least succesful next fest in history for getting downloads and wish lists. It was genuinely shocking how many of them had gigantic fundamental flaws literally anyone on this site could point out instantly. The majority of games I saw had 0 community posts or just ones complaining about issues like the above.

>>712901851
Valve needs to make better filters so we can gatekeep ourselves. I don't see how that will help the shitty indie games though

>>712901675
>folks
tranny disregarded

Demos I liked
>Break Shot Hero
>ODDCORE
>Glaciered

Demos I didn't like
>BALL x PIT
>Ratatan

Didn't get to play a lot. Still have Starlight ReVolver and AEROMACHINA on deck. I would play Everdeep and Mina but those two I'm certain I'll enjoy already; I'll just wait on them.

Overall, kinda whatever NextFest. Most anything else just didn't catch my attention, though JumpShip sounds interesting (even if it's just friendslop)

>>712901945
I've never had a problem finding shit in nextfest and I've been doing these events since their inception.

Any demo casualties that have gone offline?

>>712901853
Yeah that's a good list of shit that shows a game just isn't ready yet. Ideally the demo should only be in Next Fest if you're ready to launch in the next couple of months. It shouldn't be a sounding board for active development

>>712902178
Maybe I'm just bad at searching but I always get unrelated genres when searching for stuff. Taggign in general is kidn of fucked

>>712896428
I'm skeptical about this one and I don't know why
Give me a good reason to play other than it's a cute collectathon

>>712901675
>bluesky

>>712902203
Any casualties that didn't even manage to go online during the fest?

"Every man feels the need to write a book" is now:
Every man/tranny now feels the need to make a shitty "indie" game.
Some of you just weren't meant to be game producers. Stop releasing shit on Steam. Stop wasting your time. Learn a real skill and apply yourself.
Valve are the only ones making money.

>>712902872
>Learn a real skill and apply yourself.
fuck you i can do both

>>712854109 (OP)
>this not being top 50 played
No accounting for taste, their loss.

>>712903660
What's the appeal.
It was just a very boring roguelite with overly long cooldowns on your overly limited moveset in areas with way too many enemies for how boring the combat is.
The only thing of note was the artstyle and the people who buy games because they look good buy AAA games

>>712903976
this 1000%

>>712903660
It's just shittier Nuclear Throne/Isaac

>>712854109 (OP)
>Top 50 demos are here, naturally, we didn't play any of them because we are counterculture to the core.
Yep, as per usual, the most popular demos on /v/ are completely different. There are demos in the top 10 I haven't even heard about. I mean, most likely I did see them when scrolling through demos and discarded without giving them a second thought.

>>712904235
Dead as dicso, ball pit, ratatan, baby steps (although that seemed to be one guy spamming webms), ninja gaiden and mina the hollower were all brought up here a lot.

>>712896428
>Big Hops
This platformer wasn't interesting at all
The movement is incredibly basic and overly simplified, the backflip has a forced animation lock instead of being snappy and responsive, and the level design is insultingly simple and barely changes after you leave the tutorial area making it very forgettable.

The only two good parts I can say about it are the grapple physics are fun when you build up speed even though the way you fly off them can be very jank at times as you don't get slingshot in a natural physics arc like you'd expect from any grapple mechanic
2nd thing is the seed projectile mechanic (like the vines/mushrooms) is by far the coolest and most interesting thing in this game since it has potential for interesting player expression and fun level design mechanics but this wasn't used well at all in the demo's level design and the game's overly simplistic movement is another downside to making this fun

The game isn't trying to be a movement focused platformer at all, it's a story focused 'cute' platformer focused on the seed projectile gimmick so I have no interest in playing it. It's a platformer for people that don't care about the platformer genre and just want to play a simple cutesy game

>>712904338
True. Still, if we had a list, it wouldn't be very similar to the official one.

>>712904235
>>712904338
I remember seeing Jump Ship, No I'm Not Human, Star Birds, Dispatch, Moonlighter 2, Morbid Metal, Absolum, Tamashika, TerraTech legion fairly frequently too.

>>712860390
kill yourself faggot, aeterna noctis is kino, not gonna read the turd worlder steam review word vomit in your pic

>>712860390
>>712860235
I got that game in a bundle and I couldn't even give it away. No one wanted it.
I ended up just dumping it for bots in a random thread

>>712904825
>aeterna noctis
>kino
i can't even comprehend how shit your taste is

>>712904235
I should make a script that scrapes names from these threads to make our own list

>>712905481
How would you know what to scrape? How would you handle misspellings? How would you make the distinction between people simply mentioning a game once, having multiple replies that each mention or quote the name, or the same list getting reposted multiple times?

