Xbox’s Winter Game Festival Ends Next Week, Don’t Miss These Demos

Taking the mixing genre to a whole new level, Loot River is like a cross between Bloodborne and Tetris. This atmospheric-roguelike puzzle-meeting game first appeared in March of last year and its concept caught our attention. Luckily, this demo proved to be as smooth as we had hoped. The action takes place across a series of waterways, where you move forward and engage your enemies by teleporting platforms around the map. Death will be a constant companion, but it is not the end. In the demo, dying returns your character to a central world complete with NPCs that hint at the game’s dark story. Loot River will arrive around 2022, although we don’t know the exact date.

One of the title of the event, Nobody Saves the World is a lifeless journey through a fantasy world. Your character, Nobody, wakes up in an unfamiliar house – with no pants on – and quickly sets out to find out what’s going on. Pursuing this goal, he picks up a wand that has the power to transform him into many other things. The first of these new forms is a rat, which gnaws at enemies and burrows into tight spaces, but more physicality unlocks as you defeat enemies and gain experience points. The battle is very interesting, the game is innovative and you should not miss the opportunity to play.

With 2D art style and anthropomorphized animal protagonist, Lonely Village attracts us at first sight. As an adventure wolf, you wander into a nearby town where a festival is being held, all the villagers have mysteriously disappeared. Quickly following the snap of Thanos’ cozy-looking version of the world, a suspicious tower rises from the ground, towering over the deserted town. In the demo, your task is to climb the tower by solving interesting puzzles and saving the townspeople. The rescued villagers return to their daily lives as librarians or bankers, unlocking new items or social options. Lonesome Village draws inspiration from series like Zelda and Animal Crossing, so if a combination of the two sounds like your trouble, check out this demo.

A driving rhythm game set in a futuristic world, Overpass: Rhythm Roadtrip was a nice surprise that we didn’t have on our radar ahead of the event. The game’s demo is short and shows only a few tracks – takes you through the ruins of an ancient culture, giving it a great sense of the old world colliding with high technology – but it’s enough to let we envision how to play. Behind the wheel of an ever-moving vehicle, you try to hit timely prompts hidden in the middle of the environment to create a stylish soundtrack. The moderately fast-paced pacing will draw you into the hypnotic feel of the game.

The title of Death Trash is not just for show. There’s a lot of death, a lot of junk, and a lot of fun to be had in this demo. There’s no denying that Fallout is in the DNA of Death Trash. You start after an unexplained procedure in an underground bunker. For some reason, you are kicked out of the safe, underground community and must try to survive in the harsh world above. Challenging battles, limited supplies, and you meet a big octopus-shaped lump of flesh that just wants to make friends. It might be worth trying the demo several times to see how making different choices in the detailed character builder affects the experience. If you’re more interested in Death Trash after playing through the demo, the game is currently in Early Access.

Have you played Valheim and wish there was a game focused solely on those honey-producing bees? Do you like a beekeeping sim with a lovely and low-stress art style? Then get ready for the bees to have fun because Apico is the demo for you. The multi-menu guide can be intimidating for some, but building a farm tool then giving you access to a different resource, which then unlocks more building recipes, will keep your eyes glued Gameplay loop takes longer than you expect. When you first look at the game, it’s hard to see how vast your hive empire can grow, but this first installment shows you crafting tools – first from wood, then from stronger materials – harvest honey, explore the big world, etc. Apico is set to release early next year, so this seems like the right time to test it out before launch.

Explore space and time and ponder the wonders of every timeline in What Lies in the Multiverse. You start off as a boy who, with the help of his cat Erwin, unlocks the secrets of reality on his bedroom computer. The demo shows lands like a peaceful paradise inhabited by monks or a carefree, sunny forest. However, with his ability to swap dimensions, the protagonist transports between these idyllic settings and a grim alternate reality, where the forest lives in perpetual darkness and the heavens have fallen. ages ago long ago. Switching between two different areas allows you to solve puzzles and reach blocked areas. The realistic mechanics are cleverly used throughout the demo, and the humor balances out the stealthy gameplay aspect.

With it The final release date has been revealed At The Game Awards, you should definitely put the Tunic demo on your to-play list before this Xbox event ends. While the demo doesn’t give us a hands-on experience with some of the new items and enemies discovered in the recent trailer, it does show how fluid and challenging the gameplay will be. launch. If you haven’t jumped into the game’s previous demos, prepare to die because while the game may look like a picturesque walk in the park, its combat is brutally brutal. surprising. Even those who played Tunic’s 2021 demo might consider re-joining, to make sure you’ve found every secret hidden in its succinct gameplay, or just to get excited about the upcoming release. coming on March 16th.