>>1862744 >>1862777 Use Universal Unreal Engine Unlocker to open the console and change the settings yourself. There are very few games it doesn't work on. I only know of VoTV and thats because the dev specifically went out of his way to make it less functional.

SHOCK Its a stealth game were you have no legs and need to sneak around by crawling and by getting around with your wheelchair. The monster in it is extremely stupid and takes away all tension, but its a good concept. Hopefully they will change the monster to something less dumb. I very much recommend trying it

>>1863111 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3617980/Shock_Demo/ Also the demo doesn't boot up correctly, you need to open the folder and click on the games exe for it to open.

UMIGARI | ウミガリ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3969060/UMIGARI___Demo/ Its fucking amazing. Its a spear fishing surreal horror game. You need to catch fish to upgrade your boat and spear gun so you can catch better fish and explore more of the ocean. I recommend when exploring to always have your spear at the ready and to throw it at things that look interesting before you know exactly what they are.

Day 7 & Final of Streamed Demos. >Bio Goddess : Doomsday Begins Chinese Resident Evil clone. This one features a schoolgirl with ample proportions. The game also features clothing destruction. Kinda jank but playable. >Earth Must Die. This comes from a group of devs who have done point and clicks before.This one will probably find an audience. Oh, you play as the new dictator of an empire who ends up on earth, therefore it must die. Humor can be kind of hit and miss with this. >Fatal Claw Another metroidvania. Some spirits bring back a cat and then cuts to a cutscene where rabbits disappear from the world but other anthro monsters become infected. Why is the story not taking place then instead of in a boring time like this, I don't know. >FUNKYHEART Someone's personal Unreal project they threw up on steam. It's half shitpost, half attempting something. You get a bunnyhop command that you use to jump across gaps. I gave up on this one. >Key Fairy This one is trippy. Be a fairy, pacify rampaging monsters by throwing stars back at them. There's a filter you can apply to the pixels and ones you can unlock by whispering to gnomes for instance.

Apparently a few of the games I wanted to try didn't get a demo at all this time around, that sucks, I had a few more demos lined up but I'm kind of tired and most have already pretty decent overview posted already so whatever. >FUNKYHEART First person platformer with quirky characters and half spritework half weird early 3DCG looking 3D, kind of weird to handle, never liked momentum based platforming much you can also freeze some things and that's pretty much what the demo gives you to play with, needs rebinding badly >Smokkehed Sort of like more freeform Rez / Child of Eden, too early in dev to really make a good judgement but very trippy >HELL THUG I must just suck complete fucking dick at this game because I keep getting murked by the first non basic enemy you meet, weird controls, weirder graphical style, basic principle is an endless shooter devil daggers style except you fall down an endless shaft killing stuff as you go, shit gets progressively harder to kill and not killing stuff fast enough kills you instead, final game will probably have other playstyles than the demo one as it clearly has space for a character select reserved in the menus and hopefully I will suck less at it >Revelation of Decay Chinese survival crafting top down thing with decent spritework, not my thing at all and while the translation is okay some things are untranslated and the remapping is incomptete, big miss overall for me as I was expecting something with light survival not full on autistic survival with crafting and leveling out the ass >Directorate Novitiate Shilled to me by some classic Tomb Raider enjoyers, has very little to do with it, game kinda catapults you in the thick of it and shit just keeps happening around you with little context, very nice looking heroine has some fairly big assets, runs very well for an UE5 title (so long as you keep RT off), combat is fairly cool but only feel fluid on controller which sucks complete ass for aiming (might get better once they unfuck whatever mess they call a key rebinding menu), slams some fairly nasty body horror shit in your face without much warning.

>>1863215 Apparently that dev has made alot of small games like that on steam. He's found an audience. >>1863625 >Marshals of Yore. Kind of a standard game where you send waves of units against an opponent, choose a card to increase income and all that. Dwarves are broken as the thief can give +1 income that stays after they die. So you spam some fodder in front, spam them, spam cannons then just keep clicking till you win. Out Eco your opponent. >Neon Divide This one feels like a Chinese adaptation of a long running show or something. Various terms are thrown up and I have no idea what's happening. It somehow has a functioning battle system that involves guns, that surprised me. >The people of Sea, Sun & Salt Relaxing city builder with a Mediterranean focus. My building placement never looks this good. >Project Thea A 4x game with a battle system that involves cards. The cards are kind of hands off, you get two AP per turn to do something and then your monsters auto attack at the end of the turn. This is a post apoc world with furries too. Apparently it's related to a series from 2015, first time I heard of it. >Smokkehead I don't know what to say about this one, other than don't take drugs and play this. You will freak out and you will probably enter a trance that lasts hours.

