Ok I’ll also enter the fray, and of course I did it with a Metroidvania style game.
I’m still busy playing it but for now, seems pretty cool, giving me a DeadCells feel with a cool mechanic of the hat. I also suck at reviews so ya.
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Tribes 3 is a new game in the classic, CTF series. It is very old-school in its approach. Movement is fast, momentum based and quite vertical. Hitting things is hard. Hitting things while moving properly is harder still.
The netcode seems solid enough, and I was able to enjoy games in Europe. Despite it being tough, I enjoyed it and feel like I want to spend time improving!
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Uhh…? You what now?
Tribes of Europa!
I mean, that there are no local servers, so I connected to EU.
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Been watching some streams of this and it looks amazing, I loved and adored Tribes back in the days.
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The June edition of Next Fest wrapped up yesterday, but quite a few games still have demos active. Worth a hunt through the popular demo lists to see if there’s something you may have missed or want to add to that growing Wishlist of yours.
Once Human and The Alters are my personal two favs from this Next Fest.
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A friend and I played the Drive Beyond Horizons demo. It is so awkward, unpolished and clunky that it develops a certain level of charm. We had a blast! Push P for pee…
I also played The First Dwarf with my 11yo oldest and she is really taken by the 3rd person survival / RTS combo and now wants the full game 
Finally I tried the Tiny Glades demo and it is very relaxing and yet kinda pointless. But the tech is really cool!
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Played Hollywood Animal, cool movie studio management game set in the times when cinema was really starting to take off, gave me a proper want to play “The Movies” again. This game hits you hard with real world-like stories and traits, for instance one of my default employees was literally racist
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I played Metal Slug Tactics. It looks and sounds great and is quite a bit of fun too! It does add its own twists to the genre, and I think it’s quite promising.
Oh, Test Drive as well:
I’ve been checking out some of the demos during this latest Next Fest.
Empire of Ants
This really does look as good as the trailers show. The amount of detail in the debris on the ground as well as the animation of all the insects is incredible. Battles are visceral as insects lock together and bodies get flung around. When you send your worker ants to collect resources you see them carrying chunks of it back to your nests. It’s very immersive and a unique take on the RTS genre.
Commandos: Origins
The one that started the Real Time Tactics genre makes a return. I’m glad to see that some of the advancements to the genre that Mimimi games brought in with Shadow Tactics and Desperados III are present. It still feels old school, looking forward to playing the full release.
Delta Force
For a full review speak to @avatar he’s played it a bit 
The large-scale PVP warfare feels like Battlefield, the extraction shooter part is quite similar to Arena Breakout: Infinite - which is like Tarkov. The performance is really great and scales well even lesser hardware. This will certainly be popular at full release.
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I have played through the demo twice now, and even watched a youtuber play it, there is something about it that just feels solid, like everything just flows nicely, definitely needs some polish, but all three “scenarios” the demo puts you through feels so nice to play. Cannot wait for release.
Very promising, should give battlefield a run for its money, however we are going to need some African servers, with the 270ms ping I get, I just sit as far away from the action as possible and snipe people with assault rifles hoping to get a kill or two. The best thing about the game so far for me, is that I can customize my guns fully slapping attachments on in all the slots which is fantastic, no limiting BS like in CoD or BF. Again due to the ping issue I don’t go into vehicles since I just teleport and stutter around in them. After some more beta’s and demo’s I think this could be a great FPS game.
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I must check out The Precinct, it does look good
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It’s Steam Next Fest time again! Boost your backlog with a flood of demos for upcoming titles. And then come tell us about the ones you like.
Bigfoot Life
Just because you get to play as Bigfoot, and because the first screenshot on the store page shows oddly shaped markers for mushrooms. (Yes, I’m still a pimply 13-year old schoolboy.)
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Any nice, exploration type games on display?
How about…
Norse: Oath of Blood looks like it could feed a small bit of that…
and maybe a little exploration, and survival and a hint of horror in…
A few more interesting ones I’m adding to my download queue:
iRacing Arcade - it looks and feels like Formula Legends. Could be fun but too arcady for me. I need something in between iRacing and iRacing Arcade.
Park Ranger Simulator - So very janky. Cannot reccommend at all.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion - If you have played any other Tribute / DotEmu games, you know what you are in for. Classic side scroling beat-em up in gorgeous pixel graphics. On the wishlist after we played Streets of Rage 4 and their Ninja Turles game before!
Road to Vostok - a tough as nails single player Tarkov type game. Fun story about the game is that it was made in Unity, and then when Unity screwed over the devs a few years back this dev remade the entire game in Godot. Its fun, but HARD. Runs super well though.
Polygon Bit Battle Royale - a game made with assets that was free in an itch.io bundle, the game lacks anything to set it apart. I played 2 rounds with bots and the usual “AI sees through walls” problem it was still decent fun. Not holding out hope for the future of this game though. Pretty bland.
Cloudheim - a beautiful action adventure crafting game with some action RPG combat vibes. I need more time with the game to really judge it, but it also feels like it needs a bit more time in the oven to reach maximum potential.
Long Drive North - A man, his dog, an RV and the open road! Oh, and a deadly storm chasing you down! Typical loot and survive game, but an RV twist. This could be fun with friends.
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I’ve been following Road To Vostok a while now, but played the latest demo/EA releas, I dont know, feels like the game is meandering all over. I know its one dev, so I cant even start to pass judgement (he ported the whole game from UNITY to Godot after the UNITY CEO decided to pull a broadcom) but it feels like its going no where.
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Thats a problem I see with a lot of demos: we have one idea, or one game type we want to make better, but then they fall short. It is really tough to make a game that stands out AND is fun to play. Vostok was one of the more polished demos I played, and I agree, it feels like its going nowhere.
Another one is Mist Survival, I have 40 hours in the game, its gone backwards in quality for me. I wish I could a survival game thats not too hard that you can just waste hours exploring, surviving, building, etc etc.