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Venatus semper
That's it! I loved that movie, it was one of those sort-of-mindless action flicks that just clicked for me. With Mickey Rouke (after his atrocious plastic surgery) playing the devil. Now I need to watch it again.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
So I heard about this one in a PCG article here:
The three clever murder mysteries in this game demo made me hungry for more
Here's the link to the demo
It's pretty fun. I didn't think there was much challenge to it, but I've played a number of games similar to this, so maybe I've just had a lot of practice. In any event, the demo makes for a fun little puzzle game. The full game hasn't been released yet.
The three clever murder mysteries in this game demo made me hungry for more
Here's the link to the demo
It's pretty fun. I didn't think there was much challenge to it, but I've played a number of games similar to this, so maybe I've just had a lot of practice. In any event, the demo makes for a fun little puzzle game. The full game hasn't been released yet.
Manor Lords
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"medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord -- the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall"
Just watched 20 minutes of Spud's hugely enthusiastic mess around with it, the village build does seem superb.
Manor Lords on Steam
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Just watched 20 minutes of Spud's hugely enthusiastic mess around with it, the village build does seem superb.
If you have any interest in this, give the demo a shot. I just spent ~45 minutes in it and am blown away by how polished the entire presentation is.
PCG Jody
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More from Steam Next Fest:
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First-person grid-based dungeon crawler based on Slavic mythology.
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Top-down pixel art soulslike with a Castlevania vibe.
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ACE Team's follow-up to Zeno Clash, also a soulslike.
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Fantasy retro FPS.
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2D platformer where you have a gun that is also an umbrella.
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Colorful 3D action-platformer with permadeath.
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Co-op hack-and-slasher.
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Post-apocalyptic scavenge-em-up extraction shooter.
Dungeons of the Amber Griffin on Steam
Play as a group of daredevils who explore the world of dark fantasy in search of fame, amber and gold. Experience the classic mechanics of the iconic ‘90s Dungeon Crawlers with a new twist. Solve the mystery of the ghost that haunted the ruins and discover a bestiary based on Kashubian beliefs.
Hunt the Night on Steam
Plunge into a retro-style action-adventure game that combines a fast, skilled gameplay with dark fantasy and lore. Play as Vesper, a virtuous member of 'The Stalkers,' and explore the vast world of Medhram, filled with ruins and horrors.
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos on Steam
Hunted by mercenaries of an enemy with untold power, the fighter Pseudo and the creature under his protection begin a perilous quest to the edges of strange lands.
Lichenvale on Steam
Lichenvale is a first person slasher offering fast-paced melee combat mixed with tactical use of spells and dashing around your enemies. Battle through nightmarish hordes of monsters representing your innermost fears in this 90's hits inspired title.
Save 50% on Gunbrella on Steam
Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
City of Murals on Steam
City of Murals is a 3D platformer inside a 3D metroidvania inside a rogue-lite. It features a unique visual style, tons of movement controls, real exploration, and "**** around and find out" combat.
Arran: The Book of Heroes on Steam
Arran is a hack and slash co-op dark fantasy adventure with some RPG elements. Gore through enemies solo or along with up to 5 online players in the dark dungeons and barbaric lands of Arran. Loot unique equipment completing campaign quests where the final victory is only for the skilled.
Save 10% on ZERO Sievert on Steam
ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...
dungeon crawler—yuck
pixel art soulslike—yuck
also a soulslike—yuck
Fantasy retro FPS—yuck
2D platformer—yuck
platformer with permadeath—yuck
Co-op hack-and-slasher—yuck
scavenge-em-up extraction shooter—yuck
Great choices Jody, thanks a lot
PCG Jody
Staff member
Fine, how about these?
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Noirish psychological thriller point-and-click where you cover up a murder.
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Naval combat deckbuilder whose name is a pun I only just got.
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Strategy-RPG where you're captain of a skyship.
