#steam next fest 2024

[blerdyotome]

Steam Next Fest 2024 Games to Keep on Your Radar

This summer has been packed full of game releases, announcements, and game fests! Between Summer Games Fest and Steam Next Fest, there are plenty of demos to keep you busy well into next year. With all the goodies, I made sure to care out some time to check out a few demos from Steam Next Fest and I found quite a few gems! So, here are my thoughts on some of the demos I played from this year’s…

[jtgunner]

New let's play video is up on my YouTube channel! I'm checking out the demo for Aero GPX for PC again! This time I've gotten more practice, so I'm playing on Expert Mode and trying to use more advanced techniques! So let's try to win it all!

WATCH IT HERE: https://youtu.be/xDKqVVuUPkM

[j0hb0y]

Hiya Papaya! 👋

It's a new steam next fest running and i looked at some demos. Unfortunately, it seems like these festivals are always when i got only a little bit of time to spare.

The review from february can be found here.

Shadow Album: I think this game could be a cool visual novel. Sadly, i don't understand chinese so i don't know what's going on. The only thing i know is that there were tiddies in my face multiple times.

You've been ReMaid: Get chased by a maid in a really dark mansion. I think it's supposed to be a horror game, but it's not really. It's just walking around trying to find some keys.

Thank Goodness You're Here: It was a pretty nice experience! Got to be a little british.

Tower of Mask: This was a really good dungeon crawler! I quite enjoyed the spookyness and being on the edge if there's an enemy behind the next turn. You need to get used to the controls a bit though

Maid Cafe on Electric Street: This game is electric alright. It's so overcharged that the game is unbelievably fast that i can't play this one because my character falls out of the map :( I really was looking forward to it (I asked a friend and they'd no problems with it so idk why i can't play it)

Goblin Cleanup: The Goblin Maid model is a bit weird, as in i want to play as a small smelly goblin instead. The game was cool, i guess. Although i think playing that with friends would be more fun!

Metal Slug Tactics: It's pretty fun and looks really good!

Blood Lily Loop: The Demo was a bit short although it was a good cliffhanger i guess. The "3D" or rather 2.5D Map in rpgmaker was pretty interesting, but it also kinda looked weird if you moved vertically.

SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim: Oh man this was actually insane. I was genuinely scared and concerned and felt like i got no choice. I'm really interested in this game now.

Going Down: I'm really disappointed. The screenshots looked quite promising, but all i got for a Demo was "Walk around in a circle and watch as some minimal things happen". Additionally, an options menu would be pretty neat since it was so loud. Oh and not being that zoomed in. I couldn't see shit.

My Favorites this time were: Tower of Mask and SAEKO! Go give them a play!

[hardcoregamer]

Underrated Demos You May Have Missed During Steam Next Fest 2024

It's worth noting that even though Next Fest is technically over by the time you're reading this, all the demos from it should still be available, and it's absolutely worth checking out these upcoming indies, cool double-A projects, and good times, all for free.

Check them out!

[kolegaliterat]

Najpopularniejsze dema z czerwcowej edycji Steam Next Fest

Od dłuższego czasu, chyba od powrotu na swoją domenę, regularnie spoglądam na popularne dema ze Steam Next Fest. Bardziej z zawodowej ciekawości, aby zweryfikować trendy, jakie obserwuję, niż z potrzebny ogrywania nowych tytułów. Tych, zazwyczaj mam pod dostatkiem, co absolutnie nie oznacza, że niczego nie dodaję do listy obserwowanych produkcji. Jakieś zaskoczenia? Jedno. Pojawienie się na…

[nerdybookahs]

Steam Next Fest from October 2023 - Yes, Very Belated!

