• @[email protected]
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    315 hours ago

    Lost Skies!

    Build an airship and explore floating islands in search of ancient knowledge while fighting against robots and flying fish. It’s a spiritual successor to World’s Adrift, if you’ve heard of that.

    The demo is an early build and is buggy and laggy, but it is super fun.

    • @[email protected]
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      213 hours ago

      Have played the demo and can confirm, great fun :D

      I loved worlds adrift back in the day and this demo feels so good to play.

      Cant wait to see how the development goes and how the final release turns out.

  • @alphabethunter
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    317 hours ago

    At least a dozen games, I hope. It has become tradition for me to delve deep into next fest demos and try at least 20 or so games from my favorite genres. The last few times I discovered some of my favorite games of recent years. The ones I’m sure so far are only Breathedge 2 and Solar Punk.

    • Trinsec
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      419 hours ago

      Wasn’t the Gothic Remake demo already out for a few years, or is this a different one?

      I know my laptop could run the demo I was thinking of, but I did need to put in some extra cooling (extra fans) because oh dayum, did it run hot. 😅

      • Björn Tantau
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        218 hours ago

        That was a playable teaser. It was awful. They wanted to gauge interest in a full game. This new demo is for the real game. It looks and plays totally different. It’s still a bit clunky but much better than the playable teaser.

        It’s the same demo they have shown to press and others on conventions the past few years. So you might already have seen some scenes from it. They keep updating it. Last time I saw it it didn’t even have a save system.

        • Trinsec
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          218 hours ago

          Ooh? Thanks for the info, I’ll go check it out in the coming days! 👍 I hadn’t played the playable teaser much back then, so I don’t remember much how it played except that it ran my laptop hot.

  • @SwordInStone
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    116 hours ago

    I recently checked out the demo to Static Dread and it ia lit.

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      21 hours ago

      I haven’t heard of this, but I’m assuming from the past that this is a sale and based on the image, it runs from February 24th to March 3rd.

      I don’t think that I’ve seen Valve organize sub-one-day sales in the past.

      • @alphabethunter
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        417 hours ago

        It’s not a sale. It’s an event with demos for upcoming games, usually full of hidden gems. If you’re an indie dev, you have to get a demo out in time for one of these (they happen 3 times a year, I think), they are a huge boost in visibility.