Loretta on Steam
Loretta is a psychological thriller that makes the player an accessory to the heroine’s crimes, leading her through a self-crafted nightmare. Loretta’s story revolves around a woman handling betrayal, her husband’s infidelity, and reclaiming her agency during the socially tumultuous 1940s.
AHOD: All Hands on Deck! on Steam
Play as the captain of a pirate ship and collect the cards of crew, weapons and magical loot in this fantastical naval combat deckbuilder.
Airship: Kingdoms Adrift on Steam
Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!
Noirish psychological thriller point-and-click—oh yeah, gimme
Naval combat deckbuilder—interesting, must have a peek
Strategy-RPG where you're captain of a skyship—intriguing
Naval combat deckbuilder—interesting, must have a peek
Strategy-RPG where you're captain of a skyship—intriguing
Redemption, downloading all! Thanks
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Speaking of "Yuck", you won't probably like these either, but these are the ones I have tried so far:dungeon crawler—yuck
pixel art soulslike—yuck
also a soulslike—yuck
Fantasy retro FPS—yuck
2D platformer—yuck
platformer with permadeath—yuck
Co-op hack-and-slasher—yuck
scavenge-em-up extraction shooter—yuck
Great choices Jody, thanks a lot
Techtonica on Steam
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Music Store Simulator on Steam
With Music Store Simulator you can lead a musical instruments manufacturing company. Create, sell, earn and reinvest improving and developing your business. Expand your Brand and climb to success in order to become the world's largest manufacturer of musical instruments!
Save 20% on A Hero's Rest: An RPG Town Simulator on Steam
Build shops, craft items with hundreds of customization options, and manage your resources wisely to lead your Heroes to success. Immerse yourself as proprietor of a medieval fantasy town in a world abounding with Heroes and Monsters.
Save 60% on Hotel Renovator on Steam
Unleash your inner designer and renovate the hotel of your dreams! Embark on a makeover journey to turn this worn-out place into a successful getaway. Play with thousands of furniture pieces and accessories, and manage the hotel to get 5-star reviews!
Rush Rally 3 on Steam
Indie smash hit Rush Rally 3 is a Simulation-style rally driving game created by just one person. Take on the challenge of rallies, rallycross and hill climbs, across 11 countries, with over 20 different cars. All of which can all be upgraded, tuned and customised to your liking.
Going to play a bunch more today including Manor Lord and Forever Skies.
2 of the 5 are downloading—A Hero's rest and Techtonica—they look interesting. Thank you
Tried Loretta, neutral about the ~10 minutes I got to play, but some keypress caused the game to reduce from fullscreen to ~half screen, with no apparent way to get it back to max—all the control icons like Settings etc were gone.
Main problem with that was the mouse control was lost. Moving to where I thought was middle of the screen would result in mouse pointer suddenly appearing off the right side—ie on desktop instead of in game—and game would minimize to Taskbar. Didn't try hard to fix it, figured it was broken at that stage. May investigate a bit more after playing other demos.
GamesRadar has a nice 8-min video—anyone for horror fishing?
14 Steam Next Fest Demos You Need To Check Out
I'm going to check out…
Season: a letter to the future
Storyteller
The entropy center
Floodland
Aquatico
Flateye
…because they look interesting—the 2 watery ones are city buildery & survivory, Entropy has a Portal vibe, etc.
14 Steam Next Fest Demos You Need To Check Out
I'm going to check out…
Season: a letter to the future
Storyteller
The entropy center
Floodland
Aquatico
Flateye
…because they look interesting—the 2 watery ones are city buildery & survivory, Entropy has a Portal vibe, etc.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Someone (wife) distracted me most of the day with busywork, but I got to play a few minutes of Manor Lord. I guess you have different places you can start, but I started at the beginning where you start building your town. I don't usually like these sorts of games, but I was in a chill mood and just watching the little guys building stuff was relaxing. Maybe playing Tavern Master opened me up to it a little. But then I had to quit and there's no save feature in the demo. I may see if I can actually start at one of the other starting points tomorrow.
