Ko Ransom

anime girl taking big sip of beer

seeing the reaction over the throwaway eva fanservice short and feeling grateful that foreign anime fans have not discovered true kino like Nakamura inuzo’s kudryavka film series

this “鬼辛カレー” is like a coco 2

happy meal for adults

the hipster natural wine and dessert place that opened up near me has bougie nutter butters‼️

I'm pretty sure it's what I decided to save when having to somewhat suddenly clean out my childhood home in the us

nothing quite like cleaning a closet and not only finding three years of tax stuff I can now legally throw away but also an unmarked box containing this

Burden Street Station on Steam A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

Burden Street Station is a detective adventure game with a fun and quirky dialogue system where you have to figure out how to relate to strangers in a world whose god suddenly stopped doing their job

store.steampowered.com/app/3126340/...

okay i'm done

FIRESTARTERS on Steam As a convicted criminal in the brutal future of this lightning-paced arcade movement FPS, a government-sanctioned bloodsport is your only hope of redemption. Strategize, skate, shoot, and slay against...

Firestarters is also a momentum-heavy speedy quick hit arena fps where you get to grind around skate bowls and kill enemies with a baseball bat that has the world's largest hitbox, and it has adorably weeby writing

store.steampowered.com/app/3733710/...

CICADAMATA" on Steam + follow the white rabbit + hop, skip, and jump to become one with joyeuse, until you are no longer you +

Cicadamata is somehow not on the top 50 most played list despite being a more freeform neon white-like that aesthetically does everything that I assume the new marathon tried to steal and makes me want to buy a 24 pack of boomer monsters before I play more

store.steampowered.com/app/3817250/...

Hovercrafts x Nihilism on Steam A 3D open-world vehicular boss-hunting game set in the ruins of a dead civilization. Inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, explore dusty low-poly landscapes and engage colossal foes in high-speed, cinem...

Hovercrafts x Nihilism is a janky yet precise SotC-inspired boss...chill? (what's the opposite of boss rush) hovercraft shooter where you can go a thousand miles an hour at the cost of not getting to really look at where you're going

store.steampowered.com/app/3867360/...

HyperTyper 2000 on Steam Type, dodge, parry, and survive in HyperTyper 2000! A hybrid typing/bullet hell roguelike where both halves of the action are nonstop! Test your typing skills with one hand on half the keyboard and do...

HyperTyper 2000 is also a typing game, except it's kind of the opposite in a frenetic rub your tummy and pat your head, play mavis beacon with one hand while playing binding of isaac at 2x speed with the other hand way

store.steampowered.com/app/3125430/...

THREE VERSES³ on Steam THREE VERSES is a first person dungeon crawler / typing game based on poetry. Having shed your corporeal form, you must now escape purgatory by completing the simple task of delivering verses from dei...

Three Verses³ is a highly ps1 aesthetic low-stress dungeon crawler that you can soak in while typing a whole lot made by a team that really seems to get it store.steampowered.com/app/3139120/...

CHASM SHIFT on Steam A 2D pixelated platformer journey through a mysterious and vast maze of puzzle box dungeons. Solve puzzle-infused platforming challenges and uncover new abilities as you plunge into an atmospheric adv...

Chasm Shift is a megastructure junk food platformer about being a little guy who learns how to do all kinds of cool jumps, and best of all it seems like this one won't have the mechanic from the dev's last game that gave me wrist pain for a few days

store.steampowered.com/app/4302110/...

Panthalassa on Steam Panthalassa is a Point and click Puzzle game set in an underwater alien world. You play as an AI reborn in a highly advanced body they do not recognize. Interface with otherworldly technology and unlo...

Panthalassa is a Saturn seapunk adventure game about discovering fish and wanting robots who are annoyed at each other to kiss

store.steampowered.com/app/2955720/...

Valerie on Steam Follow Valerie on a charming 2D adventure where you'll jump, slide, bounce and boost your way through dense forests and dreamscapes using her bubble powers.

Valerie is a combination of platformer mechanics that tend to repel me unless done just right (momentum, celeste-style dashes) alongside a pixel art aesthetic I don't normally vibe with that utterly charmed me nevertheless store.steampowered.com/app/3568960/...

Oeuf on Steam 3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.

store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf is a precision platformer by increpare (!!) where you are an egg and are constantly reminded of that fact

DEADLINE DELIVERY on Steam Strap in, floor it, and deliver the goods... before the bomb goes off. Play as Carl, a monkey driving a wildly unstable mail truck that's rigged with explosives on a tight deadline.

Deadline Delivery is a time attack drift game that you bang your head against trying to figure out the coolest way to beat each stage until you break through to 30 seconds of flow state bliss

store.steampowered.com/app/3745310/...

Airframe Ultra on Steam There's only two types of racers in Megacity West: The winners and the dead. So fire up your airframe and strap on your katana. Welcome to the violent underground world of Ultra Circuit racing!

nextfest games I wishlisted that didn't make the "top 50 most played demos" that you can still try list:

Airframe Ultra is chaotic destiny sparrow/hoverbike racing punctuated by even more chaotic 2000s 3rd person sludgy deathmatch interludes

store.steampowered.com/app/2522120/...

The Pinkman Files on Steam The Pinkman Files is a mini-game rich, fast paced, turn based combat game with a side of visual novel, that will challenge your detective skills and allow you to uncover the secrets of a peculiar town...

"what could possibly motivate a person to go through the entire nextfest recommender queue," you ask

well how else am I supposed to know about the breaking bad yaoi timeloop visual novel with teto and reimu appearances

store.steampowered.com/app/3854540/...

forgot to post that this place didn’t even bother to register a name on their meticulously maintained very expensive sdvx Valkyrie cabs

"Similar to games you've played: Muse Dash"

thanks steam

Howdy there folks, Teikoku Chuck here to wish you a happy Emperor’s Birthday. Tenno-Heika Banzai, y’all!

what's wild is that this should also apply to avocados except the upside on them is so high that it cancels out

just played the demo today, I gotta pick it up

can't tell if this is an intentional overcorrection or not...

just tokyo or anywhere else? if they're into gardens rikugien is great

I’ve tried on and off for a while, maybe that’s how I’ll try to get my triple tribe iidx credits in…