SOMA is one of my all time faves.
The Outlast Games are also classics for Halloween

They usually do. Killing Floor 2 is still going strong. I’ve heard pretty bad things about KF3

Ahh. Nice! Thanks for the info. This sounds a lot better imo.

I don’t really have time to watch this ending - how does it go? What’s different from the original?

I don’t mind spoilers, I’m not playing the game. I just have been watching a friend who really didn’t like the original ending.

For The King 2

It’s definitely got some issues, especially with camera angles, but my friends and I have been having a good time with it. The campaigns are shockingly short, but that makes it way more doable with friends. We all know coordinating time is difficult

I don’t think it’s strictly 3d, but I’ve heard really good things about Cassette Beasts. The gameplay looks good and the art is cute.

TemTem on steam is 3d through and through. I played it forever ago and it was rather enjoyable as a Pokemon breakaway. There were some fun synergies. However it’s apparently kinda gone downhill since launch, so I’m not sure how worthwhile it is

Yaaaay! The demo was so much fun. This is grea

I’ve had full servers of people just meowing, which was fantastic, or RPing when shot and going down. “Help me sarge! Gah. It-it hurts!”

Oh, and Dog Pile is fun too. For a suika like deck builder. I’ve had some good easy fun with that one too

It’s not Next Fest specific, but the Ball X Pit demo has absolutely grabbed me by the throat and won’t let go.

I’ve played like 5 hours of just the demo alone and I cannot wait for the full release.

OP, if you have a VR setup, Pistol Whip is absolutely worth it if you like games like beat saber. Even without trying to shoot on beat, it’s a blast. There are a bunch of songs that are one offs, and there are two campaigns (or there were last time I played, there might be more). The devs are awesome, the guns are fun, and it’s a hell of a workout.

As someone still halfway through SilkSong, I am immune

I’ve been playing a lot of SilkSong but I took a break today.

I loved Hollow Knight and I really really enjoy parts of Silk Song, but I am struggling with how punishing some of these fights and death runs are.

Yahoo! I’ve been looking forward to this one

Dung beetle boss never fails to make me laugh

Trials Evolution would like a word

This is an older pull, but the Army of Two series was a ton of fun. Coop third person shooters with no more plot than your average action movie. It’s great, lol

Sword of the Sea!

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to play much because there’s a spot in what I would call chapter 2 where the game kept crashing and dying. I tried so many things to make it work and nothing came of it.

Finally , last ditch effort, went through the process of upgrading from Mint 21.2 to Mint 22. And now it seems to be working! Yahoo!

Buuuut now I’m going somewhere this weekend and I won’t be able to play, lol. C’est la vie

I mean I don’t start over. I try to start the game I’m already 75% done with lol

I guess it’s time to dump another 20 hours into trying to remember how to play Hollow knight and to see if maybe this time I can actually beat it

I was thinking that too. Her animations are awesome

I joined a rocket league tournament at a comic-con! But the servers went down just as we were about to play, lol, so I never got to try

This kinda isn’t in the same genre as normal racing. But Lonely Mountain Downhill is a game where you’re mountain biking and trying to go faster and faster to beat certain goals or personal records. It’s adorable and fun

Of course they do

I definitely was running for my absolute life, you’re not wrong.

Ahhh thank you. That did it :))

I played maybe five hours of 3 and maybe it was because I was older than for the previous two, but the sunny “we’re friends and everything is so positive and love and sunshine” was really really grating. It felt like it was way more excessive than the first two, but, again, could be the ages I played them at.

Otherwise it played… Okay? The Disney things were stupid. It felt pretty blah otherwise. Nothing remarkable.

I think that might be part of it. For a lot of people, it was that the formula was old and tired. I know Odyssey did fairly well, but it’s still just an AC game

This game will forever live in my heart as an absolute masterpiece. I cry every time I play it because something about it just completely sucks me in.

What kind of overalls does Mario wear?

Denim denim denim🎵

SOMA is right there on the laptop.

Absolutely excellent game.

I’ve been playing Planet Crafter quite a bit. It gives me the same vibes Subnautica did, just without any scary monsters. Love it to pieces

Can you elaborate? I wasn’t aware of this.

I overstimulated myself. That was… That was a lot

Aaaa! This is very exciting!

I’m not sure how small is small, but Splattercat Gaming is fun. It’s not the place to go for series unfortunately, though I wish he’d get back into them.

But Splat has a lot of interesting life experiences and he’s fun to listen to.

Great music too

I actually think it might be slower based on the processing power. There’s a trick on the Switch (one, I guess), where you have to pause and play a few times while looking at areas that take longer to process and it somehow accelerates your flying on the glider like crazy.

Also I think one of the new tricks is wiggling yourself with a shield drawn on frame perfect side to sides, so it might make that harder if the frame rate goes up?

But I have really only a basic idea of these things.

Already mentioned.

• Slime Rancher
• Fields of Mistria
• A Short Hike

Not yet mentioned (at least that I saw)

• Potionomics

• • A game where you play Silvia, a potion crafter who has taken over her uncle’s shop on an island full of adventurers. You get to meet many kinds of people, both adventurers and not, and have a chance at romancing pretty much all of them (at once, if you select the polyamory mode). The art style is adorable (please physically release the cards, devs) and the voice acting is so well done.

• Monster Prom

• • Strictly a slice of life / dating sim about trying to get a date for prom. The cast of characters are very cute, as is the art style. It’s also multiplayer if you’re into that.

• Emily is Away

• • I believe this one is free. It’s a nostalgia blast for those of us who grew up with instant messaging like MSN or AIM. It’s been a while since I played, but I remember it being cute and very interesting.

I second Fields of Mistria. It’s just better than Stardew Valley in my opinion, in almost every way.