Steam Next Fest — what cool demos have you discovered?
Steam Next Fest — what cool demos have you discovered?
Overseer for the Playdate

Posting through my local account here because apparently my main instance is having some troubles fetching yet-unfederated communities from here. Anyways, I’ve finished earlier today a game I’d been pushing in my to play queue for a few months now, Overseer by thestoff. I made a post [https://indie-ver.se/post/26125] in another community reviewing the game, but the short version is that it’s very hard, but in a way that doesn’t feel cheap. Dying is normal in the game, but design feels like it’s made to give players a tangible sense of improvement the better they get at each challenge the game throws, boss #2 being the cutoff between what would be the tutorial segment and the difficulty that permeates the entire rest of the game. Sound and art are pretty good, and metroidvania being a metroidvania, it has horror elements as a constant element but not the main one. Also if someone plays the game, a tip, though there is no walkthrough for the game, the save is not encrypted so you can get some hints from there if you don’t know what to do.
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This is a brand new community for you to share your thoughts, reviews and impressions on games you’ve recently played. Conversely, you can also discover cool games based on the recommendations of other users! We’re still working on getting things set up (rules, sidebar etc.), so in the meantime, these are the general posting guidelines: * Be respectful * Posts should be in English * You should have actually played the game you are writing about. Discussing newly announced games belongs in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] * Posts should be your writing. They can be a text post or a link to an external blog or YouTube video that you made, but don’t post IGN articles * Your post should be more in-depth that just “this game is great!”. Why is it great? What parts of it are not so great? What kind of person would also enjoy this game? * While not a hard requirement, the more unknown the game you are talking about, the better! We don’t nescessarely need any posts about what incredible hidden gems Stardew Valley, Celeste and Vampire Survivors are. I’m hoping to set up the community and make a few posts myself by the end of the week.
I’m looking for a cooperative board game.
• It should be fast - at most 20 minutes.
• Rules should be explainable in 5 minutes.
• It should have luck in it.
• You should win at least 1 in 10 games.
• No zombies or gore.