@games What demos did you play today? | DAY 3
Greetings, flaming fellas of the Fediverse, we are halfway through #SteamNextFest , but that's no reason to be idle, for surprises at every corner and every genre awaits
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Not a lot compared to before, but I did play:
Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss
It's a creepy underwater walking sim. It's... actually pretty damn good in atmosphere, despite not playing into thalassophobia remotely as much as the name would suggest. I really like its style and design. OTOH, technically it's rough, with only a single very slow pick-up / interact animation that has the character awkwardly center in front of the object first.
If they polish it a bit, I'm interested. Kept on my follow list.
Creatures of Ava
A game somewhere between a more peaceful Zelda, a Pokemon-like and a lot of Pokemon Snap? Not reasy to describe. Very beautifuly, and I really liked the world as designed. The tutorial is overly simplistic and long for what it teaches you, but eh, minor issue. Definitely keeping an eye on this, quite interested in how it is at release. Kept on my follow list.
The Alters
The most impressive game I've tried this Next Fest. A survival game on another planet where you need to recruit the only reliable person you know: Yourself. You got access to a cloning bay and a quantum computer and the computer can create you, but if you had decided differently at certain points in your life, e.g. not moving out early from home would have led to a life where you are an engineer, which gives that clone +50% technical skill. These "alters" have their own stories and you get to talk to them about it, which is really cool.
Quite impressed, wishlisted.