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>so many demos being downloaded it crashes steam
Based
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1166890/Necrofugitive/
Allow me to shill this one. I want to know if anyone here can beat the demo.
That was in a previous next fest and it was barely playable garbage back then.
>Filtered by hard games
>trailer shows big beast transformation
>can only hit 2 enemies at a time
Instantly dodged this one, thanks for nothing
>2d action platformer
There already are 19874398743987430974397413 of those
This is the best demo I've tried so far (other than Lies of P). Really solid game.
What build did you run?
I did a Castlevania run with the whip and slide tackle.
>no pacific drive demo
There won't be one.
The devs confirmed they had no plans for a demo and have no idea why Steam advertised them for the event.
Seems to be a couple of games with no demos so I guess Steam fricked up and put them. There are way less demos I've wanted to play so far so it sucks when I see something interesting with no demo.
Don't you need to sign up for the event?
is that related to the other driving horror game stuck in patreon hell?
BEWARE? Not at all.
anyone have any good co-op / multiplayer demos?
>Roguelite
>Metroidvania
>Doom clone
yeah why the frick are there so many doom clones out of nowhere
its honestly more tiring than ye olde brown millitary shooters of the early 2010s
i want a resurgence
I will not forgive Duke Nukem Forever
No rest for the wicked
Trepang2 just came out and is a FEARlike.
im downloading that rn
holy zoomer
You mean Ultrakill clones?
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Newblood has published multiple games in the same genre before and after Ultrakill released, it's not that new of a trend.
Was that a meta joke and that I was too obtuse to get? Have I become an autist?
Some of the doomclones are tentatively decent. I've yet to see a roguelite or metroidvania in one of these worth spending money on
Why are you complaining, this is gonna be even more widespread with an AI. This is what you wanted
I don't know why people shat on the Toxic Crusaders demo. Despite knowing next to nothing about the franchise it plays as a perfectly serviceable beat-em-up. I get Ninja Baseball Bat Man vibes due to how unhinged it feels at times. Feels like a classic game that could have been released in 90's arcades, though the quips and talking are a bit much.
Thoughts on Quasimorph and Cross Blitz?
Those would be the ones I am most interested in myself. But I've admittedly got some niche tastes, as might be evident by the above titles being selected at all.
>Quasimorph
Played the demo a few months back and it's pretty cool. The exploration and combat go into each other pretty well. The only drag is when you have to backtrack across the whole map to find some shit you missed. Pretty decent so far
I mostly pulled h-games and VNs.
>Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of Moonscar
It's a laudable effort for a single dev, but the WEG-tier CG smut scenes are predictably lame and the combat is just okay. CRPGs aren't really my genre, so I'm sure it will have its fans, but I'm not among them.
>Take me to the Dungeon!
Really good. Does enough to distinguish itself from its contemporaries to feel fresh, but the writing gets in the way of the mechanics, and I still don't like lose=h-scene mechanics.
>Isekai Janken Hero
It's rock paper scissors combat(literally) and gets out of its own way to get you to the porn, which is pretty well animated. Final game is only going to have 4 girls, so I think the price is going to be the biggest deciding factor here.
>Lost Chapter
Does the card battler thing really well. You can try for a pure maiden run or focus on getting monsters off by being loose so you can get rich as hell and then bludgeon them to death with your sack of riches. It's got a full release out already that's easily found on F95.
>Succubus Girl/Holy prostitute Emily
Untranslated, couldn't even try to play it.
>Painting Thief
Neat concept completely let down by a boring as shit gameplay loop and bland smut. Total skip.
>Rhya's Crusade
Megaman like thing. Pretty fun, but also punishingly hard. Smut is very so-so.
>Malicious Reload II
Looked interesting, but it crashed on startup and never ran.
>Vampire Hunters
Dishwater dull shooter that feels like a mobile game. Beat the demo and felt ripped off.
I'm not a horny gamer, but are there any games where the sex itself is the gameplay and not just the theme or a cutscene reward? And not point and clicking the genitals or faster/slower buttons, but something more than that at least..
Not him but the ones I've played that try for that are usually not great because the sex mechanics are repetitive, tedious, or get in the way of cooming
Lost Chapter does that pretty well. Last Evil, which is in the same vein, does both the gameplay sex and cutscene reward routes. I particularly liked Last Evil's means of handling it. If you seduce an enemy during a battle, you're actually banging him, which means he's out of the fight for a few turns. Useful for dealing with other combatants or stacking buffs. If you know a fight is going badly, you can actually surrender, which will subject you to the lose cutscene, but lets you continue the fight with a bondage implement on that confers a debuff of some kind. You can do this up to five times in a run, which can prove challenging, but also can factor into the sex. I'd highly recommend them both, but Lost Chapter won me over on theming and aesthetic, as well as the VA for your character making me fricking diamonds. If you keep giving into sexual desire, your interactions with the random events that involve sex also pivot from being resistant to actively loose. There's also Karryn's Prison, which is still one of the better battlefrick games out there.
Gimme a few, I'm gonna go dumpster diving in my 'games' folder and see what I come up with beyond those.
Monster Girl Dreams is pretty good, but it might as well be a VN for how much of it is just reading. Got some decently in-depth RPG mechanics and really strong writing for the smut, enough so that I even have a favorite character.
Succubus Connect is yet another card battler (I don't have an addiction, shut up), but that one is actually entirely focused on sex. You unlock cards for things like handjobs, blowjobs, even pitjobs. It's also insanely easy to break the game over your knee in terms of difficulty, and get to the point where you're holding well over a dozen cards at a time.
Kaiju Princess' sex minigame is like half of the content, but it's decently well designed and the girl is really cute if you're into emotionless girls.
HypnoApp is purely about the sex, where you have to balance how you're banging the girl to attune her to various preferences, so you're constantly switching between stimulating different erogenous zones to keep her interested. It's possible to go too far and cause her pain instead, which is an undesirable result. I don't think it's the best of its kind, that honor goes to HypnoLab VR, which somehow came to us from the same guy behind Snow Daze, and it's really high effort for what it is. There's some real effort that goes into unlocking the various modes of hypnosis.
monster girl dreams is great but that shit is never gonna get finished going by the dev's current pace
also my build basically doesn't work on le super optional boss which was lame
>There's also Karryn's Prison, which is still one of the better battlefrick games out there.
Shame it's near impossible to trigger blowjobs in that game because for some reason every single enemy is extremely averse to ever using them.
If you level enough into your various sex stats, I know you unlock the ability to force it.
RJ365062 is my favorite recent battle frick game.
It has a manual translation on the usual site.
Oh are the card builds in Lost Chapter directly related to whether you make her a bawd or not?
Yes. You have combat cards for kicking/maneuvering, fisticuffs, magic, defense, money magic(which is like three cards but can ramp up to being the most powerful in the game), and bawd cards. Depending on your starting decisions, you start with different basic cards and stats, and different random encounters and end battle rewards will grant you access to certain bawd cards, as well as your titles, 16 permanent buffs you get through various achievements like raising or lowering your morality and faith stats to different levels, beating the four main bosses, losing your virginity, raising your lewdness to a certain point, things like that. There is...a lot in that game, it's genuinely hard to cover. Let me drop you a link to the f95 thread if you want to give it a whirl.
https://f95zone(dot)to/threads/lost-chapter-v1-10-almichadia.130964/
That sounds kino. I always wanted an hgame to integrate lewd battlefrick mechanics into a card system. Princess Synergy is a NEVER EVER so this'll have to do.
Also, is that TL any good? F95 is way too fricking inundated with MTLs these days for me to trust it.
It's very well translated from my couple dozen hours with 1.08, and 1.10 apparently has TL fixes. It's not a super clumsy TL, but there were definitely a few spots that were kind of rough, so hopefully those were all fixed. I think the Steam release is getting a more official TL with the most recent release of the game, so I guess we'll see.
Try RJ307268
>Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of Moonscar
Cool, let's see what's this abou-
>Daz-made models
It's over.
Death must Die is the only demo i had fun with and its just vampire survivor with hades upgrades and persistent equipment
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2334730/Death_Must_Die/
Lies of P is so dogshit it has left my wishlist faster than I usually take to coom
What made it bad
i still plan on playing it when it is 15usd by then i assume most of the jank will be fixed.
it's Korean, the jank is inherent
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2228030/Dr_Fetus_Mean_Meat_Machine/
It's Puyo (4 colors) with stage hazards. There's a little incentive to chain 3+ but you don't really have to know how.
i saw a swat game but forgot the name and want to download
Any "must haves" this year? I was interested in the game where you clean up the ocean (can't remember the name, but it starts with an "L"), until an anon said it was boring. Haven't seen much attention grabbing stuff this time around.
only one i'll shill shill for so far is
there's been like 2 others that i'll keep an eye on
odinfall is solid if you're a roguelike fan
No it isn't and frick you for getting my hopes up. It might be if you are a fan of games not at all like Rogue though.
You should know by now that no one who uses the term "roguelike" for games nowadays even knows what Rogue is.
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ah, reminds me of pic related
>cyberpunk
>low poly 3d mixed with pixel art
>breakcore soundtrack
>Ganker memes
just hope this one has better gameplay
Well they're getting sued
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>eleventy billion games on steam
>0.1% are good games
Just buy the good games then shitlord
ITS WHAT I DO, BUT HOW CAN YOU SEE THE GOOD IF THERE ARE BILLIONS OF FRICKING BAD GAMES TRYING TO HIDE THEM?
THE INTERACTIVE RECOMMENDER DIPSHIT, YOU DO ACTUALLY PLAY GAMES RIGHT?!
Interactive Recommender is a fricking meme, it works like shit, man...
It's sent me to some games I liked, but honestly it does get stuck showing you the same shit if you never play anything new, still I think everyone should at least try it.
