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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 28/09/2026

Met this dude at a metal fest, was a bit awkward, but really chill otherwise. Although he kept saying "I must kill all the Hiss", idk what that was about

Dylan Faden from Control Resonant, wearing black jeans, black tee with white graffiti print on it, maroon red long coat and old school flight goggles. He also rocks and impeccable green mullet and a horrible mustache. He can't pose for photos so he kinda just awkwardly stands there.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 24/09/2026

Been binge playing through whole of AW2 + Expansions + Final Draft (and watching a bunch of Control), can't wait!

Meme with text saying "The Night Before Control Resonant", with 2 guys lying in 2 beds, wide awake.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 25/08/2026

The "importance of good nutrition" bit hit close to me, as several years back I just kinda "existed" through life it feels like, and that includes the kinds of art I consumed - usually whatever was kinda popular, but not "ugh, it's popular so I hate it", not to mention all the social media. (cont.)

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 08/08/2026

So then I can just easily search any particular tag and see everything that I had tagged with it And so far, it's been quite fast to do so, although it did require some initial setup (like adjusting where the attachments are saved and also getting couple community plugins to handle images and stuff)

Screenshot from Obsidian "Search" tab, showing an example of searching of all files tagged with "Audio".

Screenshot of installed community plugins in Obsidian:
Image Toolkit - enables inspecting and manipulating images.
Paste image rename - renames images on pasting them into the file, for better organization.
Tag Wrangler - extra tag control for renaming tags across all vault.
Vault Full Statistics - just extra statistics to keep track of amount and size of files.
Zoottelkeeper Plugin - tbh can be skipped, was just checking what there is that can make automatically a per-folder "index file", but didn't really have a use for it.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 08/08/2026

admittedly quite scuff, and there are probably much better solutions for that, but what ended up working for me is to have a "reference vault" in Obsidian, where I put the references I find, and write tags to each of them (it's not just art I also put things like tutorials, articles etc in there)

Screenshot of full Obsidian window for my "Reference Vault". On the left there is a list of all individual files within it, in the middle window an example of a file opened, showing the tags, the image and some text description, on the right a panel opened with all the tags in the vault for quick searching it.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 19/06/2026

Really nice very early morning Warsaw Old City photos from my morning walk

Photo of Mostowa street in Warsaw, with buildings forming a "corridor" trailing into the distance and to the right, hiding the streets end.
Warm morning sunlight is shining on the buildings on the left, on the right they are fully covered in shadow.
Further down the street, couple of cars are parked, and dim orange street lights are still lit up.

Photo of a Świętojańska street in Warsaw, in the foreground buildings on the sides are almost entirely covered in shadow, between them is a gap where the street continues, until it opens up in front of the Royal Castle.
It is also mostly covered in shadow, except for the clocktower that's lit up by the warm morning sunlight.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 26/05/2026

Was trying to search for some specific game reviews/previews/interviews from around 2001, and stumbled upon this masterpiece LMAO

Scan of a "Next Gen" magazine spread, issue 84 from December 2001, with an ad for Crash Bandicoot The Wrath of Cortex. In it, character of Crash portrayed inside a hospital ward with walkers, in a patient's gown, with his entire ass out. A nurse looks over her back with a concerned/confused look towards crash, while he's walking down the corridor.
The caption on the ad reads "It's Crash's toughest adventure yet."

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 04/05/2026

I was a bit hesitant with this one, I'm gonna be real, as I wasn't really a fan of neither pokemon nor digimon (just something I didn't really have that much of an exposure to as a child), but hearing it being compared to Narnia couple of times does sparks up a bit of curiosity.

Excerpt from the article, which reads:
"A lot of the fiction I grew up with as a kid — like, say, Narnia — was fuckin kickass because you’d have some real dark shit without just being Misery Porn For Adults. Like, one book I loved growing up was The Silver Chair, which is a story about how two British schoolchildren end up in another dimension and go on a quest where they’re nearly eaten by giants and almost killed half a dozen other times on their way to descend into the literal underworld to rescue an ensorcelled prince who’s been taken away by a mysterious witch who turns into a snake creature."

