TNT Dragon
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Friendly neighborhood dragon. Dabbles in a little bit of everything, and tries to help where possible.
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
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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October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
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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October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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
Highlights: Moonsigil Atlas, MineMogul, Swiftrace Canyon
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
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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October 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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
Highlights: Winter Burrow, HAMSTERMIND
#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
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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October 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#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
Highlight: Identifile
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
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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October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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
Highlights: Homura Hime, E9uations, The Berlin Apartment
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
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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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October 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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
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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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October 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#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
#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)
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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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October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
#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)
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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
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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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October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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/
reviews.tntdragon.com/nf-25-3-0/
A while ago I was looking for artists to do a fun experimental project of illustrating one of my dragon myths. I think it's high time to share the results! I'd love to do more of these, but need to figure out how to best do so
Art by @cattusaur.bsky.social, Ahrikima, and Ardent (who aren't on bsky)
Art by @cattusaur.bsky.social, Ahrikima, and Ardent (who aren't on bsky)
October 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A while ago I was looking for artists to do a fun experimental project of illustrating one of my dragon myths. I think it's high time to share the results! I'd love to do more of these, but need to figure out how to best do so
Art by @cattusaur.bsky.social, Ahrikima, and Ardent (who aren't on bsky)
Art by @cattusaur.bsky.social, Ahrikima, and Ardent (who aren't on bsky)
And the final day of #NextFest is here! Some real great stuff this time around, and some more goodies for the end. I wanted to go through all the demos people suggested, so I've got a lot of good quality stuff to end off the Fest
Highlights: Inkshade, Sinker Sound, He Who Watches
Highlights: Inkshade, Sinker Sound, He Who Watches
Next Fest 25|2 Day 7
Micro-reviews for Day 7 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Sinker Sound, He Who Watches, Dragimon Dungeons, Morbid Metal, VIractal: World of Viractalia, The Lonesome Guild, and Inkshade
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June 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
And the final day of #NextFest is here! Some real great stuff this time around, and some more goodies for the end. I wanted to go through all the demos people suggested, so I've got a lot of good quality stuff to end off the Fest
Highlights: Inkshade, Sinker Sound, He Who Watches
Highlights: Inkshade, Sinker Sound, He Who Watches
A little bit on the shorter and simpler side for Day 6 of #NextFest. Day 4 was an unbeatable peak, but nonetheless there are always more cool demos to check out
Highlights: Gemporium, Our Journey
Highlights: Gemporium, Our Journey
Next Fest 25|2 Day 6
Micro-reviews for Day 6 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Öoo, Gemporium, Secrets of the Blackrock Manor, Everdeep Aurora, ODDLI, Strik-9, and Our Journey
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June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A little bit on the shorter and simpler side for Day 6 of #NextFest. Day 4 was an unbeatable peak, but nonetheless there are always more cool demos to check out
Highlights: Gemporium, Our Journey
Highlights: Gemporium, Our Journey
Did you know that Puzzle is the most popular genre this #NextFest? As such, I decided to have a day dedicated to puzzles and only puzzles, and Day 5 of micro-reviews is that day
Highlights: Chronoquartz, Memory's Reach
Highlights: Chronoquartz, Memory's Reach
Next Fest 25|2 Day 5
Micro-reviews for Day 2 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Chronoquartz, Prism Shift, Chromatic Conundrum, Roach Post, PANIK, Cadence, and Memory's Reach
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June 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Did you know that Puzzle is the most popular genre this #NextFest? As such, I decided to have a day dedicated to puzzles and only puzzles, and Day 5 of micro-reviews is that day
Highlights: Chronoquartz, Memory's Reach
Highlights: Chronoquartz, Memory's Reach
Day 4 of #NextFest was full of bangers. Game after game a great experience. This is a good day to swing by the Ghost page linked below and look at screenshots, see what suits your fancy, and try it out yourself.
Highlights: MIO: Memories In Orbit, VOID/BREAKER, A Little Perspective
Highlights: MIO: Memories In Orbit, VOID/BREAKER, A Little Perspective
Next Fest 25|2 Day 4
Micro-reviews for Day 4 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Crescent County, Gurei, Hippoxxus, Dragon March, A Little Perspective, Life Below, VOID/BREAKER, and MIO: Memories In Orbit
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June 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Day 4 of #NextFest was full of bangers. Game after game a great experience. This is a good day to swing by the Ghost page linked below and look at screenshots, see what suits your fancy, and try it out yourself.
