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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