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Time for the final day! Most of the demos I reviewed will likely be up for a little while after #NextFest concludes, but since the devs might take them offline I recommend not putting it off and trying stuff out, or at least downloading it while it's available Highlights: Sojourn Past

Next Fest 26|2 Day 7

Micro-reviews for Day 7 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Sojourn Past, The Exhibition, Screenbound, Dart Racer, and Cat Mail Co.

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#NextFest is coming to an end, but I still got a bunch of interesting demos to show off, even if a lot of them are in a "good but [...]" camp Highlights: Tape Man, Nothing Strange Here

Next Fest 26|2 Day 6

Micro-reviews for Day 6 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Nothing Strange Here, Locktale, Wind Runners, Obsolete - Salvation Protocol, Rivage, Dreadline Express, Tape Man

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A bit less than I'd like for Day 5 of #NextFest micro-reviews (darn power outages), but on the bright side the range of things is very wide, and each one has an audience the would enjoy it Highlights: Demon Bluff

Next Fest 26|2 Day 5

Micro-reviews for Day 0 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Mistfall Hunter, FISH, SWAT God, and Demon Bluff

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I do value keeping these #NextFest micro-reviews short, but man do I sometimes have a lot more to say, or a game might have a lot of nuance I have to gloss over. If you want to get some extra thoughts about any game I play, you can always ask! Highlights: The Button Effect

Next Fest 26|2 Day 4

Micro-reviews for Day 4 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Bunderkin: The Ocular Eclipse, SHATTERFARMS, Torii: Beyond The Gates, Dragon Dinner, and The Button Effect

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Day 3 of #NextFest is here, and with some big demos for your enjoyment! I started Order of the Sinking Star yesterday but had to pause because I had no idea how much was left and only finished it this morning. Good stuff. Highlights: Order of the Sinking Star, Astra Bestiary, Rhythm Katana Dance

Next Fest 26|2 Day 3

Micro-reviews for Day 3 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Knick Knack Stack, D-Topia, Astra Bestiary, MassEve, Would You Love Me If I Was A Snake?, Fluff'n'Roll, Rhythm Katana Dance, and Order of the ...

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Even before Steam activates their recommendation engine I'm seeing a ton of puzzle games this #NextFest. I'm trying to spread the interesting ones out across the few days, but if it feels like things are very puzzly as I provide the micro-reviews, then that's why Highlights: Echo Weaver, VoidHue

Next Fest 26|2 Day 2

Micro-reviews for Day 2 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring VoidHue, Micro Solar Punk, Echo Weaver, Rift Haul TD, Darkphobia, Gathera, and PRELUDE Dark Pain

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The #NextFest has arrived! I'll be doing my best to sift through the demo landfills to try and find curious things. Apologies if the first day is a bit lukewarm, but still some fun arcadey games to play Highlights: Dragon Dragon Fire Fire Deluxe, Wink Out

Next Fest 26|2 Day 1

Micro-reviews for Day 1 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Antimatcher, Tiny Train Adventure, Wink Out, Unconventional Fantasy, Mind Inc, and Dragon Dragon Fire Fire Deluxe

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Alex!!⚡️[ Plane Dragon Enthusiast ✈️]@spearxwind.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And it's time for another round of demos! #NextFest starts tomorrow, and below are some things I tried in-between Fests to kick off the week of demo micro-reviews. Below link to site with lengths and screenies, and the threads will have short deets on every demo Highlights: Asterika, Draco Blade

Next Fest 26|2 Day 0

Micro-reviews for Day 0 of June Next Fest 2026, exploring Draco Blade, The Odyssey of Pebble, Flamecraft, The Gardener, BPM Bitcrushed, Fright Train, Polly's Puzzle Box, and Asterika: Phantom Rose Ref...

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Looking up at the universe 🌠🌌 Commission for @tntdragon.bsky.social ! [ #art #commission ]

Two dragons sit in a green, plant-filled park, besides a little lazy river. They are both staring up at the ceiling, where screens are projecting the outside view to them as though they could see through the hull.