Highlights: MIO: Memories In Orbit, VOID/BREAKER, A Little Perspective
Highlights: MIO: Memories In Orbit, VOID/BREAKER, A Little Perspective
Another day, another set of demos. It's funny seeing Steam's recommendation algorithm update in real time as I play all sorts of random demos, and it tries to figure out what kind of games I'm actually into. Hopefully it's a sign I'm providing decent variety in these posts!
Highlight: JETRUNNER
Highlight: JETRUNNER
Next Fest 25|2 Day 3
Micro-reviews for Day 3 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Beyond The Board, Mythrealm, Tank Core, Cube Mind, Whispers From The Rift, Dread Protocol, and JETRUNNER
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June 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Another day, another set of demos. It's funny seeing Steam's recommendation algorithm update in real time as I play all sorts of random demos, and it tries to figure out what kind of games I'm actually into. Hopefully it's a sign I'm providing decent variety in these posts!
Highlight: JETRUNNER
Highlight: JETRUNNER
2 Days into #NextFest, and I've been noticing a lot more trend-chasers on top of the regular amount of mid-to-low effort content. I don't really want to showcase the same game with slightly different skin 10 times, but I might pick one or two of the more curious ones later
Highlight: AEROMACHINA
Highlight: AEROMACHINA
Next Fest 25|2 Day 2
Micro-reviews for Day 2 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Unit DOwn Charge, Ship Inc., A Simple Ball Game, You Sure You Wanna Drink This?, Let Them Trade, and AEROMACHINA: Test Flight
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June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
2 Days into #NextFest, and I've been noticing a lot more trend-chasers on top of the regular amount of mid-to-low effort content. I don't really want to showcase the same game with slightly different skin 10 times, but I might pick one or two of the more curious ones later
Highlight: AEROMACHINA
Highlight: AEROMACHINA
Day 1 of #NextFest came and went, with a variety of good games, and one really great one. More demos lined up for the future, and I'll try and have them be varied. At least for the first few days
Highlight: Mycopunk
Highlight: Mycopunk
Next Fest 25|2 Day 1
Micro-reviews for Day 1 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Occlude, Hirogami, Jumper Jon, AiliA, My Card Is Better Than Your Card, Etiquette Elegance, Tree Kingdoms, and Mycopunk
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June 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Day 1 of #NextFest came and went, with a variety of good games, and one really great one. More demos lined up for the future, and I'll try and have them be varied. At least for the first few days
Highlight: Mycopunk
Highlight: Mycopunk
Alrighty, time to get the ball rolling on the Day 0 of #NextFest micro-reviews, with a (large) handful of demos which released early. For more details/screenshots you can check out the link below, while my thoughts are in a reply chain.
Highlights: Dragon Shelter, Gecko Gods, Trifoil
Highlights: Dragon Shelter, Gecko Gods, Trifoil
Next Fest 25|2 Day 0
Micro-reviews for Day 0 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring SwooshCat, Horripilant, Gecko Gods Sixtar Gate: STARGAZER, Dragon Shelter, CIPHER ZERO, Ratatan, Sagas of Lumin, and Trifoil
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June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Alrighty, time to get the ball rolling on the Day 0 of #NextFest micro-reviews, with a (large) handful of demos which released early. For more details/screenshots you can check out the link below, while my thoughts are in a reply chain.
Highlights: Dragon Shelter, Gecko Gods, Trifoil
Highlights: Dragon Shelter, Gecko Gods, Trifoil
Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a bunch of micro-reviews from various #NextFest demos. If you have/know of a demo worth trying do share! Especially if it might otherwise get overlooked.
Most games will only release the demo when the Fest starts, so I'll be checking back here when anyone replies
Most games will only release the demo when the Fest starts, so I'll be checking back here when anyone replies
June 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a bunch of micro-reviews from various #NextFest demos. If you have/know of a demo worth trying do share! Especially if it might otherwise get overlooked.
Most games will only release the demo when the Fest starts, so I'll be checking back here when anyone replies
Most games will only release the demo when the Fest starts, so I'll be checking back here when anyone replies
And a bit later than intended, the summary post for last week's #NextFest is up! There was a ton of good demos this time around, but I always try and picks ones I like the most and share some extra thoughts.
Top Picks, in no particular order:
* Aethermancer
* Haste: Broken Worlds
* The Knightling
Top Picks, in no particular order:
* Aethermancer
* Haste: Broken Worlds
* The Knightling
Next Fest 25|1 Summary
Summary of the best demos from Winter Next Fest 2025
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March 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
And a bit later than intended, the summary post for last week's #NextFest is up! There was a ton of good demos this time around, but I always try and picks ones I like the most and share some extra thoughts.
