{"id":63402,"date":"2023-10-13T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/im-glad-i-didnt-skip-this-metroidvanias-steam-next-fest-demo-its-more-than-pixel-art-hollow-knight-and-has-maybe-the-best-graphics-settings-ever\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:10:24","slug":"im-glad-i-didnt-skip-this-metroidvanias-steam-next-fest-demo-its-more-than-pixel-art-hollow-knight-and-has-maybe-the-best-graphics-settings-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/im-glad-i-didnt-skip-this-metroidvanias-steam-next-fest-demo-its-more-than-pixel-art-hollow-knight-and-has-maybe-the-best-graphics-settings-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m glad I didn’t skip this Metroidvania’s Steam Next Fest demo \u2013 it’s more than pixel art Hollow Knight and has maybe the best graphics settings ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just finding time to play through the best Steam Next Fest demos<\/u><\/a>, let alone all the promising ones that appeal to me specifically, is a tough task. I’ve had to get pretty aggressive about my selection process this week. If a demo’s screenshots and tags don’t grab me immediately, it’s not getting a download, and if the first five minutes don’t feel right, it’s getting uninstalled. Life, like Steam Next Fest, is too short. And I was this <\/em>close to passing on Noreya: The Gold Project, a 2D pixel art Metroidvania from developer Dreamirl, not because it didn’t look good, but because I still haven’t gotten to demos for some of the event’s most popular games. But I’m glad I gave it a shot. The demo is a little rough technically, but I see huge potential in this distinctly post-Hollow Knight game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Just finding time to play through the best Steam Next Fest demos, let alone all the promising ones that appeal to me specifically, is a tough task. I’ve had to get pretty aggressive about my selection process this week. If a demo’s screenshots and tags don’t grab me immediately, it’s not getting a download, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63405,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63402\/revisions\/63405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}