Use steampeek,
This is complete trash and you know it. Why do you think people use these threads?
BROWSE THESE THREADS FOR RECS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE YOU ABSOLUTE CRETIN, WHY DO YOU THINK WE'RE HERE?
what else would you suggest? app store? never had an apple account but honestly those fitty hunnit glasses look insane. no smell factors but the AR controls look insane, how is it possible? no really, how is it possible anon? no trackers? trackers in the headset right? but how? HOW are you supposed to develop for that helmet. fruit ninja would be insane could i literally play beat saber with it, no setup necessary? frick off. unless...
So did we ever have any Ganker devs participating this time around? I asked in the first Nextfest thread but no one ever popped up to shill their shit.
I think I've seen this shit being posted here a few times.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2327780/HAELE_3D__Feet_Poser_Pro/
Someone made a merchant game they were shilling in another thread
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274480/Merchant_of_the_Six_Kingdoms/
>Ratopia
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2244130/Ratopia/
a terraria-like where you can only hold 1 type of item at a time. and only 3 counts of said item
what the frick..
you can get migrants and they can automate some shit so maybe it's not too bad later on
but what made my stop playing was the slow text fill that you couldn't skip. i know how to fricking mine dirt you shithead stop forcing me to go through 2 minutes of dialogue boxes for it
>terraria with extra steps
nty
Rat time
Just gave me flashbacks to the Bad Rats game.
It's clearly trying to copy Oxygen Not Included.
Problem is it lacks the QoL features to make it tolerable.
Controlling the queen instead of having a bird's eye view is different from ONI but makes micromanaging more tedious.
>Testament - Order of the High-Human (because frick high-elves I guess)
First-person hacking'n'casting RPG. Sorta like Dark Messiah, but unfortunately without the kick button and environmental features. It's pretty decent for a 15-man team but it's a bit lacking overall, and melee combat is a bit annoying to get used to because of the stagger mechanic (but I guess you are supposed to swap weapons/spells to deal with annoying encounters, or use stealth archery).
>One Lonely Outpost
Space Harvest Moon. The premise is interesting: You need to turn a dead rocky region into a living habitat for future colonists. I didn't get very far yet (the game is a bit too slow-paced) but the tutorial shows machines that will help you with the farming tasks (so you can spend more time exploring and hitting on female colonists, I assume).
>The Devil Within
Metroidvania focused on combat, or so it says on the tin. Honestly I got bored of it before the tutorial ended.
>Wizard with a Gun
I didn't pay enough attention to the trailer, turns out this is a Don't Starve clone rather than an action game about gun wizards. Surviving'n'craftans isn't really my thing.
>Dragonspire
The game calls itself an "action roguelike" but the only game mode available right now is an small arena with a timelimit.
Skill cooldowns are too long, enemies have a bit too much HP (I suppose the game is designed for co-op but my partner logged off) and combat wasn't really a smooth experience overall.
any good games to try that isnt gay goyslop?
what else should i try?
En Garde is day one? Why is that?
Plays like the few good bits of Arkham combat mashed together with Dark Messiah, pure kino.
Playing it now, it reminds of Prince of Persia for some reason. I mean the SNES ones.
>Venba
OKAY CAMPERS
>echopoint nova
been scouring the last like 3-4 threads, first time i've seen this. cheers
Bunburrows
>Stop Dead
I don't know if I'm not wired for this game or if it's just not well designed
>play ViewFinder
>absolutely top tier mechanics
>absolutely DOGSHIT writing and VA
IF YOURE A PUZZLE GAME STOP FRICKING TRYING TO APE PORTAL UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY HAVE GOKD WRITERS ON BOARD JESUS FRICK
the writing is absolutely bizarre. there's clearly some context being hidden where we've entered some alternate reality/simulation based on how the woman is talking about stuff (e.g. "oh, falling doesn't hurt here") and the gramophones are hinting at reality-warping stuff related to the pictures too but its not at all made clear what the premise really is.
still think it's gonna wind up being very breezy, bland stuff in the end but hopefully the full game makes more sense at least and doesn't have it get in the way of the puzzles.
did you read any of the sticky notes?
>Warhaven - a korean PVP game thats an odd mix of Mordhau and Overwatch. The visual aesthetic is all over the place with a jarring visual style thats a mix of sci-fi, medieval and naraka bladepoint. 2/5 can't even turn off film grain
>Luto - Pretty cool PT clone with good puzzles, 3/5
>Fortune's Run - best game of the fest. Immersive sim with an aeon-flux visual style. I can see this being an old Gankerirgins new obsession (as in, mine.) 5/5
>House Flipper 2 - it's house flipper. 3.5/5
>En Garde! - A surprisingly fun action game, nice graphics and gameplay. 5/5
>Goodbye Volcano High - Nobody here even realized there's a demo yet and that's testament to how little it matters compared to snoot game. snoot/10 didn't even play
almost tempted to try warhaven but
>nexon
lol
gonna check out fortune's run
>warhaven
it's so fricking bad as I expect from nexon but it doesn't even have cute girls no idea wtf they're doing
you'd think the koreans of all people would understand that sex sells, especially cosmetics
's Run - best game of the fest. Immersive sim with an aeon-flux visual style. I can see this being an old Gankerirgins new obsession (as in, mine.) 5/5
Have you played literally every game in the fest, or even > 1% of them? I doubt it bro.
Volcano High - Nobody here even realized there's a demo yet and that's testament to how little it matters compared to snoot game. snoot/10 didn't even play
Its been mentioned in several threads.
It just doesn't need to be mentioned all the time
Fortune's run is just the best demo I played. I rate them based off of how much I am looking forward to the full release.
>Steamworld Build - somewhat mediocre city builder but maybe if the mining aspect of the game is really elaborate I could see myself getting into it. 3/5
>Paleo Pines - I just play this because my neurons activate when I see dinosaurs. Casual farming sims are quickly becoming an oversaturated genre and this one unfortunately isn't anything to write home about. 1/5
GVH has its own threads, it doesn't need to be here
Chinese demos in a nutshell right here
Anyone try Luna Abyss yet? Looks kind of cool but I'm almost positive it's shit.
Warhaven isn't too bad but WHY IS IT SO FRICKING SLOW
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1340480/The_Cosmic_Wheel_Sisterhood/
I liked this demo quite a bit. You make your own tarot cards and do some readings while making deals with a demon
Hopefully the full game will have a good branching storyline
I checked tags day 1 and just autofiltered it
Guess I'll give it a try
Bizarre but I have a fascination with tarot cards so I'll check it out, thanks
Need a batch of demos just to keep my dumb brain entertained for a night. I have:
Viewfinder - Puzzle game that will bore me but the technology is nice
Riot Operator - Because operating against rioters in France seems like a great challenge
Fortune's Run - Imsim, seems cool
Vampire Hunters - Looks fun, an FPS survivor, eh
Stunt Derby - Just to frick with the engine
Home Safety Hotline - VHS horror akin to Untold Stories, might be good
Beyond Sunset - Vibrant for the part of my brain who's still a zoomer
Rasant - 'cause speed
Anything else cool ?
steam fricked up and put a bunch of games that didn't register for nextfest on the list.
I didn't enrol my game but it still made it to number 4 in my genre, free +500 wishlists, thanks steam.
and I get to still be in October nextfest too.
What game
HAELE 3D - Feet Poser Pro
rather not say, don't want any association with this place.
No one cares if you post in Ganker you dumb nig.
>you dumb nig
I rest my case.
Successful devs, more than you'll ever be, have posted here mate.
tradeoffs not worth it, you fricks don't even buy games, why would I risk anything on this site even if the risk was small?
>you fricks don't even buy games
Vividlope ended up being successful. RoR, Vall-Hall-A, Stardew Valley all blew up huge from here
you could've just left it at "i don't want any association with this place" but you had to go and be stupid
Notch was here before he was anywhere else, and Minecraft is one of the highest selling games ever. It's okay to not want to associate with us, frankly I don't care, but at least get down from that high horse you seem to think you're on.
Is it a demo? All demos made it in for whatever reason.
nah we didn't even have a demo up, steam had a soft deadline for demos to be uploaded by to be included but seems they just put a bunch of peoples games in anyway.
>Spacepunk Survival
arena survivor, not like vampire survivor, mind you? still a flaming uncomplete dog shit, no sound or music and I couldn't see shit.
>En Garde
it was good and maybe I'm a bit slow but it wasn't that easy even when it has the arkham asylum combat. it was good.
it's because unlike Arkham the enemies aren't polite enough to attack you one or two at a time
Logic Town is really fun. I've managed to put in a few hours, actually. The unfortunate thing about a demo for a puzzle game is that a "vertical slice" is pretty much the whole experience. So there's not much incentive to buy the full game on release.
is wizard with a gun any good??
it's just like every other "survival" rogue-lite
Survivalslop
who did the Devolver b***h gamer gate to always get such good press?
how are all the games they push so sloppy
I wasn't liking it at first because it felt like the majority of your 5 minutes is spent gathering, but I figured out what the game wants you to do: make a b-line for important stuff (Gear holding bosses, Chaos Gates) and then use the Chaos DOOM thing to break down rocks and shit for you.
It takes a little planning to pull it off, and if your exit portal isn't in an open place it may not feel comfortable to do, but basically the game expects (once you gather a bunch of shit early on to get going) you to bumrush mini-bosses, then farm Chaos to get Arcane dust and break down things.
You can also use Fire bullets to harvest trees pretty fast, and the ash/charcoal is used to make better fire bullets.
The bones of a good game are there, like it has Guild Wars 2 style "fields" of elemental stuff so like if you set the ground on fire and then hit it with water, you'll create steam.
I'm guessing in co-op you could do fun synergistic stuff with water / cold, water / lightning, oil / fire, maybe the poison debuffs for big monsters.
