

Kinda like Darkest Dungeon, catering to its early access veterans and alienating newcomers. One of those cases of developers who know the thing inside out and back to front scaling the difficulty to give themselves an enjoyable challenge and utterly fucking annihilate beginners repeatedly.

I think it’s probably tuned way too hard. I got gold from those fights to replace those party members, and it sure is handy to lose half your party when you’re due to pay their wages, but you definitely don’t want to get attached to anyone. Every single fight cost me at least 1-2 party members. I tried Wartales this morning, and man it’s brutal. (MANY of them do, based on previous festivals.) Still, it’s great fun to free up some space and install all the promising ones just in case they stay active past the festival dates. I really wish Steam’s ‘demo festivals’ were longer, so I had more time to play more demos. There’s plenty of incredible gems available during the festival, and you might even find your next favourite game. Once we wrap, we’ll also embed the video in this post so you can see what we ran through. AEST on the Kotaku Australia Twitch channel. We’d love to see you join us this afternoon for a look at the latest Steam Next Fest demos from 2:30 p.m. If you missed the livestream, the full video with all the demos can be viewed below!Īs always, you can also join our local Discord if you want to hang out during the week.Īlex, Lavender and I are usually hanging around the server so if you ever have any questions, want us to investigate some juicy gaming gossip or just want to meet some new gaming friends, you can join at the link below. We’ll be running through them live on stream this afternoon, from 2:30pm AEST on Twitch. Then if there’s time, we’ll also check out other gems like park sim Let’s Build A Zoo and surreal RPG Death Trash.Īll of them are very intriguing titles featured in this year’s Steam Next Fest and their demos look like a bunch of fun. We’ll kick off with a look at Unpacking, a brilliantly zen game from Aussie studio Witch Beam, dive into “reverse city builder” Terra Niland even dip our toes into the calm waters of Toem, which looks like a very cutesy photography sim.