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 22/04/2026

Finished Tactical Breach Wizards, incredible game, loved it a lot - I forgot when was the last time I had to actually get my headgears spinning this much lmao Plus the writing and characters are really fun Play it if you haven't yet!

Screenshot of a dialogue scene from the game.
There are 3 characters sitting at a table with a map and a model train on it, making plans.
From left to right - character in a pink hoodie with the hood up, and a ribcage print on the chest, and bones print on the arms.
Character in a noir-ish private investigator coat, witch hat, with a cat.
Old white haired man in tactical magician robe.
Context of the dialogue is that the group will need to wait for some time to proceed with their plan.
The dialogue reads:
Old man: "I've got a good audiobook on the role of Mulassan anti-tank monks in World War 4 if you wanna borrow."
Witch with the hat: "Is it about their human stories and cultural context, or more-"
Old man: "It's entirely about the craft dynamics of armour penetration."
Witch with the hat: "I'll just stare at a train station, thanks."

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 06/04/2026

"A live stream, from moon? A freaking moon, in the sky?!" y'know, maybe this timeline ain't too bad if I can watch NASA live stream moon flyby on twitch and earn Drops #NASA #ArtemisII

Screenshot of "Events" happening in twitch chat, displaying notification that you can earn Twitch Drops from watching the Artemis 2 mission, and a pinned message describing that Artemis 2 crew is in lunar flyby, and that it will last till 9:20 PM EDT April 6th (01:20 UTC on April 7th)

Screenshot of a Twitch stream from NASA, with Artemis 2 crew module on approach to the moon for a flyby.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 01/04/2026

100 UI bullets would indeed be very funny (I assume for something like an LMG?) A unique display for it also could be kinda neat, like have couple of rows, or (with a ton of extra effort, but also, arguably, would look hella cool) have some sort of representation of how bullets are stacked in a mag.

HUD icons for modified M1 Garand and Tokarev in Raid WW2, showing a simplified mag ammo counter display in a game. Rifle has a single row of rifle-looking longer rounds, while the handgun has 2 rows of smaller size pistol-looking rounds.

Screenshot of Ferryman from Sulfur, a .50BMG P90-style SMG, with a HUD display of a rotation mechanism of the magazine, as well as all of the rounds in it.

Screenshot of Rektor 100rd from Sulfur, a belt-fed LMG, with a HUD display of how the rounds for it are stacked inside of the belt box.

Screenshot of Deathstar PG from Sulfur, an SMG, with a HUD display of a, for a lack of a better word, "tray", with rounds haphazardly put in there.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 22/03/2026

I use an "absolute cinnamon", for no other reason than I needed some image to put as padding to test some features for textures/icons, and I had it lying around on the drive

Screenshot of a prototype character customization project, showing options to change - Colors, Eyes, Mouth and Ears.
Among those options, there are also placeholder buttons, with an "Absolute Cinnamon" meme image.
Image itself is a variation of an "Absolute Cinema" Martin Scorsese meme, with his hands put up, but it has a cinnamon roll placed instead of his head.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 18/03/2026

Couple more suggestions, I think Polish WW2/Cold War SMGs might also be fitting for something like that, Błyskawica and PM-63 Rak. There are pretty good Forgotten Weapons articles on both of those, and a video about Błyskawica specifically.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 18/03/2026

Do you look for anything in particular, like a vibe or a theme? Something like OTs-02 Kiparis, Gepard or Jatimatic might fit for what you want?