Complaints: Guns seem shallow, the tech trees are uninspired. Maybe the demo isn't representative of that, who knows, but I'm not sure where the longevity comes from.
When I think of DST (this is basically DST + Risk of Rain), that game is only fun because of the charming graphics, music, and huge variety of bosses.
DST's core combat gameplay sucks shit; melee kiting is awful, gathering up tons of marble to make marble suits or whatever is awful.
Exploring in DST is great, for example The Ruins and other biomes or set pieces or whatever, which is what WWAG is lacking.
It's 100% a wishlist game, and the demo is worth playing (especially with the protip I gave). I'll probably repost this in the next thread since the game seems to have a lot of interest around it, though I feel like I ought to reformat my post to not be a stream of consciousness info dump.
>then use the Chaos DOOM thing to break down rocks and shit for you
I tried that, but it seemed like any environment objects broken by chaos (whether mobs or the meteors that spawn when the timer hits 0) are converted into arcana rather than dropping raw materials.
I didn't play it long enough to figure out if that's happening or like, if like say Pages get turned into Arcana as like a penalty or something, but definitely the Eyeballs will start tearing down walls and metal structures and things.
Basically all I can say is to try again, other enemy (in particular the minibosses and exploding barrel) attacks can also break down walls and things.
Also, I didn't mention it before, but you get a platform gun that uses stone to fill in gaps and that's a significant QoL feature as well.
Oh also upgrade the Tome to be able to scan decorative structures, this lets you break down the huge piles of shit in your Time Hideout and also decorative structures out in the wild.
finally got around to Code Name Bakery, there are some jank bits and a couple of iffy translation but the actual game is solid. Also it does NOT frick around on hard.
chinaman get ye gone
>Code Name Bakery,
Is this from the makers of Girl's Frontline?
yes, there are even a couple of cameos. The plots aren't (directly) related though as this is a remake of their first game from 2013, even if they do share a universe.
Thanks lads, I enjoy the visual style a lot. Yeah the game was grindy, so hopefully this is quality.
It's a remake of the first game they released before the gacha shit. I think the story happens 30 or 40 years after the events of the gacha. It's alright unless they pull some gambling crap on it
I can't believe Waven is actually going to come out.
Well shit I had no idea Ankama Games was still around. Will check it out when it releases
its an mmo right?
right?
>middle clicking on a game doesn't open a new steam window to keep my place on the original page while checking out a new game
FRICK THIS UPDATE I ONLY JUST NOW FOUND THIS OUT
The new UI is unresponsive buggy dogshit.
works on my machine
win7 chad btw
>win7 chad btw
Not for long.
It's crazy how they frick up these things so badly.
It does, it opens the store page in a new window. The only thing you can't do is middle click things like discussion forums, but you couldn't do that with the old UI either.
After playing the Viewfinder demo, I don't think I've gotten anything out of it that I didn't already know from the trailer. It just introduces the basic mechanics and the moment you start to engage beyond that, the demo ends. Considering they fast-forwarded you past a whole bunch of shit too, this doesn't exactly sell me on the game.
Works on my machine.
bares reminding
As a working actor, this is mostly true because anyone with a microphone can be a "voice actor" without any credentials.
There's a correlation between acting budgets and how much you're willing to gatekeep your voice talent auditions and the quality of your talent in the game. That's not to say there isn't GREAT talent out there, but it's harder to find when you have over 200 auditions.
t. Anime Voice Actor / Dubber / Game Voice Actor / Shitposter
Post a voice sample or I won't believe you
Sure. Here's a NieR shitpost. Feel free to use it as needed.
https://voca.ro/1nzsqQaOyCyX
Nice, if I ever get more than 10 bucks on a kick starter you're hired
My standard rate is $4.50 per line, minimum total of $50. Negotiable if there's a lot of lines.
No Nier shitpost will ever surpass Joystiq's review of Nier:Gestalt. I'm still mad to this day.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, Joystiq is still dead. It doesn't make me feel better, they were the only vidya publication I liked.
>Joystiq's review of Nier:Gestalt. I'm still mad to this day.
Qrd?
I think that's the one where the reviewer spent the whole time b***hing about the fishing part of the main quest because he was fishing at the high level spot (when the quest marker is pointing to an entirely different area) and then gives it a zero because he couldn't catch the fish he needed which doesn't even spawn there.
So what should I do if I want my game to have voice acting? If I save up a few grand, could I actually get good voice acting? My game is nowhere near that point yet, but I'm just curious.
AI Kino bro
Then I suppose I'll just keep working on my game until the technology or resources are available for /VAkino/
idk bro 9/10 times people will either laugh at the voice acting or just straight turn it off
you'd be better off going for something like fricking undertale with blips and bloops
at least that's charming and free
why need VA? what kind of game is it?
jarpig
>western-made "J"RPG with voice acting
This has never worked well
You really don't need VA, bro. Most people who like that genre enjoy reading anyway. Just focus on making the gameplay good and fun.
>So what should I do if I want my game to have voice acting?
Microsoft SAM
There's actually a game on the switch about bug fighting that's entirely voiced with text-to-speech.
Depends how much you need. If you only need a few thousand words of dialogue it's pretty cheap, a few hundred maybe. If you need the entire story voice acted, you are in trouble, both because it does cost serious money, but also because it's more difficult to pull off without falling flat. Not to mention you'll never be able to afford localization. Consider having reaction sounds like Zelda games, or even beeps if it's pixel graphics.
But voice acting costs will be dwarfed by your art costs. You get more bang for your buck splurging on art anyways.
Your best bet is to find online VAs yourself (like the kind who make standalone content/skits to post to Youtube and such) and reach out to them directly. Not to say that there aren't terrible examples of those as well, but at least someone who has 500k subscribers from voiceover memes is more likely to have skill than some literal who that puts "aspiring VA" in all their profile bios. Proper equipment, at the very least.
Obviously you'll still need to use your own discretion, but I think you'll be better off than you would with the audition clips you'd get from making "VAs wanted" posts and asking people to send you samples.
It'll be more expensive than literal whos, though.
look at the credits for other indie games that you think have good voice acting and contact them directly
Anon that tweet is a shitpost, obviously there are good online VAs around
It's a shitpost, but everyone knows that all shitposts start from a grain of truth.
Shut up Dumbfack, get back to work on Benbo you fricking hack fraud b***h homie.
despite the fact that bad voice acting is instantly recognizable and incredibly grating, I don't actually know what sets good voice acting apart from bad voice acting
is it more a writing thing? recording quality and mixing?
Deadlink was pretty good. It's like nuDoom except with a better considered ammo system that doesn't keep slowing down the game. Hopefully the final game has more variety though.
Why is it rare to see more RPGs like Elder Scrolls? An open world with a custom character and things to do?
probably because it takes a lot of man power to make something this huge, empty and bland.
Do you know anything about 3d modeling? There's a billion props in Elder Scrolls games and they still often look like shit.
If you use asset store stuff, it'll look ultra shit.
You need a ton of locations, and they need to be planned out and fun to explore, or else they'll be shit (which most Elder Scrolls dungeons and such still end up being).
It's an incredibly difficult undertaking.
>Lords of Exile
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1329360/Lords_of_Exile/
mom can we get bloodstained?
we have bloodstained at home sweatheart
bloodstained at home
>Die
>Just respawn in the same fricking room
>No life system, nothing lost beyond heart/subwep
Dropped it the moment I noticed this
Battle Shapers is also clearly inspired by nu-doom with a similar melee = effective hp system except not as good. Performance is absolute trash though
For some reason for me this was buggy as shit. MC would just randomly run right, dodge animation would cancel itself almost instantly. Also can attack like 5 times a second but skills have near 20 second cooldown, confusing design choices.
Final Knight still the most fun demo so far
I gave up on this when I randomly fell through the ground and died. Like you can't even get the floor working right in a Castlevania clone? Come the frick on.
kickstarter funded btw
After messing around with Viewfinder, I hope the game introduces multiple opportunities to frick shit up. I kept taking pictures of the 2D platforming part, then kept collecting the jump powerups. Eventually I had to rewind because I couldn't get anything done since I was basically jumping to the top of the skybox.
the game, vs it's UI
Testament demo, i'ts poo
that's literally just God of War with the bits sanded off
Think it usually has a demo anyway but try colony ship
great crpg in a cool setting
Went through roguelike tag (0 of which are roguelikes). So many 'survivor' games. Tried:
Crux: Shooter. Alpha game, mechanics seem fun but it looks and sounds like shit.
Spell Disk Well presented, controls well. Poorly balanced. Very easy to break the game with its auto-cast on X system.
Conquer Humanity: Play this for 10 seconds and you've seen the entire game.
Yokai Art: Plants vs Humans but really bad. Most notable feature is the fact every yokai in the demo's special power is to turn into little girls.
Mortal Vessel: Basic enemy in second area did > 1/3rd of my hp in one hit and took < 10%
Secret Summoner: Cute but boring.
Soul Dog: Cute but boring.
Rogue Command: Way too much waiting around, not enough meaningful thinking.
Greedland: Calls automatic mode "for vampire survivor players, casuals", based. Function top down shooter. Kinda boring.
Death Must Die: Effectively a V sav clone but worse. Has Hades god-upgrades, but worse, since they mostly just pad stats.
Folk Hero: Too easy to just hold rmb at range.
Quasimorph: Disappointing. This is more like CDDA v only the lowest level zombies than it is like DoomRL. Dunno why people keep comparing it to that. Everything is either no threat or passes the rng check to bleed-infect you hwen you have no cure and you just die. Text is insanely slow, can't speed up. Not good.
Still need to try Wizard with a gun, Fortune Run, Another Space Opera and a few others, but burnt out on how bad these games are.
