
NAIAD was shown during the Day of the Devs presentation at Summer Game Fest and was immediately added to my wish list, so getting a demo shortly thereafter is a bonus. You’ll also have a canine companion to keep you company and help sniff out mats and opportunities. You’ll diagnose patients, gather ingredients, and concoct your own cures all while winning over a distrustful populace and growing the city. Not to be confused with Potionomics (which is delightful in its own way) or Potion Craft (wow there are a lot of new potion-based games), Potion Permithas you play the role of a chemist recently arrived to town. Track layouts, stations, and commerce all need to be managed in order to expand your quaint village into a bustling metropolis. A modern builder like Cities: Skylines, Sweet Transit has trains as the primary focus of transportation. I spent a lot of time back in the day playing SimCity and Railroad Tycoon Deluxe, and Sweet Transit is the spiritual successor of both games. Who doesn’t love a good parking simulator? You Suck at Parking is part puzzler, part physics test where your goal is to get into a parking spot as fast as possible while navigating increasingly treacherous terrain and avoiding other cars on the road.
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Plus you get to pet baby mammoths when you domesticate them. While surely not as robust as a Civilization tech tree, this looks like a game that can be educational as well as entertaining. Roots of PachaĪ Stardew Valley-style game set in the Stone Age, Roots of Pacha is intriguing to me because of its setting - I’m a big fan of prehistory - and the fact that it lets you develop new technologies as part of the growth of your community. An adventure game with builder and rogue-like elements where you try to grow your cult of cute woodland creatures so you can ascend to godhood? Yeah, sign me up. Rob talked about Cult of the Lamb coming out of Summer Game Fest but I’ve had this one on my radar since it was first announced last year. While I won’t be able to try them all out with the whole “needing to eat and sleep to live” bug that all human models possess, here are nine I’m definitely carving time out to try.

I love demos, and Steam’s Next Fest event through Monday has got me covered in spades, with hundreds of demos to try out.