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/03/2026

Since corsair bought out elgato, they just... went ahead and made it an actual thing? Galleon 100 SD

Full render view of Corsair Galleon 100 SD keyboard

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/03/2026

I thought I was getting energy drinks, but it was actually a whole ass furry convention

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 13/03/2026

Couple funny moments: Max shoots in the air when aiming near a chest high wall, since he pulls the gun close to not clip with it; and I think my steam deck got tired during this cutscene and forgor to load the level in. Also had a bug where Max would a-pose when in cover, but don't have a SS of that

Screenshot from Max Payne 3, showing Max aiming a rifle towards the sky when standing near a chest high wall

Screenshot from Max Payne 3 cutscene, showing partially unloaded level (road and half of the buildings aren't visible, there are visible car, pavement on the side of the road and bits of terrain)

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 09/03/2026

Funniest shit he's ever read, clearly beat OG Max Payne today for the first time, and it was amazing, damn

Screenshot of a graphic novel strip from Max Payne, with Max, during a bad trip, reading a note that he is in a videogame. The text reads:
"I was in a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 09/03/2026

At first I thought "is that a damn first world bank vault lobby layout from payday" lmao

Screenshot of first world bank vault lobby from Payday The Heist

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 04/03/2026

Bringing this back due to a bit funny new RPS interview with one of the designers on FO3 (who then also went on to work on all subsequent Bethesda RPGs) www.rockpapershotgun.com/meet-the-man...

Screenshot excerpt from Rock Paper Shotgun article, which reads:
"...Yet you almost never hear Deus Ex, or immersive sims in general, mentioned in connection with the ongoing Fallout series. I believe Pagliarulo identified why back in 2010. “If I say the games are the soul of Looking Glass... well, it’s also the soul of early Bethesda games. They’re very immersive first-person things. The Terminator: Future Shock, The Elder Scrolls: Arena or Daggerfall. So when most people look at Fallout 3, they look at the legacy of this studio and don't look beyond it… and if they did, they'd find a lot of Deus Ex in Fallout 3.”

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 27/02/2026

Okay, shit, that's kinda scammy lol - they have AI disclosure mentioning genAI vocals for the music in the demo store page, but not on the main page (so I completely missed it). Screw that! (also dev replied to one of the reviews, using the "we are a small team!" excuse, breh)

Screenshot from Driving Rogue Demo Steam store page, text reads:
"AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game’s soundtrack features some voice lines generated with AI assistance."

Screenshot from part of the Driving Rogue dev reply to a review left to the demo, reading:
"Music sounds good because tracks are man-made, and they are sung by human (The melodies) before using AI to make a specific accent or voice, because we lack singers and we are a small team! So yeah, it's only vocals!"

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 25/02/2026

Yeah, 100% One clunky, but a quick workaround nonetheless, is to have a "default" version of the specific material instance, and just copy groups of properties. Better than clicking "revert" a 100 times at least.

Screenshot from inside of material instance in Unreal Engine, showcasing a context menu with options to Copy and Paste all properties withing parameter groups.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 18/01/2026

So funny story, I have one (which I just use for decoration), but how I got it is that there was another wooden hand at ikea which was a headphones holder stand thingy, so I asked my mom to get a wooden hand from ikea, and this is the one she got instead lol

A photo of a wooden hand on a shelf used as a decorative stand for steam deck's back shell. Also on a shelf are an angel lamp from alan wake 2, gold skull mask from payday 3, forza horizon xbox controller box and new blood "we love you, we hate money" art card

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 16/01/2026

On your profile, if you click on 3 dots, it should show you "Go live" button If you don't see them, it could be adblocker messing with it. If so, go to Profile page, disable adblock, refresh, a popup about new feature will happen and it will appear in the list, you can enable adblock back after that

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 27/12/2025

Eastern European winter morning is a vibe

Photo of a foggy street, with low rise appratment blocks extending into the distance, and garages and parked cars in the foreground.

Photo of a roundabout, flag pole and a high rise office building. Flag pole in the foreground has a polish flag on it which barely flows in the wind, the roof of the building in the background blends into and disappears in the fog.

