Quoting: Purple Library GuyDorf! But is it romantik?

Thanks. I wondered why it sounded bit familiar.

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Had time for only FOUNDRY today, though in true Factorio fashion. time flies quite fast (looks like I played it eight hours or so). As it's in first person perspective, better comparison would be Satisfactory, but sadly I haven't played that yet. What seems to be setting FOUNDRY apart is Minecraft like terrain that can be modified as you like. It's missing some quality of life improvements, but it's more less in playable shape. I did fall through the terrain only once and dropped back to the world. Compared to Factorio, 3D has it's problems, though helps with immersion a lot.

Also respawn might be there for a reason. After a while, mining leaves a big hole in the ground and getting out of that will be hard. If you have researched ladders, stairs or jetpack, problem is not that big, but before any of those...

Like Factorio, there's not that much hand holding, but with some knowledge acquired from Factorio likes, you'll be having fun building tileable designs and enlarging the factory to meet the increasing demands of the factory. Worth a try.

Sadly, as the event is getting close to the end, I don't have too much time to explore the huge amount of games.

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I went through chunk of recommended demos and few that I spotted myself.

Give these a go

An Arcade Full of Cats

Simple hidden object game with some light puzzles. This time with arcade classics as backdrop.

Ghostrunner 2 First person runner inspired futuristic ninja game. I guess that's Ghostrunner in nutshell. Second one doesn't ease the difficulty (luckily autosaving is quite frequent and loading save is almost instant). As my skills weren't enough to finish the first game, I don't know if the motorcycle segment is new, but it wasn't easier than the regular ninja stuff. Worth trying out if you think games these days are too easy, but stay away if you want something relaxing.

Snufkin: Melody of Moomin Valley
If Ghostrunner is hard as nails, Snufkin is quite the opposite. It's mix of walking around and meeting interesting characters, light puzzles and stealth. Kids might enjoy it more, but it's not a bad game, so if you're Moomin fan, you might get something out of it. I guess only gripe is that it takes quite a while before there's any mental challenge, large part of the demo is practically a tutorial.

The Talos Principle 2
The first person puzzler is back. I played the tech demo of the original a while back and it seems to be more of the same, but with more plot and variety. I have love and hate relationship with puzzle games and I was bit more often irritated than happy. Few of of the puzzles seemed to require using something that felt bit more like a glitch.

Still lot of people liked the first one and second one seems to be solid.

Maybe not the best in the festival

IDUN

IDUN is bit of tower defense RTS hybrid. It's not horrible, I think I have only few bigger problems with it. Voice acting sounds like actors are bit bored. Also dialogue is not the best out there.

Otherwise there are some potential there. Once you get past tutorial hand holding, there's some learning curve to the game. Enemy waves are huge. Not sure if the difficulty spike is as drastic in the final game, sometimes demos skip ahead a bit in the content, otherwise demo is one big tutorial.

PS: seems to be inspired by Dune, there's no desert though

Hell Throne
Essentially voxel dungeon crawler with rogue lite elements. Controls seem little bit floaty and that affects combat somewhat too. Might something that's possible to get used to, though tight controls and good sound design is quite a must for these kind of games. Now takes a while to adjust to combat and it takes a moment to care about what's going on.

Also while the heavier sound track sounds nice, it feels bit like it's in a wrong game. Graphics are bit too simplistic to sell the hell theme properly.

Though if you stick with it for a while, there's demonic pacts that give penalties and bonuses at the same time and skills are somewhat interesting.

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Quoting: PoorPocketsMcNewHoldBought Dying Light Definitive Edition throught your affiliate link. Hope to like it, as i did with the original 2 first Dead Island game from the devs, once i end my week today.
(Btw, don't buy the "enhanced edition", this one just has only a couple of DLC's instead of the full deal, that the Definitive version has. Compare what it contain on Steam).

To be more exact, definitive edition is worth it only on Humble, price difference is quite small. In Steam the price difference is quite big, so there might be worth getting the enhanced edition. Both editions there contain the essentials. But at time of writing this, Steam has regular prices anyway, so might as well get the game from Humble.

If I have understood correctly definitive contains all the skin packs (they might contain sometimes bit too overpowered weapons), Hellraid (it's playable, but removes things that make Dying Light great without replacing it with anything better). I'm not sure if Cuisine and Cargo DLC is in both, but it's more of nice to have than absolute must.

