What demos picked your interest, /vst/?

>>2064159 (OP)
It's 'piqued'

>>2064159 (OP)
Tried a handful of turn based games but most of them gave me pretty bad first impressions. I enjoyed There Are No Orcs though. Little chinese auto battler roguelite. Basically a warcraft 3 mod. Build buildings and units come out and run at the enemy base.

Also not stratgy, but Terratech Legion was fun. Vampire Survivor clone, but you're building an ugly car as you go. Changing the shape of the car and adding weapons to take advantage of that shape is really satisfying. Like making crab claws with grinders so driving through crowds grinds them up as you go.

>>2064159 (OP)
I saw HyperCoven recommended to me
So, congrats to that guy after all this time, i guess

chinese poker/rummy rogueliTe thing
uninstalled after 5 minutes

>>2064178
came here to post this

and this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3310330/Star_Ash_Fleet/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3506230/Billionaire_in_the_Oil_Boom/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3589450/Shadows_End_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/589050/Knighthood__Dawn_of_Heroes/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3136490/Echoes_of_the_Architects/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3793720/Tyrium_ALPHA_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3691660/Nigredo_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3175750/Xenopurge_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3565740/BannerBound/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3691360/Strength_In_Numbers_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3110370/Dustwind_Resistance/

>>2064159 (OP)
Xenopurge was fun.

>>2064422
>There Are No Orcs
not a bad casual game

>>2064543
Thanks, I guess. The demo is not pulling big numbers, but any rando opening it and sticking around for a while is a pleasant surprise. Pic rel ~15 so far beat mission 1. Some kept playing, but in the end all dropped somewhere before mission 4.
A handful of people logged into multiplayer, but it seems they were mostly looking for co-op, which wasn’t yet implemented. So I spent today adding it and now it’s also in the demo.

Anyone eager to try out two new SC2 wanna-bes?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/896250/Liquidation/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2921580/IMMORTAL_Gates_of_Pyre/
Which one did it better?

>>2065049
Wait, I fucked up Liquidation's demo was only available the previous week and apparently wasn't part of the Nexr Fest. My bad.
At least you can still play Immortal's demo.

>>2064422
oh fuck yeah, I love castle wars type games.

I tried a bunch of random crap that I got on my recommendation queue, but nothing could hold my interest for more than 15 minutes. Maybe it's just because I've already tried everything that was interesting, but it seems to me like there's even more cheap janky shit and asset swap garbage than usual.

>>2064637
>Distwind Resistance
Huh, weird. Apparently I already own the original Dustwind, but I don't remember buying it and according to Steam I've never played it.

>>2064422
>There Are No Orcs
Nice, was wondering when there would be a fitting mafia/castle wars inspired game. Unit models are a little whatever though, it has that Hero's Hour floaty artstyle that I don't care for

Tried out the demo for Mr. President, the PC version of the GMT board game which I have not played because fuck dealing with that many fiddly pieces. Gameplay looks solid, has that Twilight Struggle feeling where you always feel like you just barely have enough actions to deal with the most immediate pressing crises. Demo is really short though, just a snippet of one turn where you try to avoid an auto-loss from China influence/war with Japan.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I liked the demo for ground of aces. Even despite all the modern game cliché amount of browns in the RAF.
It was a bit as if someone made a rimworld mod with most features cut out and narrowing the game down on a few core aspects.
Way more streamlined with less actual options but as a consequence it is also substantially focused on it's one trick.
With a big part also being that the points generated by your planes flying successful missions is the only way to get more crewmembers/ replace the dead ones.

The lack of a tutorial did hurt it though. Sand pits for example are a source of sand if you destroy them but you can also harvest them which doesn't remove he pit itself.

>>2065051
That looks nice.

>>2065146
Yeah Hero's Hour is exactly what I thought as well. I don't mind it. It's cute. Hopefully if it does well they can make a sequel with a bigger graphical budget though. I prefer some good looking pixel art.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1313290/Let_Them_Trade/

A Before We Leave clone without the poz.

What a good concept for a game.

Era One has a demo
This whole Homeworld plus custom-built ships is pretty fucking mind boggling and building a mothership+home base piece by piece is really overwhelming

They only have skirmish mode available but it has a sandbox option so you can fiddle with the systems on your own

But god if any game needs a singleplayer campaign to double as set of tutorials its this game

>>2066201
i have no idea how you can make custom-built ships, i can only really do the stuff with the 'command center'

>>2066269
Building a Deployer will let you spawn in a single command cube thing and thats what allows you to build a modular ship that isnt either the mothership or the pre-designed ships in the Blueprint tab

>>2066294
okay. is doing that any good compared to just using skirmishers and assault warships anyway

>>2066296
I have no clue, but the idea of having a big fat dreadnaught with 9001 turrets is enough of a reason to fiddle with it
Even the "light cruiser" blueprint ship requires more research than the basic ships coming out of the heavy facility
Too bad you cant save a game in the current demo

>>2066300
I wonder what the differences between the factions will be.

Slim pickings this NextFest huh

>>2066343
I've wishlisted a bunch of things. Dice Gambit is particularly cool. I really dig the art style, but it might be because it reminds me of some porn I've read but can't remember. You get to make your own slutty looking MC and breed them to make kids to use in tactics battles.

>>2066345
about time someone made Massive Chalice but actually good

>>2066691
>Massive Chalice but actually good
You have my attention.

>>2066345
Why does everyone in this game look like a malnourished twink?

