Next Fest

Last day of Next Fest bros. What all did you end up adding to your wishlist? Any last minute recs or demos you need to play?

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only wishlisted 2 out of 9 played
>Grindstone
9.5/10, more like Crackstone, extremely addictive and fun, don't let the visuals put you off since it's animated well and it stops mattering pretty quickly
>Railbound
8/10, comfy puzzle game, not usually into puzzles but this was challenging enough for me

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Don't forget that you can just ask the devs to keep the demo up if you liked it.

I asked a handful of devs in previous next fests that were planning to take it down after the festival ended and they kept it up because other people in the steam forums liked it so much.

>never even got to play half the demos I downloaded because Neon White came out right in the middle of the event

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>Spark the Electric Jester 3
Murdered Sonic Adventure 2, flayed it, and is wearing its skin as a suit. Except Spark also spent a long time studying his victim's behavior and can convincingly act like it, plus he has a bunch of additional skills like juggling and piano playing, making him arguably better than the original.
Spark 3 is a 3D platformer that alternates between very fast linear segments, less fast platforming segments, and some mixtures of the two. There are [rings] littered throughout the stage that can be picked up to increase your score, and weak enemies you can zip to/bounce off of using [homing dash], but also stronger enemies you kill using actual attacks that can be combo'd together. Some of the levels seem to be very large even outside the intended path forward, offering a lot of potential exploration, and Spark has all of Sonic's movement abilities (except the spin dash, at least at the beginning) plus some of his own like a double jump, a short, repeatable dash that can be used to run up steep slopes or propel yourself along a grinding rail, and wallrunning.
I think it's as faithful a third-party Sonic Adventure 2 successor as you'd ever find.
Would recommend.

>Terra Nil
Not much to say about it. There's a little bit of a puzzle aspect in how you position certain things, but other than that as long as you know how to play, it's pretty easy. You have a limited building resource, but you get so much of it during the initial plant growth stage that it didn't seem like I ever really needed to manage it or plan my spending.
It was pretty comfy, if nothing else.

You couldn't wait on it for just a few days?

I tried Renown, because i like medieval stuff and a rust-like game but with knights and castles seemed cool.
Turned out the demo was just a badly made test for their combat ONLY, which was mordhau knockoff with bad animations and no polish at all, so that sucked.
I tried Frozen Flame because again it seemed like a medieval survival building game, bit of valheim inspiration but a pretty standard modern artstyle. It was okay, combat felt pretty crap here too but i could see myself getting better at it at least, but something about it just lacked any charm or power to keep me playing, and the only single player stuff available is the campaign mode which is abrupt and weird and badly written/translated.
I also tried out that lego brawl game cause why not. It's a shitty port of a basic ass mobile game with combat that has almost no feedback but its so stupid and adhd it's kinda fun as a little timewaster, would be good to have on your actual phone or something to play on the toilet.

I ended up wishlisting:

>Shred & Tear
It's shit but I love it.
>Astlibra
This one is shockingly good in all aspects. I really wasn't expecting to enjoy this one.
>Concerto on White
Really interesting Rhythm VN hybrid game. I thought it was neat conceptually, but wasn't fully sold until I actually got into the demo and played a song for myself.
>Frontier Hunter
It was funny.
>Beautiful Mystic Survivors
Vampire Survivors bit with anime booba and pleasing grafx.

Already had Detained Too Good For School and Super Bullet Break on the wishlist prior to Next Fext. Gonna try Depersonalization and Raid on Taihoku today. Thanks to the anons in a previous thread for suggesting these.

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Played Cultic and it has been great so far. Ammo feels scarce though, but maybe that's because I'm a massive shitter at rootin tootin games

reminder that if you liked Astlibra you should try Fortune Summoner, damn that game is good.