Indie Next Fest Showcase: Speed Demons, Squirrels & One Very Sleepy Man - Gaming Podcast
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What is the Video Gamers Podcast about?
Hello fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. I am your host Josh.
Which indie games are highlighted in this episode?
Today we're... Oh dude, you know what? That's just too much work. Welcome everybody, we're here for another Indie Twig. I am your host Ryan. Josh was kind enough to give us the reins. And us, by the way, who do you mean us? Well, he may have lost the battle last week in our draft, but maybe he's going to win the war today. It's Ace!
Hey, the results for that battle have still not been determined, all right? The poll never went up.
They're trickling in. Maybe you get a late push, you know?
Hollow Knight will carry me to victory, I swear it.
That's very, very likely. Very good chance that that'll happen. So, dude, I'm excited we get to talk some video games.
Yeah, dude, this is going to be dope. As you know, Steam Next Fest just kicked off, which means we get all sorts of new indie demos to check out, man.
We did, we did. Ace being the indie expert that he is, I just said, you know what, dude? Find us some games, get us some demos, and let's check them out. And we can recommend them or not recommend them to all our great listeners out there. So I'll get started here with the first one. We got Haste Broken Worlds. I'll give you guys a little Steam description here.
What makes Haste Broken Worlds unique?
Run fast, soar through the air, and master your landings as you speed through procedural worlds to outrun the end of the universe. So you got to try this demo out too, right? Yeah, I played this one as well. Heck yeah, man. What did you think? I had a lot of fun. This, to me, was one of those kind of fast-moving, Sonic-ish style speedrun-type games that the movement was really cool. It seemed to be pretty clean. What did you think?
I thought this was a super unique game. I'd definitely say Sonic is the first thing that comes to mind, but it's in that genre of runner-style games where it's just run to the end of the level as fast as possible. Yeah. But it has so many unique mixes in there, like diving to go land at the perfect spot so you don't lose any momentum. And then you have the boost board to keep going. And then the grapple hook to keep pulling on things to keep moving forward. And I was just like, this is so sick.
I love this. It is too. As you go, it'll give you almost like a readout if your landing gives you enough boost because with a good or a perfect kind of completion there. So that's another satisfying feature that when you hit that, you're like, yes, I got that one right. But it's awesome to have those how you can kind of compound that and stack them up to just gain that speed. And I love that feature in games like that.
And it had this awesome, super unique thing too, where you were going, uh, when you entered the level, you were able to go down the tree. Like it was a roguelike basically. Oh, you got upgrades and things like that. And at the end there was a freaking boss. Like I was not expecting boss fights in my runner game, but here we are.
Exactly. No, it's definitely had some cool stuff in there. And then, yeah, if you can – sometimes when it's just that same running motion, it gets a little kind of tedious or boring. But to throw in bosses as like a little sprinkle flair in there is pretty cool. So, yeah, I liked it. It was a fun game. My son was watching, and he was pretty stoked on it too. So definitely check it out if –
people like definitely keep an eye out for haste haste is a special game and i think that's the most played demo of next fest really i believe so that's pretty good and uh date on that what's that tba yeah that one's yeah i'm still to be determined uh most of these are to be announced we'll we'll see what happens but if they're if there's a next fest demo it probably is coming out this year at some point yeah definitely all right well you got uh you got another one for us heck yeah man We're looking at a platformer this time called Demon Tides. And you played this one as well, but I'll go ahead and read the Steam description for Demon Tides here. Now, of course they would do this to me. Explore the open seas and uncover the kingdom's dark secrets as you expressively platform your way across dozens of locales, upgrading your gear every step of the way.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Video Gamers Podcast about?
0:11–0:17
2
Which indie games are highlighted in this episode?
0:17–1:30
3
What makes Haste Broken Worlds unique?
1:30–5:14
4
How does Demon Tides compare to other platformers?
5:14–9:33
5
What is the gameplay like in Squirreled Away?
9:33–15:48
6
What are the standout features of Twilight Monk?
15:48–22:29
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