Steam Next Fest from October 2023 - Yes, Very Belated! #Blaugust2024

Oh my… as you can see from the title, this post has been in my Draft folder for months… I was wondering whether to just trash this post. But since it is Blaugust and since I spent a lot of time writing this post already, I decided to take a look at it now, update it with current information about the games and add the images, because the latter was the only reason I hadn’t published the post…

[meugamer]

Os 50 Jogos demos mais jogados do Steam Next Fest de junho

A Steam lançou a lista oficial com os 50 jogos cujas demonstrações tiveram mais pessoas jogando simultaneamente durante o Steam Next Fest, de 10 a 17 de junho de 2024. Parece que o MeUGamer já previa quais teriam destaque, e até publicamos anteriormente sobre jogos como Once Human, Level Zero: Extraction, Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown, Metal Slug Tactics, entre outros. Se você jogou e…

[geekpopnews]

Steam Vem Aí 2024: descubra como aproveitar as novidades da 2ª edição do festival de jogos na plataforma

De 10 a 17 de junho, participe online da 2ª Edição da Steam Vem Aí 2024 e explore demos gratuitas, transmissões ao vivo e bate-papos com desenvolvedores. Saiba mais! #SteamNextFest #SteamVemAí2024 #SteamLançamentodeJogos

O Steam Vem Aí 2024 está de volta para sua segunda edição, prometendo uma semana repleta de experiências únicas para os fãs de jogos eletrônicos. Neste ano, o festival online ocorrerá de 10 a 17 de junho, proporcionando uma oportunidade imperdível para os jogadores. Durante este período, eles poderão experimentar inúmeras demos gratuitas e, além disso, terão a chance de interagir em lives…

[astraviagame]

Legends of Astravia's new demo launches on Steam next Thursday, May 30th!

Cast spells, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets alongside a mystic companion in this 1-hour introduction to the magical world of Astravia ✨

The demo will be available in both English and Japanese and be playable on Windows, macOS and Linux/SteamOS.

It's wonderful that so many people are excited to play the demo, so this will be everyones' chance to catch an early glimpse a whole 10 days before the June 2024 Next Fest starts.

Thank you, as always for all of your support. I hope everyone is excited to see what Legends of Astravia has to offer!

[fencer-x]

My newest Drarry (and Severitus!) fic has been revealed! This was posted for the 2024 Severitus Big Bang, a fest celebrating the father-son relationship between Harry Potter and Severus Snape, in all forms (bio parent, father figure, mentor, etc.). I explored an alternate reality where Severus married Lily, not James, and the ways in which that might have led to Harry's life being drastically different from how it was shown in canon.

Title: The Fall of the Hosue of Evans Rating: Explicit Pairing: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy Word Count: 142,000 Summary: After spending fifteen years living in hiding in America following his mother’s murder and his own near-death experience, Harry Evans and his father Severus are obliged to return to England for a compulsory year of education at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But never fear—everything’s gonna be just fine, he just has to get through nine months of maintaining a secret identity, putting up with a trio of really weird godfathers, feeding the fantastic magical noodle he found in a sewer, and dodging the wrath of the surliest, prickliest, finickiest roommate one could ask for. Associated Works: This gorgeous typeset from my partner on this project, kitsunerei88! Notes: Be sure to read the tags on AO3, and the lovely cover art was commissioned from @ muraeaka on twitter!

Read it on AO3

Teaser

“Quodpot,” Harry said, still marvelling at the slick subway tile lining the showers and gleaming fixtures. The ceiling overhead was already blanketed in a thick fog of steam, and the air was getting heavy with humidity. How was it the bathrooms here were nicer than his and his father’s entire apartment back home? “And I haven’t actually played.” He hadn’t even flown on a broom before, honestly, but confessing as such right now might send Malfoy into cardiac arrest. “Ugh, ghastly name,” Malfoy groaned, shucking his Quidditch jersey and pelting Harry in the face with it as he set to work on his bottoms next. Harry quickly turned his back, letting the jersey drop to the floor. He wasn’t Malfoy’s house-elf, even if Malfoy spoke to him like one. “Step lively,” Malfoy called out, voice fading with distance. “I haven’t the time to bring you up to speed so you don’t embarrass our House and then shower.” “Surely there’s a book or something I could read on the subject…” Harry groaned, carefully stepping backwards after Malfoy. If he slipped on a bar of soap and got an eyeful of Malfoy’s undercarriage, he was going to leave, just leave, Apparate right through whatever wards were blanketing the campus and damn the Trace and all threats concerning it. Blessedly, though, he bumped up against one of the long benches fronting the stalls and settled down, focusing on the far wall while Malfoy told him all about the evolution of the Snitch from bird to ball and then moved on to a lecture concerning the different broomstick manufacturers and their respective strengths and weaknesses. “And frankly, the Nimbus line hasn’t matched the quality of the Firebolt since—towel.” Malfoy snapped his fingers at him. “Towel, Potter.” “Summon it yourself.” “With what wand?” “The one you’ve got up your ass…” Harry grumbled beneath his breath.

