SteamNEXT Fest October Edition Puts Six Demo Picks Up Front
A curated pass over 70 demos is one of the few ways to judge these Steam titles before release, and the six picks show where the festival's experimental ground sits this October.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
The SteamNEXT Fest October edition runs from October 20 to October 27, with demos for upcoming Steam titles open to play. After trying around 70 demos, the piece picks six: the psychic-investigation adventure Angel Kikou, the deckbuilder OPERATIVES: Revolve, the record-shop rhythm game MR. RECORDS, the factory puzzle Number Machine, the auto-battling dungeon RPG Algolemeth, and the ladder-based platformer Ladder Lad. A short list of other notable demos follows.
The SteamNEXT Fest October edition opened on October 20 and closes at 2:00 on October 27. Demos for upcoming titles are live on their Steam store pages for the run.
The selection below comes from playing around 70 of the participating demos. The six highlighted titles range from a mystery adventure about supernatural incidents to a deckbuilder where cards double as defense and a platformer built around a ladder instead of a jump.
- Angel Kikou Shikkoubu Tamashii Kyusaika: Mystery adventure; demo covers the first case up to its deduction phase
- OPERATIVES: Revolve: Deckbuilding roguelike where card durability ties to hand order
- MR. RECORDS: Rhythm adventure about an old man running a record shop
- Number Machine: Sugaku Koujou: Factory-building puzzle assembling numbered spheres to spec
- Algolemeth: Dungeon RPG where golem actions are programmed in advance
- Ladder Lad: Precision platformer with no jump; movement runs through a long ladder
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