I’ve been trying to publish this all day, but I just couldn’t get this Google Sheets spreadsheet to display like anything in the West Karana blog. I’ve downloaded a plugin – TablePress – that claims to be able to do the trick.
We’ll see. I have my doubts.
Anyway, I was enmeshed withing Dune: Awakening and Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles and didn’t have the time to spend in the Steam Next Fest. I wanted to, but the only game I really dove into was Dissimilar, based upon Bhagpuss’ excellent review. And that was worth playing.
I made the list below (assuming it displays at all) based entirely on what Steam recommended to me, based on games I’ve played before. Some of them, okay, I get it. Other ones, what, really? Me?
Most (but most definitely not all) of the games seem to be of incredibly high quality. And the really distressing thing about these games, if you think about it, is that I have been reading the blogs of other gamers who are enjoying the Next Fest and the games they list are all different from each other, and different from this list! And most of them are almost certainly really good games.
These kinds of celebrations of new games makes me sad, because most of them are just not going to get in front of the people who would really love them. And these are labors of love for the developers, they want people to play them.
I wish everyone whose game is on this list success, and I hope their games find their players. I may dive more deeply into these later. The links should work, and I hope they do, or I’m just going to have to write a program to do what I need done myself, and that sounds like work.
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