[entropy-game-dev]

Demo date announcement!

The most important information up front: The demo's release date will be the 27th of September, 2024!!

I don't think Steam notifies you even if you have followed/wishlisted the page, but still, every single follow and wishlist helps immensely. You can check the game out here, and this is also where you can grab the demo from once it's out.

The lore of the demo

A few months back, in late June, I had just come back from housesitting. One of my friends, Lucinius, mentioned that Steam was holding a space exploration festival on the 2nd of September, and suggested I get the demo ready for then. I thought this was a great idea and feverishly started working to finalize everything.

It took 6 days total to get my steam developer account up and running, including paying for the ability to put a game on Steam, getting the OK regarding tax details, etc. It takes 30 days from initial payment to when you are able to actually make the store page live. The process was quite overwhelming but this amazing guide here helped me through basically all of the process, and it was super accurate!!

About a week before the festival, I had everything ready and went to do the store pages and upload the game build. I thought uploading the build using the provided command line tool would be the hard part, and the store page would be the easy part. However, there are so many assets and variations thereof that Steam asks for that I had not prepared (about 20 in total with very specific size and design requirements), and so it took several days to complete this in a manner I was happy with.

It then also took about 5 days for the content to undergo review and for it to be approved (or not). The game page and demo build got approved, but the demo page did not as I didn't have "demo" on my assets that I had submitted for it, so it took another 5 days after correcting the page for it to be approved. This ended up being approved a few days after the space exploration fest had started, and so I thought I'd push the demo back for the next relevant festival - luckily a turn based rpg one - on the 1st of October.

However, a few days ago, I was sadly informed that my game (turn-based RPG, by the way) was not suitable for Steam's turn-based RPG festival after applying to enter it. I wasn't given a reason, even after reaching out to support, except a generic one that stated my game may not have been a good fit for it.

I honestly thought it would be a given I could take part, but that is obviously not the case! It was a bit disappointing hearing the news and the lack of feedback from Steam regarding the decision, but I'm not too fussed overall. That's because now I actually get to announce to you guys, and much earlier than I otherwise would have been able to, that the demo will be available the weekend before the festival starts!!

The date was strategically chosen, of course, to ensure I have enough time to finish polishing it, and that it wouldn't be lost among the sea of other RPG demos potentially (or not, I'm not sure) releasing during the festival!

In any case, the whole experience was seriously eye-opening. Probably not too interesting reading about it, but that's where my life has gone the past few months, and I'm actually super excited I'm finally finally allowed to mention the context surrounding my recent posts! Thanks for reading!

[metro-ko]

Dystopika

This is a newer game that came out 2024-06-21, right around the start of the summer next fest. I randomly had it pop up in my Steam feed, and I bought it on a whim.

It's one of these "cozy" games, which is to say there aren't really goals or objectives outside of make a thing within the constraints of the tools available and find your own fun and make pretty pictures.

It's a cyberpunk themed one of those, which is why I'm posting it here. It's kinda neat, you can import your own images and stuff. I've only made a couple of cities, but I'll probably keep checking in on it if there are any major updates here and there.

The level of detail isn't too high on the building models, so you can't really get down to the street/building level, but for making neat looking skylines it's pretty good. I'll probably post a few more if I keep poking at it.