>>712905481
Scrapping names isn't a hard part (although with generic ones like Baby Steps it can be challenging), it's determining if the post around it is positive, negative, or just mentions the game in passing ("Hark the Ghoul played similarly to Verho, which I liked" -- Verho shouldn't go on the list, Hark should). I think it's a genuine usecase for a local LLM. I really should look into this this weekend, I have about 10 of threads archived locally already.

>>712905251
>game is too hard so its bad
ok nigger

>>712905725
game is bad so it's bad, shove your strawman about difficulty back up your ass where it came from

>>712905725
> hard
it didnt even come to this, its shttiness shined very early so the supposed difficulty that you claim would have saved this game didnt even come into play LMAO

Theer are plenty more difficult games I played because they are good

>>712905941
>>712906048
holy retardation

Resorting to play indie games because AAA games are no longer good, is like smokers resorting to crack because cigars no longer hit as good.

>>712906582
Supremely retarded take. I'm surprised you held yourself off the food analogy, but it's not far off.

>>712876480
This is somehow an uglier Furi, god damn

>>712906664
>You just don't get it, it plays goooood. It was such a gooood experience, yo. The bright color pallete and fast-paced gameplay adds to the experience. It scratches the itch, bro, you don't see shit like this anymore, you know what I'm saying?
how is this any different to what a drug addict would say?

>>712898912
There won't be cause the game is already out on dlsite and the dev is working on the dlc and next game. It's just there to give more story scenarios and so you can throw to see some scenes on stream.

>>712906582
No. A more accurate analogy would be resorting to rolling your own cigarettes because the quality to cost ratio is better.

The official list is out and the only difference I can see is no femboy game. Someone might be trolling us by putting it in there constantly.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestmostplayed

>>712903660
It's WAY too busy visually

>>712906582
>go to restaurant because the food is good
>restaurant replaces experienced staff with cheaper new hires, starts using cheaper lower quality ingredients, quality of food plummets
>stop going to that restaurant, start going to a new place that opened up down the street
>"wtf u are literally liek drug addick?"

>>712892321
but you don't do that anyway so I dunno why that matters you're a bit dim

>>712907925
you are a consumer, not a producer. You are not making the fucked up indie games that you wishlist.
>>712908257
see
>>712907346

>>712898915
It's not at all the same genre, but you might be interested in Frogun.

>>712899975
Maybe they were afraid they'd be accused of shilling?
Which is dumb, since anon devs are welcomed literally every Next Fest. But that still could've been the reason.

>>712908870
There was one dev who shilled for like the first 3-4 days I saw and no one seemed to mind so they should know its fine
That said I don't think he was shilling in the right place though, since his game looked like a game for streamers to react to, the exact opposite of most of /v/'s taste

>>712907346
False dichotomy.

>>712854109 (OP)
>because we're counterculture
No, I didn't play any of them because they are uninteresting trash

this guy should be ashamed of himself for making such a shitty game. I actually played it during the festival. A fucking soup simulator?

>>712907346
Drugs are bad because they can literally kill you and you also suffer terrible physical symptoms if you stop taking them.
You could compare it to a psychological addiction like gambling, but psychological additions are only bad (and really, are only diagnosable as addictions) insofar as they begin to cause other areas of a person's life to suffer.
No one here is spending their life's savings on indie games, or losing their job because they can't stop playing indie games.
The addict comparison is retarded.

>>712909003
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum was a /v/ game I really liked, from a Next Fest back in 2021.
I bought it and still haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but I DID really like the demo.

>>712907985
Uh.. lad.
You should probably login. The Femboy game is actually on the list.
I'm making the pic wide so you can see my scroll bar. ;^)

>>712909465
I remember the dev of that getting into arguments with people who didn't like his game lol

Problem with a lot of /v/ shilling is they make games for like no audience. I remember about the same time as that there was a game where you played with like procedually generated meme cards or some shit. Like who is this for?

>2 people who played the game wishlisted it

oof. Another victim of listening to the experts.

>>712854109 (OP)
i missed everything cuz i was deltarunning

anything i should pay attention to in the future?

>>712907985
>Anon can't count (there's 49 on the page if you are logged out or have Adult content disabled)

>>712909615
>and to participate on Next Fest ASAP
Retard. And the people who recommended that to him are retards.
As of a few fests ago, a game can only be featured ONCE in a Next Fest.
It's something you do when your game is releasing imminently, not as soon as you possibly can. The hype will die if your game comes out 2 years after your Next Fest demo, and the demo will be shittier as well.

