The most recent Steam Subsequent Fest started this week, showcasing a variety of upcoming titles. And as has grow to be a development, publishing platform indie.io has a number of titles featured. To have fun, it has launched a marketing campaign referred to as Subsequent Fest Celebration that may run from October 13–20 and consists of free demos for 12 completely different video games.
The video games come from a wide range of completely different builders in a wide range of completely different genres, so we figured we’d offer you a rundown of the whole lot that’s accessible. Under you’ll discover transient descriptions of every sport, with every title linked to its free demos so you may strive them for your self.
Monsters and Me
This 2D top-down roguelite shooter is chaotic, foolish, and a bit gross (properly, as gross as a 2D sport may be). Your metropolis has been overrun with slime mutants who’ve one purpose in thoughts: ripping your face off. The pure response ought to be to stop that, so that you’ll must improve your weapons and particular skills to fend off the horde. The demo drops you into the sport’s first stage, and also you simply must survive so long as you may. Easy, proper?
Kriophobia
Kriophobia additionally challenges you to outlive, however in a VERY completely different approach. You play as Anna, a geophysicist who’s trapped in a frozen Soviet bunker … and one thing else is down there with you. That is traditional psychological horror, excellent for spooky season and for gamers who don’t need their fingers held. Fight is tense and tough, to the purpose it’s typically finest averted altogether. The demo is a standalone part of the sport’s second chapter, the place you’ll must cope with the chilly, mysterious abominations, and Anna’s traumatic previous.
Plagun
This pixel shooter is a bullet-hell roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic kingdom the place an tried remedy for demise resulted in an all-consuming plague as an alternative. You had been a health care provider earlier than this occasion, however now you need to use cursed masks and plague-infused weapons to cope with escalating waves of enemies. The demo is a vertical slice that gives you a way of the sport’s quick tempo and allow you to experiment with completely different cursed masks and power-ups.
Dwarf Delve
It’s time to choose up your Battlemallet, go delving into mines, and attempt to safely make it out with as many riches as you may on this first-person extraction roguelite. The mines are randomly generated, so no two journeys are the identical. You’ll must craft gadgets like help beams and ladders to traverse harmful areas, in addition to make the most of lanterns and floodlights to see within the darkness. When you’ve grabbed your loot, you’ll should be cautious of traps and different risks in your approach again to security.
Heistfest
Do you want stealing stuff after which inflicting untold destruction all through the town as you attempt to make your escape whereas an escalating police power chases you? Effectively, nice information. That’s the premise of the aptly named Heistfest. You’ll pace your approach by hand-drawn environments, and issues will get extra intense the longer you evade seize. And in the event you suppose meaning simply including some extra cop vehicles and possibly some weapons, suppose once more. You’ll must cope with spike traps, helicopters, paratroopers, tanks, and full-on airstrikes. Chaos and enjoyable are extra vital than realism anyway. The demo is a vertical slice that offers you a way of the core gameplay loop: rob a financial institution, spark a police chase, and see how lengthy you may survive as public enemy #1.
Locked in My Darkness 2: The Room
It’s Halloween time, so in fact there can’t simply be one scary sport on this checklist. This one is a psychological horror strolling sim centered on ambiance, exploration, and puzzle fixing. You play as Yuki Tachibana, a Japanese highschool scholar who not too long ago moved into a brand new condo along with her household. One thing sinister awakens throughout the partitions of their new dwelling, warping actuality and dredging up sins of the previous. With flashlight in hand, you’ll uncover notes, remedy environmental puzzles, and reveal the secrets and techniques of Yuki’s household.
Nullstar: Solus
You’re Solus, a scavenger drone despatched to salvage the nullstar from a dying world. However there’s just one purpose that basically issues on this sport: be sooner. You’ll must grasp the flying mechanics, thrusters, and momentum to make it by ranges as shortly as potential. These ranges are high-risk, high-reward, and also you’ll want to remain in your toes to cope with the whole lot they’ll throw at you.
Air Hares
You most likely haven’t seen a bullet hell fairly like this one. In Air Hares, your fundamental purpose isn’t capturing enemies out of the sky; it’s utilizing your aircraft to seed and water crops to save lots of the ravenous folks of the barren Winrose Warren. However your feathered foes within the Gale Gang need to cease you, so that you’ll must dodge, jab, and ram them to ship them packing and get again to your vital work.
Binary Golf
Miniature golf will get a chaotic overhaul in Binary Golf, the place you utilize your golf ball to remove targets till the ultimate one turns into the outlet you want to get your ball into. However this isn’t simply any outdated mini golf course. You may bounce over hazards, teleport throughout programs, and section by objects to tug off trick photographs. The demo consists of the sport’s first two episodes, which can educate you the ropes earlier than pitting you towards a boss to check what you’ve realized.
The Cascadier
When you’ve ever puzzled what would occur if a roguelike deckbuilder collided with a magical coin-pusher machine, The Cascadier has your reply, and it’s gloriously chaotic.
Every run has you charging cash with elemental powers out of your deck and dropping them into dazzling, pinball-like cupboards that erupt in chain reactions in the event you drop your coin good. You’ll be guided by Fortuna, the trickster goddess of luck, and her envious brother Theodan as you chase divine rewards.
Every spherical begins with ten cash to drop and your deck of earned skills. Like all good coin pusher, you’ll scoop up cash mid-round and play them again in to maintain your rating and ticket depend climbing. Run out, and the spherical’s over, so make each toss depend. Hit your rating purpose to maneuver on, then select new powersets so as to add to your rising deck and blend issues up within the subsequent run. You’ll spend your hard-earned tickets on upgrading Trinkets that grant new skills and everlasting boosts. The demo allows you to strive the primary cupboard, a lush, nature-themed machine that hints on the elemental powers every new board will carry.
Elemental Brawl
A multiplayer social gathering sport, Elemental Brawl duties you with beating up your folks with the ability of the weather. Every spherical begins with everybody solely having the ability to punch and kick, however as time goes on, random elemental orbs will drop. Gathering them grants you powers associated to that aspect, and you’ll mix components because the spherical continues. And the maps aren’t static, you need to use your components to burn them, freeze them, flip puddles into steam traps, and extra. It’s all about arising with inventive methods to remove your opponents.
Chowdown Kitty
A puzzle sport with easy but addictive gameplay, Chowdown Kitty presents you with a board crammed with cat treats. Join matching treats in a string of three or extra, and people treats get pulled out and put in a meals bowl for a cat. The extra treats you handle to string collectively, the upper your rating will get and the happier the cat will get.
