Dem-OH! September Round-up
A little short of individual demos this month, so we’ve cut down the Top 3 Stand-outs to just our very favourite this time around. There’s still plenty of demos to check out from our Dem-OH! Dash streams below and some wonderful low-poly horror from the Haunted PS1 Summer of Shivers game jam.
Expect much, much more from the next month’s Round-up as Oct 1st marks the start of a new #SteamNextFest – we already have plenty downloaded and ready to go!
Previews
Aztech Forgotten Gods [Demo] – Coming soon on Steam
Just a glimpse into the gameplay of the much anticipated God-slaying craziness of Aztech Forgotten Gods. In this 3D action game you’ll be using your seemingly magically and technologically enhanced right arm to fly around the battlefield and deal incredible damage to enemies ten times your size in tune with a badass heavy soundtrack.
Stand-out Demo (Top of the month)
Demos
What a bizarre entry this is. A top-down twin-stick action shooter with a slew of different weapons to play with and puzzles to solve for permanent upgrades… about a badass exiled snail and his guardian ball of glowing light. Madness aside, this one seems like it could be a real blast if it keeps ramping up the gunfights and continues to throw fun bosses and strange story beats out there.
Themes of Dark and Light – Demo on Steam
This simple 2D platforming puzzle game about flipping between light and dark worlds seriously sent me back to the flash days with its interesting mechanics and tricks centred around an incredibly basic set of fundamentals. And, much like those flash games of old, I have no doubt that this one is going to get real challenging by the end.
Dem-OH! Dashes Catch-up
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.
Part 1
- Inua – A Story in Ice and Time (4)
- Nura’s Wish (3)
- Spindle (3)
- Unbound: World’s Apart (4)
- The Darkside Detective (4)
- Hazel Sky (2)
- Holomento (1)
- Hourglass: Prologue (3)
- Leif’s Adventure: Netherworld Hero (4)
- Relicta (4)
- Tamarindos Freaking Dinner (2)
- The Adventures of Captain Carrot (2)
Part 2
- Ghost on the Shore (3)
- Guild of Dungeoneering (4)
- Jupiter Moons: Mecha (4)
- Painting Wether (2)
- Return to Nangrim (1)
- SciGirl: The Internship (2)
- When The Past Was Around (5)
- Tech Support: Error Unknown (3)
- Lost In Labs (1)
- Papertris (1)
- Pawnbarian (5)
- Splash Cars (2)
Haunted PS1 Summer of Shivers Game Jam 2021
You can find all of the information about the jam, as well as a complete list of playable entries at https://itch.io/jam/hps1sos
Part 1
- Watershed
- Shadow over Normoth
- Näkkilahti
- The Keeper
- Endless Blue
- TSOS
- The Salvation Project
- I Spoke to God
- Remnants In The Water
- Courage The Videogame
Part 2
- The Bends
- The Sirena Expedition
- The Dreadnought
- Bowels of the Ocean
- Please Don’t Feed the Creatures of the Deep
- TARTARUS
- Shortcut
- WORKING TIDAL
- Konbini
- Sisters
- Deep City
- Undercurrent
- The Rite of Ammon
- Siren’s Wharf
- Resurfacing of the Tigershark
- Frontier Diver Progenexis
- SEACORP 02.06.2002
- 9194 TSUNAMI
- The Cleaner
- Beyond the Phone Screen
- Dagon: Hell Below
- OXYGEN
- THERE SWINGS A SKULL
- Symphony of Seven Souls