>>712909573
nope I just checked between bitcraft and rogue and it's not there.

Although, for fun, I counted how many games were in the list and only came up with 48. But it still counts. Your...oh you know what I have LGBTQ set to ignore that's probably why it's not there.


...Is that why you guys are always whining about seeing too many gay fucking games? Do you not do that?

>>712909727
Yes, but you'll have to sift through the previous Fest threads for that info.
>>712909825
Don't respond to Pirat. He's just content farming.
>A Redditpost about a Muslim who uses a Chinese VPN, posted on 4chan with a generic filename

>>712909615
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3400110/Ironweld/
I saw and passed on this, it looks like an alpha.
You SHOULD try to get into next fest towards the start or in the 2 weel early... when your game is nearly done.
This looks like placeholder everything

>>712909905
Unfortunately, I don't filter the LGBT tag because any game which contains any form of yuri/lesbian relationship gets the tag brute-forced onto it by deranged fans/the developer.
I actually don't filter out any tags because I wanna see games in general and self-curate.
Here's an excellent example of how fucked that tag is and how bad filtering it is.
This is what pops up for me when I search the tag on Steam.
There's a variety of decent/good/not LGBT at all games on here that just have the tag stapled onto it.
>Hide ignored, what's in there?
KC:D 2, TLOU2 Remastered, EA Sports FC 25 (???), Spider-Man 2, Fields of Mistria (I don't like farming sims).

>>712909905
>I have LGBTQ set to ignore
>Never playing Signalis solely because retards misuse tags

the Artis Impact demo is really good. The main girl is a cute dork and it really shines through in her animations despite the minimalist art style. Also it runs in chrome for some reason?

>>712910474
Kingdom Come 2 is gay, so the filter was doing it's job. Sports is gay. So is the fucking last of us. And Spider-Man 2.

I look at your list and see proof that the filter is keeping away stuff I don't want. Guilty Gear? Hades? Borderlands? All trash. As for Phoenix Wright, I played that on the Nintendo DS so it's nonsensical inclusion is irrelevant.

>>712899975
Cute undeadress. My max level prisoner looks like a hobo right now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/
Cute little puzzle platformer.
I see a lot of potential.

>>712910863
>Also it runs in chrome for some reason
Tons of stuff is built off of Chrome because doing so means Google does all the heavy development lifting.
Even Steam is Chrome (Electron.)

>>712911068
hey cool, the steam page keeps a list of games you've specifically marked to ignore and never ever want to see again. I was just adding a new tag to my filter list when I noticed that.

>>712911310
Huh, yeah that makes sense I didn't realize Electron embeds Chromium

>>712911449
anyway in addition to gay games, I also don't want to see sports of rhythm ever again.

>>712910567
>Never playing Signalis solely because retards misuse tags
Yeah it's not like there's girls kissing in the game or anything, totally just people fucking up the tags.
He's not missing out on much by skipping the space lesbian silent hill 2 ripoff anyway.

I was VERY surprised at how much I liked Welcome to Elderfield
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3195440/Welcome_to_Elderfield/

It's like stardew valley x world of horror. Like creepy farming with dice rolls, lovecraftian bullshit and Junji ito-esque aesthetic

>>712911948
Well, it's not gay if one of them is a robot. That's not how that works. So he did state it accurately that the tag was misapplied in this case.

>>712912048
>of them is a robot
Who has a female body, a female personality and is referred to as female. Fuck right off with your mental gymnastics.
>>712911996
People are tired of le cozy farming meme and shitty turn-based combat, plus it's ugly as sin.

>>712912252
>a female personality
What the fuck is a female personality?
Did you mean feminine?

>>712911996
Looks good but I'm shit with scary games.

>>712912371
It's not just feminine, her whole personality and sense of self is entirely copied from a woman.

>>712867912
>open image
>"slop" "slop" "slop"
>close image
>erase opinion

>>712911996
>surprised when he likes good games

cynical jaded idiot. He can't even conceptualize the idea of enjoyment anymore.

>>712891974
>>712892312
I like the title, anon. But yeah, the competition in indie vidya is fierce now. You'd need to make the best playing game of all time to have a shot at competing with visuals like that. Even Slay the Spire had a huge uphill battle just off of their visuals.

If it makes you feel better, I'm pretty sure I speak for the majority of /v/ when I say that I am literally incapable of making this. Respect.

>>712911996
It's so obviously traced from Junji Ito that it's offputting

>>712912252
yeah that's why it surprised me retard, try it and maybe you'll like it too

>>712912474
it's not scary at all

>>712912542
it surprised me because I didn't like WoH, the art is kinda shit and I'm tired of farming sims. But it ended up being the Demo I played the most

>>712894164
Damn, you kind of sold me on "and Roger" with this post, anon.

