• REPLACED demo is out!

    From rms@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 20, 2026 09:35:29
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone going to try it out?

    rms


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  • From Rin Stowleigh@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 20, 2026 19:00:12
    On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

    Because I do like the setting, maybe I will try it? Once released?

    Usually on a single player game like this I prefer to wishlist it and
    let it sit, let the bugs get worked out, let the game become what it's
    going to be, and then wait even longer until it goes on sale. At that
    point I "demo it" in the form of taking advantage of the return policy
    if I don't like what the game turned out to be.

    I learned decades agao there can be such a thing as moving too early
    on a game. Back on Mplayer (late 90s) they released an early
    Daikatana multiplayer demo. It was a lot of fun up against the other
    online shooters available at the time, very immersive. By the time
    the actual game came out 1.5 years later, it was nothing like the
    demo, completely lost the feel and I didn't see anything worth
    playing.

    Thanks a lot, John Romero with your well-conditioned fashionista-lush
    hair and lazy fucking eyeball, that was a nice move to make people
    your bitch like that :)

    Anyway for me, it was one event in a long line of gaming experiences
    that taught me the best demo option is the modern return policy of
    Steam.... that is, after the game is finished, when it comes to single
    player games.

    With multiplayer games you have to weigh everything a bit more...

    ...because there can be a number of early mover advantages there, both
    in terms of early skill acquisition and being a "real" part of shaping
    what the game ultimately becomes.

    Single player gamers don't really have as much influence on what agame
    becomes in the long term, because the publishers don't regard them in
    the "MAU" (monthly active users) count. They're just regarded as
    consumer couch potatoes who either make a decision to purchase or they
    don't, so their opinions don't count as much as those who engage
    regularly online.

    Promise I'm not intentionally shitting on anyone on that last
    sentence, it's just the hard reality that comes with knowing the
    inside of the business.








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  • From rms@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 20, 2026 20:06:30
    Because I do like the setting, maybe I will try it? Once released?

    I played the demo tonight. A decent cyberpunk atmosphere -- I'm not a
    fan of pixelated graphics but this looks good; the simplified arkham combat fun but threatens to get repetitive. gameplay besides that seems to be
    simple platforming. worth a look!

    rms


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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, February 21, 2026 10:46:05
    On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> said
    this thing:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

    I mean, there's nothing there really screams at me 'get it now'. It
    looks like a bunch of other cinematic platformers ("Inside", "Kong:
    Survivor Instinct", "Shadow Complex", the like). All of which I
    enjoyed. This one's cyberpunk aesthetic is neat, and I'd probably like
    it if I played it... but it doesn't seem to stand out beyond that.

    Certainly I'm not getting it new. Maybe it'll show up as a freebie or
    part of a bundle; I'd be happy to add it then. But I'm not inclined to
    play the demo (but that's more because I dislike demos), and can't
    even be arsed to put it on the wishlist.



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  • From PW@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, February 28, 2026 20:04:20
    On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >going to try it out?

    rms

    *--

    I tried it for a little while. Didn't see what the big deal is. I am
    sort of sick of sidescrollers.

    -pw

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, March 01, 2026 12:39:15
    On Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:04:20 -0700, PW <noneused@noneused.net> said
    this thing:
    On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:35:29 -0700, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:


    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/
    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone >>going to try it out?



    I tried it for a little while. Didn't see what the big deal is. I am
    sort of sick of sidescrollers.


    I think if you don't fall in love with the setting/visuals right away,
    you won't see the point. Looking at it, I was reminded of "The
    Ascent", a top-down Diablo-clone with a similar cyberpunkian theme. It similarly seemed to rely more on its style rather than doing anything
    original with its gameplay, setting or narrative.

    Which didn't make "The Ascent" a bad game --and presumably the same
    can be said about "REPLACED"-- but neither does it make either game
    anything to rush out and play.


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  • From candycanearter07@3:633/10 to All on Monday, March 09, 2026 12:30:17
    rms <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote at 16:35 this Friday (GMT):
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/4261860/REPLACED_Demo/

    This one caught my eye for whatever bladerunner/cyberpunk reason. Anyone going to try it out?

    rms


    Immediately love the artstyle, I absolutely love it when pixel art is
    put into a 3D space (maybe thats why im such a fan of Paper Mario) and
    the gake itself looks pretty cool. That being said, I'm not very
    confident of if my computer can actually run it, unfortunately...
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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