Eastern Exorcist - 10 minutes completed demo. This one is a pretty cool looking side scrolling slashing game with stamina and all. It looks really nice and the sound and music are solid too. The voice acting is alright too. The game controls alright enough with the Series X controller. It feels a little floaty mainly for jumping, but not too bad. I liked it, but it felt a little bit of style over substance. 7/10
HROT - 10 minutes. This one is an old school boomer shooter as they call them now. The graphics are simple but alright. Movement and shooting feel floaty and weird. The music is OK enough to set the mood, as are the sounds just alright. I kept running out of ammo on normal and died a few times. Nothing amazing, but would get bundled. 5.5/10
Kingdom Shell - 37 minutes. This one is 2D Metroidvania game about a guy who’s a half devil and is needed to help when someone breaks some shells. It controlled pretty well, looked pretty good, and the music was alright. The sounds weren’t as good with muffled sounding coin pickups and somewhat weak sounding hits on enemies. It felt just good, but nothing amazing. I would get bundled. 6/10
Kuroi Tsubasa - 14 minutes completed demo. This one is a visual novel about a vassal looking for someone with positivity on the earth. It ends up finding an office worker who is a bad situation, but keeps her head up. They end up possessing a bat plushie of hers and it helps her figure out her dream and all. This one had pretty good graphics and a decent enough soundtrack. I wish there were voices. I liked it enough to keep an eye out and would get it bundled or discounted. 7/10
Kujlevka - 36 minutes. This one is an adventure game that’s kind of strange about a guy who is shot and disabled by a sniper. Stuff happens and an alien ship crashes into his house. You attempt to establish contact and figure out things while others come and do things and you interact with them. It is in Russian and had a weird translation at times. The voices seemed good. The graphics were unique and OK. The music and sounds were just OK. I didn’t like this one as much, as the story seemed confusing and I wasn’t sure of much here. 5/10
Kusan : City of Wolves - 57 minutes completed demo. This one is top down shooter/brawler reminiscent of Hotline Miami. It also has pretty cool graphics where you play a previous soldier cat guy I believe who is now doing missions for clients. These usually involve going into places and punching/shooting/throwing knives to kill them all and move on. This can be hard and I felt it handled better with keyboard and mouse over the Xbox Series X controller. The music was good and the sound effects were as well. The story was shown in comic book panels. The only part I disliked was a boss, of which it took me maybe 20 times to beat. Its one hit kills so it can be annoying. Otherwise I thought this was a good game and would get it discounted or bundled. 8/10
Long and Hard... Summer! - 56 minutes completed demo. This one is I think an RPGMaker simulator game where you play a student who failed his exams. For the next month or more you need to raise stats, date girls, do tasks and find love and hopefully not fail. This one was 18+ and looked decent. I wish there was fast travel. The music was pretty good. I was having fun and the story seemed alright. I’m glad there is a fast button for the repetitive stat grinding scenes. I would pick this up on sale or bundled. 7.5/10
Lost In Fantaland - 38 minutes. This one is similar to Final Fantasy Tactics except you get cards like a deck builder and it’s a rogue lite game and the graphics are very similar (almost plagiarism for characters) where you navigate a map Slay the Spire style except you can visit all nodes in whatever order (not a fan). Overall this seems pretty fun and has some light movement manipulation similar to Into the Breach. I think the graphics could get them noticed by S-E. Also the music was generic, but OK. Everything controlled from the mouse OK. I would get it cheaper or bundled. 7/10
Lucy Dreaming - 44 minutes demo completed. This one is a similar adventure game to like a Day of the Tentacle. The voice acting is very British and not bad once you get used to it. The graphics are solid and the puzzles seemed logical enough, although I needed a hint for the last part. Overall it’s solid, has decent music, and the graphics were excellent. It feels very high quality. Would probably get on sale or bundled. 8/10