>>712910474
>Split Fiction
WHAT?..
Why would a game, where the female lead characters are a clear and explicit allegory for Josef Fares' little daughters, have lesbianism? Are people sick or stupid?
I played that game from start to finish with a friend, and I've never seen anything like that.

>>712899975
>>712911081
What game?

>>712913705
>I played that game from start to finish with a friend, and I've never seen anything like that.
It's brimming with subtext actually.

>>712913826
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597590/Dungeon_Mori/
It's a bit simplistic, but looks cute and is reasonably fun.

>>712913705
>where the female lead characters are a clear and explicit allegory for Josef Fares' little daughters
How would you possibly even know or imagine this if you didn't have him telling you that? They're not even the same race. And they're millennial girlboss writers while his actual daughters are little alpha kids.

>>712913936
Like.. reading his own words before the game launch
Imagine putting shitty lesbianism into that context as the director, any instance of adding romance or love interests would be awkward in any way

>>712914295
So that's exactly what I said, retard. You only know this cause he told you that, same as me.

>>712913931
Kind of looks like a mobile game. But I love dungeon crawlers and I'm digging the style a lot so I'll give it a go.
I bet I'll like it.

>>712909251
>A fucking soup simulator?
Problem?

>>712910863
Yeah all the little animations are great and I enjoyed how you could interact with every little thing in the spa. You can really tell how much love went into it.

>>712854109 (OP)
man this shit sucked huh

>>712915913
If you wait to be told by others what is popular, that is exactly what you will get. 50 normie trash games.

There are no shortcuts in the Next Festival, you have to do the bargain bin hunting yourself if you want to find anything good. It makes it a good festival for people who actually play games, but for dismal retards such as yourself, you are rather out of luck.

>>712854109 (OP)
Clovertrap was really good and I want to play the full game, I'm looking for something to play instead but everything so far has been a little off the mark
Luck be a landlord is ok but kinda boring
Sol Celesto is cool and I like the style but it wasn't gambly enough for me
Astragali is a great idea but is too half baked
Dungeons and Degenerate gamblers wasn't very good

I just have to wait for Cloverpit but im too impatient

>>712909327
I see it like this. Games are addicting, and resorting to more niche games with exaggerated gameplay and/or presentation tells me normal games are just not hitting the right spot for your saturated brain.

I can't help but check the Steam discussions for every game I like and they're consistently depressing. It's either people asking the dev to make gameplay changes for the worse ('rougelike elements pls'), or localisation begging. Why is there a variant of 'ur game is amazing but i tell all my many frends and they say they wud play but there is no ukranain translation so pls make translatuin and u wil sell big many copies' on literally every board I look at?

>>712908870
as long as devanons are upfront that they're the devs and they're here to shill their game, no one cares. it's only when they pretend to be unrelated to the game that it becomes a problem
but for some devs, they might not want to have the connection to 4channel. which is fair, but then you should hope one of us naturally finds your game and organically shills it here, and focus your attention elsewhere

>>712916385
True I wishlisted only 2 games from this list of my 8.

>>712914656
Admittedly, it doesn't even really have keyboard hotkeys, so I see where you're coming from.
Still, mobile games are usually shit because they're overmonetized rather than because they're simplistic. I recently bought this mobile port for 15 bucks https://store.steampowered.com/app/2936030/Botworld_Odyssey/ and was quite happy with it.

still working my way through demos since I've been busy but going to quickly go over the ones I did and didn't like so far:
liked:
Öoo: extremely short but fun, not sure how the mechanics will work out over a full game but what I saw so far in the demo had a decent amount of promise, some of the timing-oriented stuff towards the end felt a little awkward but I can see how it'd be fun to overcome like rusted moss's grapple system or something
MotionRec: another short but fun one (although double the length of Öoo's demo), had a couple decent "aha" moments; I have the same issue of not really being sure how the mechanics will work out over a full game since it feels like things were already being pushed a bit in the demo but I can see it being really fun with the right execution
UVSU: I liked the blend of action and puzzle oriented stuff with the 'fighting yourself' mechanics (although it started learning much more puzzle later in the demo), has good potential and the demo is pretty fun (and feels more expansive than the other two platformers above)
Occlude: I'm a sucker for well-executed solitaire variations and it definitely delivers, the added mechanic of having to figure out the extra conditions for each deck makes it a lot of fun to sort the rules out your first time around and the rules continue being fun to play around in subsequent hands, I can see myself coming back to the demo just to play it and I'll probably get the full thing on launch depending on price
Texnoplazm: Good action combat, makes you feel strong and powerful while still providing some level of challenge, I like it hinging a lot more on melee than ranged combat like most games in this vein, navigation felt awkward at points but I'd always figure out where to go fast so I can't complain
Sinker Sound:
absolutely ruined me my first 10 or so attempts since it's overwhelming, quickly became very satisfying and fun once I adapted, the music and cute psp-ish graphical style also does a lot for me