>Went through roguelike tag (0 of which are roguelikes)
noooo you can't say that
definitions change over time
if you look at Traditional Roguelikes there are a few
>Soul Dog
>cool intro
>alright now that you've had some fun please report to mandatory 5 hours anime visual novel technology info dump, during which the very short and repetitive loop of music will play
also great idea to have constant unskippable
>...
>...
>...
>...
>...?
dialogue
i now realize there is a separate game called soul dog, entirely unrelated to stories from sol, gun-dog which is what i thought you were talking about
Whos gone through sea of stars? Is it any good?
Yes
>we've detected your mouse
>we've dectected your gamepad
>BUT YOU CAN'T USE THEM B/C WE SAID SO!
>default screen is windowed 360 by 360
>if you want to change settings frick you close the game and open up notepad
i would have given this a fair shake if i could just use the dumb frick controller d-pad
i have no idea how i played Dwarf Fortress so much back in the day with KB only
>i have no idea how i played Dwarf Fortress so much back in the day with KB only
cumulative brain damage over time? i don't see anything wrong with using only a keyboard
and really you could just use steam's controller interface to have it emulate your keyboard to an extent and be completely playable on that
SoulVars has a cool battle system but the UI isn't very good and everything else about it is a mess.
Red flags
>No cute boys
>Furries
>Cinematic
>No cute men
>Rogulike
>No cute
En Garde looks fking awesome. The protagonist reminds me of Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever.
Everything I've grabbed (+ the handful from last NextFest I bothered to keep installed). A good chunk I haven't played yet, but from what I have, Top 3 are Laika, En Garde, & Revolution 204X.
I wanted to try Merchant of the Six Kingdoms too, tell me how it goes.
Mostly seeing if it's worth gifting to a friend but I'll report back.
I was surprised myself. Playing it currently and it's objective-based in small looping levels with random/roguelite elements which is really hard to swallow after the original Metal Slug format AH had, but it controls great and maintains all that classic Newgrounds charm so far.
>Alien Hominid
>in 2023
Huh?
>Slave Zero X
Thank you for posting, the trailer actually gave me goose bumps
how many troonycore cringekino demos do we have this year?
>Fortune's Run
Fun running and gunning imsim, grungy sci-fi stylish as frick, melee is jank but I kind of expect that with billboard enemies. Voice acting is surprisingly good. I'm pretty sold on it, depending on the price.
>Back to the Dawn
Slow-burn furry prison lifesim, large cast of characters to interact with, gain skills from, trade with, beat up. Surprising amount of depth so far, but the demo is only 3 days of a 21-day experience. I'm really interested in the final product, not sure it'll hold my attention though. Don't fight the fricking crocodile, he'll kick your ass and steal your money.
>Quasimorph
Really like the presentation, it has potential, although having recently played Cogmind it feels like a step down in essentially every respect except graphical.
>>Back to the Dawn
super interested in this game, but the dev had the exact same demo up a year ago, so I'm not sure why he doesn't just release it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937500/Lets_School/
This ESL as frick devs has a really bad rap sheet but I enjoyed this demo more than I was expecting. cautious recommend.
I didn't even see this on the Next Fest page had I not seen a random Japanese tweet I never would have known it had a demo. Game looks amazing.
it really is sovlful
still protesting i see
what the hell are you talking about
Sovl, but some people might not have been able to sign up in time for the event
it's in there but for some reason it's below the "See More" on Popular Upcoming despite being the second-most wishlisted game
What game is this? I see it being posted a lot, but I have no idea what the name is.
Sea of Stars
It was pretty good outside of the character designs being ugly as frick, but where's the hidden market supposed to be?
under the pier
>outside of the character designs being ugly as frick
I think its the faces of the characters. It's like westernized anime faces.
They're goofy and not in an endearing way. And while the sprite work would normally be considered good, when compared to the beautiful environments it makes the character sprites look low quality. I suppose it doesn't help that the environments are highly animated while the sprites have no idle animation and just remain static.
It's nitpicking though.
Is that the game with the shitty Mario RPG combat where attacks take 30 seconds?
The only particularly long one was this one.
>20 second QTE ridden attack
>pityful damage
lol what a shitty ass meme game, frick gimmicks
>pityful damage
If you actually played it you'd realise that it just left all of those enemies one normal attack away from death, which was pretty good damage. Also, that's not how you spell pitiful.
>Another post with a pic but the filename and post don't say what they are, to force people to ask in replies
lol no get fooked
Sea of Stars.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244090/Sea_of_Stars/
There was this text adventure demo I downloaded a while back, I think it was from steam. It had a graphical interface for the overworld and you were exploring a fantasy setting. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Roadwarden?
Bingo, thank you.
Really?
>games I put on my wishlist already based on screenshots and intuition finally get demos
>try them
>they're worth keeping on the wishlist
Who else /great taste/ here?
what games though
>No Creeps Were Harmed TD
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1932260/No_Creeps_Were_Harmed_TD/
turret defense with risk of rain style constant waves. sadly the 'endless' option after completing the missions arn't available in demo
i'd recommend a try to anyone who just wants some tower D
Only got to play En Garde and it was pretty fun.
>try coom game
>it's disappointing
>end up spending another 2 hours cooming to unrelated stuff instead of playing demos
>coomers are slaves
no shit goym
>None of the games which advertize "you can raise pets" were good
>Several were chinese only
I just want a comfy animal friend in a game that isnt' shit
Secret of the magic crystals is an absolute classic animal raising game on steam.
What makes it good to you? There was that aquarium game.
The games I tried were like
>Adventure or open world game + you can recruit animals
I want a comfy adventure with pet
Lifeform: Zero
>see trailer for game some time ago
>wishlist it instantly
>try demo for it now
>turns out to be shit
Anyone else have this experience?
If anything, makes you glad for demos.
With Lies of P, yeah.
I initially dismissed it due to the animals, but Back to the Dawn is actually pretty interesting so far. Very surprised.
Same. Only concern is I'm not sure how long or deep the full game is gonna be, but it starts great and has potential.
>Secret of the magic crystals
They probably didn't want the "why is everyone a Black person" or "why isn't everyone a Black person" debates flooding their forums.
What?
I accidentally had some other text highlighted. The reply was correct, but the greentext was accidental.
I don't know why, but I feel like I don't like Back to the Dawn as much as I should. On paper, I should like it, but I think the time limit is turning me off the idea.
i normally hate time gated games but i really like the structure of this one, there are set activities you can do during each period of the day it's kinda calming
City builder gays how is Laysara. I liked the concept but thought it was just ok from the demo, but I don't play these types of games so I have no reference for if it's good or not
I didn't even get to play it since fullscreen crashed the game. I refunded it immediately.
If you can't code a game to go fullscreen in a second monitor, then don't even bother putting up a demo.
>Laysara
>I don't play these types of games so I have no reference for if it's good or not
I'd just play Anno 1800 if you're new to the genre, it's pretty much the gold standard of comfy city builder crossed with dynamic economy sim.
I'm a veteran city builder gamer that have been playing these type of games since SimCity, the very first one that was released on the SNES and PC.
Anno 1800 is one of the most boring city builders out there, literally nothing to do, AI is fricking moronic, and all buildings(specially houses) look the same so your city ends up looking like copy pasted garbage.
Yeah actually I want to change my comment
, Anno 1800 is a good ecom game but there's definitely better city builders, I just haven't played any good ones. What do you recommend?
city builders are like 4x: we love the idea of playing this shit more than actually playing it, because there's no amazing game basically
God indie games fricking suck
Name 3. I have been searching for some God indiegames but I have failed to find any.
We need Peter Molyneux back.
Viewfinder is good puzzles
Echo point is interesting
En Garde is decent
Warhaven could have been good but is disappointing
the rest sucks
any good shooters, city builders or anime looking games worth giving a go?
Good:
>This Bed We Made
>Phoenix Springs
As a lover of point-and-click adventure games, this demo has impressed me the most so far
>Peaks of Yore
>Tales from Candleforth
>Sea of Stars
Combat didn't bother me, I want more takes on Chrono Trigger's seamless battles. The main characters seem uninteresting though
Okay:
>Ghostpia
Great presentation for visual novel, but the writing is hard to connect with
>The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
>Luto
>The Invincible
>En Garde
>Ugly
>Laika: Aged Through Blood
>A Void Hope
Bad:
>Luna Abyss
>Hot Blood
>Bad Boro
Might be good if the combat and controls improve
>Between Horizons
>Hank: Drowning on Dry Land
Stylish, but the voice acting is bad and it controls like shit
>El Paso, Elsewhere
Almost the same as above, except far more cringe-inducing
>Ebenezer and the Invisible World
The combat is awful, but I might've been down to enjoy this as a novelty--if it weren't for the copy-pasted buildings on several screens
Still have a bunch more to try.
>Phoenix Springs
i was surprised by how much i liked it, not revolutionary but i want to see where it goes
Pretty good recommendations at the top there, thanks anon
>Candleforth
>Ghostpia
look like good shit thanks for pointing them out
Things I've played:
>En Garde
Don't get why people on Ganker are loving it. The environmental stuff is nice, but the combat is a barebones BamHam clone.
>Call Hating
I was expecting a fun "meta"game like There Is No Game, and even though it sort of starts off like that by making you quit and restart a few times, the rest of it is just a narrator talking at you, then a really shitty minigame where you squash bugs.
>Access Denied
I was expecting it to a "puzzle box" game like The Room or The House of DaVinci, but there's no lateral thinking, and none of the puzzle boxes are interconnected in any way.
>You Are the Judge
Didn't even make it past the intro because the text was far too fricking slow. Every word was slowly typed, and there was no way to speed it up.
>The Muller-Powell Principle
A decent, but obviously low budget Half Life clone. Trying to do the physics puzzles of HL2, but never gets past the "stack a box on top of another box to reach a slightly higher platform." That, and everything except the aforementioned boxes are static objects, which is dumb.
