You know, because we’re nice like that.
So come and join us for 15 (plus!)
Next Fest demos to get you going.
The choice is yours.
Reus 2 is gloriously gentle, capturingBlack & Whiteat its most spaced-out.
Youve got a fully rotatable, 2D planet and three kindly giants to do your bidding.
Thats the early game, anyway.
Back in 2013, Alec Meer called the first Reus"my ideal screensaver".
Here in the grim salvages of 2024, I nod my head in agreement.
Download thedemo on Steam right here.
Only this isn’t a happy, haha fun times kind of joint anymore.
Just like the good old days, eh?
The animation and art style is lovely, like a kid’s sticker book.
This is, to me, extremely conceptually funny.
Death Of A Wish
Alice0:Top-downBloodborneviolence with a wildly over-the-top edgy MS Paint webcomic art style?
The action’s a bit like a top-down Bloodborne.
You even get an abootility granting that Blooborne-esque window to recover health after taking damage by attacking.
And to me, this is the perfect amount of angst about family and religion.
One to keep an eye on, for sure.
Spring Dash
James:What ifNeon White, but with vegetable magic instead of gun cards?
Provided you put the effort in with them, anyway.
Still, there are regular checkpoints and retrying is instant, so its not fist-through-the-wall frustrating either.
But this time around there’s the extra lure of some very satisfying inventorymanagement.
The items start off fairly innocuously, with shortswords, shields, and the like.
The demo provides the sort of horror that’s not, say, absolutely terrifying.
Opening up someone’s jaw to feed them pills.
Tactile buttons and dials.
I am desperate to prize open that interim and see whether the true enemy all along was plaque.
Then some toxic waste falls in the lake and you have to shotgun a giant crab to death.
Things get worse from there.
One for Daniel Mullins Games fans to take a peek at.
Itsplatformingmakes a strong first impression, too.
I have no shame: I opted for the latter, and had a whale of a time.
Antipaint
James:Antipaintis a roguelite twin-stick shooter where the battlefield is your canvas.
I got past the Mona Lisa without much trouble, though Napoleon Crossing The Alps kicked my head in.
Raw Metal
Edwin:“Metal Gear Raw, morelike!”
he brilliantly quips, except that this isnt just astealth game, Edwin, you perfect dolt.
Its also a fairly technical beat-em up.
I get an ever-so-slight Absolver vibe despite the starkly shaded aesthetics.
Theres a similar crispness to the combat animations.
How would you survive in your workplace when another dimension comes calling?
you might find out in this non-copyright-infringing research facility in Australia.
It’s delightful and makes me wish I had pals who played survival games.
Take the thunderstorm flower, for example.
How would you recreate that in a drawing room?
Ah, it seems someone was doing a lot of flash photography.
But you’re out of the flash powder!
There’s probably something around here that’ll let you mix up a new batch…
It’s a very charming, brain-massaging demo.
At times, you’re free to almost forget it’s set during a full-on climate crisis!
