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What have been your favorite demos, what demos ran well on Steam Deck, etc

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[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Kaizen - a puzzle game developed by some of the zachtronics team, it looks interesting but the demo was underwhelming.

Star birds - a logistics game made by the developers of Dorfromantik and published by Kurzgesagt. It reminded me of anno for some reason but they are quite different games. I liked it.

Word play - a rougelike deckbuilding (very original) word puzzle game by Mark Brown (from GMTK). Didn't play it much but when I did I got hooked on it like a rougelike has never hooked me before.

Sintopia - I don't really know how to describe this. It's a bit like two point. I would just look at the steam page yourself. I thought it was ok but didn't like that the main character in the tutorial was horny.

Grappling bagel - cool game. Lots of fun on the steam deck. The title tells you what the game is.

I was also interested in wildgate but didn't have time to play it.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Kaizen had a really poor showing for a demo. Making a good demo - something that shows off just the right bits of your game while teasing about more - there's an art to that.

I figure that Zach is just really bad at designing demos and the game will be fine.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

wordplay sounds very cool!