A universe sits as the centerpiece, enormous, against the vast white void. Immeasurably big spaceships are flying towards it, and yet are still dwarfed. A myriad of connectors extend from immense facilities towards the universe.

jonnyloaf @jonnyloaf.art · 5mo ago

Another hystra piece for @greatmar2.bsky.social! This time including snug buddies - @tntdragon.bsky.social #art #digitalart #dragon #hydra

A digital painting of a large hydra with two dragons on their lap. The quad dragoness on the left is all white, save for her golden, angelic-like swirls on her muzzle/wings and pure joy on her face. The anthro dragon on the right is purple with shades of deep pink, wearing an indigo coat and a blue t-shirt combo, more relaxed than the rest. The hydra is purple-grey with pinkish, almost white belly and blue feathers adorning their jaws, tails and necks. Their heads host antler-like horns. Each head is displaying a different emotion, from left to right:
Ardour - Having time of his life rubbing his chin off of the dragoness, enjoying the hugs the most.
Harmony - Gently booping the head of the dragoness friend, her feeling grateful to have them both.
Zenith - Positively curious of the strange ritual flesh-beings display, them feeling some sort of warmth.
Eleazar - Keeps respectful distance while playfully blepping at his friends.
Blithe - Smiling widely and watching his friends with glee.

And time for the final set of demos! As always slightly earlier than usual so that you can still have time to try something if you're interested in any of it before the #NextFest finishes in 21ish hours. Many demos will stay up, but not all! Highlights: Enter the Chronosphere

Next Fest 26|1 Day 7

Micro-reviews for Day 7 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring CHASM SHIFT, Lost Call, H.A.I.N, The Bold Bogey, and Enter the Chronosphere

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Slowly the end of #NextFest approaches, but there is still plenty of games to try, and today's lineup has no bad demos in it. Sure, some may be shorter or a bit less cooked than others, but any of them will be worth your time Highlights: Altered Alma, Phonopolis

Next Fest 26|1 Day 6

Micro-reviews for Day 6 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring Phonopolis, Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery, Darkswitch, orrb, MUSYNX:RETURN, Modulus, and Altered Alma

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Weekend has arrived, and while paradoxically for me it means less time for #NextFest #demo s, today is full of all sorts of unusual games, be it with what they do or how they look Highlights: Burden Station Street, Iridescent

Next Fest 26|1 Day 5

Micro-reviews for Day 5 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring Burden Street Station, Netoo, Helix: Descent N Ascent, Mayor May Knott, Psycho Frogo, Tabula, Dragon Care Tarot, and Iridescent

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Another short day, but in turn I made sure to have some excellent demos lined up. Expect a lot more random and strange things tomorrow! Highlights: Shantytown, Snacktorio, The Mermaid Mask

Next Fest 26|1 Day 4

Micro-reviews for Day 4 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring The Mermaid Mask, Nightscape, Snacktorio, The Ratline, and ShantyTown

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Day 3 of #NextFest came and went, and I've got more goodies to share! This round is mainly fueled by suggestions I got from people reading these, but I always take more if anyone has something specific they want tried Highlights: Voidling Bound, Deep Dish Dungeon

Next Fest 26|1 Day 3

Micro-reviews for Day 2 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring Voidling Bound, Map Map — A Game About Maps, BOOST VECTOR EX, Eon Rush, Gloomveil, Deep Dish Dungeon

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#NextFest Day 2 came and went, and all but one of the demos today took longer than expected. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it does leave less time to fish for gems. Still some fun stuff to share Highlights: GRIDbeat!, Ultimate Control Machine

Next Fest 26|1 Day 2

Micro-reviews for Day 2 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring Solateria, Ultimate Control Machine, Trust, Deadline Delivery, Armatus, and GRIDbeat!

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#NextFest proper has begun, and unlike usual I'm a bit late to the party. Still, fished out some decent things for you to try, and will have more over the coming days Highlights: Denshattack!

Next Fest 26|1 Day 1

Micro-reviews for Day 1 of February Next Fest 2026, exploring Sokogram, Denshattack!, CALX, Core Descent, Guardians of the Wild Sky, Box or Void, Nomori, Hozy, The Eternal Life of Goldman

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LegendaryGriffin @legendarygriffin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#NextFest is starting tomorrow! And so it's time for my bundles of micro-reviews to maybe give you something to look forward to, or at the very least try. As always the blogsite below has visuals and playtime, but below is a condensed thread of the core stuff Highlights: Croak, Tiling Forest

Next Fest 26|1 Day 0

Micro-reviews for Day 0 of February Next Fest 2025, exploring Croak, Worming from Home, Feed the Scorchpot, Dragon Khan, The Artisan of Glimmith, Scuttle, Nonolith, In Falsus, and Tiling Forest (Tilin...