I'm a bit short on time at the moment, so not trying to figure these out if not obvious—so far:
A Hero's Rest
Had to quit tutorial to turn down music, so probably missed some info.
'Finish Building an Inkeeper' was first mission—no idea where to go, what to do.
Confusing, maybe my own fault.
AHOD
Not interested.
Airship Kingdoms
Not interested, but looks quite polished—give it a go if it's your thing.
Aquatico
Looks great, great UI if it works.
Couldn't figure how to start in tutorial, which is tut's fault.
Flateye
Not interested.
A Hero's Rest
Had to quit tutorial to turn down music, so probably missed some info.
'Finish Building an Inkeeper' was first mission—no idea where to go, what to do.
Confusing, maybe my own fault.
AHOD
Not interested.
Airship Kingdoms
Not interested, but looks quite polished—give it a go if it's your thing.
Aquatico
Looks great, great UI if it works.
Couldn't figure how to start in tutorial, which is tut's fault.
Flateye
Not interested.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Forever Skies on Steam
Forever Skies is a first-person post-apocalyptic survival game. Return to Earth, ravaged by an ecological disaster. Fly, upgrade and customize your mobile high-tech airship base. Scavenge resources to survive, face dangers on the surface and hunt for viral pathogens to cure a mysterious illness.
Spent a lot of time in this this morning. Very polished game. It's a survival game with an interesting idea or three. You have an air ship and you are traveling through this disaster of a planet, stopping off at the tops of crumbling building to explore There's a cure for a virus somewhere/somehow on this planet
The game ran poorly when I first started it up, but it supports DLSS, which worked beautifully and got the game to acceptable framerates. My biggest complaint is that the Field of View is claustrophobic. Hopefully they will add a slider for that. Another complaint, but not as big, is that hunger and thirst are too hectic and need to be reeled in a little. You are basically in constant need of food and water
Other than that, it was quite fun and well done, but it's not a very pleasant experience. The general atmosphere of this ruined planet is very oppressive.
Edit: Developer just said they are going to update the demo today to better optimize it and do something about the FOV.
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ZedClampet
Community Contributor
You want to talk about people horrible at their jobs--cosmetic surgeons. You see more and more horror shows walking around these days. I mean, they can't even make boobs right and those aren't exactly complicated.
More quick looks:
Floodland
Not my thing, but looks good and plays well early on.
Season: A Letter to the Future
Doesn't work with mouse & keyboard, only controller—finished game will have KB/M control.
Storyteller
Unique, simple, fun puzzles for a while—not for me, but give it a look.
Techtonica
Not my thing
The Entropy Center
Now we're suckin' diesel! Big Portal echoes, and likely to get kinda crazy later—wishlisted.
So far, 2 for me: Manor Lords and The Entropy Center.
Floodland
Not my thing, but looks good and plays well early on.
Season: A Letter to the Future
Doesn't work with mouse & keyboard, only controller—finished game will have KB/M control.
Storyteller
Unique, simple, fun puzzles for a while—not for me, but give it a look.
Techtonica
Not my thing
The Entropy Center
Now we're suckin' diesel! Big Portal echoes, and likely to get kinda crazy later—wishlisted.
So far, 2 for me: Manor Lords and The Entropy Center.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Thanks for the heads up on The Entropy Center. Downloading now. So far for me the only one I'm 100 percent positive on is Techtonica. Forever Skies is close. Depends on what's going on when it releases.
ZedClampet
Community Contributor
Tried these demos today:
Aquatico (linked above): I don't know what to say about this. It's the same as all the others except under water.
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Total Conflict: Resistance Demo: It's basically a poor man's (a really really poor man's) Total War The strategy portion is highlighted by a hideous map and little to nothing to do in the demo.
As far as battles, this is the twist The game becomes an FPS if you don't auto resolve. It's a very realistic shooter, but not particularly well done in the demo. I couldn't tell which of my guys were shooting or what they were shooting at. I couldn't see any enemies at all, partially because they were so far away and my gun didn't have a scope on it. After waiting forever while the AI shot at each other from great distances, I decided to Alvin York them and strike off on my own to try to flank the enemy. And that's when the battle ended.
