Been exploring some of the stuff from Steam Next Fest today — there's some really cool upcoming stuff among those demos, so I've written about a selection of them on Rice Digital. There's a roguelite magical girl shoot 'em up, a gorgeous exploration platformer with run and gun elements, and the very promising classic style survival horror Tormented Souls — I have a few more queued up to take a look at soon, too.
After the wet fart that was E3 this year, it's nice to know that there are some things worth getting excited about. None of them are the sorts of things you'll ever see on "stage" (or digital equivalent thereof), but every one of these things I've written about over the past few days is infinitely more exciting than 95% of the stuff that was shown at this year's E3. (The remaining 5% is Metroid Dread and the return of Project Zero, pretty much.)
It's so, so easy to forget that there are myriad talented developers out there today doing their best to create amazing games — and an absolutely criminal number of them go overlooked and underappreciated. So it's on us, the audience, to go looking for these things and sharing them when we do find them. Many of these projects live or die on word of mouth — and it'd be a real shame to see some of them die.
So while there's still a few hours left in the Steam Next Fest, take a moment to download some demos, check 'em out and then tell all your friends about them! I'd love to hear about some of them too, so let me know if you've tried anything particularly intriguing!
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