>Little Kitty Big City
I think it's the game we were all hoping Stray would be. Or as some anons more clever than me have put it, "It's Stray but with gameplay."
>Sniper Killer
Not the game the store page makes you think it is. It is not "N64 Hitman." It's some awful horror game.
>The Invincible
Looks nice. That's probably where the positives end.
>Broken Roads
I feel obligated to like it, because it's the closest thing to another Fallout/Atom RPG/Wasteland we're going to get. Especially now that inXile is doing that stupid steampunk bullshit for twats.
>Escape from Mystwood Mansion
It's an escape room game. If you like them, you've probably already checked this out, if you hate them, this one isn't going to change your mind. Do wish it was in VR, though. That's the one genre that's consistently better than non-VR.
tl;dr I played things. Comment too long, continued on next post, probably.
Part two:
>Logic Town
Cute, surprisingly addicting puzzle game. The problem with the demo, though, is that I feel like I've already experienced everything the game has to offer.
>Viewfinder
Another decent puzzle game. We'll have to see if the premise can carry a whole game.
>Back to the Dawn
I like the individual elements, but I hate games with a time limit, so that loomed over the entire experience and I ended up not enjoying it.
>cat game
>only one that's somewhat decent demo
>creator is fully pozzed not a neghole to be found
>Little Kitty Big City
i can't get over how cringe the visuals are in this
give me the stray graphics please.
>>Call Hating
I thought this one was legitimately great it is an adventure point and click game based on daily frustration. As a working adult this was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time, as in the definition of actual adult humor.
It is like Stanley Parable in point and click adventure form and I do not think that description makes it any justice.
>Call Hating
>AskAlfred.com
kek, alright I'll give this a shot too
>Trepang2
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1164940/Trepang2/
some out tomorrow
feels like a tech demo
fun shoot
huh? how do you reload when one hand is grabbing the guy?
>into the necrovale
hey, just noticed it. it's an /agdg/ game.
Sucks you can't recruit this guy in the Shadow Tactics demo even if there's no more missions afterwards. All the main cast are snarky women and it sucks.
Shadow Gambit not Shadow Tactics. Frick.
It's fine, we knew what you meant since it's the same devs and genre. In fact, I thought you did that on purpose as a dig on the games being similar.
yikes
STRAIGHT INTO THE HUMBLE BUNDLE IT GOES.
Dropped
been a long time since i was actually excited for a game
pure KINO
I just wish she was as cute in the game as she was in the art
I guess that's why they don't call her a heroine
ugly toad
why are these demos so fricking bad
i've played 36, only 1 am i actively looking forward to, and like 3 i'll keep an eye on
Has steam started just randomly dumping games in this without asking the devs? It'd explain the games that are so early into alpha they shouldn't even be on steam at all, where you have to open them several times before the UI scales right or it reads the right inputs, with either dead or 0 response from dev discussion threads
Any decent 3D platformers?
>roguelite
>deck builder
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>roguelite
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>roguelite
>deck builder
But is there any good one? Which ones are the bad ones?
What is so compelling about deck builders anyway? I've never played them. I know many of them are inspired by slay the spire and shit.
they are "idea guy: the game"
>not as hard to program as most other types of games
>still get to make all the cool ideas you had in your head
>just need an artist/animator
if you're putting words to paper you're already 50 steps ahead of idea guys sadly
Its like an rpg but instead of spamming your strongest skills every turn, you're randomly given some and its up to you to make the most of what you have.
That's why I like them anyway
Try Dominion, pretty much the OG deckbuilder. It's a irl cardgame, but you can play it digitally free
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131620/Dominion/
its the game that inspired Slay the spire's deckbuilding.
>2D sidescroller
STOP
Deckbuilder is one of the least popular genres to make. Really. It could hardly be less popular... so... why are you noticing it so much? All the other genres are just like water to a fish for you? deckbuilders stand out to you?
NTA, but this specific next fest is rife with deckbuilders.
Oh. I haven't really noticed. Any stand outs?
*I had a look. only 35 cards games, and of those about 20 were deckbuilders. Rogue Voltage looks the most interesting.
Demos I played so far
>Fortune's Run
Already sold on this one last next fest. Interesting game, the mechanics are a little different since it leans more into imsim than shooter so there's a learning curve.
>Studio System: Guardian Angel
I am heavily biased towards things that give me the Yume Nikki/.flow/Ib vibes and this has it, so in my opinion this is the second best demo I've played yet even if YMMV if you don't already like that brand of atmospheric schizocore like I do. I love the gimmick of the camera and the character being separate entities.
>Alien Hominid: Invasion
I'll bet this would be a blast to play with friends, glad it was more fun than expected, though I do still hope we get Alien Hominid HD on steam as well someday, just because of the nostalgia factor and the fact that Castle Crashers is there so why not AHHD?
>Valley Peaks
I like the idea of a rock climbing platformer and definitely appreciate the cozy vibe but I worry how much meat will be on the bones of this one.
>Jusant
Another rock climbing platformer, I like this one more than Valley Peaks, get a Team Ico vibe from it. My gaming sixth sense tells me that the final game is going to be short, and I hope I'm wrong.
>El Paso, Elsewhere Demo
"We have max payne at home" is certainly fun to me (mostly because I'm starved for max payne-like games but the soundtrack would be better without the soundcloud rapper and just letting the instrumentals carry the music.
>Motordoom
Looks fun but I need to fish out my controller later to play it.
>Wildmender
I've played this kind of game before. I know the drill. You start out as a nobody and become a gigachad farmer, then you quit when you get bored of farming. This gets bonus points for unique presentation, I guess.
Demos I plan to play:
>Laika: Aged Through Blood
>Hellsweeper VR
>OVRLRD
>Mislight
>GAZZLERS
>En Garde!
>Sea of Stars
>Wizard with a Gun
System: Guardian Angel
Based.
I liked this one too by virtue of it being a 3D game instead of the usual 2D. I wish the designs were cuter but as it is I'm personally intrigued.
I actually like the non cute designs, I can get cute designs from anywhere, the "I need to sleep a thousand years" designs are rarer and fit a survival horror setting better.
I'm fine with the MC looking tired but her character model just looks like shit.
Thanks for picking that game out of that post. Sometimes my eyes just glaze over when I see a long post that start off with games that everyone is already talking about and I miss really unique games like this.
I played ArcRacer and while the "demo" was only 1.5 tracks, it was still enough for me to identify that it will be a good game. My only current gripe with the short time I had with it was that the pre-race floating camera that shows you the track from different angles has no music.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2277110/ArcRacer/
>Inspired by classic series such as F-Zero and WipEout
I hate when people group these together because I've been waiting forever for a real F-Zero GX successor but I'll try this later anyway
Aero GPX is the real successor to F Zero
X
I'm keeping a close eye on that one and and XF
Why don't these games get posted in the racing game threads? Why is this the first time I hear about either of these?
inspired by f-zero and wipeout never means inspired by f-zero
how many space boats do we need give me BOOST POWER
It looks good but I skipped over this one just simply because it looks like a less polished version of BallisticNG.
I think it's funny that the Mimimi knows everyone is savescumming anyway, so they just made it part of the narrative.
>Blockbuster Inc.
It's The Movies, but you don't get to dress up your guys OR make machinima. It's just fricking Gamedev Tycoon but with movie scripts. I wish I could burn this from my memory.
>Ebeneezer and the Invisible World
Has no right drawing me in like this, it's Hollow Knight but you're Ebeneezer Scrooge and his army of vengeful ghosts out to cane the hell out of a guy who got the same Christmas Carol treatment and came out even worse for it. First boss was doing Judgement Cuts and Helm Splitters like this wasn't a fun christmas story.
>Ultratoro 2
Not much potential. It's a track-based dodging game like Audiosurf but it's on a series of donut shapes.
>Lunarlux
Cute sci-fi JRPG with a combat system cannibalized from four different series, it's passable but the plot seems very predictable.
>Grand Emprise Time Travel Survival
Obviously a tech demo made by some thirdie who's cribbing from ARK and other survival games. Runs like shit but the premise is too stupid to put on the ignore list.
>Quasimorph
Totally not DoomRL. Oddly, more complex equipment & health systems make it feel less tactical and engaging. Skip unless it gets some balancing.
has someone play that Aztecs city builder?
I wishlisted dickyseer but are there any other cute and funny games you lads found?
Play the Thronefall demo you dumbs.
>viewfinder demo
>main character goes full forspoken instantly
holy frick what a shame the concept seemed neat
>playing Neverlooted Dungeon
>see ladder leading upward in room that's behind a locked gate
>try to find the second floor room that would be above it
>room has a desk in it
>"A-ha, the ladder hole must be under the desk."
>grab a book and ignite it on a nearby torch so I can burn the desk away
>desk catches fire
>the carpet covering the whole second floor underneath the desk catches fire
>almost burn to death trying to get out
>come back after the fire goes out
>I had the wrong room and there wasn't even anything under the desk
Rise of the triad got the nightdive treatment.
Monks have less HP but you can enable the original bullet sponge versions if you hate your life. There are other improvements and the mad lads fixed Extreme ROTT which is huge.
bruvs, the demo is finally up
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2132410/Absorption_Battle_Racing/
oh frick the devs for this are actually japanese
secret kino of the festival?
I want to get it just to see how absurd it will be.
rebinding keys for it atm, runs on my deck
music is gr8 so far
the speed of racing in this is fricking crazy
like f-zero gamecube tier holy shit
yea wild game
every lap you have to do a minigame to have sex with an ojiisan
and then when you're mid-lap you can capture other racers and rape/molest them to get boost for turbo
otherwise it just plays like a kind of wonky f-zero, but yeah def giving them a follow to see what it turns out to be
i thought you c**ts were joking but this is absolutely hilarious
>not avaliable in your region
wtf
is this a porn game?
see
Dark and Darker is never coming back, is it?
they put two videos out recently, but they haven't even set foot in court, that shit takes ages
I can't in good faith play Little Kitty in Big City with an unbiased outlook knowing it was made by an ex-Valve dev who was an extreme leftoid that seethed at Gaben for not saying anything about BLM.
lmao, real?