[jtgunner]

New let's play video is up on my YouTube channel! I'm checking out the demo for Aero GPX for PC! This is an indie futuristic racing game similar to F-Zero, and I am REALLY hyped for this game. This is an updated demo, so I can't wait to see all of the new features and mechanics!

WATCH IT HERE: https://youtu.be/1_n2x5ZsA1w

[j0hb0y]

Hiya Papaya! 👋

I played some games during the steam next fest:

Backpack Battles: It's quite addicting! This one is pretty good during a short break.

Master of Vtuber: This one was just okay. It didn't really catch me, but i can see it getting a small following! Maybe as a livestream it could work. SPEAKING OF one of the characters is an actual Vtuber

Dream Tactics: I really love this game!! It's a good combination of a card game and fire emblem, it's a great strategy game and it's cute too! Plus there's a bunny character!!! Dream Tactics was a really good suprise, the hidden gem if i can call it that.

The Touhou Empires: It's a decent real-time strategy game. I'm not that into the genre so i take my words with salt, but i like it because i didn't feel completely lost! Just a little bit

Astral Party: It's a fun party game! The characters are real cute and there's a bunny girl in it!! Got to play it with 3 friends and it was pretty funny because it's easy to pick up. Kinda like 100% Orange Juice

Rebirth of Arcadia: It's kinda weird that the story and the gameplay are in two different sub-categories. The Gameplay was fine though, but didn't catch me.

Millenia: It's alright, i think it'll improve with time. Just like almost every Paradox game does. (We don't talk about the battle animation)

Star Knightess Aura: The prolouge is really really long. This is a Rpgmaker game and i like those. I can feel the passion, but maybe a little bit less prolouge. It's good and important, but it's just too much text. Okay, my curse struck again... It's a hentai game

Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds: This game has a gorgeous artstyle! It's a cool turn-based combat game with a good portion of customization. However, it would be nice to have a short tutorial or tooltips because i was clueless which skills had what impact on gameplay.

Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0!: This game was a weird yet charming one! I like the combination of farming and serving people. It kinda reminds me of Va11 Hall-A (Note: i played that game for an hour).

Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse: That's a really cool rougelite! The menu was a bit hard to use because the pointer kept moving around (it could be that my controller started to drift). I really like the idea of rebuilding that village yourself, meaning placing stuff wherever you like!

Shanghai Summer: I really love this visual novel! The atmosphere, the characters, the mystery that they build and the end of the demo! This game actually released this week in full so i'll be playing that pretty soon!

To pick out my 3 favs this year (not ordered): Dream Tactics, Astral Party and Shanghai Summer.

However, i wish i had more time to play even more demos because many looked real good. Sadly, today is the final day.

I really love the steam next fest a lot and i'm glad it exists!

[underspacegame]

UNDERSPACE RELEASES IN EARLY ACCESS ON APRIL 10, 2024!

That's right, you'll all be able to play Underspace in just a few short months! Are you excited? You should be! Because I'm really tired -- but happy -- that this is finally getting off the ground and into your hands.

Can't wait until then? Well, we've announced this already, but for the record:

Underspace will be participating in Steam Next Fest!

Once again, we'll have a playable Steam demo up and running AND I'll be personally playing during the developer stream (naturally). I know there will be a lot of games to try, so it'd mean a lot to me if you'd test out Underspace and see for yourself what's coming out in just a few short months. See you on February 5, 2024 at 10 AM PT!

[kolegaliterat]

Najpopularniejsze dema z lutowej edycji Steam Next Fest

Skończył się pierwszy Steam Next Fest w 20224 roku. Wciąż uważam, że jest to istotne wydarzenie z perspektywy twórcy gier. Wersje demonstracyjne wróciły, mają się dobrze i wiele wskazuje na to, że zostaną na dłużej, jeśli nie na stałe. To też jest dobry moment, aby sprawdzić, czy kierunek, który studio wybrało, jest dobry. Nie można też zapominać, że demo jest w stanie posłużyć jako dobry…