Only thing that's really must is the only story expansion, The Following. The Following concludes the story in bit more satisfying way.

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Quoting: rklOne frustrating thing I find about Steam Next Fest is that it's not obvious that the vast majority of the demos self-destruct after a certain number of days and, even worse, you're not told when a demo will disappear. I personally think Next Fest demos should stay up until at least the game is launched (and maybe even beyond that, possibly with a revision based on the launched full game).

There are far too many demos to try in just one week, so I end up having to quickly trawl through gaming sites (inc. GoL of course) for recommendations, install them all and then work through them. Snag is that even installed demos won't run if they've been pulled from Steam, which is another reason I find the whole experience unsatisfying.

Steam Next Fest is replacement for physical festivals where you get to play the demo only by visiting the booth. So I guess on the positive side we get demos that stay quite a while after the fest. Though still it's annoying as you might have to dig quite deep to know if demo is actually time limited or not.

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Quoting: g000hTried out and enjoying Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - It's very similar to a Vampire Survivors style game, but you're in an isometrically-oriented cave-system that you need to mine out. Mined resources contribute towards your weapon and equipment upgrades.

I found the demo bit before the fest, so I got a head start. Deep Rock Galactic as a survivors clone does bring something fresh to the genre.

Let's see how much time I have for this fest. I started playing leftovers from last one, so it might take a while to catch up.

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I tried the demo earlier and it was bit lacking. Majority are liking it though, so it has clearly found its audience. Demo is still available though, so you can always give it a try.

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Quoting: Essoje

Quoting: AnzaBased on the first fifteen minutes, Holocure just cause any addiction for me.

I'm going to assume you meant that to be a negative based on the context from the rest of your post.
From my perspective as a Gameplay Andy, the true 'meat' of most VS clones are locked behind meta progression, so it's rare that you'll have a complete experience of the gameplay loop within 15 minutes - with exceptions, of course.
To remain on topic, HoloCure doesn't give your characters Specials until after you have enough coins to unlock them in the shop, and those happen to be character-defining powers. Similarly, other mutators are also locked behind the shop (with the exception of food buffs, that are locked behind meta-meta gameplay), and most weapons and items are locked behind achievements - as you can see, you are unlikely to experience the current best a VS clone has to give you until you are at least a few hours deep in then. Do with this information what you will.

Quoting: Essoje

Quoting: AnzaBased on the first fifteen minutes, Holocure just cause any addiction for me.

I'm going to assume you meant that to be a negative based on the context from the rest of your post.
From my perspective as a Gameplay Andy, the true 'meat' of most VS clones are locked behind meta progression, so it's rare that you'll have a complete experience of the gameplay loop within 15 minutes - with exceptions, of course.
To remain on topic, HoloCure doesn't give your characters Specials until after you have enough coins to unlock them in the shop, and those happen to be character-defining powers. Similarly, other mutators are also locked behind the shop (with the exception of food buffs, that are locked behind meta-meta gameplay), and most weapons and items are locked behind achievements - as you can see, you are unlikely to experience the current best a VS clone has to give you until you are at least a few hours deep in then. Do with this information what you will.

That could be the root cause of the problem. Going in more less blind, it's hard to know does the game throw in something unique or is it again just more of the same. I have played demos of few Vampire Survivors clones and problem with demos that they're just small slice of the game.

I'll keep playing Holocure for a while. Halls of Torments has just got update, so that's going to take chunk of my time too.

PS: I confused Soulstone Survivors with Soul Survivors, I actually haven't played the latter

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Based on the first fifteen minutes, Holocure just cause any addiction for me. Though so far only Halls of Torment has really clicked (though should try Vampire Survivors some day).

I guess I should play little bit more to form proper opinion. Most likely I was quite confused during playing Halls of Torment too, especially during first fifteen minutes.

Quoting: nwildnerI'm now playing Soul Survivors, which was already shown here on GOL and while it is still on early access it has the nice concept of classes with specific powers(like Halls of Torment) in which make the gameplay really fun and also a retro styled pixelart aesthetic.

I'm bit curious, what makes Soul Survivors click for you? I played the prologue and while it was fun, it was ultimately bit forgettable.

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Quoting: Grifter

Quoting: ThibugAnd there is a demo, too!

maybe i'm missing something really obvious but where is the link/button to the demo? i can't find it :(

Might have been time limited to the Next Fest. Seems to be still available to play if you installed it, but those that missed the window, the download link is gone from the Steam store page.

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