FFenril / Hugo 🎮 GAME (not) OVER is OUT on Steam! 🕹️

two weeks later and i still can't get this out of head, especially as i work through some of my first FF games

the internet loves to give modern pokemon shit for its graphics, but by refusing to participate in the AAA graphics arms race, they have unambigiously dominated the culture. they won.

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

ff6

Nooooon pas le Renton de Eureka Seven Ao 😆

30years

DISSIDIA DUELLUM FINAL FANTASY | Opening Cinematic YouTube video by Square Enix

Diddisia Duellum Final Fantasy still looks like a terrible mobile game with a terrible concept but I’ll take the fanfiction opening video fun for what it is ~

The Eternal Life of Goldman on Steam In this breathtaking platformer adventure, explore a vast hand-drawn Archipelago, inspired by ancient fables and depicted in classic frame-by-frame animation, and defeat a mysterious Deity.

The Eternal Life of Goldman

The funny thing about taking most of my video game news from podcasts is that I often meet games quite late. So yeah, I expected this to be a pretty game.

I did not expect it to be WTF-how-does-this-look-so-incredible-every-single-second beautiful Oo

Even with the highlights saying where to click next, I felt a bit lost because of all the things to do and follow before I had even started to actually read the info and get into the puzzles ^^’

That being said, it’s easy to see the passion / research in your game, best of luck with it!

Hello! Congrats on releasing the demo, I hope the Next Fest goes well for you!

Feedback: I found the tutorial kinda overwhelming: At the same time in the tutorial you’re paying hommage to the 90s aesthetics, giving story beats, making the player move, giving a ton of buttons to click / a PDA…

Mysteries of Old Tokyo, my debut game, is in Steam Next Fest, starting right now! It's a detective adventure puzzler set in Tokyo, with reams of historical research. Add to your wishlist! Try the demo! #indiegames #steam #demos

Esoteric Ebb on Steam Esoteric Ebb is a single-player CRPG inspired by the freedom of tabletop adventures. Unravel a political conspiracy with your goblin sidekick. Roll dice in tense encounters. Become a cleric of legends...

Esoteric Ebb

The cool thing about the Next Fest is downloading popular demos kinda randomly and suddenly realizing I’m staring at a medieval Disco Elysium :3

The kind of demo you close after 5 minutes thinking "yep, not playing anymore or I won’t be able to wait until the day of the release!"

Alabaster Dawn on Steam Break Nyx’s curse and guide humanity's rebirth in this top-down 2.5D Action RPG from the creators of CrossCode. Battle enemies with stylish combos, wield multiple divine weapons, solve intriguing puzz...

Alabaster Dawn

Beautiful 2.5D Action RPG that feels really snappy and great to play, just a few minutes of the demo is enough to convince it’s gonna be good :)

Looper game screen

The Loopler

Balatro x … Micro-Machines?

Kinda fun but after 2 runs I have a bit of trouble understanding how I’m supposed to survive for very long 🤔(I can see the game would like me to run through the loop infinitely but… 2nd run, I had a shitload of money and no idea what to do to really improve)

Gambonanza shop screen

Gambonanza boss screen

Gambonanza

Balatro, but for chess. It doesn’t hide it, and it’s a really good Balatro for chess!

It reduces the toughness of it being chess by having smaller grids, but it’s a game that asks for way more strategy than Balatro, because it’s… well, chess ^^’

Good fun, lovely demo :)

The EVO situation is dire.

Denshattack! demo main screen

Denshattack! riding in front of the moai statues

Denshattack! screenshot, showing a train riding towards a giant ball

Denshattack!

This is kind of incredible! So stylish, so joyful, so colorful, so fun, and, I did not expect this, but actually seems mechanically rich, everyone should take a look at Denshattack!

I’ll never look at trains the same :’) (and all real trains are now disappointing failures for me)

Vampire Crawlers main menu in French

"Stage Completed" screen

… Suddenly I have to find how to not bloat my deck and keep comboing.

My first run was boring, but the second one was really gratifying.

I think it needs to be better at explaining itself though, I have no idea what some upgrades / relics (?) actually did.

Looking forward to it :)

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcards from Vampire Survivors

OK, this is actually interesting! There’s some real thought here in how to make this a fast deck-building game with a focus on combos, and actually very few different cards. Not being able to skip cards is interesting…

I wonder if I would still like Survivors-like / horde survivors / bullet heavens if I had not tried making GAME (not) OVER?

I loved Vampire Survivors when it got released in early access

Now I can’t really get into any of them without feeling kinda down :(

Lost Wiki Kozlovka game screen with a wiki entry and a text to fill

Lost Wiki Kozlovka main menu

Lost Wiki: Kozlovka

As someone thinking about making a full fledged Golden Idol-like, this is an inspiration. Great mood, dive into a wiki, mystery, old OS graphics… wishlisted after solving two texts and thinking I did not need more to know I’ll buy it for sure :)

Trying Steam Next Fest demos, February 2026 edition!

Un plateau télévisé avec une table ronde marquée "TV NEWS". Un journaliste (à gauche) en costume, pose une question : - Mais, finalement, les antiracistes ne sont-ils pas, au fond, les vrais racistes, et les antifascistes, les vrais fascistes ? - Pour répondre à cette question, deux invités... A coté de lui, assis à la table un homme portant un uniforme nazi et un autre, crâne rasé, arborant un t-shirt avec un symbole néonazi.

Courage à tous ❤️

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Je réfute le terme "violence politique" qui fout tout dans un même sac.

La violence fasciste, elle s'exerce contre les exilé·es, les enfants d'immigré·es, les queers, les handicapé·es, sur la base d'une peau, d'un visage et j'en passe.

La violence antifasciste elle s'exerce contre les fascistes.

I say this with all the love in my heart because Blue Prince is incredible - working 80 hours a week for 8 years very likely made this game take longer to make than without crunch.

More time spent working does not always equate to making forward progress. Crunch often equates to negative progress.

Day 30: My next Final Fantasy

I’m almost done with Tactics… So I guess the next one will probably be Type-0 HD. No idea when that will be, though :)

Aaaaaand it’s oveeeeeeeeer! Took me more than a month, in the end ^^’

Final Fantasy 9 characters & logo

Day 29: Final Fantasy I want the most remade

Final Fantasy IX of course <3

(But also, it doesn’t *need* it, it’s great as is <3)

Final Fantasy XII title card showing Gabranth

Day 28: Favorite title card

Final Fantasy XII! The pose ! The brush stroke!

(I thought I posted this 🤔)
Let’s finish

3 weeks since release, and for now all the feedback has been positive! Come try it! :)