this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
165 points (97.7% liked)

Games

39686 readers
2131 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
fxomt
[email protected]
[email protected]
165
Steam Next Fest has started once again. What good demos have you found? (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
50 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Let's share our lists and opinions on the demos. We'll help each other find promising games.

This Next Fest runs until Monday, June 16, 10 am PDT.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Day 5

Look Mum No Computer — Twin-stick shooter adventure

  • Trying the demo purely because of the weird trailer
  • Very retro PC gaming vibe. SID chip music!
  • Rough introduction. Big info dump right at the start before I know what I'm doing
  • Music changes as you change the installed skills, which are presented as synthesizer modules
  • Struggling with visibility. Hard to quickly tell what's an enemy and what's background art. Also hard to tell what's collidable and what's clear
  • I'm not finding the combat here very intersting

Pass

Morsels — Action roguelike (Isaaclike?) with creature collecting

  • Gross and cute
  • The classics from Rogue: traps, unexplained stuff, retrying a lot until you start to understand
  • Demo shows a small but varied range of creatures with different abilities, which always come with a randomly selected bonus
  • Quick switch between your roster of three
  • At least in this early part of the game, ammo count is really low and even ranged attacks don't go far
  • Great presentation. Pixel art feels kind of like claymation

Pass. I liked the demo a lot, but I'm already playing a lot of roguelikes and my wishlist already has ones I'm more excited for

ODDCORE — Surreal boomer shooter

  • Maximalism. An exhilarating force-feeding of the senses.
  • Liminal spaces but actually awesome and fun. Exterminate the Backrooms! Shoot the jump scare monsters in their faces!
  • Excursions into the Oddcore only last 5 minutes unless you buy time extensions
  • Interesting idea: you can teleport home (almost) whenever you want to buy upgrades or more time
  • Chaotic level progression, like really channel surfing through the multiverse. Sometimes, instead of warping to the next level, you end up in a corrupted level or a bonus level or just some weird, mildly creepy room

Wishlisted