>biggest and most successful online game retailer in the world for 10+ years straight, beloved by practically everyone
>"Valve is, I'm told, extremely white, extremely male"
they' are too low IQ to see it
>beloved by practically everyone
...eh.
As a storefront maybe, as a developer they have fallen off a lot compared to the old days. People have given up hope.
I'll be honest, I much prefer their work on Proton and Vulkan right now over getting Half Life 3 or a Team Fortress 2 update. While I have a strong investment in both franchises, what they're doing in that sector is going to give me a whole new PLATFORM of gaming, rather than just one or two games.
>As a storefront maybe
That's mainly what I was referring to, though a lot of people like their hardware products as well, and they're doing great work with making Linux viable for gaming.
Valve hasn't really been a "game developer" in a very long time. Though I'm sure you're right that people like TF2 fans might be upset with the lack of content and care still-active Valve games are getting nowadays.
How do you look at the shit these people say and the way they carry themselves and NOT come to the conclusion immediately this is severe mental illness?
They are so close to understanding why valve is so successful, but their NPC programming kicks in and gets them to see this as a bad thing.
This video's almost like a comedy skit, but it also makes me genuinely worried about what will happen to Valve once Gaben's no longer at the helm.
I really hope he's personally grooming a successor who shares his ideals.
Gaben made a deal with Satan to grant him wealth and immortality until he releases three games. Fortunately, Satan didn't read the EULA so as long as he doesn't release a game with a 3 in it he's safe.
He provides funny insights into Valve at least.
holy fricking based
its going to be a sad day once gabe retires
I give it a year after he dies til Valve goes public and it will truly be over
Thank you for the important insight. I'll just pirate the full game when it's out instead of even considering buying it.
>games that were advertised in the press preview but don't actually have demos
pacific drive
bowlbo: the quest for bing bing
fractured veil
blazblue entropy effect
full fathom
faraway lands; rise of yokai
pathfinder: gallowspire survivors
link the unleashed nexus
spiritwell
feels bad mang
If your demo is more than 3gb I'm not gonna waste my time, figure it out morons.
Not a datacap issue I live in the midwest and have unlimited high speed internet unlike those city slickers.
the midwest has cities, r-tard
Stop being dumb you know exactly what I was talking about.
no
ok
where do you live, i doubt your internet is that good if you really live out in the sticks or are you just larping
You know you can get 200mb internet anywhere on the surface of the earth now yeah?
Not about to dox myself but 300mb~ in a somewhat small city with no cap. You are ignorant if you think people are still rubbing phones together to download porn.
demo fests are the only time i ever give a shit about file size, b/c im downloaing so many
100% LARPing lol, thinks he's a heckin salt-of-the-earth ruralite if he lives anywhere that's not LA or NYC. Lots of those types.
Eternights feels like it's releasing too soon. Combat is pretty simple and incredibly easy when the perfect dodge is mastered. Gotta wonder how much content will be in it for 30 buckaroos. Also wondering how many girls you can hold hands with in the game.
anyone have a game they were hyped about and that completely evaporated when they tried the demo? For me that was One Lonely Outpost. maybe this game gets fun but it sure fricking wasn't in the demo.
Meh, this festival is mostly boring with the only good surprise being Call Hating and Rott re-release on my end.
Last year we had demos for Seleco, Trepang2, Fashion Squad, Frogun and many more shooters and horror games.
This one is more about Le Indie 2D Pixel Metroidvania Sidescroller because we just did not have dozens of those. I did see a couple of good games in the Strategy section. Battle 2030 or something.
yeah I have to admit even from a person who likes metroidvanias, fricking stop already.
Hammerwatch 2 was kind of fun, nice to see they dropped the rougerlike crap from heroes of.
I always thought GFL was kind of shit but Codename Bakery actually seems decent both in writing and gameplay. Fairly polished presentation too.
Seems like a decent srpg. The translation is kind of iffy though
yeah it definitely feels like the regular team didn't do the translation on it, hopefully that's fixed for full release because GF1 and PNC are fine TL wise.
Huh? The translation is a lot better than what I remember of GFL. There's a handful of typos but I didn't notice any other errors.
How long ago was the last time you played girls frontline? It's improved immensely. Also picrel was the most egregious for being a typo, a mistranslation, and getting a fact wrong.
>AntonBlast
it's pizza tower
so its a shitty overhyped game?
ngl never played pizzatower but i like this so far
yea pretty solid demo
i think if i were better at these types of games i would have enjoyed it more
what a script!
Right from the first minute you can tell they were just phoning it in. A news report about the asteroid is about the driest and laziest way to dump a central plot point on the player. It's something the characters are going to be talking about the entire game anyway. There's no point in exposition dumping about it at the start. They could have easily just have started the demo at the car ride the morning after and people would still get what the game is about.
I don't even see what the point was because the only thing that does is let you see the immediate reaction of Fang and her friends, but it's all told through texts so who the frick cares.
Yeah I hate when the animation obviously has a lot of effort but the script feels like a first draft
>I hate when the animation obviously has a lot of effort
I saw clips of it at not-E3 and the weird thing is that the animation looks good, but the lipflap animation for the talking looked like garbage. Like it was animated at 2 FPS and not even synced with the dialogue at all.
The animation has the most effort put into it compared to everything else into the game, but it's still not what I would call good. They're janky and robotic, and they do the thing amateur actors do where they raise their hands constantly to emote. It's also awful how there's little to no continuity between shots. Trish might raise her hand to gesture and then the camera will abruptly zoom out and her hands are in her jacket. The lip sync also often goes haywire.
what, you got a problem with this bigot?
>six years of dev time for a 2002 newgrounds Macromedia slide
Truly, Canadian government money well spent.
I also kinda hate Fang's VA. It's crazy how much charisma Snoot Game got out of this character
>2002 flash tweens
>late 2000s Scott Pilgrim quirky dialog aping
>shitty voice acting
>better part of a decade for a VN
Remember when Sony was hyping this garbage up as a highlight of their new console? Bring in the Meet n Frick games I bet you will find them more creatively put together than this. This looks 1st year CS student bad. Worse, high school computer class project bad. And I'm not exaggerating for shitpost effect. This looks terrible.
Nah I'm right there with you, I don't think even the target audience can latch on to this. It didn't help the demo did nothing to leave me interested to know what happened next, it was just a bunch of scenes of them being depressed
I played hack and slashes, soulslikes, and other real time RPGs - basically as many as i could find in the "topdown or 3D games with melee and ranged combat, stamina bar and dodge mechanic" category.
>En Garde!
8.5/10, fun rapier combat that's a mix of Sekiro and Bamham plus Dark Messiah kick mechanics. Fun, corny, cute setting inspired by 1930s-1950s swashbuckler films. Will probably buy when it comes out.
>Into the Necrovale
8/10
Good roguelike with alright pixel art. Combat is pretty smooth and you can make interesting builds around different elements etc. Your ability to make a build is very RNG dependent, I guess that's the nature of rogue games and part of why I tend to avoid the genre. This one has a lot of content. It's made well. Will buy on release.
>Death Must Die
7/10
Improves vampire survivors formula by adding timed dodge and aiming mechanics. I liked this for the cool artstyle, which is clearly inspired by Diablo 1, and the smooth feeling gameplay with interesting powerups. Making the protagonist a zoomer egirl was moronic. Needs more story and location variety. Game seems early. Looks similar to, but better than Necrovale, but Necrovale is the better game.
>Three Kingdoms: Zhao Yun
7/10
Not for everyone, but I am a sucker for old school Dynasty Warriors. This one is pretty janky, bogstandard chink musou but I enjoyed the top down perspective, horseback riding, and super powerful combos.
>Judero
8.5/10
Incredibly soulful. Handmade vidya art in the tradition of Northern Journey, this one is inspired by the mythology of the Scottish Borders I believe. Pretty janky basic topdown unity game with beautiful hand-animated art that's reminiscent of Hylics. The possession mechanic is neat. I believe this game was made by an artist duo who also made the music. Will definitely buy on release, though not for the gameplay.
>Folk Hero
4.5/10
I can tell this is early. Kinda soulful setting, but I am getting sick of this style of pixel art. Maps mostly empty.
Must Die
>7/10
>Improves vampire surviv
diablo inv/gear screen. but only drops 1 loot every 5 minutes
the frick were they thinking
>ArcRacer
wow this game is way more beautiful than it appears in screenshots
not a fan of the music and something about the sound effects seems aenemic, but will follow to see how development goes in the future. ui/menus/ship shit seems really polished
can't get this bilkin's folly demo to run on deck
sad
Heh, you're right. Not even GE works. I think it's missing a dependency but at that point don't bother for a fricking demo. If the dev can't account for situations like this then they're not serious about being successful considering the opportunity they've been given.
As a former linuxgay (Manjaro XFCE obviously) I understand how you feel, but we make up 1.5% of the Steam userbase.
Most devs, especially indie devs, can barely get their game to compile on Windows let alone do the extra steps necessary for their game to run on Linux.
>linux is the better operating system, every devs should know linux, linux should come first
Yet, objectively that's true, but Microsoft managed to dominate the home PC space.
Current devs should know better considering how prolific the deck is. But hey, I'm not making a game.
Say what you will about the quality of the games but these demo events are always the comfiest time of the year. Reminds me of popping in a CD full of game demos into the family computer 20 years ago, not knowing what awaits you. And these threads are the rare times Ganker actually fricking talks honestly about video games for once.
I was skeptical at first but I am glad these are a regular thing now. Threads are just a great time all around.
