Not even four months since the latest edition that we are already entitled to a new Steam Neo Fest. As usual, this fall version offers many demos to test on Steam from October 3 to 10, 2022. These are games that have already arrived in early access or that should be released soon. The opportunity to get your hands on many FPS of which we offer you a non-exhaustive list below.
Friends vs Friends
Genre: Multiplayer FPS with a deck of cards
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Present this summer at Gamescom, Friends vs Friends hooks you first by its artistic direction while cell-shading to represent anthropomorphic animals. But under its air of choupitude, Friends vs Friends is above all 1v1 or 2v2 confrontations with a deck-building system. Several characters with different abilities are available and a deck of cards from your collection is distributed to you at the start of each game. With a simple mouse click, you can change weapons, increase the size of your opponent’s head, land a turret, and more. depending on your hand. It gives very short games, quite unpredictable, dynamic and rather not bad in the end. There is only one environment for the moment in the demo, which is not much, but it is enough to know if the concept interests you or not. For our part, we will wait to see more, but it starts well!
The Entropy Centre
Genre : Portal-like
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Well in real life, this demo is already available since last week — and it will likely continue to be following Steam Neo Fest. In any case, it’s an opportunity to try this Portal-like which replaces the Portal Gun with a gun that allows you to go back in time to certain objects. The 30 minutes that this demo lasts makes it possible to get to grips with this rather simple, but effective concept, which promises some good headaches if the levels become more complex later on. According to the trailer of The Entropy Center, players nostalgic for Portal should be delighted since we will find a screenplay, an amnesiac heroine, enemies that don’t seem like it, a mysterious AI and even action in levels that collapse! Very aesthetically pleasing, the game still suffers from some optimization issues. Let’s bet that the developers will fix this by November 3, the release date of The Entropy Center.
GUN CLOCK
Genre: Rhythm FPS
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GUN JAM is yet another rhythmic FPS, except that it was announced more than 2 years ago, in May 2020. In the meantime, it has had time to change its formula several times. Currently, forget the DOOM-inspired sets and satanic music as we’re leaning more towards the art direction of Halo with neon, pink, and hallways full of silly enemies. As the formula requires, of course you have to shoot in rhythm to Trap or EDM music (there are also Metal and Fusion categories, but they are empty at the moment) to eliminate your enemies and multiply your damage. But be careful, because in GUN JAM you also have to finish the levels before the countdown ends and you even have a dash — always to be done in rhythm, to finish boring levels faster. Slightly more interesting than Cookie ClickerGUN JAM is not really the game to remember from this Steam Neo Fest.
Techtonics
Genre: Simulation of treadmill creation (Satisfactory)
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Contrary to what its name suggests, Techtonica is not a rhythmic FPS inspired by Tecktonik. That said, it might have been more original in concept than this Satisfactory clone. Playable in cooperation, Techtonica invites you to extract resources by building automatic drills, then transport them to a foundry through kilometers of conveyor belts and improve your equipment little by little. We do not really see the interest of the title compared to Satisfactory, the only difference seems to be the environment since Techtonica takes place under the surface of an alien planet. Always cheaper than a psychoanalysis session, Techtonica is reserved for neurotic players and control freaks.
Shoot To Kill
Genre: Retro FPS
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A retro FPS that proudly announces its inspiration from the clashes of FEAR and the gore of Soldier of Fortune. In fact, there is a lot of dismemberment and bullet-time, but that’s all that reminds us of the venerable ancestors mentioned above. Despite its promises, Shoot To Kill is a knee-soft FPS with unoriginal level design, all accompanied by bland art direction and elevator music. We advise you instead to turn to Severed Steel or Trepang2much more successful in the genre.
Forever Skies
Genre: Subnautica in Pollution Clouds
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Created by Techland alumni (Dying Light), The Farm 51 (World War 3) or Bloober Team (Layers of Fear), Forever Skies is described as a survival game aboard a customizable airship that travels an Earth devastated by a disaster. Basically, you take Subnautica, you replace the submarine with a zeppelin and swap the magnificent seabed for buildings in ruins drowned in thick fog. Yes, immediately, it gives much less desire. Especially since Forever Skies constrains exploration – which was nevertheless one of the strengths of Subnautica, and it will be necessary to be content to travel from demolished buildings to destroyed control towers, without having much to do in between. The title does not shine either with its dull and uninspired artistic direction. Reserved for resource harvesting and crafting addicts.
Cognition Method
Genre : Puzzle Game
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Don’t be fooled by the description of Cognition Method on Steam. If this is indeed a “puzzle” game – it’s CM1 level, the game is not at all “inspired by Space Odyssey 2001 and Solaris”. Instead, we find terribly basic puzzles in very minimalist and a little dreamlike settings. The demo ends in barely 15 minutes and it does not really make you want to see the sequel.
illWill
Genre: Retro FPS
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A strange aesthetic, but not unpleasant, a good feeling and some gore, illWill is a very classic but pleasant retro-FPS hallway. There is not much more to say, except that the demo presented dates from a year ago. It wouldn’t be very reassuring if we didn’t have a release date, but here we are told that for December 1st. Since it’s good, we’ll probably take a look.
Lichenvale
Genre: Retro hack & slash FPS
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Prefer swords and spells to big guns? Lichenvale offers you to cut skeletons and evil mages in this retro-FPS mainly in hand-to-hand combat. We have a dash to avoid getting hit, but the handling of the sword is not easy to grasp. A fireball allows you to regain some distance once enough enemies have been killed. It’s not terrible, but it’s not completely bad either. It should be released in April 2023.