>>712914295
Bro you're acting like adding any kind of romance automatically corrupts the game's message. The game already deals with messy emotions and complicated relationships—if anything, queerness fits right into that chaos. You don't need to read it as author-daughter allegory unless you're clinging to pre-release interviews like scripture. Art evolves past the creator’s intentions, deal with it.

>>712917063
ukros have gotten so fucking uppity

>>712919759
meh:
Easy Delivery co.: this is more of a preference one. Very well executed and the driving controls are entertaining, but it just felt too aimless to me, I've never been one for these "cozy" sort of games with basically no stakes besides winning less hard (same reason I fell off of dredge a while back) so it was just sort of there. Maybe I just needed to let it sit with me longer but I felt like I'd experienced most of it after an hour or so and I just wasn't having much fun; I can see how some people would get something out of it though
Star Birds: basically the same situation as the above, feels good for what it is but there's basically nothing in the way of actual challenge and that got me pretty bored with it pretty quickly
disliked:
LOOTPLOT: way too much opportunity to do basically anything, it felt like there's just a bunch of random bullshit going on where you steamroll in no time while barely understanding your own strategy; especially with these 'build' oriented roguelites like balatro (or most deckbuilders to some extent) less is more and having a handful of strong synergies you're working around is much more fun than a billion little ticks, at least in my opinion, and it totally fails in this department
Inventorix: sort of the opposite, all synergies are extremely simple: "scores more depending on amount of itself", "scores more if adjacent to x category", etc. is the vast majority of what I saw and it just felt too shallow to be any fun

>>712914468
>>712920303
That's precisely why the LGBTQ+ tag sometimes doesn't reflect anything
and filter everything in it is a negligent behaviour.. Those tags are added by people, some deranged spam it in an attempt to troll just because they didn't like the female protagonists (although I partially agree, they're the worst part of the game, like its dialogue and voice acting), but no for that the game has lesbianism in it. It has no romance at all like It Takes Two did

>queerness fits right into that chaos
Only troons or psychotic gays likes to project themselves and be the center of attention in every game/product they play or interact with
I repeat myself, no matter how much they want to ship the lead characters, in the end, for their creator they are the live representation of his daughters..
Unless Josef Fares is a woke sickhead and creepy bastard who fantasizes about the queerness of his infant daughters, the fact that fans and players believe that subtext is enough to send them to fuck out

>>712917063
>but there is no ukranain translation so pls make translatuin
Oddly specific, I personally never see them. It's usually russians or some other third world brownoids.

>>712915198
Cute game. A little heavy with the weeb appeal at times, tho.

>>712922210
It has woke shit in it?

>>712922302
obsessed

>>712908639
Except when I want to play a video game that's exactly what I'm playing...
You're saying rather than games that I know I'm already interested in I should just try random demos, because they're letting me? Gee what a privilege.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2186580/Shuffle_Tactics/
fun game

>>712922302
lmfao mindbroken

Played ca. 60 demos and these are the ones I actually liked.

>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
Outlawer - Ace Attorney like VN. A bit amateurish in part but still good

>Has potential
Era One
Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
Dead as Disco
Phase Zero
Glaciered
Holstin
Turbo Blast
Verho
Dragon March
Wizman's World
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Quartet
Aeromachina

Somewhat lackluster Next fest this time around.
If there are any recommendations left, I'd welcome them.

>>712924678
You didn't answer me last time: is jupiter hell classic different at all from doomrl other than the graphics / names?

>>712858987
Knights in tight spaces was bretty gud

>>712924678
My highlights have been
Dice Gambit
Word Play
Savara
Mio
Mina the Hollower
Dreams of a Sunflower

With honourable mentions to
Inventorix
Öoo
and Dispatch

>>712925062
Not that anon. But as far as I'm aware Jupiter Hell is just straight up DRL but with a graphic overhaul and a legally distinct name.
But the last time I really played DRL was so long ago that I wouldn't be able to tell you how close Jupiter Hell is to an up to date DRL.

coming in right at the end there to win 'Most Promising Game' in my own personal mental award ceremony (The Festies)

>>712925503
oh hey, the actual artis impact demo is available again. he just disabled it during the fest to force people to play meiji spa instead for some reason

>>712925062
The devs say so.
>The original DRL remains free on the ChaosForge website and will continue to receive updates alongside the new Jupiter Hell Classic version.Jupiter Hell Classic will be your official way to own and play DRL on Steam

>>712925615
I guess he thinks it's a better demonstration of what the full game will be like? It's apparently a completely separate side story to the main game

>>712925062
Yeah, I saw the message but the thread was already over when I came back. As other anons said, it appears to just be a "legally distinct" paint-job.

