Some demos are likely to go back “into the vault” after then, so be sure to check them out over the next couple of days! The Steam Games Festival for February 2021 runs until February 9th. You can find his channel here.įrom arcade-y racers and aerial combat games to visuals that treat the eye, the Steam Game Festival has something to please just about everyone.
This game was brought to my attention by fellow Twitch streamer Stapecape. If you’ve been yearning for challenging retro action and ’80s aesthetics, put this demo on the top of your list for the Steam festival! Appropriately, all of these scenes are set to a hard, driving rock soundtrack that propels you to fight for survival. The demo is comprised of a single level that offers a good sampling of the type of gameplay you can expect from this type of game: a fast-paced ride on a gunboat at the start of the mission, running and gunning your way through a dystopian future cityscape, and a battle with aerial drones while suspended from a helicopter. Seeing them for myself in the demo of Steel Assault did not disappoint! The gameplay reminds me of a blend of Contra and Bionic Commando effective grappling hook use is key to traversing the environment, and maintaining situational awareness to manage enemies that can attack from any direction is essential to staying alive. I was initially drawn to this game by animated gifs, of all things, that I saw posted online, sporting some of the richest-looking pixel art environments I’ve ever seen in a 2D platformer. Here were some of his favorites, in his own words: 22 Racing Seriesĭo you miss the “buff dude” era of action games when Hasselhoff and Schwzanneger lookalikes graced the cover of half of the NES and Genesis boxes in your local rental store? Well, if so, Steel Assault has got you covered! Our second trio of Festival demos comes from CapsuleJay, one of our resident streamers on Twitch. Loop Hero comes out March 4th, so you won’t even have to wait long to get caught in another loop. Loop Hero absolutely caught me in the “one more round” mentality, and I’m already itching to get back to it. Then, right when it gets to be too much, you can reset the whole map and cash in your spoils – if you can survive the remaining path back to camp.
As things pile up, it can quickly get hectic trying to balance how you place boons and enemy to avoid deadly enemy pile-ups. It’s your job to cultivate the path marches through and gear he equips, making the most of randomly-dealt items. Your character always keeps marching on and automatically attacking, ever onward. Of all things, Loop Hero is also something of an idle game. Loop Hero, on the other hand, had me coming back for more rounds than I’d planned on. I’m not normally a fan of Rogue-like titles being certain to lose your progress just doesn’t feel so appealing to me.
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