Subnautica is seriously one of my favourite games of all time. I've played to the end multiple times, and played to just fart around and see the sights too. It's so well crafted, and I like the fact that as they work on newer games, improvements also get applied to the original game's code even now.

Didn't care as much for the much smaller space of Below Zero. I think it didn't give stuff like the leviathans the elbow room they needed. Not a bad game by any means, but it didn't reach the heights...uh, depths...of the original.Thus is the fate of sequels I guess.

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Couple more, although stuff that catches my eye is pretty sparse this time so this might be it.

Marron's Day (native): Cute little game boy styled RPG with an impulsive Hello Kitty looking character. Very short demo, so don't set aside too much time for this one. Be prepared for the game to be LOUD compared to the main menu, with no in-game volume control.

Hexaroma (native): Basically a hex-based version of ISLANDERS, a well-received building placement game from a couple years back. The difference is mainly that sometimes when you add buildings, it also expands the island itself, giving you new placement options. Nothing too groundbreaking, but could be a fun puzzle game for chill times.

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Quoting: XpanderWhat the hell did they do to the list of games?
everything is extremely stupid to scroll through to look for demos you actually want to play.
Used to be small 1 line list before with lots of them on the screen
Or am i missing some option somewhere?

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Actually i think it was even smaller banners before... damn why keep changing things for more time wasting on scrolling...

I think I found it. If you hit "Charts" on the top bar, it gives you something much easier to read, and as far as I can tell not randomized like the main view.

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Honestly not seeing that much that grabs me right off. But here's what I'm trying right now.

Fix This House (native): Great idea, where you've got a bunch of buildings broken up into big blocks, and you're putting them back together however you like. Controls are terrible (you have to use left mouse button to grab a block, and then the mouse scroll button at the same time to rotate it). No guidance to speak of either. Pass.

Avian Colony (Steam Play): Nifty idea, you've got a bunch of tiny islands floating in the sky, and you're building a little voxel-based colony by making stone bridges to them and harvesting, etc. Menus are TERRIBLE though. Very awkward to control anything. Needs a huge amount of polish, but there's a good game in there if they bring it out. Wait and see.

Cosmic Horror Tales (Steam Play): Isometric RPG about a farmer looking for his lost children in a forest full of unspeakable horrors. A bit slow and simple, but not without charm.

Arcanum Fortuna (native): Card game based on Tarot and using the same five column with enemy preview mechanic as Inscryption, and the branching nodes that appear in lots of games (including Inscryption as it happens). Other than an "awakening" mechanic and some interesting art, there's nothing too groundbreaking. But solid nonetheless. I am bad at card games.

Tiny Kingdom (native): Very nice little card-based village builder. Pixel art is good, mechanics are solid, goals are clear-cut. Controls are nice and responsive, and it's very intuitive what to do. This one's worth watching, maybe even wishlisting.

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It's really good. I haven't played a huge amount, but it's great fun to take out for a run now and then

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Packaging your nostalgia and selling it back to you, indeed.

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Just tried the demo. Warning, it's very short, and ends kind of abruptly. But then, the full game is supposed to be quite short so that makes sense.

It's interesting, and I'm interested in playing it when it releases, but the aesthetic is an extremely simplified version of brutalism. So don't expect to see much detail, even at a large scale. It's striking, but simple to the point of almost being bland. It's not something I could lose myself in if it weren't for the story, as with the aforementioned Fugue In Void from my other comment.

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Quoting: no_information_hereHmm. Style reminds me a bit of Kairo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/233230/Kairo/ [External Link]

Wow, i'd totally forgotten about Kairo. Never did finish it.

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Reminds me of an old game called Fugue In Void, but with an actual story.

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Fishing is such a weird thing to add, particularly when there are a lot of other things that could use an overhaul. I suppose it's good for immersion and when you just wanna fart around and do something inconsequential for a while in-game. You could cook your catch (new recipes for that), although cooking in NMS is especially pointless, given you don't eat and the process isn't any more fun than throwing stuff in a refiner.

Not that I'm not gonna play through the expedition though.

The deep sea diving suit is particularly amusing though, given there are no deep seas in the game.

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