>>712925286
I played some of them but not all. I'll give them a try. Thanks.

>>712909607
Nothing wrong with making a game you want to play and share with others as long as you don't expect to become the next Notch/Toby Fox.

>>712887796
I've thought about posting threads with compilations of upcoming releases, but found it hard to limit the scope.
A demo thread would be nice, especially if someone could scrape and upload the popular demos from the fest, many of which will go down

>>712909607
DDS is good but the dev makes a handful of really weird design decisions, like you can't see class abilities (or how they function at all outside of a one-sentence flavor text blurb) until you invest in the class because the dev said the mystery of that is more fun to him so you end up either making 5 saves replaying the tutorial to figure out what you actually like or looking it up on the wiki

>>712867912
Of the last 4 I've really participated in, this one was definitely the worst so far

>>712909615
lmao it looks like prealpha why would you release this as a demo

>>712908787
That's almost exactly the same genre

>>712902178
Yeah, I agree. I like the massive amount of titles in the last three fests, it's been awesome

>>712876480
>Ratatan
>God awful UI
>720p at best sprites, no vector graphics
>3 beat system
God this thing had a kickstarter a couple of years of development and thats what people got

>>712901853
Worst offenders are lengthy intros and cutscenes.
Players arent looking to get invested in a narrative during the fest.
WiZmans world Re:Try was really good, it plopped you down with the gameplay after a few short screens which summarised the plot.

>>712903976
>The only thing of note was the artstyle and the people who buy games because they look good buy AAA games
Nah, I played almost 200 demos and morsels is in my top 3. I have over 400 hours in NT btw

>>712903976
>the people who buy games because they look good buy AAA games
not true at all most AAA nowadays looks samey and shit as fuck

>>712909003
>no one seemed to mind
Several posts called them out lol

so is the next fest over now or does it have however many days/hours left?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3288420/Enhanced_Vengeance/
Horribly unbalanced Fallout: New Vegas knockoff made by one kid. It's not great, but I appreciate the ambition. The rising tide of Bethesda-likes floats all boats.

>>712929215
It's over but many demos are still playable

>>712910863
I found all the quirkyness annoying in a LOL I R SO RANDUM *holds up spork* kind of way

>>712929463
I'm very surprised by it; last time I was all that invested in a next fest nearly all of the demos vanished when it ended. Now almost every demo I grabbed is still up, I guess devs realized it kind of pisses people off

>>712911996
Three fests ago or so there were several horror takes on stardew

>>712922406
>>712922756
Faggots

>>712927919
I've thought about doing threads for individual niche new games that just look interesting, but I'm afraid they would just get buried by the latest DEI/soft porn flavor of the month threads.

>>712920303
>The game already deals with messy emotions and complicated relationships—if anything, queerness fits right into that chaos
Sounds like projection

>>712929796
you'd get told to buy an ad and then the thread would die

>>712869068
>>712925286
Everyone who liked Mio should give Ayna Shattered Truth a go.
It has surprisingly great feeling gameplay.

>>712854109 (OP)
no one played them because there's apparently no barrier to entry. almost all of it is like a UE5 tutorial level

>>712930320
yeah sure man

>>712930320
cope from a dope

>>712930298
>give Ayna Shattered Truth a go.
from the same people?

>>712930180
Yeah, despite /v/'s self-image as some hipster contrarian board, the only stuff that gets discussed outside of Steam Next Fest/Sale threads is mainstream stuff. You can start as many stealth marketing threads for Expedition 33 or Stellar Aids as you want, but the moment you talk about anything new that doesn't have a marketing budget behind it you get hit with "buy an ad kys". If you actually want to talk about anything niche you have to go to plebbit.

>>712930180
>>712931802
I don't use the rest of this board, every thread makes me want to strangle someone

>>712931802
considering 4chan's general userbase it's super surprising just how hard /v/ is focused on the mainstream

>>712929457
Damn, demo shit pile digging should be a general on /vg/ or something. There's exactly 0% chance I would've found that otherwise. It might be not great (we'll see about that -- downloading the demo), but it is at least not another quirky earthbound RPGmaker gamer, or a deckbuilding roguelike.

