Every once in a while Steam puts on their Next Fest. It’s an awesome showcase full of demos for some upcoming games. I always end up downloading many demos, trying them out, and forgetting to write about them. So I will do a few posts about each of the demos I get to this time. They’re mostly short demos but hopefully, I can get enough of an idea if I can recommend playing it and putting it on your wishlist or not.
Tiny Glade
Tiny Glade has been on my wishlist for a while now. It is a super chill city-building type game. It’s all about creating, combining, and growing your town seamlessly. The demo is incredibly small. It gives you the chance to create walls, houses, towers, and windows in a very small space. It is really satisfying to connect walls, expand out a building, plant flowers, and create paths in a small space, but you can only do so much before you kind of just get the point. I am super excited for the full release of this game. I can see myself playing this game for a long time, listening to my favorite podcasts. For now, try out the demo for a little bit. Get the feel of what the game is going to be, and then uninstall it and wait for the full release that hasn’t been announced yet.
The Alters
To say this game kind of surprised me is an understatement. I remember seeing a short trailer a while ago for this game, and I threw it on my wishlist and forgot about it. I only really remembered it being about clones and a game style similar to Fallout Shelter. Starting the demo in a third-person perspective and running around was interesting to start off with. Eventually, I got to the main base and the base-building aspects appeared. The mission given to you is to find a way to get off this dead planet as quickly as possible. There is exploring the planet to find materials, crating, and expanding out the base. Also, clones. The demo is definitely worth a download. I’m excited to see where this story goes.
Level Zero: Extraction
Woof. This game has a pretty cool concept. It’s an extraction shooter, sending you and a team into different abandoned space stations, searching for loot, and leaving. The twist is that other players are playing as aliens on the station trying to kill you. Sounds rad as hell, and the cut scene at the beginning looks awesome. This demo is sadly super janky. At least it was for me. Load times were pretty rough, the UI feels slow and unintuitive, and the gameplay is not polished at all. Granted, this is a demo, and I suppose an open beta as well. I’ve been really looking into some new extraction-style type games, and this has a cool horror style to it that is intriguing. I recommend trying out the demo right now, see for yourself if you want to see how it plays. But I came away unimpressed right now. Not to say I won’t be watching for the release date, but it won’t be a day-one buy for me.
The Tired Obsidian 
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