>>1863682 >Soul Demon Hunters It's Vampires Survivors as a platformer. I don't have much to say about this one. >Wrack Remake Gotta admit this one surprised me. The gimmick to this boomer shooter is you have a sword that has 3 swings before it needs to recharge, so you swap to pistols to pick off some enemies, run out of ammo and instead of reloading just swap again. The more kills, the more combo you get and the faster you move, swap weapons, sword recharges. The thing that makes all this work though, is the map designs are like old school deathmatch arenas. I'm talking UT04 here. I was having a blast just swiping, swapping and shooting at anything that came my way, that it got to the point that I killed every enemy spawn and was left wondering what to do. They should throw in a few slaughter maps for this I think, they would be perfect for a game like this. >1998: The Toll Keeper Papers Please if you're a pregnant toll keeper lady in 1998 Indonesia. Incase you didn't learn this part of history, the country was going through a recession at the time which resulted in massive layoffs. Do you make enough money for personal happiness or do you sacrifice youself for others by letting them through and getting fined. >Directorate Novitiate This is kind of a weird one. They're clearly inspired by 2000s shooters like Max Payne and Stranglehold but the third person mechanics just don't support the gunkata of a John Woo game. It feels more like Mass Effect 1 in it's shooting and using abilities. The character also needs to be recast, because the VA said "They're crushing children" when discovering something gruesome like she found out her friend's boyfriend just broke up with that friend. >Drill Rift Mine too deep for minerals. I ended up burning myself out in 3 weeks but apparently it's possible to actually play this one. I find that the resources you get passively as well as stamina regen just arn't enough to keep up against the events you encounter.

ROLLA https://store.steampowered.com/app/3975830/ROLLA/ Conceptually its Katamari but horror. However it doesn't use the tank controls that Katamari uses, and it has power ups to help you kill people. I'd recommend it

>>1863746 >Eurekas An honest to god God game. Here you found a small colony, build roads out to terrain and set up mana shrines that feed mana to a central piller that will sway monsters that come out at night. The major problem with the demo, at least for me is that I'm too slow. I feel like I'm playing on hard mode, because there's a competing civ they you go against that sends the monsters. By night 3 they're already sending the giant beetles and that's cause the dev intended it to be that way for the demo. I'll bookmark this one and play it when it's a bit more relaxed. >FUR Squadron Phoenix We finally got Star Fox on PC, except it's a Korean knockoff this time. Just kidding though, because it's actually very polished. I don't usually play on-rails fly by games like this but I was getting into it. >Heaven Does Not Respond A guy turns up dead outside of town. He's been dead for a week but his mother saw him this morning. You've been given his computer and it is obviously haunted. Have fun. YOU BLINKED YOU BLINKED YOU BLINKED YOU BLINKED >INDUSTRIA 2 Stealth survival game with crafting and not enough ammo to take out all enemies on the map. Boy this sure is not the game for me. Maybe someone else will like it. >Legends of Amberland III This is from the dev of Stellar Monarch. It's a really good blobber party game with 7 people in a party. You can cast in combat, forgo magic entirely to focus all your dwarven hate on how you shouldn't have any elves in the party. It's just a really well made game.

