NextFest October 2024--Discuss the festivities (and the demos) here.

[Pifanjr]

My kid tried

Wandering Cat on Steam

Guide a cat on a culinary journey in "Wandering Cat": explore, make friends and tackle adventures with humor. Are you ready for a meowtastic cat adventure?

store.steampowered.com

today and it was rough. It's in pre-alpha, so that's to be expected, but I don't have high hopes for it.

 

[Zed Clampet]

There are a bunch of demos that I downloaded but am not going to get to play. If they are still available after NextFest, I'll put them in the demos thread.

 

[Pifanjr]

I managed to squeeze in an hour of Worshippers of Cthulhu this morning. It's a solid city builder, but the cult management was less impactful than I expected. The biggest change is that you have to manage the amount of citizens you have, as you need to assign them to specific jobs and use them as sacrifices, and you only get a couple of them every so often.

I do really like the atmosphere, the art and the general vibe of the game. It feels more impactful to make a city of devout followers of an eldritch god than to build a little village on a random island in the new world like you do in Anno.