Alright readers, here’s the bad news: the Maw ate Edwin. I know, it’s unfortunate, but we all saw it coming. You can’t feed a Stygian horror nothing but PC game releases and expect it to simply forget about protein. The good news is that the Maw isn’t a particularly thorough masticator, so I imagine Edwin will have clambered back out by, ooh, say, Wednesday. Like that episode of the Samurai Jack reboot, except he spends even more time in a loincloth.
No field battle-sized megagames this week, but there is another Steam Next Fest launching later today, Monday 13th October. That means demos: free demos, loads of demos, far too many demos, dear God how did you people make so many demos. Who’s got a game they’re hoping to see demo-fied? I continue waiting in quiet, some might say blind hope that Resistor emerges from its years of silence. But we’ll see.
Monday 13th October
- Undusted: Letters from the Past is a breezy object restoration game in which you polish, scrub, and mini-vacuum old tat to learn the stories of its owners.
- Spindle, a pixelly action-adventure, casts you as Death in a world where nobody’s dying. That leaves plenty of time to go fishing and tend to your pet pig, mind.
Tuesday 14th October
Wednesday 15th October
- Ball X Pit would like one of every genre, please. It’s a Breakout-influenced survival schmup (with, to be fair, amusingly chaotic bouncy-ball projectiles) that ties in base-building and is, of course, a roguelike.
- Anarchic comedy adventure GlitchSPANKR seems a bit loud for me, though I support more developers making Jazzpunk-style jokefests.
- Lords of Ravage has you playing the baddie, namely a commander of mishmashed monster units you’ll be pitting against heroes in turn-based battles.
Thursday 16th October
- Fellowship, a co-operative fantasy dungeon raider (sans MMO grinding), launches into early access.
- Quacking parody Escape from Duckov replaces Tarkov’s extraction shooting and gross imperial undercurrents with silly vibes and twin-stick-style, purely PvE action.
Friday 17th October
- This Is No Cave. Then what is it? A single-button, high-speed grapply platformer, apparently.
- Double Fine’s Keeper lets you play – finally – as a lighthouse with legs. Looks a bit linear, but previews suggest this has some pretty clever puzzling, often involving the scraggly bird who’s perched atop your bulb.
I’d say this was a quiet week before we somehow get Jurassic World Evolution 3, Ninja Gaiden 4, Dispatch, and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 all within a two-day window, but there’s no such thing as a quiet Next Fest week. It’s just… Christ, demos. Everywhere.
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