Game News Steam Next Fest, February 2025: Demos of upcoming RPGs available from February 24th to March 3rd

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Tags: Active Fungus Studios; Alkimia Interactive; Amethyst Dreamers; Arena Monarchy; Dice 'n Goblins; Effulgence RPG; Escape The Mad Empire; Gothic (THQ Nordic Remake); Guns Undarkness; Inspector Schmidt: The Ebbing; Slaves of Magic; Solasta II; Tactical Adventures; Tsukumogami Software; XperimentalZ Games

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Arena Monarchy
Dice 'n Goblins
Effulgence RPG
Escape The Mad Empire
Gothic Remake
Guns Undarkness
Inspector Schmidt - The Ebbing
Slaves of Magic
Solasta II​

 

[luj1]

Escape The Mad Empire

- great concept
- good explore music but shitty annoying combat music
- sci fi and fantasy mix is cool (like Wizardry)
- cool art but too infantile, we are not 5 year old girls
- RTWP combat feels automated and boring, TB would be much better
- system bloat with too much shit (4X and macro elements)
- too easy
- hunger/thirst is cool addition (but not too complicated which is great)
- too much exploding barrels at every corner (like 5x more than needed)
- gear is too powerful
- dungeons need secrets
- wells/campfires for resting/replenishment are old and boring idea

 

[luj1]

Slaves of Magic

- this demo doesn't work and runs like shit
- none of the tooltips are visible
- this is the worst art I have ever seen, worse than Broken Roads
- story is trash, a mix of everything (sorcerers/orcs/towns attacked)
- this game makes Redaxium seem like Morrowind

 

[MicoSelva]

Solasta II demo did not impress me as much as the demo of the original game (which I have yet to play...), but it was a very fun, light-hearted mini adventure in D&D 5E ruleset. Check it out.
I am going to check out the Gothic remake demo too. Likely won't have time for much else.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

- this demo doesn't work and runs like shit
- none of the tooltips are visible

Besides one crash I didn't have none of these issues.

 

[luj1]

They fixed it