T3K #8: Turbo Turn - Steam Next Fest

Heya! Trying a new post format for this entry! With event prep for GDC having me real busy, I haven't had time for deep dives into a tactics game. But I did have time to try a couple Steam Next Fest demos!

As someone who played tons of PSP demos, I've missed the ability to have a low investment try at a game. Tactics demos are especially interesting challenge as a design prompt. Tactics games can be long! Or they develop mechanics in a gradual way over hours, which is difficult to capture in a demo.

But lots of developers made the effort, and I wanted to give them a shoutout! So let's do a Turbo Turn of Steam Next Fest tactics/strategy demos. I had to hone in on this blog's focus cause I played too many! Oops.

Games Covered:

• Cardboard Town
• Two Point Campus
• Dungeon Drafters
• Dungeons of Aether
• Inkbound

Non-T3K Genre Demos I Really Liked:​​

• Protodroid DeLTA
• Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
• Gravity Circuit
• Radio the Universe
• Rusted Moss

• The Ramsey
• Shumi Come Home
• Glitch Busters
• Bleak Sword DX
• Townseek

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