What a crazy start to the year – hard to believe we’re already in February!! Starting off with lots of travelling, meeting up with friends, and, unfortunately, puking everywhere 🙃

Being illout of nowhere has certainly slowed the demos this month but we’re more than going to make up for it with the Steam #NextFest this month ♥️

But first, let’s look back at the success of last year, with a total of 574 demos played! Amazing! Here’s to another year of teetering on the fringe of gaming and exploring the vast expanse of new experiences coming out every day 🥂

Stand-Out Demos

(in recording order)

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Night Loops – Demo on Steam

What a bizarre and unique experience – mixing horror and puzzle elements to the time-looping and mask-collection mechanics from the greatest Zelda title ever created, Majora’s Mask. This 2D black and white adventure game had me both frightened about what would happen next within this otherwordly setting populated with surreal inhabitants, and deeply curious about what the heck was even going on, ushering me forward even through the fear of not just the unknown, but the unknowable.

Dem-OH! Dashes

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Truly a weird and wacky selection of demos to kick the year off with, covering just about every genre! Certainly a nice slow ramp into another year full of new and interesting experiments in gaming 😱

NOTE: Ratings are basically representative of how much I enjoyed the demo and the likelihood that I’ll come back to the title in the future (or even would liked to have continued playing it right then), with regards to gameplay, quality, and (of course) personal preference to genre, etc. A zero represents that the game is too non-functional to really get a feel for it. It is essentially a non-rating.

No. 1

1. CRAP (2)
2. Doodle God Universe (2)
3. FlipScapes (1)
4. Loddlenaut (3)
5. PaperKlay (3)
6. Jianghu Survivor (2)
7. OPEN DOOR (2)
8. The Lies We Tell Ourselves (3)
9. Akolyta (1)
10. Night Loops (5)

No. 2

1. Meg’s Monster (2)
2. Mage Ball (3)
3. XSpeed (1)
4. Soaring (4)
5. Bounty (1)
6. Alien Slayers (2)

No. 3

1. Die in the Dungeon (4)
2. The Orphanage (3)
3. Vestige Memoria (1)
4. 苍白花树繁茂之时Blood Flowers (2)
5. Silence Channel 2 (3)