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| 017 || 2025-02-28 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2169950/ Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade] || || - || - || 6.5 || Fairly smooth and very pretty Japanese-themed, Hades-like, action roguelite, though there's a bit of an animation lag at the end of the attacks that I don't really like in my action games. No major complaints though. | | 017 || 2025-02-28 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2169950/ Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade] ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx_-Gn0go64 || - || - || 6.5 || Fairly smooth and very pretty Japanese-themed, Hades-like, action roguelite, though there's a bit of an animation lag at the end of the attacks that I don't really like in my action games. No major complaints though. | ||
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| 016 || 2025-02-27 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140120/ Wordatro!] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoTFyHWOEKs || 1 || 0 || 6.5 || Balatro with words, and it is exactly what it advertises to be, needs more QoL and powers and stuff but the demo promises that in the full game anyway. Main Menu button really shouldn't end the current game without warning, demo or no. | | 016 || 2025-02-27 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3140120/ Wordatro!] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoTFyHWOEKs || 1 || 0 || 6.5 || Balatro with words, and it is exactly what it advertises to be, needs more QoL and powers and stuff but the demo promises that in the full game anyway. Main Menu button really shouldn't end the current game without warning, demo or no. | ||
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| 012 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/ Skin Deep] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5ysVzzlGU || 1 || 1 || 5.5 || Stylish spaceships and weird cat captains! Am worried using props to murder enemies and get rid of heads might feel sameish after a couple of levels, especially with the "easier" ways of killing. The teleporting in the demo was weird too, but assumedly not in full game. Good accessibility options. | | 012 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/301280/ Skin Deep] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5ysVzzlGU || 1 || 1 || 5.5 || Stylish spaceships and weird cat captains! Am worried using props to murder enemies and get rid of heads might feel sameish after a couple of levels, especially with the "easier" ways of killing. The teleporting in the demo was weird too, but assumedly not in full game. Good accessibility options. | ||
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| 011 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1299460/ Wanderstop] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= | | 011 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1299460/ Wanderstop] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qePDwBbre8k || 1 || 0 || 9 || Amazing demo. Beautiful graphics, stylish teahouse, great concept and intro, fun characters, perfect length for a demo. Main nitpick would be that controls can be a bit touchy, both in terms of picking things up, holding them, and item interaction. But it's a nitpick. | ||
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| 010 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3075810/ Dragon Heartburn] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUOZJwHkfo (Afterhours) || - || - || 2 || A finicky "precision puzzle" game where you are breathing fire and need to navigate through rooms of idiotic workers without killing any of them. There's a cursor bug in fullscreen, and the fire mechanics and the weirdness around what happens at angles in the game are not what I'd consider fun. | | 010 || 2025-02-26 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3075810/ Dragon Heartburn] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUOZJwHkfo (Afterhours) || - || - || 2 || A finicky "precision puzzle" game where you are breathing fire and need to navigate through rooms of idiotic workers without killing any of them. There's a cursor bug in fullscreen, and the fire mechanics and the weirdness around what happens at angles in the game are not what I'd consider fun. | ||
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| 004 || 2025-02-23 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/ Sultan's Game] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZk_ooF6zZw || 1 || 1 || 6.5 || This is a Cultist Simulator variant with similar QoL features from those games, but with a narrative story wrapped around it. Lots of typoes in the demo. Some unclear bits on what cards can be used where sometimes. But very intriguing otherwise. | | 004 || 2025-02-23 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3117820/ Sultan's Game] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZk_ooF6zZw || 1 || 1 || 6.5 || This is a Cultist Simulator variant with similar QoL features from those games, but with a narrative story wrapped around it. Lots of typoes in the demo. Some unclear bits on what cards can be used where sometimes. But very intriguing otherwise. | ||
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| 003 || 2025-02-23 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/ CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= | | 003 || 2025-02-23 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/ CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oulOZbBPM || 1 || 0 || 3.5 || The crafting is both simplistic and finicky (some unexplained parts) at the same time, but with a bit of polish it could be a lot of fun. Right now, not really. Game is voiced, somehow. There are two buttons at the top that return you to main menu, for some reason. Lost my first character because there's no confirmation on one of them, and the game crashed soon after. | ||
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| 002 || 2025-02-22 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2578180/ Save the Villainess: An Otome Isekai Roleplaying Game] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdckFhHTfxM || 1 || 0 || 5.5 || Funny/interesting narration style, pretty art, but lots of unnecessary and slow animations (skippable though). It's not "snappy". I accidentally mixed up save and load twice, annoying menu UI. | | 002 || 2025-02-22 || [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2578180/ Save the Villainess: An Otome Isekai Roleplaying Game] || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdckFhHTfxM || 1 || 0 || 5.5 || Funny/interesting narration style, pretty art, but lots of unnecessary and slow animations (skippable though). It's not "snappy". I accidentally mixed up save and load twice, annoying menu UI. | ||
Revision as of 16:27, 28 February 2025
Shiara streams as dizzypixie at https://www.twitch.tv/dizzypixie/ every day from 6pm-9pm MST, more or less. She tries to complete games that she starts on stream. She suggests you download the video-swap-new userscript from here to block her ads.
Fragments of other games that have featured on the channel in the very distant past but were not recorded (or she doesn't care to share the VODs) include ArcheAge, Cultist Simulator, DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition, Fast Acting Microbes, Guild Wars 2, inFamous First Light, Little Busters! English Edition, Scrolls, SKEAL, and The Lord of the Rings Online.
