Heya, not sure if there are any enjoyers of Emberville here, but if you are and you don't have it on your radar: The demo is out now and it's gorgeous!

Have you tried it? Will you be checking out the Early access release on 10/27?

I especially loved the Voice Acting and was very happy to hear more than just a few lines from Matthew Mercer in the demo. His voice acting is peak.

TL:DR; Game now makes the change from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat, breaking not only the script mods (mostly for QoL and game changing mods) but also Reshade being broken, cosmetic mods wise is still fine, although reports of audio mods are not working (as per usual with an patch, but is not related to anti-cheat since they added new warbond)

>Rotten Autumn is here and with it comes a new Photo Mode, new Shell skins, more Tarstones, additional dungeons, and a new soundtrack by Sakis Tolis

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5314650/Ultrapolis/

Hey! I'm Rohan Moon and I'm the solo dev behind Uncosy, my first Steam release.

Uncosy actually started as a spreadsheet, as I wanted to explore what the math behind games like Webfishing looked like on paper. Webfishing is a huge source of inspiration for Uncosy. While I was figuring out drop rates and rarities I had the idea that a claw machine fits the math really well, and that's where the idea came from.

As I was exploring some art styles for the plushies I wanted, I decided to try out something low-poly, and when I put in a placeholder texture at really low resolution, it looked grimy and gross, but was still kind of lovable and cute. So I decided I would really lean into the retro-grunge aesthetic and explore what I've been calling "Creepy Cute".

In Uncosy players find themselves in a dilapidated arcade, where the only thing that works is an odd looking claw machine. Players progress by selling their plushies to unlock new skills, upgrade their claw machine, and decorate their environment.

Turns out, retro style games running at a fixed resolution with low-poly low-res art run really well on even older hardware, and so I've been able to list pretty reasonable specs (2GB RAM, only 300MB storage, integrated graphics etc.), which I'm really happy with.

If you like the look and genre of Uncosy I'd really love to hear what you think about the demo (which you can play now in Next Fest), and I'd REALLY love to see any ultra-rare shinies people can catch. Uncosy is releasing on the 17th November.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5078760/Uncosy/

A simple platformer where only 1 player in the world can play at a time, while the rest are spectating and waiting for their turn.

You can put yourself in queue and wait for your turn to play, and chat globally while waiting, and play around with all the various silly features meant for spectators.

There's a built-in level editor where you can create levels, and have others play them - your levels will be queued for as well!

A weird experimental game, but totally free!

You can watch people play it live here:
https://parttimemonkey.com/jono/