Top Picks, in no particular order:
* Aethermancer
* Haste: Broken Worlds
* The Knightling
Top Picks, in no particular order:
* Aethermancer
* Haste: Broken Worlds
* The Knightling
And finally, the last day of this edition of #NextFest. As always, I post this earlier than usual so that if any of the demos sound interesting you still have time to check them out. Will have an extra summary post next week
Highlights: Aethermancer, AVENGE MYSELF, Shrink Rooms
Highlights: Aethermancer, AVENGE MYSELF, Shrink Rooms
Next Fest 25|1 Day 7
Micro-reviews for Day 7 of Winter Next Fest 2025, exploring Aethermancer, AVENGE MYSELF, Shrink Rooms, Little Problems, Blobun, AFTERBLAST
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March 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM
And finally, the last day of this edition of #NextFest. As always, I post this earlier than usual so that if any of the demos sound interesting you still have time to check them out. Will have an extra summary post next week
Highlights: Aethermancer, AVENGE MYSELF, Shrink Rooms
Highlights: Aethermancer, AVENGE MYSELF, Shrink Rooms
#NextFest is coming to a close, and despite having played dozens of demos already, there are still ones of high quality I've not even touched! Today's batch may be slightly biased to personal preferences, but I try my best to be objective about them
Highlights: Run TavernQuest, Gentoo Rescue
Highlights: Run TavernQuest, Gentoo Rescue
Next Fest 25|1 Day 6
Micro-reviews for Day 6 of Winter Next Fest 2025, exploring Run TavernQuest, Gentoo Rescue, Tilemancer Dungeon, Isopod, Quadphos, Teller's Duty, 14: The art of the 15, Katana Dragon
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March 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
#NextFest is coming to a close, and despite having played dozens of demos already, there are still ones of high quality I've not even touched! Today's batch may be slightly biased to personal preferences, but I try my best to be objective about them
Highlights: Run TavernQuest, Gentoo Rescue
Highlights: Run TavernQuest, Gentoo Rescue
I thought Day 3 was gonna be peak but no, Day 5 of #NextFest was even better. A ton of good titles, and though most have some flaws, they all were worth their time
Highlights: Nebulock, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Savara
Highlights: Nebulock, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Savara
Next Fest 25|1 Day 5
Micro-reviews for Day 1 of Winter Next Fest 2025, exploring Nebulock, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, Savara, Monaco 2, Castle Craft, Deep Sea Sweep, Ultra Mega Cats, Taming Yore Dragon, and PR...
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February 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I thought Day 3 was gonna be peak but no, Day 5 of #NextFest was even better. A ton of good titles, and though most have some flaws, they all were worth their time
Highlights: Nebulock, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Savara
Highlights: Nebulock, Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, and Savara
Somehow I kept stumbling on water-themed demos when browsing the Next Fest, so I decided to include them all in one big bundle of wetness. With some other stuff sprinkled in for extra flavor
Highlights: The Knightling, The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep
Highlights: The Knightling, The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep
Next Fest 25|1 Day 4
Micro-reviews for Day 4 of Winter Next Fest 2025, exploring The Knightling, The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep, Tentacle Tango, There's No Dragons, AquaDream, and Skulker
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February 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Somehow I kept stumbling on water-themed demos when browsing the Next Fest, so I decided to include them all in one big bundle of wetness. With some other stuff sprinkled in for extra flavor
Highlights: The Knightling, The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep
Highlights: The Knightling, The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep
Day 3 was full of really good titles, and likely the best overall day of #NextFest for me. So much good stuff, and a good variety too.
Highlights: Haste: Broken Worlds, and An Elaborate History of Chess
Highlights: Haste: Broken Worlds, and An Elaborate History of Chess
Next Fest 25|1 Day 3
Micro-reviews for Day 3 of Winter Next Fest 2025, exploring Haste: Broken Worlds, An Elaborate History of Chess, Seekers of Skyveil, NITRO GEN OMEGA, Soar: Pillars of Tasneem, Neon Apex: Beyond the Li...
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February 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Day 3 was full of really good titles, and likely the best overall day of #NextFest for me. So much good stuff, and a good variety too.
Highlights: Haste: Broken Worlds, and An Elaborate History of Chess
Highlights: Haste: Broken Worlds, and An Elaborate History of Chess