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Steam Next Fest demos are coming, what we are interested in?

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Valve’s Steam Next Fest has kicked off once again, offering gamers a week-long experience filled with developer livestreams, chats, and a plethora of playable demos. There are hundreds of games on the list. So we have picked what we are interested in, such as survival crafting, FPS, strategy-survival, and 2D metroidvania for anime. Try one! Or try a dozen.

Enshrouded

Our TapTap editor Ian Boudreau had thorough experience with this game and thinks it's worth playing. Another masterpiece for Keen Game, the developer of Portal Knights.

If you enjoy survival crafting games, especially Valheim. In Enshrouded, you’ll be doing many familiar activities from that type of game: gathering materials, building a base, exploring a big handcrafted world, and defeating monsters.
I split my time between gradually building up a base using the versatile construction system and exploring the vast world. The landscape alternates between sun-dappled vistas and dark, murky areas blanketed with a toxic “Shroud,” which produces huge fungal structures and twisted monstrosities.

Ghostrunner 2

Hardcore Gamer Anya highly recommends this game.

A dazzling and powerful Combat Motorcycle, that's all I want all I need. Ghostrunner 2 did it.The game introduced novel concepts of utilizing boost jumps to hurdle sprawling gaps and even defying gravity by scaling walls to circumnavigate obstructions – all at a pulse-pounding velocity.

RoboCop

Set between the events of RoboCop 2 and 3, RoboCop: Rogue City feels rather uninspiring given its chosen timeframe. As an FPS game, it allows you to stomp around and blow off punks' heads with satisfying weapons. However, there isn't a single aspect of it that stands out.

The enemies appear to be quite stationary, often just standing still while you shoot them, occasionally throwing tiresome grenades at you. This gives the entire experience the feeling of a particularly unimpressive shooting gallery. RoboCop takes damage in most situations, except during cutscenes when bullets inexplicably bounce off him, but you can press H at any time to magically recover.

YOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE-

Yohane the Parhelion is an official anime spin-off of Love Live!! Sunshine.

Yohane the Parhelion: BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE is a 2D action game set in that fantasy world. The player takes control of Yohane as she ventures into a mysterious dungeon alongside her partner Lailaps. She must challenge the monster-infested labyrinth to rescue her missing friends. Parts of the dungeon will have randomized layouts, making for a hack-and-slash action game that stays fresh each time you play it.

Last Train Home

Last Train Home has been compared to the popular strategy-survival game Frostpunk. However, it offers a unique setting and narrative, focusing on the lesser-known Russian Civil War. Players will be faced with moral choices and must make difficult decisions that can impact the fate of their troops.

The game takes place during the turbulent times of the Russian Civil War, a period that is largely absent in video games. Players will assume the role of the soldiers of the Czechoslovak Legion, whose goal is not to engage in glorious battles, but to safely lead their troops back home. The journey is treacherous, as they must navigate through inhospitable Siberia.

Tower Song

Tower Song is a character-driven JRPG where a band of heroes struggles to save the nation of Qadam from the vengeful Forge Goddess who threatens to burn the continent to ash. Players choose one of four heroes for their journey. Our heroes will journey overland across multiple biomes before descending into the mysterious Towers.

Can you stop the Tower Song and save Qadam? Or will you falter beneath the terrible Cycle?