Lunark - 18 minutes completed demo. This one is a 2D platformer in vein of games like Out of This World and Flashback. It controls extremely clunkily just like them. Somehow it looks a lot worse than them, with pixel graphics, but they look blurry and chunky and just hard to distinguish. Honestly I almost stopped playing on graphics alone. The controls work OK once you get used to them but shielding, shooting and moving never felt good for fights. It made it worse in a boss fight near the end of the demo. Honestly it was OK, and maybe the story would get good, but it just didn’t feel too great. 5.5/10
the machine that BREATHES - 34 minutes completed demo. This one was a kind of survival somewhat clunky 2D action adventure game that kind of plays like a Metal Gear NES or so. It is kind of weird and the lack of inventory space sucks, but the story seemed interesting, the graphics alright and the music/sound quite good. It seemed to be a quality game and well worth playing after a sale or bundled. 7/10
Magic of Spring - 8 minutes. This one is kind of a go around the map deck builder of sorts where you conjure cards. The translation with the dialogue is extremely stilted. I wouldn’t mind it that much, but the gameplay just feels slow and lame. You challenge obelisks and you can play one of an attacking creature and can have a support one as well. You have 4 commands to draw different cards, build energy, and some others. I couldn’t get far with what was done and could only win one fight. Not a fan at all. 4/10
Mechanibot - 21 minutes completed demo. This one feels like a tower defense, except you can move stuff around. You play a Mechanibot who gets little towers and can move them and repair them and such. Between levels you upgrade up to 5 of these towers, and goes through waves of enemies. It’s pretty neat, but a little boring. The graphics and music are great. I beat the demo after a somewhat tough last boss, but I could see the appeal in it. 7/10
MINDHACK - 14 minutes completed demo. This one is a unique looking visual novel about a doctor who doesn’t say much, and his flowers and he mindhacks bugs away to make their minds flowers. You see the doctor’s gloved white hands as he makes gestures and there is some dialogue as well. The hacking game is worst of all where it’s just typing phrases to finish the hack. This one just felt weird, and I didn’t really like any of the characters. It could lead to something alright though. The graphics were cool at least, and the music seemed aight. 6/10
Mr. Sleepy Man - 11 minutes. This one is a 3D platformer with somewhat weird looking graphics and characters starring a guy who is sleepy and goes around. It has some gliding like BoTW, but just doesn’t feel too precise. The voice work was decent and the music was OK. I just didn’t like the gameplay and gliding felt off for sure. 5/10
MURICA - 12 minutes. This one is a 2D platforming Metroidvania game. This one had a confusing story about dying and being reborn a clone or something. The game controlled pretty badly with the Series X controller. I felt the platforming wasn’t that clean, as well as the fighting and shooting. The game was generally silent other than sound effects. I didn’t like this one at all. 4/10
Nadir - 8 minutes. This one is a deck building game where you play a sin I guess and fight stuff from hell. It plays out where there are red and blue cards. The enemy intents are shown as blue and red. Using a card flips the intent to the other side making it where you try to set up the best intent for your current cards and skills. I got confused and I just didn’t like this very much. I played a few battles but it felt weird and repetitive already. The art style was cool, but nothing else clicked for me. 5/10
Nine Noir Lives - 29 minutes completed demo. This one is an adventure game similar to Lucasarts games where you play a cat who is a detective. It has good graphics and excellent voice acting. The moving around and interacting with stuff wasn’t as clean, but it was doable. There seemed to be some possible decent crime solving in this one. The music was classic Noir detective music. Overall would pick up on sale or bundled 7/10
Ninja Issen - 12 minutes. This one is a 2D platformer similar to a Ninja Gaiden game. The graphics were pretty good pixelly type. The sounds were alright and the music was pretty good. The controls with the Series X controller were a bit floaty and weird for combat. I didn’t like the combat very much. It all felt clunky and especially felt horrible in the boss fight I quit on. The jumping even feels weird at times where I felt I couldn’t jump high enough correctly to hit enemies. The story presented as comic book panes was alright. I didn’t like this one much, although it had potential. 5/10
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