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This second list is a separated Demos list for games that I played during the Demos sections in the above table. (The Demos master playlist on YouTube is here.) Afterhours means streams that I did offline and then uploaded onto YouTube.
| # | Dates | Game | Youtube Link | # of Streams | # of Stream Deaths | Score (/10) | Notes |
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| 017 | 2025-02-28 | Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx_-Gn0go64 | - | - | 6.5 | Fairly smooth and very pretty Japanese-themed, Hades-like, action roguelite, though there's a bit of an animation lag at the end of the attacks that I don't really like in my action games. No major complaints though. |
| 016 | 2025-02-27 | Wordatro! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoTFyHWOEKs | 1 | 0 | 6.5 | Balatro with words, and it is exactly what it advertises to be, needs more QoL and powers and stuff but the demo promises that in the full game anyway. Main Menu button really shouldn't end the current game without warning, demo or no. |
| 015 | 2025-02-27 | Valkyrie Star: A Cacophony Choir | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKAf-LyyPtQ | 1 | 0 | 3.5 | Combat is missing lots of descriptions like tooltips on buffs/debuffs, some skills and mechanics (like mana/mystique) were partly renamed and had two names, and the story writing was incoherent. Nice to see some sort-of henshins though, and the concept in general was nice. |
| 014 | 2025-02-27 | What Comes Next | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMjuqG9Mns (Afterhours) | - | - | 3 | It's really simplistic, has weird "story" arcs (like when you break into a house to get a shirt for a beggar), you can't retrieve the mouse after he completes his tasks and returns to the girl, and it overall feels very much like a free game or tech demo. |
| 013 | 2025-02-26 | STRAND | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD5u3M3W8iY | 1 | 0 | 5 | What I played of the demo didn't really show that much, though I really liked being able to pick up and spin/examine so many weird items. I might have gotten softlocked at the end though, not sure. Also the game has FPS issues on higher graphics and looking around can cause motion sickness. |
| 012 | 2025-02-26 | Skin Deep | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5ysVzzlGU | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | Stylish spaceships and weird cat captains! Am worried using props to murder enemies and get rid of heads might feel sameish after a couple of levels, especially with the "easier" ways of killing. The teleporting in the demo was weird too, but assumedly not in full game. Good accessibility options. |
| 011 | 2025-02-26 | Wanderstop | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qePDwBbre8k | 1 | 0 | 9 | Amazing demo. Beautiful graphics, stylish teahouse, great concept and intro, fun characters, perfect length for a demo. Main nitpick would be that controls can be a bit touchy, both in terms of picking things up, holding them, and item interaction. But it's a nitpick. |
| 010 | 2025-02-26 | Dragon Heartburn | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUOZJwHkfo (Afterhours) | - | - | 2 | A finicky "precision puzzle" game where you are breathing fire and need to navigate through rooms of idiotic workers without killing any of them. There's a cursor bug in fullscreen, and the fire mechanics and the weirdness around what happens at angles in the game are not what I'd consider fun. |
| 009 | 2025-02-25 - 2025-02-26 | Mayhem Maidens | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh1GIwY9JVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv8ytlqVtcU (Afterhours) |
1 | 0 | 4 | Basically Vampire Survivors as a roguelite and you control/recruit up to 5 girls (characters from some Light Novel) and protect/upgrade an orb in the middle. Character movement is slow though, and it's very difficult to switch to/control the characters in the chaos. The melee characters feel a lot weaker too. |
| 008 | 2025-02-25 | Food Wagon | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDj4A__4kJ0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | The adventure part was weak, the graphics and UI were super basic, some Korean signs were not translated, the "roguelike" component felt out of place like they didn't figure out how to save games, and the only NPCs I found were bugged. But pulling the food wagon around and across bridges and setting up camp and cooking kebabs was neat. I want a better game like this. |
| 007 | 2025-02-25 | MagicCar of Delicious / Gourmet Food Wizard | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CW6K2df9bE | 1 | 0 | 7 | I enjoyed this one. Upgrade a little train with towers that you drag around clearing little zones. There's a night market segment to sell food at too. <3 Though that part is weird, since you can just leave and reenter with no penalty to reset the stall. |
| 006 | 2025-02-25 | SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz7pwjpT_Is | 1 | 0 | 5 | It's a serviceable "restaurant" simulator with stages, with the main twist being that there's a different "outdoor" area connected to the restaurant with each stage. It's meant for two players and I felt disadvantaged playing alone. The early story is weak. Who am I selling my food to? The island is deserted! |
| 005 | 2025-02-24 | Moves Of The Diamond Hand | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJ9HPb6PRc | 1 | 1 | 7 | Fun dice-levelling mechanics and stylish art, though there are some weird decisions like not being able to just use items in inventory to heal yourself directly. Might be possible to get softlocked. |
| 004 | 2025-02-23 | Sultan's Game | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZk_ooF6zZw | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | This is a Cultist Simulator variant with similar QoL features from those games, but with a narrative story wrapped around it. Lots of typoes in the demo. Some unclear bits on what cards can be used where sometimes. But very intriguing otherwise. |
| 003 | 2025-02-23 | CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oulOZbBPM | 1 | 0 | 3.5 | The crafting is both simplistic and finicky (some unexplained parts) at the same time, but with a bit of polish it could be a lot of fun. Right now, not really. Game is voiced, somehow. There are two buttons at the top that return you to main menu, for some reason. Lost my first character because there's no confirmation on one of them, and the game crashed soon after. |
| 002 | 2025-02-22 | Save the Villainess: An Otome Isekai Roleplaying Game | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdckFhHTfxM | 1 | 0 | 5.5 | Funny/interesting narration style, pretty art, but lots of unnecessary and slow animations (skippable though). It's not "snappy". I accidentally mixed up save and load twice, annoying menu UI. |
| 001 | 2025-02-22 | VIOLENT RUSH | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ala1pn5JEt4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Stylish, but short demo that abruptly ends, no meaningful choices, very questionable content and art. |