Dexter
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Tried some of the Halloween Sale Demos, I'm guessing most of these are older and not time limited:
Man of Medan: Seems like an interactive movie with Dialogue choices. Every character seems to take every small comment you make personally. Good graphical presentation and character modelling though, faces and environments look near lifelike. Hard to tell anything from the "Demo" since it's over before it even begins, barely get to walk around a small boat and press A button to interact with a bunch of stuff.
Metamorphosis: Very weird shit playing with perspective, scale, pictures changing as you get closer and stuff. Your character gradually turns into a bug at the beginning of the game. Not exactly "spooky", more strange/bizarre like a Cronenberg movie. It quickly becomes a giant environmental puzzle and you can press TAB to check the Overview for a "map" on where you might want to traverse. Although it's over before you can really get into it properly.
Crying Suns: Pixel Sci-Fi Tactical RTwP combat game. You are woken up as the clone of an Admiral on the Outer Rim of the Galaxy on board the space Battleship Gehenna, because something went wrong and your ship AI can't establish communication with the capital of your Star Empire anymore. You set out on a Quest to find out what happened 20 years ago and get closer to the Empire and meet and tactically fight all sorts of obstacles along the way while scavenging for resources, hiring better officers, looking out for special opportunities or quests and improving your flagship. You jump from system to system and planet to planet and respond to Events as they happen. You're being pursued like in FTL and only have a specific amount of time in a system, so there's no backtracking. When you engage in combat you put up your Fighter Squadrons against the Enemies and need to destroy the Hull of their main ship to win. This seemed the most promising from the stuff I tried and the Demo itself is already rather extensive.
Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story: Big Tiddy Animu Girls in a Cyberpunk setting. Sidescrolling Adventure with Ghostly apparitions you have to evade and stuff. It's a bit simplistic and gets boring with a lot of backtracking and items only appearing upon completing previous events.
Little Misfortune: Cute and Creepy game about a little girl going on an Adventure, Psychotic stuff is happening around her and you can sprinkle Glitter to make it all better. Ostensibly about C&C, but the Demo ends after only a short introduction, so hard to tell. It's mostly a Controller Adventure game instead of Mouse Point & Click, you can move left and right on a single plane and interact with stuff using A, Sprinkle with Y and Sprint with the Right Trigger.
The Letter: A Girly Horror VN with some Branching choices and the few times you can interact being Quicktime events - the less said about it, the better.
Man of Medan: Seems like an interactive movie with Dialogue choices. Every character seems to take every small comment you make personally. Good graphical presentation and character modelling though, faces and environments look near lifelike. Hard to tell anything from the "Demo" since it's over before it even begins, barely get to walk around a small boat and press A button to interact with a bunch of stuff.
Metamorphosis: Very weird shit playing with perspective, scale, pictures changing as you get closer and stuff. Your character gradually turns into a bug at the beginning of the game. Not exactly "spooky", more strange/bizarre like a Cronenberg movie. It quickly becomes a giant environmental puzzle and you can press TAB to check the Overview for a "map" on where you might want to traverse. Although it's over before you can really get into it properly.
Crying Suns: Pixel Sci-Fi Tactical RTwP combat game. You are woken up as the clone of an Admiral on the Outer Rim of the Galaxy on board the space Battleship Gehenna, because something went wrong and your ship AI can't establish communication with the capital of your Star Empire anymore. You set out on a Quest to find out what happened 20 years ago and get closer to the Empire and meet and tactically fight all sorts of obstacles along the way while scavenging for resources, hiring better officers, looking out for special opportunities or quests and improving your flagship. You jump from system to system and planet to planet and respond to Events as they happen. You're being pursued like in FTL and only have a specific amount of time in a system, so there's no backtracking. When you engage in combat you put up your Fighter Squadrons against the Enemies and need to destroy the Hull of their main ship to win. This seemed the most promising from the stuff I tried and the Demo itself is already rather extensive.
Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story: Big Tiddy Animu Girls in a Cyberpunk setting. Sidescrolling Adventure with Ghostly apparitions you have to evade and stuff. It's a bit simplistic and gets boring with a lot of backtracking and items only appearing upon completing previous events.
Little Misfortune: Cute and Creepy game about a little girl going on an Adventure, Psychotic stuff is happening around her and you can sprinkle Glitter to make it all better. Ostensibly about C&C, but the Demo ends after only a short introduction, so hard to tell. It's mostly a Controller Adventure game instead of Mouse Point & Click, you can move left and right on a single plane and interact with stuff using A, Sprinkle with Y and Sprint with the Right Trigger.
The Letter: A Girly Horror VN with some Branching choices and the few times you can interact being Quicktime events - the less said about it, the better.
Looks like it is pretty long in development.
