What have been your favorite demos, what demos ran well on Steam Deck, etc
Bloodthief ended up being exactly as fun as I’ve expected
[Discussion] What have you been playing in Steam Next Fest?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not a Deck user, but I’m on EndevaourOS. All the games ran perfectly, expect some minor issues with the Giggleland demo which tried to do some 4th wall things, like grabbing your wallpaper and that one was just a black screen.
My favorite demos are these:
- Roman Sands RE:Build is about being stuck in a mysterious world (feels like a purgatory to me) where you wish to escape. The OST is really catchy, and it has some strong Danganronpa inspiration, since the music feels a bit reminiscent about the series and it has the signature gambling gift system in it
- UNBEATABLE must be a fan favorite for Lemmy, or atleast with the 196 users, since you beat up cops on a rhythm basically. It’s a world where music is illegal, and the characters constantly refer to cops as fascists. Obviously the songs are PEAK.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
My favorite demo I played was Clover Pit, it’s by the devs of Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom, and could lazily be described as balatro meets a slot machine. In reality it’s more different from balatro, it has it’s own retro horror vibe and some other interesting things going on. I enjoyed it, and found myself itching to play it more.
Nothing else clicked with me unfortunately. Jump Ship looked cool but didn’t run well on the deck, Brave Junction is a blackjack StS type game by rideonjapan but didn’t quite click with me. I tried a few other games but nothing hooked me.
ssroxnak@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jump Ship ran okay on the deck. Definitely needs some tweaking and polish though. Unfortunately I don’t think I have anyone to play it with
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Not to worry, buddy is right behind you, to the bitter end of need be
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Öoo, Hirogami, Under the Island, Primal Planet, Escape Simulator 2. I like my puzzles, metroidvanias, and zeldas.
Particle Hearts was one that I didn’t click with, but still worth checking out just for its visual style.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Kaizen - a puzzle game developed by some of the zachtronics team, it looks interesting but the demo was underwhelming.
Star birds - a logistics game made by the developers of dorf romnatik and published by kurtgesagt. It reminded me of anno for some reason but they are quite different games. I liked it.
Word play - a word puzzle rougelike game by Mark Brown (from GMTK). Didn’t play it much but when I did I got hooked on it like a rougelike has never hooked me before.
Sintopia - I don’t really know how to describe this. It’s a bit like two point. I would just look at the steam page yourself. I thought it was ok but didn’t like that the main character in the tutorial was horny.
Grappling bagel - cool game. Lots of fun on the steam deck. The title tells you what the game is.
I was also interested in wildgate but didn’t have time to play it.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
wordplay sounds very cool!
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Yeah, Kaizen had a really poor showing for a demo. Making a good demo - something that shows off just the right bits of your game while teasing about more - there’s an art to that.
I figure that Zach is just really bad at designing demos and the game will be fine.