I'm streaming some of the Steam Next Fest demos that'll be coming to PlayStation if you want to see them in action.
Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is the newest spinoff of the Super Meat Boy series that is styled after Puyo Puyo, but with the cruel mechanics of SMB to make it a more challenging and frustrating experience. Some stages will have saw blades or other weapons as obstacles that if you hit them with your pair of failures, as they call it, you have to restart from the beginning or your last checkpoint. It seems like beating these stages under the A+ time will be a big part of the challenge, much like beating stages in SMB to get A+'s was a bit part of the mastering of the game. Very cool approach to a puzzle game for this series and it seems well done. It's out June 22.
Kingdom Eighties is a lot like the other Kingdom games as strategy/survival/defense games, but instead of being a King building up your base/kingdom in medieval times, this is set in a Stranger Things-style 80s era with all of the style you'd expect from that. Enemies seem similar to what were in the previous games, but now you're hiring kids to build or defend your base and have other big kids on bikes to help explore each area to take out enemies or pay for various upgrades or other work on that stage. It looks like another good entry in this series. It's out June 26.
Eternights is a dating sim action game where you're in the post apocalypse as a weird virus is going around that turns people into different kinds of weird monsters. The action I saw in the demo was pretty decent with some good action and a dodge mechanic like Breath of the Wild's flurry mode for dodging at the right time to get a bunch of hits in. Between those bits, you have plenty of chatting with your friend and potential love interests where choices can boost personality stats or lower them, I assume. It seems like a nice change of pace from the Persona-style mix of these genres. This is out September 21.
Ebenezer and the Invisible World is a Metroidlike set in the world of A Christmas Carol after Ebenezer Scrooge has seen the three spirits and changed his miserly ways to become a better person. The story in the demo starts with Ebenezer seeking somebody who is potentially going through the same thing he did as he hopes to steer him in the right direction, which includes the help of a number of ghosts since going through his ordeal means he can see ghosts all over the place. You get quests from talking to people along with new abilities as you explore, which means this is a fairly standard Metroidlike that was a solidly fun time from what I've played of the demo. It's out at some point later this year.