>>1863796 >Lessaria This one has jumped ahead to the front of the que. The release date for this game is tomorrow, probably into early access. It is a very well polished demo and I can confidently say it's an updated version of Majesty for the modern day. Things like flags now have their own hotbar or you can just Atl+Lclick to set a flag. Heros are generally more intelligent and there are way more guild buildings, factions and racial buildings too. It really is a modern version of a game from 2000. They even got George Ledoux, the original scottish narrator back. That's how dedicated the dev is to making a spiritual successor. >Master of Command The "We have Total War Napoleon" at home. I kinda do like this though. Each Brigade has 4 regiments and you can have at max 3 Brigades on a map. It makes battle small scale but still manageable. The art direction is something I really like too. Everything is hand drawn in this cartoonish style that makes it pop. The campaign features the 5 nations of the war of 1812 and an extensive tech tree for all of them. I'll be playing this one later. >Shadow of the Road An Owlcat published but not developed game where you play as two Ronin in the Boshin War. The Emperor is actually evil this time because he got scorpion mechs from the Americans while all he samurai have is the local Kami. The combat is slightly different from a CRPG and is more an action game. You take "turns" and can use skills to bump enemies into taking longer with their actions on the timeline. >Whiskerwood Hooded Horse published game that looks to compete with Timberborn. Except this time you're mice engaging in colonialism. Seems like a well polished demo but I don't really care for intricate city builder like this. There has to be a better use for wood than stairs. >Ultra Damage Does a game count as a shitpost if it has actual shit in it? I got to the radioactive area and got peppered by the enemy because each of their shots does 30 damage. I didn't get very far.

Finally done. And even managed to do it inside a week. Somehow. I haven't played anything else but the demos. If you want my list of what I'm bookmarking, here it is. This is about a 1/3rd of all the demos I tried this week. It was well over 120 titles. See you again in 4 months when this happens all over again. Hopefully less demos next time around.

>>1863883 Lessaria might be using AI voice clips. Dev denies it but some forum posters are saying it is.

>>1864008 I honestly couldn't give 2 shits about stutff like that as long the game is good enough

>Keep Build a castle and arm it with random WW2 weapons like battleship cannons and flak against waves of enemies. You could also manually control turrets which was neat. Day/Night/Weather System was pretty looking. Onto the many negatives now. Ran like unreal engine ass, crashed a few times, controls were randomly unresponsive, and enemy waves were broken/not spawning at multiple points. Could be a cool idea, but that was too much hassle for me to bother trying it any longer than I did.

Gonna archive this thread since it ends in a few hours.

>>1863358 I don't see the resemblance.

So many "DUDE THE 90s!!!!!!!!" games oh god. Stuff from the same people who unironically say "boomer shooter"

>check the recommended specs for these games >I don't meet 90% of them anymore I've been priced out of indie games...

Yooka Replaylee is good. It's ||fun||. I highly recommend it.

>>1867587 >||fun||.

>>1867587 Nice try.

Steam posted the most played demos of this Next Fest: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfestmostplayed

>>1867587 >Yooka Rapelay

made a board game you can try it on tts https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561102304 you can buy it on tgc https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/tinhack

>>1868319 A surprising lack of roguelikes. Is the genre finally dying out or were they just mostly shit ones this time?

>>1868782 Thanks Todd, Very Cool!

>>1453088 >Game finally releases. <For some reason they rearranged the skills, Ascender is more OP as his tree is half skill increases while Believer's healing gof massively nerfed. <They implemented some anti-cheat system that seems to lag out the game something massive. Normal cracking doesn't even work with it. <One of the female foxgirl avatars was removed because she got turned into an NPC. Chinese reviews arn't liking it. <Translation still has untranslated text and very rough patches. I don't think it will be better despite all the new regions. I'll keep an eye on it but it's surprising they made the game worse since the demo.

>>1866153 They can't optimize for shit, it's not your fault.

>>1875732 Damn that blows. I actually was mildly excited for that one. Shame on me for getting my hopes up. I should have known better.

>>1866153 lol I was thinking the same. But expecting a barely completed game to be optimized is just silly.

>>1869331 I think it's the Chinese skewing everything to a crazy degree again. Eastern Era is very high and that didn't have an English demo.

Painted in Blood somehow already is in a bundle for 3.33 per game (minimum of 2 games but you can trade away or find something you'll enjoy)

Give Master of Command a try. I love the art in this and it plays pretty good for an alternative to a Total War game. Make sure you watch Morale. If a unit retreats, they'll start losing it quickly.

I found out about The Killing Antidote, a Chinese survival horror game that has some pretty decent gameplay that's also a dress up game. Most of the workshop is lewd mods that the dev seems to encourage people add to the game. English translation is good too.