Steam next fest thread

[Finarfin]

I will update this post as I play each of these games.


Took me about 4-5 minutes until I dropped it. Pseudo cool girlboss trying to quip and do one-liners and also cringe humor. There are space pirates and one female one says that she'll shave some cats to torture them and the main character (A blonde ****** woman called Nina Pasadena) says "Shaving cats is against the geneva conventions! " Yuck. Uninstalled and ignored.


Interesting artstyle. Gameplay is again roguelike, but you are in a Frostpunk like city in a feudal post-apocalyptic setting. Turn-based card game.


A ARPG similar to Chaosbane - since this is the same Developer Eko Software - looks very nice for a smaller dev and it runs and plays good. Comes out on the 6th of March and I might get it if it is not too pricey. You got different classes/characters that fulfill certain roles. Like a Dragon Knight with shield and lance (pretty cool) a fish race that uses magic and one brutish looking race that is obviously bruteforce.


Game is set in 1959. You play an engineer (or hobbyist) in an isometric view. Voice actor is great. I go to the car and as soon as I wanna drive, I crash into the building behind me because the guy that lets me use his car left it in reverse. And then I learned that the environment is destructible. Funny how no one is really reacting to me crashing a whole ******* bridge down on them but I admit it is fun to drive around and just trashing everything.


Started Tutorial and I have to play as a roidrage blonde woman with a perma scowl. Game uses WASD and stuff but still has auto-attack like WOW. Got both a healer and dps bot to showcase how the game works and all three of them are women... A furry healer and a elf dps. Game wants me to do group stuff in tutorial but the bots ignore everything until I die and then do their job. Left the tutorial to check the characters and well....
Tanks:
Roidrage Knight "Woman" Tank Helena.
Japanese Woman Monk Tank Meiko
DPS:
Elf with Ice spells DPS Rime
Ooga booga DPS Tariq (Nasheed, ******)
Healer:
Forest Sylvan Healer lady Sylvie
Vigour the nigour dwarf Healer

I notice that the two male characters are *******. Very concerning but that is to be expected with the devs we saw.


Game starts with the main character being drunk on his bed while his girlfriend tells him that she ****** him while he was gone as she met someone while he was gone... Off to a great start. Seems like this weird circus place isn't exactly normal and I guess there is more to it and Charlotte seeming being a Harlotte. Gameplay seems solid enough, its a boomershooter but with horror. Kinda like Bioshock I guess. Seems fine so far. Optimization could be better, had stutters.


This one is... rough. Rough but interesting. I hope the dev will improve the game.


Looks great, drawing wise but gameplay is meh, these sidescrolling beat em ups are not my cup of tea.


Game has some interesting comic strip cutscenes, and the gameplay is isometric with direct control. Combat is turn-based though. Looks pretty good so far, think the devs are russian. Some meteorite released a virus that turns people into mindless "zombies" and other things, then the Sovereignty came and basically restored order and peace. Main characters are soldiers in that regime/group and so far they seem to be the good guys here and not some "muh ebul authoritarian nazi analogy" (That can change quickly I guess) .Of course there are people that refuse the sovereignty even though there's literally a plague that turns humans into weird Zombies with Crystals and other manner of monsters. Not sure if ******** or ********.


it's a decent little time waster, plays like the old flash game "The Last Stand" while looking like Last of Us.


Looks great, optimization is awful though.


Unreal Engine "my first game" basically. You play a woman or man doing stuff and I guess when you die, you retain your memories


Very good so far. Polished, runs well. Atmosphere is great and I like the fact that it has RPG elements and best of all the possibility for one to defend themself.


Turn-based roguelike, looks good and plays very smooth.


I guess there is a limit. As soon as I booted the game up and clicked on "Early Quests" it is stuck there. Had to force close the game and try again but with the "Mirage Tomb Quest" button.
Shieeet, this game is shieeet. If you guys rag on avowed, this game is even worse with its 4 main characters.
You got the derpy looking human, the gay little dwarf archer, the negro woman with the longsword and the really gay version of Matt Smith


This is a mobile game. Armors look pretty on par with the series.

[rusty_shackleford]

Really tired of games that blatantly ripoff the art style of Darkest Dungeon. There's tons of them now.

When I see something that is a near 1:1 copy of an existing, iconic style I'm going to just pass on playing it because you probably put about as much effort into the rest of the game.

[gerey]

About the only one I'm actually interested in:



Apparently it's a new demo:



Turks trying to scam us all again:



P*les:



Might be interesting:



Meh:



Meh:

[Valter]

omg it's everhood 2 (rhythm game undertale. banger soundtrack)

[gerey]

@Finarfin

This one looks like ******* trash. If it didn't have "Game of Thrones" in the title no one could tell what it is. The armor designs also look like complete ****, not a single suit of plate in sight, and the weapons look comically oversized. In fact, the whole thing looks cartoonish.

And was that a female PC I saw?

[KnightoftheWind]

Labyrinth of the Demon King is pretty neat, it's basically Silent Hill + Condemned in a feudal Japan setting. The enemies have very similar mannerisms to the ones in Condemned, even fighting one another in comical fashion and turning into ragdolls that you can kick around when dead. I'll give that one a playthrough when it releases for sure.

[1998]

@Finarfin



This one looks like ******* trash. If it didn't have "Game of Thrones" in the title no one could tell what it is. The armor designs also look like complete ****, not a single suit of plate in sight, and the weapons look comically oversized. In fact, the whole thing looks cartoonish.

