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A late contender for my favorite roguelike of Steam Next Fest combines Vampire Survivors with an arcade classic, and it's sticking around for a few more days
News Ball x Pit is a real buzzer-beater
This Steam Next Fest demo is exactly like Escape from Tarkov, except you're a duck and it only gets weirder from there
News Escape from Duckov is a gritty, dog-eat-dog world - except you're an adorable duck
The Shovel Knight devs' Steam Next Fest gem is such a perfect homage to Zelda: Link's Awakening that I wish I was playing on an actual Game Boy
News Mina the Hollower is a classic in the making
The Stellar Blade PC release finally convinced me to try it out, but after its Steam Next Fest demo I'm going straight back to Elden Ring Nightreign
News Sorry Eve, I belong to the Condemned
This Balatro-style roguelike is Localthunk's nightmare, because it swaps Poker for a literal slot machine to really simulate that gambling feel and its Steam Next Fest demo is dangerously addictive
News CloverPit isn't worried about its ESRB rating
The chaos of Hotline Miami meets the intricate planning of Payday in this hostage-saving Steam Next Fest demo that's absolutely riffing on Die Hard
News Phantom Squad is an accident waiting to happen
I've sacrificed millions of imps in my new favorite roguelike city-builder, but it's still not enough
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | 9 Kings is a roguelike with royally intricate city-building
This super-hard survival game is the most unforgiving Steam Next Fest demo I've played so far, and I completely failed to get revenge for the last time it kicked my ass
News Prologue: Go Wayback is not messing around
Moonlighter 2 is one of the biggest roguelikes at Steam Next fest, but I might prefer its shop management sim gameplay to be an arcane adventurer
News This might actually be 3 games in 1
My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens
News After Inc. proves the post-apocalypse is never a walk in the park
As Stellar Blade PC gets booted off the Steam Next Fest charts, a sci-fi FPS that's everything I actually wanted from Starfield is rising up to take its place
News Shift Up's loss is Jump Ship's gain
I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami
News Mage Tower Massacre has some surprisingly shooty spells at its fingertips
I broke this roguelike FPS Steam Next Fest demo wide open once I combined its gritty freerunning with a gun that spams pandas
News I can only apologize to the developers of High Fructose
The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in
News Please, Anvil Empires, just let me play
The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself
News Vindictus: Defying Fate is garnering a lot of attention
I lost all my progress in a single catastrophic fall in this impossibly hard open-world Steam Next Fest demo, and I'm not even a tiny bit mad about it
News Baby Steps is the latest piece of psychological warfare from the creator of Getting Over It
Legendary roguelike dev behind The Binding of Isaac finally reveals the release date for his cat-eugenics strategy game, 13 years after it was originally announced
News First announced in 2012, Mewgenics is almost upon us
The Outer Worlds 2 "basically borrowed" Fallout: New Vegas' excellent Perks system, and I'm already spinning up an amazing stealth RPG build
News Complete with knee-popping realism
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Final Fantasy 16 are both coming to Xbox - and one of them is available today
News Final Fantasy 7 + Final Fantasy 16 = Final Fantasy 23: Adrian's Revenge
3 years after telling us Hollow Knight Silksong would release in 1 year, Xbox once again hints vaguely at a release date, this time linked to its new handheld
News It's been a bad week for Silksong fans