>>2064159 (OP)
Anything like "The Guild"? We need a competitive dynastic sim.

>>2066345
This man definitely draws anal.

>>2066784
The artist is a woman.
https://www.artstation.com/ncsas

But yeah she probably still draws anal.

>>2065697
good game but godawful graphics

>>2066790
The artist being a women only increases the chances. Well unless we assume she doesn't draw anal because it isn't degenerate enough compared to the usual fare.

>>2066790
femcoomers are truly a different breed

>>2066783
I'm aware of Saelig and House of Legacy (chink Guild-like set in chinklandia) but they're both EA and don't have demos

>>2066790
Yeah I went digging as well to find the artist. I'm sure I've read some heinous hentai in her style. I like it though. Big expressive heads with malnourished skeleton bodies. It works for some reason. Kind of like an anti-chibi

>>2064554
>Apokerlypse
I chuckled

>>2064637
>AI slop
>AI slop
>AI slop
>Regular shovelware
Anything that isn't Chinkjeet tier?

I don't know if Ball X Pit can be considered strategy, but it has so much soul. Basically combine vampire survivor with a block breaking game. The soundtrack fucking rips, and the little skeleton block enemies chant along to the music. You can only really understand how hype it is by playing it.

>>2066345
i enjoyed that demo a lot. i like the setting but not really feeling the art direction.

>>2066345
looks like that one hentai with the morals of the world being reversed

>>2066345
surprisingly charming game.

I've been playing Buggos 2 for most of the day. Nice little time filler. Basically just build unit spawners and swarm human colonies with a tech tree for more stuff. Feels like something you'd only play for a weekend, but it's fun.

>>2066345
the uwu anime writing style was a bit grating but aside from that it was good

>>2067055
Yeah the art and writing feels like it's some kind of anime developed by Tumblr but the gameplay is pretty fun.

>>2067055
I didn't even meet that femboy. I was impressed enough to stop playing pretty quickly because I want to play the full game. Also would.

>>2067058
literally everyone in the game is a they/them femboy which makes it simultaneously triggering for chuds and /ourgame/

>>2067062
Yeah even if she didn't mean to, it feels more on the coomer side of androgyny, so I can support that. The girls are all tomboys and the boys are all femboys.

Any /vst/ games?

>>2067316
No.

>>2066790
Like what I've seen so far, both the tactics gameplay and the delicious sticc women. Music is pretty good too. That Portuguese guitar has had me jamming the entire time.

>>2067353
Based fellow bushy brow enjoyer.

>>2064980
Any final takers?

>>2066936
man my bad, I only tried some of them yesterday and almost all of them are bad. maybe Every Day We Fight is good.

>>2068486
The irony of sampling your stuff already on itch.io or wherever it was meant i didn't feel any strong urge to try out the game again until more was done on it

>>2068486
sorry, there are some things off-putting with how it looks but I think you are on the right track

>>2069270
Well no worries, if you played my itch version I am happy too. I am adding stuff all the time, this year so far
>missions number 4 & 5 (you can choose mission freely, dont have to play from number 1)
>new unit collision system
>(actual menus)
>co-op modes
+many small tweaks.
Aiming to build five more missions these days and then in August release on Steam for a few bucks. Probably going to keep adding new units afterwards just for fun.
>>2069273
Thanks, anyways. I keep looking for a solution to the graphics problem.

>>2069163
>maybe Every Day We Fight is good
how are the characters? if they're annoying it's gonna be a hard no from me

>>2064637
>Echoes of the Architects
Tried it just now, plays like a basic tug-of-war autobattler, but you also get to design the units and even modify their logic. Now that sounds like a game that will filter absolutely everyone and I bet the competitive side of things will be about copy-pasting the most hyperoptimized designs, build orders, and combat logic.

>>2070190
I used to play a game kinda like this called Gladiabots. It was pretty fun at first but multiplayer quickly became dominated by hyper-autists and the dev kept rebalancing the singleplayer challenges to cater to those hyper-autists so it became almost unplayable to average retards like me.

>>2070274
Echoes is made by the same dev.

>>2069291
Youve gotten two million comments about the artstyle but ill give you another

I dont think you missed a mark or anything by having a vaguely surreal overall presentation of your game through having such a mishmash of graphics styles
And i dont think you missed a mark with having 2D or 2.5D sprites either-- and the extreme variance of the sprite sets of each 'faction' might also work in favor of the surrealism, or maybe might be a wash.

I can't tell if it would be best to pick one style between 2D or 2.5D, or keep on throwing in both at the same time. Like whether it adds to surrealism's charm or just gets annoying.

But honestly before working on the units i would first look at what you want to do with the building graphics. Those aren't charmingly surreal, just placeholder-y at best and just plain ugly at worst

good luck

>>2070337
Haha oh wow I didn't even notice that.

>>2070388
Well one problem with the mix is that everyone can find one thing that is to their mind utterly inacceptable.
E.g. around 5-10% of players seemed to be utterly mindbroken by the fact that "Artifacts" were things from a conbenience store. So today I replaced them all with a mixture of jewelry, music instruments and fishing rods. Hope that works better in the context. It’s sure hard catering to common tastes after having read probably more than half the postmodern oeuvre.

>>2071093
>oneshotted by postmodernism
many such cases
do you have a background in WC3 custom maps? the territory capture and unit auto spawning reminds me of a few maps

>>2071248
Not really, else I might have just built a Wc3 custom map and called it a day. Though I did play a few back then. I was a BW guy mostly.