Agree; feels like when you'd get those demos from PC Gamer.
They were such garbage, but they were FREE (nevermind my child brain couldn't understand that the magazine cost $20 USD in 1995 or whatever) and it felt like being on the cutting edge of something new.
It's a nice feeling, makes me wish everything could be like this where we just do and create what we want because all our other basic needs are met. Obviously that will never happen but these demos are what it would probably feel like to live in Star Trek or something where you just pull up whatever you want and share it with friends.
tfw played Sea of Stars and liked it
Jusant might be my GOTY when it releases in 2024. Climbing brose its coming home...
>2024
It comes out Fall 2023.
Damn even better.
> it's another "game has no keyboard support despite being released on PC only" demo
> it's another "ESC doesn't work as a 'back' button, have to see the inputs for whatever the dev has made up" demo
> it's another "keyboard inputs are dogshit and can't be remapped" demo
>Echo Point Nova
wow this is really fricking nice to play on deck with trackpad aim
not really sure what the theme or goals of the overall level design are but definitely following to see how it goes
I liked Odinfall
Looks like SNES Smash TV?
any good adventure/point & click games? I'm a sucker for this genre
>playing Quasimorph because it reminds me of DoomRL
>can't skip text scrolling, it just closes the window
>guess I don't really have to read
>go exploring and kill some stuff
>gun runs out of durability
It feels petty to drop a game over something this trivial, but at the same time frick that shit.
The game seems to be pretty generous in the weapons it gives out, so I didn't feel like durability was a big issue.
En Garde! is great. Has a lot of potential. The only way they can frick it up is by not making the stages/areas uninteresting. I hope they dial it up to 11.
>The only way they can frick it up is by not making the stages/areas uninteresting
*interesting.
I want levels on boats more than anything yeah. Devs if you're reading this there better be frickin ship-to-ship combat where you're running back and forth between two boats, you frickers!!!!!!!!
that sounds awesome, which is how you know it's not going to happen.
Based on the demo they seem to have a good sense of aesthetic sense and playfulness so I think I can trust them. The real question is whether or not they'll let you fire the cannons
>This Bed We Made
it looks kino, spot it because I haven't noticed any forced diversity.
dunno how the gameplay will carry on the further more but I already wish for an Agatha Christie game that has a similar feeling
Viewfinder's quippy narrator was cringy, but I'm surprised they only lasted for the first or second map. I was thinking it'd be in every level.
Or did it used to be and they updated the demo after poor feedback?
Also, writing aside, it's weird that the voice apparently isn't the player's, because the audio sounds like it's coming from you. If it's supposed to be a communicator or something, the sound design doesn't convey that at all.
Yeah, for what appeared to be the intro of the game, they didn't actually introduce shit. Like why you can rewind time inexplicably, or like you said, who the narrator is, since it's clearly not you.
I've seen like two games that are just Downwell
Who the hell is demanding more Downwell
me
Well here you frickin' go I guess
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2311070/Devils_Dive/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2345150/Discarded_Empire/
Any /m/echshit?
Saw these on the event page, but I haven't tried either.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2332970/ARC_SEED/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2302770/Space_Gears
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2302770/Space_Gears
Huh, I wonder if that was inspired by Metal Fatigue. I'll check it out.
I tried ARC SEED. It's very lack luster in presentation. Like there's no punch to it.
All next fest demos tagged with 'mechs':
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest?facets80225=4%3A51
I thought Hammerwatch 2 was very good. Two questions
1) should I bother going back and playing the first game
2) can I use the single player character to just jump in to play multiplayer and don't lose levels etc
>1) should I bother going back and playing the first game
>2) can I use the single player character to just jump in to play multiplayer and don't lose levels etc
If you want more of Hammerfall then yeah, but it's a bit like playing Gauntlet on NES or something.
>Multi-player character
I don't exactly remember how this works but like it's easy to load a cheat map and level yourself up or whatever I think?
Also, at least what I recall from memory, is multiplayer stuff tends to be kind of campaign-ish in that you make a character for that campaign?
Pretty sure it's not like an issue at all basically?
thanks I'll probably just wait 2 is out and not play the other games
Other anons have touched on a lot of the bigger titles so far that look promising (EnGarde, Sea of Stars, Little Kitty Big City, One Lonely Outpost, The Invincible, Eternights etc.) here are a few I haven't seen come up yet much
>Hammerwatch 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1538970/Hammerwatch_II/
If you were a fan of the Hammerwatch / Heroes of Hammerwatch series of pixel medieval co-op adventures (roguelike elements included in Heroes) this looks promising. Reminds me of a much deeper take on Gauntlet.
>Jumplight Odyssey - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1893820/Jumplight_Odyssey/
Spaceship management sim with an aesthetic inspired by 70s anime, so if you ever wanted to captain Space Battleship Yamato, this may be your game! You have to manage crew, officers etc.. to repel boarders, engage in combat, but also just expand and make sure everyone is happy; you actually build and zone different rooms and the ship has multiple decks.
>Janosik 2 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640400/Janosik_2/
Janosik is a figure of Polish/Slovakian/Slovenian legend as sort of a robin hood figure and the original Janosik was a free action metroidvania where you freed some of your band of highwaymen and then ultimately your woman, all imprisoned in a jerk noble's castle; this is the sequel to it but with a lot more of everything including multiple playable characters apparently. For obscure eurojank its done quite well and the movement and combat is smooth and responsive
>Defender's Quest 2: Mists of Ruin - https://store.steampowered.com/app/252190/Defenders_Quest_2_Mists_of_Ruin/
The original Defender's Quest is a great hybrid of RPG and tower defense; each of your characters act as towers, can be upgraded, given gear and skills etc. The new one has a new setting with almost pirate/steampunk-ish elements vs the more standard fantasy of the original, and deepens game systems; if you like 2D tower defense this looks quite promising.
Hammerwatch 2 demo is fun, I immediately linked it to two of my friends
Yeah, it really is. The original is still fun after all this time and so is Heroes (which has a bit more variety given its more roguelike nature, unlockables etc); both were also early Linux native games back when it wasn't so common. Hammerwatch 2 is shaping up nicely.
Space Gears looks interesting. Any other suggestions for good RTS as part of Next Fest? Preferably those that have PvE campaign and co-op?
>Jumplight Odyssey
Ha, I like your uniforms! I'm on board, and this is the job I was made for. The adventure is calling me with open arms like the busty mermaids from Neptunia.
Look at all that velour and get your sham-pag-en ready!
>Though we have failed to uphold Brannigan's Law. However I did make it with a hot alien babe. And in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?
>Echo Point Nova
easily the most fun and ambitious game i've played of the festival
double jumps, exp/skill tree, customization, destructible terrain, bullet time, grappling hook, spawnable jump pads (which is basically like quad jumping?), a tribes-like hoverboard with wall grinding
all this freedom comes at a cost however, and it's pretty buggy (the tip of my gun is a permanent vortex and earlier i had a glitch where i could jump infinitely)
no clue what the theme or plans for level design are but there is a ton of potential here
I crave going fast, but I fear I'm too fricking boomed out for it.
I added it to my list as soon as I saw "grappling hook" and "Severed Steel devs."
I haven't actually BOUGHT Severed Steel yet, but I had a blast with the demo in the 2021 Next Fest and it's been on my wishlist ever since.
I feel like a second-class citizen.
>not having an analog keyboard
>Little Kitty Big City
Seems fun but the damn thing keeps crashing when I get to the area where you pounce on the birds.
>En Garde
I want to like this one, but it made me realize I'm either getting too old and slow or just too stupid to play these kind of games anymore. I can't seem to hit the right buttons for parry/dodge for the life of me.
>Jumplight Odyssey
This one seems interesting too, but the demo is pretty janky. lots of stuck animations and broken pathfinding. The menus are dogshit, too. I do like the effort they put into it, though.
>Norland
An interesting take on colony management. Nothing like the local Bishop trying to break in and murder your king while he's in the middle of railing his brothers wife.
>Little Kitty Big City
>Seems fun but the damn thing keeps crashing when I get to the area where you pounce on the birds.
Its detecting your white male chud energy. You can only progress by taking femboy tummy pills IRL sold by their licensing partner.
Anger Foot is still god tier
if ur mad at the boomer shooter playsthetic then ur bad at video games and are therefore Gankerery technically disabled
It's okay. It's creative and stylish but it's lacking a little bit of polish, also something about the aesthetic makes me uncomfortable.
Not because of the implied black elements, but like literally something about the Earthworm Jim type art style shit and the way everyone bobs up and down, somehow it's nauseating?
Damn, I should've played this back when everyone else was after all. What the frick.
cute imouto
What game?
Andrew and Leyley iirc
Well, this might make you feel better/worse but the threads were 90% just anons making up stories about fricking their sister/cousins
oh cheer up, here
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/639089654/
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/637710613/
glad you liked the demo anyway, I was really impressed with it
It's not the same, man. Incest discussion is one of the oldest topics on this site.
you're not wrong
You know the artist is a footgay when there's toe rings.
Is steam demo identical to the ichio version?
What the hell? There's a Girl Genius game?
>Crime O'Clock
>Gameplay involves investigating a crime scene while moving backwards and forwards through specific points in time
>Completely railroaded and can't jump between points yourself
Dogshit.
I don't get what people see in En Garde. I played on hard and had zero desire to continue playing after the demo ended. Even tried the arena mode to see if it was any better, but it wasn't. It takes obvious inspirations from Sekiro, Bamham and Dark Messiah but they're all better at what they do than this is.
nothing, its garbage but the devs likely have a shill campaign going for it. the name doesn't even sound appealing, it sounds like they took two seconds to name it. and the graphics look like vomit.
I don't think it's better than any of those games but I think it's a decent enough blend of their elements to be fun in its own way. If I was looking for games as good or better than Sekiro or Dark Messiah every Next Fest, then I would constantly be walking away with zero demos wishlisted.
