We Love It’s guide to…
Next Fest is awesome, but HUUUGE and gone too quickly! The Next Festival Explorer is here to do the hard work of finding you the best, possibly hidden, demos to play!
EXPLORE THE DEMOS ↓
Holdline: Last Gate is a third-person tower-defense survival game. Harvest resources, craft and place towers, and hold the gate across a chain of diverse alien maps as the wave fights you on every front at once.
Some store page / marketing artwork (capsule images) was created with the assistance of generative AI tools. All in-game content is human-made.
Marketing Assets
A unique roguelite slot RPG inspired by Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Recruit legendary generals, build your army, unleash outrageous fantasy skills, and conquer the battlefield with strategy and luck in every spin.
This game contains pre-generated AI-assisted content, including some character artwork, visual assets, and audio. All AI-generated content has been reviewed, edited, and integrated into the game by the developer.
2D Images, Sound Effects
A cozy and gentle Reversi game set deep in rural Japan. Enjoy matches and conversations with Japanese-style characters through Free Match, Story Mode, Tutorials, Puzzles, and Endgame Puzzles.
Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with the creation and editing of some visual assets, background assets, character assets, code, and text. The game does not include live AI-generated content based on player input. All AI-assisted content has been reviewed, edited, and approved by the developer before inclusion. The game does not contain AI-generated adult-only content.
2D Images, Code, Writing
Short incremental game about things that are important in your life.
I use AI to localize game into other languages then English and Czech.
Localization
Classic & variant nonogram puzzles with a collectible twist: solve number puzzles, piece fragments together, and light up themed albums.
AI is merely an auxiliary tool, not an excuse for laziness!We leverage AI to generate in-game image assets and use Suno AI to create the game’s background music.All AI-generated visual and audio materials have been manually reviewed and edited to ensure compliance with content standards.
2D Images, Music
Dream Glitcher is a hand-drawn 2D point-and-click cyberpunk adventure that plays like an interactive graphic novel, blending dark psychological mystery with dark sci-fi atmosphere in a vibrant retro-futuristic world. Enter the me…
Voice over in this game is created using a combination of real voices with AI voices.
Voiceover
Path to Power is a political turn-based strategy game with visual novel elements. Choose your candidate, implement reforms, strike deals, manage resources, contain protests, and pave your way to the pinnacle of power in 1992 Kaza…
Generative OpenAI tools were used during development to create and edit selected game illustrations, backgrounds, fictional-character portraits, document and assignment images, some marketing artwork, and to assist with portions of written content and localization. All generated material was reviewed, selected, edited, and integrated by the developer. Licensed archival photographs and credited source materials are identified separately in the in-game credits. Story narration and telephone conversations include pre-generated synthetic voice performances made with ElevenLabs eleven_multilingual_v2, using licensed default voices and original Voice Design voices. They were technically and linguistically reviewed before integration; no politician's voice is cloned or imitated. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay and does not connect to external AI services.
2D Images, Marketing Assets, Voiceover, Writing, Localization
Flip floor panels and launch enemies — and friends — off the island! Top-down arcade party action: explore and power up in Dungeon Mode, play 8 solo stages and a boss, co-op, or 8-player online PvP. Just one more round! Dungeon d…
This game uses generative AI in the following ways:- Some of the in-game and store page artwork was created using AI image generation tools.- Some localization (translations) was assisted by AI tools.All AI-generated content is reviewed and edited by the developer before release.Background music uses royalty-free tracks and is not AI-generated.Parts of the game's code were written with the assistance of AI coding tools.
2D Images, Localization, Code
A relaxing city-building puzzle where you build efficient medieval settlements. Every placement matters as you discover building synergies and chase the highest score.
AI were used to improve the language and readability of the in-game tutorial and the Steam store page.
Writing
Get ready for an adventure where you travel across lands to protect caravans. Assemble your team as the leader of the Hunters' Guild. Your party and tower compositions and your boost decisions will determine the destiny of Silk R…
Artificial intelligence was utilized in visual design and in-game audio. AI support was also employed to some extent in coding.
2D Images, Sound Effects, Code
Survive a series of mysterious games and claim a fortune. Analyze the rules of seemingly unwinnable games, uncover hidden winning strategies, and overcome every challenge in this high-difficulty death game–style puzzle game.
This game uses content created or assisted by generative AI. Generative AI was used to help create and edit some visual assets, music/sound materials, and scripts. All final content was reviewed, selected, and adjusted by the developer before being included in the game.
2D Images, Music, Sound Effects, Code
Survive a haunted laundromat in a top-down bullet-heaven roguelite. Move, dodge, collect lint sparks, build automatic cleaning tools, evolve weapons, defeat machine bosses, and spend quarters to make every night shift last longer.
Artwork for this game has been generated with the help of AI
Unspecified