I liked Littlewood a lot, but it did have the problem of the dev immediately walking away after 1.0 came out, doing little bugfixing and stuff after that. Not sure if they did the same with Kindergarten, I haven't played it.

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Well, I guess we know when the next Next Fest is.

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Oh, I didn't realize the full version was out. I played the demo ages ago and it looked really good, so I'm very interested.

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Damn, I need to listen to Nothingface again.

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I played the demo and it looked pretty fun, but had controller problems. I saw a number of people reporting similar problems, so hopefully that's something the devs will address in the main game.

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There's also the VoxeLibre Skyblock mod (https://content.luanti.org/packages/ancientmariner/vl_skyblock/) for people who want to build the world, where the recently added hammer is very helpful. :)

The Skyblock mod is good, but hasn't got much to it yet. I'm hoping they get around to adding the other biome islands and such to make it the full experience.

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I must say, I do approve of beating someone senseless with a baguette.

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Couple more.

Kingdom's Deck (Native) - Medieval base builder where you get pairs of cards to choose what resources and defenses you have against nightly waves of undead. Pretty fun, and a moderate challenge. Runs very well.

Arcane Board (Native) - RPG-ish thing where you fight monsters by completing rows or columns with Tetris-like shapes (and a few others). Interesting premise, although I'm not sure I'm especially good at it. Runs very well.

Haste: Broken Worlds (Native) - Not-so-endless runner. Abilities are a bit confusing until you experiment with them a bit, but they make sense. Again, I'm not especially good at it. Runs very well.

Arctic Awakening (Native) - Narrative adventure game where you play a man estranged from his family whose plane crashes in the arctic following a freak event...wait, haven't I played a game like this already? Couldn't get very far in it because it runs like absolute ass. Lucky to get over 15 fps at any given point, and it's not even a graphically detailed game. Robot companion/therapist has the potential to be very annoying, but fortunately I didn't get far enough to be irritated.

Mossfield Origins (Native) - Very chill (at least so far) colony builder. The conceit is that everything uses the same foundation tile, then you upgrade that for whatever purpose you need. Residential, leisure, food production, what have you. Good to zone out with. Runs very well. Suddenly crashed toward the end of the demo, but I saw enough to get the gist of it.

Mudborne (Native) - Decently well known around these parts. A frog management sim. Seems a bit complicated for my simple brain, but there's clearly a lot of care put into this one. Runs fantastic, of course, even if it did crash the first time I tried to play.

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Dreamwalker (Steam Play) - Slay the Spire as an RPG rather than a roguelike, but without the fun relics or busted combos. Also much, much slower to play, and a lot less satisfying feedback to your attacks. Just play StS instead.

OrbHand (Supposedly Native) - Has a Linux icon but only downloads a .exe file. Which doesn't work.

Inconceivable Rat Endeavour (Native) - Simple hex puzzle game where you unite rat with cheese, as nature intended. Nice style, pretty good music, puzzles are clear and intuitive. A good time.

The Ogi: Cycles (Native) - Intriguing exploration game about a tribe of cat people besieged by supernatural forces changing their environment. Seems pretty fun.

Hidden Skulls (Native) - A Hidden Object game. With skulls! Who are you to say no?

Seeds of Calamity (Steam Play) - Stardew-like, plain and simple. This time you're in a fantasy world recovering from a cataclysm, although honestly there's very little sign of said cataclysm any more, so it's basically fantasy gardening and dungeon diving. Still worth playing, but I'd like it if there were a few more present signs of the disaster still lingering. The villagers could use a hair more personality too, they're a bit on the bland side compared to original Stardew.

Grimoire Groves (Steam Play) - Action game about a very energetic apprentice witch restoring a magical garden. Fast-paced and quite fun, runs wonderfully on my system. Takes a bit to get the hang of the mechanics, but pretty rewarding once you do.

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Wanderstop (Steam Play) - Farming/Life Sim about running a tea shop with a very intense protagonist. I'm more intrigued by her internal conflict than I am about the weirdly complex tea-making and gardening process, although those mechanics don't seem too bad. Also major points for frowny penguin-like birds. Runs pretty poorly on my machine with a lot of framerate dips, maybe the full version will be better optimized.

Solarpunk (Steam Play) - Fairly by the numbers first person survival crafting game, but it apparently has airships and solar panels and stuff as you go along. Runs pretty well, the ambiance is nice, and the early crafting isn't too annoying. Nothing especially groundbreaking though.

Cubic Odyssey (Steam Play) - Actually played this a couple days ago, but since it's in the Next Fest I'll comment on it here. Pretty good No Man's Sky-like but with blocks. Very pretty, although it can be hard to see threats in the visual clutter. Crafting feels decent, and resource gathering isn't a chore. My framerate dips pretty bad at times, particularly anywhere near water. I'll never understand why voxel games insist on lovingly rendered water. Generally a good time, although I'd like there to be a bit less combat focus.

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