Yeah but for me it's the case where I think to myself "I could be replaying -thing this game takes inspirations from- instead of this" while playing. I was thinking the same while suffering through Yooka Laylee.
I often get that feeling with games that try to be like Stalker or even anything that uses the same source material. It's just how it is with some games and their copycats where they don't inspire enough novelty to make you want to play the new ones.
>It's just how it is with some games and their copycats where they don't inspire enough novelty to make you want to play the new ones.
Exactly what I was thinking while playing En Garde.
I kinda feel like that. It's got a very polished presentation and the idea of swasbuckling through the environment sounds fun, but at the end of the day it's a glorified color-coded Batman combat game with apparently nothing else but combat. I'm not sure I want to play that for 5-10 hours.
I can't fathom how KVLT has such a stellar presentation (trailer, key art) when the game is utter fricking shit. It looks like a Unreal template with texture swap. Movement is shit, sound design is non existent (literally half of the sounds that should be present aren't), animations look "my first blender project"-tier, and the one liners are cringy as hell. Un-installed within ten minutes
another space opera seems pretty cool, but it might be the most buggy demo I've tried so far, had 3 crash to desktop.
when I beat the 1st level boss, the boss music kept playing into stage 2 and more.
Yet another pixelshit side scroller
>Viewfinder
First trailers of this game made it clear the two big danger spots were a failing of engine, or a failing of level design. The demo proves the engine works! But it falls for the #1 puzzle demo trap of only showing you the easy levels so you have no clue if it'll get good (even if the gimmick pictures were cool).
Borrowing Forspoken's main character was an odd choice though.
>Into the Necrovale
It's pretty fun. Early build screenshots make it obvious the dev slapped on a CRT filter to disguise the flaws in the graphics, but I'll be damned if it didn't work.
>Pâquerette Down the Bunburrows
Puzzle game with simple rules and complex puzzles. A lot of puzzle games try to use esoteric gimmicks that make it hard to get into, but chasing bunnies in circles is unfairly intuitive.
Anyone got all 30 bunnies?
I did. Though I released them after to try and do the baby rabbits but got lazy and figured I'll just do it in the full game instead.
there's like over 30 baby bunnies to collect too, the demo is honestly pretty dense with content
Great another system overwriting font from the Impact phylum. Don't let Nintendo creative director Ross Hirai find out
Man Jusant is good and just when it starts to get creative with the mechanics the demo ends, sad!
That's how a demo should work really.
It's gotten you interested that you want more, if they gave it all away in the demo, you wouldn't need the full game.
Was the Laika: Aged Through Blood OST released anywhere? It was way better than what I was expecting
Only seen unofficial YT uploads but man I agree. I didn't even play all the tapes in it. That demo blew me away in general. Sucks it's "coming soon" over any concrete window.
This, came into the demo expecting nothing and was just blown away by the music.
Also this channel seems to be uploading the rips.
>THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO
>THERE'S NO WHERE ELSE DO GO
>THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO LIVE FOR
>ANYMORE
>hearing this, vibing and riding while looking at the hellish landscape of the background
That was some peak stuff
I feel this may be the worst next fest yet. So many fricking turds.
Also, Vampire Survivor absolutely annihilated the SHMUP section of Next Fests.
Anything good I've yet to mention/ play? I still have yet to try pic related games. Not much hope.
Here's my list of played games so far:
Wishlisted
>Viewfinder
Had fun but not wishlisted
>Captain Wayne
>Vampire Hunters
>Goobies
Not for me
>Wizard with a Gun
>Beyond Sunset
>Hammerwatch 2
>KVLT
>Odinfall
>Greedland
>Warhaven
>Testament
>Station to Station
>We the People
>Centipede Gun
>Deadlink: Tora
>The Dramer Must Die
>Full Moon Rush
>Mercenaries of the Kingdom
>NeuroSquad
>Survivors of the Dawn
>Voidborn
>Astrobit
>Rasant
>Stellar Wanderer DX
>Wisp Catacombs
I did put En Garde!, Jusant and Sea of Stars into my wishlist
Plus El Paso, Elsewhere and Laika Aged Through Blood that isn't in your list.
I thought these were decent to great, who know if you will like them too
In your image, En Garde has a charming tone and you can feel the depth/skill in the combat once you get past the tutorial portion of it, but it's going to take tweaking in the graphical settings and the MC's model isn't as cute as the key art. As for stuff unmentioned, I enjoyed Alien Hominid Invasion, Resistance 204X, & TAGLINE for the most part and found something enjoyable in FINAL KNIGHT & Pull Stay despite them being jank. Motordoom is also a neat idea but unless you thought "Rollerdrome is cool but you should be able to wipe out like in THPS and have roguelite elements" then Rollerdrome is much better. Gonna play more demos after I wageslave (Battle Shapers, Legendary Hoplite, Merchant of the Six Kingdoms, M&M Clash of Heroes, etc.), I'm hopeful for them though.
>you can feel the depth/skill in the combat
I don't think there's any depth there. You can just mash parry the second the white indicator thingy pops up and you'll get it every time. Dev should add a perfect parry mechanic where you need to press the button JUST before small white circle disappears, or else you'll suffer chip damage. It would improve the overall gamefeel a lot. As it is now, it's pretty braindead, and honestly dumber than Bamham on Hard because those games have no parry indicators on Harder difficulties.
>but there's unblockables
Yeah and you can just Dark Souls roll out of all of them, which lets you retreat to safety effortlessly. You don't even need to jump like in Sekiro. Throwing/kicking shit is also absurdly broken and stuns enemies for way too long.
There's a perfect parry I thought, it's how you get the !! over their head and a larger guardbreak window. Also I get why people say Bamham but I don't agree, in those games you're actively jumping from enemy to enemy and countering anything around you whereas in this the game outright tells you you'll lose if you have a worse fight than a 1v2 without using things around you. It's much more about mitigating the numbers than each individual enemy's threat level, and I like that there's a lot of options for it instead of the devs implementing kicking boxes and calling it a day. I will say it's very "snappy" though, where if you kick a scared or guardbroken enemy within 20 feet of a weapon rack they'll magnetize to it, or if you throw fire it'll change direction in midair to light the cannon fuse.
>Also I get why people say Bamham but I don't agree
Idk I've played all the Bamham games and I agree with those people. Parrying is very simple, the dodge roll is extremely good, there's only a single attack button, there's a special move you need resources for which nullifies any enemy's defense and you lock onto whichever enemy you attack towards. Latest Bamham game also had items you could pick up and throw.
Maybe I'm recalling the Asylum combat more than Knight since Asylum was my favorite overall. Both combat systems are simple but the core difference to me was that in BamHam you just keep attacking until a prompt appears and you mostly focus down an enemy until they die before moving onto the next. En Garde wants you to engage but you need to be reserved since the parry is coming and moves you need to dodge are too. The roll also totally disengages you while the side step done with a more deliberate single press has that thrust followup. There's enough there that I think it can hold its own while Arkham always needed the stealth and detective gameplay to round itself out.
En Garde is the best in your post, Laika is the best not in it.
The Invincible isn't worth downloading
I hope Viewfinder will have a good set of levels, the demo was really fun.
Same. The demo ended right as it was starting to get interesting. It's a great idea but will only be good if the puzzles are up to snuff.
alien hominid invasion seems fun from what I played
This was fun, remided me of comfy action/platformers from 2000s, they don't make them like this anymore.
well clearly they do
and yeah it reminded me of Sid Meier's Pirates, I think that was the name
I find that games of that vibe are becoming more common in the past few years. Not all of them are excellent but they weren't back then either. But yeah, this one is very much a "launch window PS2 game that's also on PC" feeling.
En Garde is like if Cutthroat Island from the sega genesis was made today
Can I get some random recommendations? Cuisineer is the only one I've wishlisted so far.
>Studio System: Guardian Angel
Killer7 has a sex orgy with Yume Nikki, Ib and Silent Hill.
>Alien Hominid: Invasion
fun party game, fun sequel to alien hominid HD
>Jusant
rock climbing game, cozy, meditative
>Fortune's Run
I don't even know how to describe this game other than "detailed, immersive, reminiscent of good 2000s era games"
>Wildmender
You've played this kind of game before. Start as a survivor, end as a thriver.
I'll check out the rock climbing game cause that sounds pretty interesting. I'm already sure that alien hominid will turn out good so no need to play a demo for that one.
I was looking forward to El Paso, Elsewhere but the demo was kinda disappointing. Is it just me? My main gripe is the enemies are barely a threat. In Max Payne enemies either charge at you or shoot, they're fast, and could kill you really fast. In El Paso they're pretty slow and easy to deal with and dive is kinda redindant since most enemies are melee.
In Max Payne the enemy placement made every shootout into a puzzle - it was almost impossible to get through the later levels without thinking carefully about how to approach each fight, because if you dived around without choosing your moment and your position right you'd get killed.
El Paso devs clearly love Max Payne but they don't seem to have taken that lesson on board - diving isn't super useful against melee attackers and the enemy placement is what I'd expect from a hack-and-slash rather than a shooter. It didn't hold my attention for long.
I think I might have found that game an anon mentioned that literally has no files at all and an empty local install folder. Shit's called WildArea and it's some moonrune shit.
Not sure if you're referring to some other post, but the one mentioned before was that Quest Master game which happened because the devs didn't have a proper Linux version but had an empty download for it anyway.
anything with cute girls in it?
try asiaticsona, but 3D models look scuffed.
ah my bad, I should've specified young, but thanks for the reply
echo nova point was pretty fun but feels a bit odd to fly around with grapple and hoverboard but using standard smg, shotgun, assault rifle sniper... a game like this should have a bit more exotic arsenal.
Miyeon!