Spent maybe an hour trying a few Next Fest demos yesterday:
Morsels: What if Binding of Isaac were cute? Game has promise; graphics were a bit unclear on my Steam Deck.
BALL x PIT: Stylish brick-breaking game with roguelite elements from Kenny Sun, who’s made some of my favorite mobile games (Twinfold, Peak’s Edge). The “bricks” are skeletal enemies who attack in a variety of ways as they approach. No-doubt day 1 purchase for me.
Star Birds: New game from Dorfromantik devs Toukana Interactive, in which you build cutesy bases and mine resources on cutesy asteroids as you progress through a cutesy solar system with a cutesy group of cutesy birds. Did I mention the game is “cutesy”? I like it anyway, as I think the graphics hide some real depth.
NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound: Brought back great memories of dying quickly and repeatedly in the original NES Ninja Gaiden game. Will probably ignore my decaying reflexes and buy the full version when it comes out anyway.
Ball x pit certainly has my attention. Delightfully chaotic.
Star birds does look like it has potential. Im not a huge fan of production chain games, but theyve put enough of their own twist on this that I might be interested
And of course Mr President for anyone who likes solo board games that are infamously too large for pretty much every table irl
Void War seems like a much darker Faster Than Light. Any FTL like game is of interest in my view. But I mainly game on mobile these days so I hope they port it there.
Tried it on android. Only half translated and buggy. Couldn’t start a game vs AI. Waited a bit for an online game, no opponents showed up and it seemed real time only.
Deleted and asked for a refund.
Started a game at BGA, which tiles now have the same texture as in the new app. Perhaps it finds opponents from BGA?? New tiles are less appealing and more difficult to see, so changed them back to the old look.
Edit. And a bunch of in-app purchases, like skins for your castle…
I know the whole roguelike deck building genre is becoming extremely oversaturated, but I still get distracted by any new one because the genre fits so well with my gaming lifestyle. Anyways, a new game just dropped on iOS called Lost in Fantaland and while I haven’t played it, it certainly looks intriguing.
From the screenshots, the game seems to give you an isometric battlefield like with Into the Breach. It actually looks a lot like Tyrant’s Blessing, including the artwork. But it seems you play battles as a quasi-SRPG, but everything it done via your deck. On top of all that, the game is premium at $4, and I didn’t see any IAP. I am going to wait for some initial impressions from the App Store, but I’m certainly intrigued.
From my time with both on Steam, Fantaland and Tyrant are both fairly similar and, unless lying, the Fantaland dev states right there in the description, this is a premium app with no ad or iap shenanigans.
