Hey! there's a new steam next fest going on, and i've played a FUCKTON of demos! I'm here to post about some of the coolest/most interesting ones to show them to you. Maybe you'll find a new indie game to be excited about! Or maybe you'll just see me dunk on a company's logo (moire on that later). I'll be doing about 5-10 per post, and will give a brief description beforehand if you just want to scroll past. I'll also be sorting them into a few different genres for my different posts.
IN THIS EDITION: TACTICS GAMES, ROGUELIKES, CARD GAMES, AND PLATFORMERS
TACTICAL BREACH WIZARDS
Arranger
Quick thoughts: MY SECOND BEST IN SHOW. What an awesome puzzle game
Holy fuck I love this one. The art (by David Hellman, of A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible) isn't just great little drawings of guys, it's some beautiful ideas of how to tell story behind the puzzles themselves. The puzzles are also fantastic, an amazing mix of simple sokoban style stuff and larger "wait i didn't even realize i could TRY that" puzzles that had me smiling the whole time. I am absolutely picking this up as soon as it comes out.
after playing Arranger Juniper specifically called me up to stream me the demo, cause she was so excited about some of the comic storytelling the game employs. A Lesson Is Learned is, like, the Velvet Underground of hypercomics, and Braid to me is always going to be "that game David Hellman did art for", so the game was an easy sell generally for me, but it's REALLY exciting to see just how much clever panelwork is integrated into the game, and how much it's employing visual storytelling techniques that I've... never really seen anywhere else?
I'm really excited for a full release of the game, not the least because it'll be a lot of fun to do a Hey Look At This Comic post about what is, technically, a video game.