And was that a female PC I saw?

I was wondering why I haven't seen that one on Steam yet

[Finarfin]

@Finarfin



This one looks like ******* trash. If it didn't have "Game of Thrones" in the title no one could tell what it is. The armor designs also look like complete ****, not a single suit of plate in sight, and the weapons look comically oversized. In fact, the whole thing looks cartoonish.

And was that a female PC I saw?

You can create male or female characters. You have three different classes and they are not gender locked.

These are three of the armors the knight can wear.

[1998]

@Finarfin



This one looks like ******* trash. If it didn't have "Game of Thrones" in the title no one could tell what it is. The armor designs also look like complete ****, not a single suit of plate in sight, and the weapons look comically oversized. In fact, the whole thing looks cartoonish.

And was that a female PC I saw?

You can create male or female characters. You have three different classes and they are not gender locked.

These are three of the armors the knight can wear.

Just to confirm, these are all..males? Need to be sure these days...

[Finarfin]

@Finarfin



This one looks like ******* trash. If it didn't have "Game of Thrones" in the title no one could tell what it is. The armor designs also look like complete ****, not a single suit of plate in sight, and the weapons look comically oversized. In fact, the whole thing looks cartoonish.

And was that a female PC I saw?

You can create male or female characters. You have three different classes and they are not gender locked.

These are three of the armors the knight can wear.

Just to confirm, these are all..males? Need to be sure these days...

This is a netmarble game so yes, the men are men and the women are women. No ****** **** or body type A or B ****. Genders are shown with ♂ ♀.

[Finarfin]

Limitless's Party

[rusty_shackleford]

Reminds me of someone I used to know

[1998]

Probably not playing any of these, but would appreciate it if someone reports back to tell me what degree of **** Outer Gods actually is.

[gerey]

Not gonna lie, the pickings in this Next Fest are grim.

[Finarfin]

[wndrbr]

Turks trying to scam us all again:

this game is from a different studio.

[1998]

Turks trying to scam us all again:

this game is from a different studio.

Huh, I thought it was at least the same core team? Totally different devs then?

[wndrbr]

Turks trying to scam us all again:

this game is from a different studio.

Huh, I thought it was at least the same core team? Totally different devs then?

their linkedin page has a lot of chaps with slavic names who all live in Canada and Kazakhstan. Looks like a bunch of Russians who left the country, some of them are probably ex 1C Game studios devs (Stygian's publisher is Fulcrum Publishing, which used to be called 1C Company before rebranding).

[rusty_shackleford]

RUSSIAN LIBTARDS

[wndrbr]

Stygian's demo is like 10-20 minutes long, and those 20 minutes take place during the heavily scripted opening segment, so you won't really get the feeling of how the game would play.

With that being said, the demo does show a combat, a grid inventory with items of different sizes, simplistic crafting system (combine a bunch of rags to make a bandage, combine some scrap metal to make a lockpick, etc), possibly a DCotE-like healing system where you have to use splints to fix fractures, simplistic rpg mechanics (vitality, sanity, speech/lockpicking/occult skills, different types of resistances, perks, etc).

It seems like the game will have some 'immersive sim' elements (you can drag and stack boxes so you could use them to climb over obstacles). Not sure whether it's the lack of dev's understanding of how the genre works, or a deliberate choice to only pay some lip service without actually trying to make the game 'cthulhu deus ex', but the drag-able crates is about the only imsim-like thing in the game. Lots of invisible walls, too much uninteractable clutter in the environment that was only put here to pad out the visuals with extra details, etc.

Best case scenario is a Resident Evil 7-8/Dark Corners of the Earth type of game.

[gerey]

you can drag and stack boxes so you could use them to climb over obstacles

Yeah, I was watching a (much longer) gameplay video by Alpha Beta Gamer and there were a few instances - some more obvious than others - where you could use boxes to access new areas.

What really struck me as dumb is that there's several locked doors that look trivial to climb over (the one at the very start is a good example), yet the game forces you to go around hunting for keys. Nothing inherently wrong with that, mind you, but the devs should have done a better job of making these obstacles look more imposing.

Another dumb thing I noticed is that you can collect rags, yet there's also lots of non-interactive blankets, folded clothes and fabric laying around. It's not even that these are "dirty", since the first rag you find is in a ******* outhouse. The character even has a knife, yet can't cut strips of cloth to make bandages with?

Best case scenario is a Resident Evil 7-8/Dark Corners of the Earth type of game.

That's pretty much the vibe I got, especially since there's save rooms, plus the crafting and the general look. Game really looked like RE8 set in a seaside village. I do like that you're forced to save only at specific points, so that should reduce the amount of savescumming, though I'm disappointed saving doesn't require a resource.

The combat looks atrocious though, the human enemies are slow and easily be defeated with minimal effort simply by running a few steps back and letting the stamina bar fill up, and they have no way to close the distance.

I'll still probably play the game once it comes out, since it seems to have a lot of what makes RE games fun - looping map design and unlocking of shortcuts.

[Sword-of-Yakub]

Interesting lore, but holy **** is the gameplay slow and ********. No, playing as a ******* turtle is not "scary", it's just infuriating. I'm supposed to play as a soldier


Another faux retro game. I didn't like how the game feels honestly, like Quake without all of the cool **** like bunnyhopping


Cool and relaxing, I barely played the demo so I will have to continue eventually


Very cool, the only one I'd buy day one from that list


Those two I have downloaded but haven't launched yet: