We are in a golden era of indie gaming and the 2D platformer and adventure genres are having an especially fantastic time. There are so many wonderful experiences to be had and the Steam Next Fest Feb 2025 edition highlights this. I played through 44 demos and I wishlisted 36 of them! The following video gallops through these 44 games explaining what I liked and a bit about the game itself. I hope you find something new to enjoy:
The games covered in this hour-long feature are:
- Mother Machine
- Who wears the crown?
- MultiWindows
- Rusty Rabbit
- Mountain Boy
- Fire Hero Pixel Rescue
- Crunda
- The Alpinist
- Smack Monkey
- Microvania
- Haneda Girl
- Horse Runner DX
- The Lone Sword
- Claire a la Mode
- Freddy Farmer
- Sky the Scrapper
- Balloon Friends
- Paradox!
- Bones Beneath
- Snapshot Spirit Live!
- Wispy Dreams
- Liekki
- Tick Hop
- The Little Pixel That Could
- Sanae’s Sylphid Breeze
- Stellar Poetry
- Slimg
- Advent Neon
- Ninja Ming
- Missing Banban
- Botanica
- Difficult game about letters
- Pokettohiro
- Pizza Boy
- To Clean the Mountain
- I’d kill You As a Worm
- Cloudy and Storm Pawtastic Adventure
- Astropods Starside Glaze
- Angry Video Game Nerd 8bit
- Aralunis
- Goo Hunter
- Legend of Kuro
- slideNglide
- Echoes of Eldoria
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