The game is an interesting idea, but its execution is just not good... Maybe it was too soon for them to release a demo. Dunno.
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You play as Q-Bert and a gigantic cylinder is rolling across the landscape. Your job is to run way. I didn't get very far before I was squashed by the cylinder and the game started over. No thanks. I was actually supposed to stop the cylinder right before I died. No idea what happens if you do that. It was just apparent that it wasn't my kind of game, so I quit.
The Entropy Center (linked above). I did the first 4 or 5 puzzles, and they were all exactly the same. I think I saw enough to give the game a chance at launch. The writing was pretty meh, but I can see the puzzles getting pretty good as you advance through the game.
Aquatico (linked above): I don't know what to say about this. It's the same as all the others except under water.
Total Conflict: Resistance on Steam
Total Conflict: Resistance is a unique symbiosis of global strategy, tactics and first-person action. Realistic mass battles, many types of armored vehicles, weapons, uniforms, unique mechanics, immersive free gameplay. Lead any state and bring it to greatness!
Total Conflict: Resistance Demo: It's basically a poor man's (a really really poor man's) Total War The strategy portion is highlighted by a hideous map and little to nothing to do in the demo.
As far as battles, this is the twist The game becomes an FPS if you don't auto resolve. It's a very realistic shooter, but not particularly well done in the demo. I couldn't tell which of my guys were shooting or what they were shooting at. I couldn't see any enemies at all, partially because they were so far away and my gun didn't have a scope on it. After waiting forever while the AI shot at each other from great distances, I decided to Alvin York them and strike off on my own to try to flank the enemy. And that's when the battle ended.
The game is an interesting idea, but its execution is just not good... Maybe it was too soon for them to release a demo. Dunno.
Save 70% on The Eternal Cylinder on Steam
Control a herd of charming creatures called Trebhum and explore an unforgettable alien world filled with exotic lifeforms and surreal environments. Discover dozens of mutations to overcome puzzles, explore new biomes, and survive on a dangerous planet.
The Entropy Center (linked above). I did the first 4 or 5 puzzles, and they were all exactly the same. I think I saw enough to give the game a chance at launch. The writing was pretty meh, but I can see the puzzles getting pretty good as you advance through the game.
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This demo here is the first chapter of the game What never was...
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I played the demo a while ago and I enjoyed it a lot. It's a single person developer so there's no game yet, but he announced that the second chapter might come out soon. I definitely recommend to try this one out, it is exceptionally well done for the work of one alone.
What Never Was on Steam
What Never Was is a short, story-driven first-person game focused on exploration and puzzle-solving about Sarah, having to shoulder the arduous task of clearing out her grandfathers attic, and soon finds that not everything about the attic is what it seems.
Who does he think he is, a AAA studio?
Huh, looks like I picked the game up 3 years ago, but never played it. So 3 years waiting for Ch 2? Definitely AAA!
Who does he think he is, a AAA studio?
Huh, looks like I picked the game up 3 years ago, but never played it. So 3 years waiting for Ch 2? Definitely AAA!
I think its more of a side project and thats why it takes him so long to make progress with the game, just guessing on the base of his website. Looks like he‘s been part of some big projects so far…
I agree, very attractive and very smooth.
Look what I can do when there's only 1 chapter!
Oh yeah, level designer for The Division and Rage 2 are biggies indeed.
Been trying out the demo of AO2 recently: https://store.steampowered.com/app/601050/Attack_on_Titan_2__AOT2/
If you are a fan of the anime, it looks like it's good enough to kill some time. But I've read that the gameplay can get really repetitive and is not worth the full price. I'm on the fence but I'll probably grab it if it is on sale.
If you are a fan of the anime, it looks like it's good enough to kill some time. But I've read that the gameplay can get really repetitive and is not worth the full price. I'm on the fence but I'll probably grab it if it is on sale.
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