Vampire's Best Friend demo made me want to rip my dick off in rage, but I beat it.

>>712931049
No, it's another demo in this Fest. Starts out with rudimentary platforming but it gets better.
They just nailed the feeling of it, I hope they will keep ramping up the level of challenge.

>>712932319
You're better than me. Shit was hard. Really good though, the amount of stamina is just right.

>>712932602
>the amount of stamina is just right
Agreed. I wasn't sure at first whether I liked that it was a timer rather than having wing flaps exhaust it, but I got used to it.
Also, I was pretty thankful that if you light the entire set of candles in a room, they aren't reset upon death.

>>712932057
>4chan's general userbase
Drama-addicted troons and edgy teenagers?
>>712932313
The problem with the generals on /vg/ is that without the cross-traffic from other anons they degenerate into schizoid circlejerks. Splitting up /v/ into a million different boards and removing generals was a mistake because it puts all the autists into echo chambers where they just stew in their own juices and become progressively more deranged. Since the autists who actually talk about games are all gone, normalfags and jeets reign free with their /pol/, rule34, and nontroversy threads.

>>712932964
I know, I know, it's just some wishful thinking on my part. I should be thankful that at least a couple of times a year I've got to talk about games with people who actually play them. Oh well.

people have conditioned themselves with piracy and aren't willing to take chances on games anymore. Plenty of good stuff out there.

People like that Resident Evil Turn Based Roguelike, but this real time turn based resident evil roguelike only got 20 reviews:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2252790/Vaccine_Rebirth/

Good Detective Games routinely fly under the radar:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3193560/Yokai_Landlord_Monster_Mystery/

store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

store.steampowered.com/app/2254710/Death_Trick_Double_Blind/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1921980/Between_Horizons/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2277090/DAEMON_MASQUERADE/

>>712916991
You are a retard that refuses to acknowledge that AAA games have gotten objectively shittier over time and calling a drug addict anyone who disagrees.

>>712933598
You responding to the pretty low-effort bait aren't helping anything, amigo.

>>712933692
>I-i was just pretending!!

>>712854109 (OP)
>we didn't play any of them

>Check out games discussion because I want to see if other people had the issues I do
>Literally half the topics on the board are on guy
>All the replies to his topics are just himself
A real gamer(tm)

>>712928187
Deadeye was shit when I played the demo since hacking had an RNG chance of instantly cucking you, making it not worth doing. Combat was just bad. So I simply ran past all content to the end with some summon to take aggro and ignoring the games content like this was by far the best way to playu

>>712933918
very refreshing take on a VS-like, I hope not too many demos go down in the coming days since there are a ton like this one I feel like I haven't gotten enough time with yet

>>712928848
devs just dont stop and think theyre not the main character of the event. sometimes their fans too. i saw a topic on one game where a guy had an issue with it and the reply from a fan was "tell me you havent played more than 30 mins without telling me"
>1000 demos
does he really think that eveyrone is a nolife who can spend 30 mins per each thing that looks fun? do the devs?

>>712934069
i'm worried about how progression is going to work long term because it seems like i blew through all the upgrades in about 10 hours but i really want to play more

>>712929061
So, like I said.
What is the appeal?
What does it actually offer beyond a neat artstyle and bad combat?
I don't get the NT comparisons, it plays nothing like it beyond them both being top down shooters.

Keylocker was great but no one ever played that.

>>712933943
deadeye is weird since hacking is by far the most effective way to progress but even now you have a chance to randomly get fucked by doing it unless you have a class specifically dedicated to hacking unlocked (and the stats to support it) which further cucks you out of everything else. For an immersive sim it feels like it railroads you into a single playstyle depending on your initial choices way too hard

>>712934408
I'll dl it and hope it doesn't get taken down, I really don't get the whole timed demos thing

>>712934419
i told the dev this like 2-3 years ago and his response was to say he'll add an easy mode
im not sure if he even read the post he was replying to, since i called the game easy, which the demo was if you simply ignored everything
i think the game did okay though so good for him i nthe end

>>712932458
No release date is rough :( but looks good actually, will check out

>>712934408
Somebody might've if you had mentioned it a couple of times in previous threads.

>>712934640
Half the fun of these threads and the fests is the gacha of when your game release, if it even does

>>712934408
>limited time demo
at least it's already out I guess

>>712934681
you don't deserve to know about it. forget you saw it.

Hydra was a pretty good Fallout-style game. Doesn't look like much, I'll admit, but plays better than it looks.