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Dragons 🤝 Games - is there not a bond with more potential than that? Been working on some super fun stuff over the past [insert timeframe here]. Thought it was finally time to share some non work related projects. Look out for more #projectRebound in the future! #animation #indiegame #dragon #WIP

Alrighty, summary post is up, a quick rundown of all the best demos I've played this #NextFest My top 5: Scrabdackle, Moonsigil Atlas, Homura Hime, MOTORSLICE, and Dinocop They're all great, go try them out! I'll be back in February with more #demo micro-review shenanigans

Next Fest 25|3 Summary

Summary of the best demos from October Next Fest 2025

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And the final day of #NextFest is here! Bit earlier than usual due to personal commitments, but I've been grabbing extra reviews all week to ensure it's as filled with goodies as the rest. And it means you have all the more time to try them! Highlights: Moonsigil Atlas, MineMogul, Swiftrace Canyon

Next Fest 25|3 Day 7

Micro-reviews for Day 7 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring MineMogul, Game With Balls, Painkiller, Moonlight Knight, Swiftrace Canyon, The Bar Souls, and Moonsigil Atlas

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My #NextFest review marathon is coming to an end, and it's spiraling a bit out of control as I try some games that weren't all the best of quality. Thankfully it's usually not major problems, and there are still good demos to try Highlights: Winter Burrow, HAMSTERMIND

Next Fest 25|3 Day 6

Micro-reviews for Day 6 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring Confidential Killings, HAMSTERMIND, Jackal, Musical Maze, Nirih, Ricochet Abyss, Odd Town, and Winter Burrow

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#NextFest is coming to an end, and I'm continuing the streak of generally more polished games than not. I guess the extra time spent sifting through all the demos to avoid AI garbage is in turn providing higher quality overall, for better and worse Highlight: Identifile

Next Fest 25|3 Day 5

Micro-reviews for Day 5 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring YAPYAP, MONUMENTUM, Identifile, ARROW WORLD, Riddlewood Manor, FlippUp, Do You even Forklift?, and Typing Break

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I realized I've been forgetting to put in the daily highlights in my #NextFest micro-review threads here. Well, time to fix that, because today was full of wide variety of demos across styles, genres, and geographic localization of the devs. Highlights: Homura Hime, E9uations, The Berlin Apartment

Next Fest 25|3 Day 4

Micro-reviews for Day 4 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring Relooted, Frost and Glory, E9uations, NONEWORLD, Key Fairy, Homura Hime, A Fox Tale, and The Berlin Apartment

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Today was a good day, with no bad titles, really. And some titles that very unexpectedly sucked me in. Day 3 continues the trend of being the best day of my #NextFest micro-reviewing reviews.tntdragon.com/nf-25-3-3/

Next Fest 25|3 Day 3

Micro-reviews for Day 2 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring Dinocop, Hoomanz!, Repel The Rifts, Origament: A Paper Adventure, MOTORSLICE, Decks of Dexterity, Pieced Together, and Fat Goblins

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#NextFest Day 2 came and went, and despite trying to find some good RPGs I was not convinced my any. I try and vary the style and genres of games I check out, but I try and have quality be good too, so sometimes I'm stuck with whatever Steam things I'd like, and I've not played many RPGs recently

Next Fest 25|3 Day 2

Micro-reviews for Day 2 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring Familiar Findings, Fatal Claw, Rondoku, Scrabdackle, PROHIBEAST, The Way of Knight, Exofactory, The First Mine, Rabbit's Hop, and Naginami a...

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#NextFest proper has begun... and I'm having more trouble than usual finding curious demos to play. I may have spent more time today looking for things than trying out stuff, despite the long list of games below (many were short demos for short games) reviews.tntdragon.com/nf-25-3-1/

Next Fest 25|3 Day 1

Micro-reviews for Day 1 of Autumn Next Fest 2025, exploring GODBREAKERS, Lead To Gold, Psycho-Kin, Rhombus, Project Rebearth, Bloomkeeper, SECTOR ZERO, and LightQb

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Another #NextFest, another batch of micro-reviews from yours truly! As always starting with a handful of mostly worthwhile demos, and will be exploring lots more over the next few days. Screenshots and some demo length/rating available on the site below reviews.tntdragon.com/nf-25-3-0/

Next Fest 25|3 Day 0

Micro-reviews for Day 0 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Sisyphus is a Bug, Finch & Archie, Cold Calling, DEG, Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis, RESEED, Constance, Together: Moon Escape, and Temp...

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