>Mina the Hollower
Guys, Demon Souls came out over fifteen years ago.

>>712935041
And Earthbound -- 31, yet people still make games "inspired" by it.

>>712854109 (OP)
titty gawds winning

that was quick, guess you can't do much for a demo in such a narrative-based game though

Lumina Veil dev says it will be free on release and the only problem was one guy in these threads wouldn't stop whining about how it used a playstation control scheme instead of an xbox.

>>712922406
>>712922756
you have to go back

>>712935141
I guess Yacht Club are just really phoning it in here. Even the color pallette is lame.

>>712935582
>culture warrior telling people to go back
holy fuck election tourists are so funny

>>712934408
This was in a previous next fest. I remember not being too impressed by the gameplay, timing on dodges/parries were super strict or something

>>712935314
Description said it's just a 1-2 hour game

what's with the guy spamming random steam store pages for shit that wasn't in the next fest

>>712929756
>>712935582
Go to one of your 90000 culture war threads, faggots. This is not one of them.

>>712929457
>Walk out of starting building
>Die in 1 hit to a histcan weapon
And I'm out

>>712935789
>>712935956
>>712936028
>>712936097
Are you recommending these? Saying they're shit? Just pointing out what you played? Adding a couple words would really help.

>>712933546
Yokai Landlord looks interesting. How linear is it?

>>712936528
Very non-linear, I suppose. I'm actually stuck because it's so obscure there's no walkthrough and I can't solve a puzzle.

It's not Phoenix Wright where you can just brute force it eventually. and I tried.

I love Verho, it's great. Scratches that King's Field like itch real good.

>>712936469
words words words. are you a worder or a fucking gamer? get it the fuck together are you fucking stupid? are you? fucking stupid? fuck are you, stupid.

99.9% of communication is nonverbal and you still can't figure any fucking thing out. did these words help? dumb fuck.

what's with this guy spamming games that are friggin awesome and super-fun. someone get him to post more.

>>712936792
Go take a shit or something. You seem full of it, and it makes you into a more of a retard than you naturally are.

This thread is coming to an end.. Remember, this is the very last thread, there will be no others. It's a DNR order!
It was a pleasure sharing with you all week
Until the october Fest.

>>712936442
I told you it was unbalanced.

I am manifesting the Next Next Fest having futa on female

>>712937137
But this was the only place on /v/ actually talking about video games
What am I going to do now?

>>712935646
>>712936270
go kill yourselves, you ain't gaslighting no one

>>712936636
>I'm actually stuck because it's so obscure there's no walkthrough and I can't solve a puzzle
What happens if you evict the wrong person? Game keeps going?

>>712937980
Shill a game you're enjoying and enjoy your 15 replies at most. That's what I do.

>>712937980
Play video games?

>>712932313
>demo shit pile digging should be a general on /vg/ or something
I don't see how that would help you discover games when the threads there are faster, messier and quicker to expire.

>>712938074
no you die.

Death Trick lets you carry on with a wrong answer though.

AHHHH I STILL HAVE DEMOS FROM LAST TIME I HAVEN"T PLAYED

>>712939258
a lot of demos seem to be staying up so you have some time

>>712939258
those are some good demos

>>712939258
>fubiki's game has already released
>this lazy fag didn't even bother to play a tiny demo

>>712939258
sultan's game and all in abyss released btw

>>712939258
oh well urban myth turned out to be shit in the end you can delete that one

>>712939746
>urban myth turned out to be shit in the end
Can you tell me why without spoiling it?

You know that next fest sucks when a VN about taking out autistic cats on dates is better than 99% of slop shilled there

>>712940030

>>712940106
I'm tired of this board's pathetic whinging and wallowing in misery. The fest was great

>>712940317
No it really wasn't
At least agdg shills mostly fucked off this time

>>712940440
Yes it really was, take a trip so I can filter you

>>712940236
Saw that coming, not a problem in my book.

>>712940317
yeah I've found a load of games I was into, there were some stinkers but that's just steam

If the fest was so good why are these the only good things from it

>>712939746
how shit are we talking? the demo was great imo

>>712940904
it's very positive 88% on steam, so I assume there was one tiny thing that upset anon

>>712940106
That's because visual novels in general are better than 99% of slop videogames.

>>712854109 (OP)
any imsims games?

>>712941093
Still no non shit ones
Looking at how bad skin deep was i don't think we will ever get a non-shit one

Nextfest over
I ran chkdsk after playing 50 demos and fixed my external hard drive thanks to some demo
100 extra demos added to the hoard of downloaded games I won't play
Back to the usual