Photo of a wide street, engulfed in fog, with roughly 150-200m visibility, couple stories high buildings on the sides of the road disappearing into the fog. In the foreground on the side of the building there's a billboard advertising for summer 2026 sunny beach trip vacations.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 03/12/2025

And Halo 3 done, fun game, really dig some of the background scenery. Good that it's the last mainline entry and they didn't make any more of these, really solid finale to Chief's story.

Screenshot from Halo 3 with a scenic overview of a pyramidal frame spaceship thing, with a big circular cloud over it.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 01/12/2025

Halo 2 time - she stayed with me through the whole Regret mission only to die at the boss fight against some weird ass prophet motherfucker. RIP female nameless marine, you will be missed.

Screenshot from Halo 2, in which a female marine is holding a beam rifle, ready as ever for a fight. She sadly died shortly after, RIP

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 01/12/2025

You've heard of yellow paint, but have you seen "giant ass white glowing arrows pointing a direction in a corridor"? (finally played Halo CE, great game)

Screenshot of Halo Combat Evolved, in which a big sci-fi looking metal panel on the floor with a light arranged in a shape of an arrow.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 17/11/2025

While SBZ tries to pull Payday together into something more cohesive, was having a blast playing Raid WW2, MUG Team/Sidetrack genuinely did wonders for it. Whole game is genuinely such a vibe, kinda dig the "steal nazi gold and fuck em up while at it" thing it has going for it.

Screenshot of Raid WW2 steam library page, showing 45.6 hours of playtime and 56/129 achievement completion.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 25/10/2025

sexy you can't run forever tom hanks

A skeet from lacey @byelacey.bsky.social that says “your halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you google searched”

“this year i'll be going as "sexy bus schedule".

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 22/10/2025

NextFest extra Schrott - a demo I somehow completely missed, while also being almost exactly what I was looking (funnily enough, found it bc of the new personal calendar thing on Steam so I guess it's working). Racing roguelite! Hell yeah! Not *quite* the kind of racing I'd want, but still super fun

Screenshot of a Schrott demo page in steam library, showing playtime of 43 minutes and 2/3 achievements in it.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 19/10/2025

Mom is coming to visit, so cooked some stuff (some milky cookies, cinnamon rolls, sorrel soup, chicken covered in sweet&sour marinade and mlyntsi/crepes)

Photo of cinnamon rolls and some plain milky cookies.

Photo of a sorrel soup in a pot with a big wooden spoon sticking out of it.

Photo of sweet&sour chicken legs in a glass baking dish inside the oven.

Photo of a stack of mlyntsi (ukrainian crepes variation).

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Last but not least - Lac Viet Journey "A typing game about Vietnam", which boils down to relatively simple loop - fly around a level while typing out Vietnamese dishes' names. Very chill and relaxing, although both controlling the bird and typing out stuff felt a bit too cumbersome.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Industria 2 Same thing as with Zortch - I'm surprised I somehow didn't play the first game (and I even own the damn game lol). Really liked the demo, survival horror gameplay bits are great, cool visual style also, somewhat reminiscent of Half Life 2. (recording audio got a bit borked, idk why)

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Brush Burial: Gutter World Very grimy imsim, playing as some kind of demon assassin. Took me a bit of time before figuring out how the hotbar inventory/hands system worked (video is me still confused by it), but genuinely really cool from the demo level they had.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Tides of Tomorrow In a most blunt way - basically "if a telltale game had async multiplayer", more specific - choices of players before you shape your play, and in turn, your play shapes the experience to the people who come after you. Liked it a lot, curious how it will work out in the full game.

Screenshot of Tides of Tomorrow demo page in steam library, showing 41 minutes of playtime

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Heist Haven Open World heisting coop FPS. Genuinely a game concept I *really* wanna see done by someone, and honestly, this one kinda works as a proof of concept. It's not that good of a game overall otherwise, but damn it makes me wish for someone to do this concept *properly*.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

A Tale of the Bullet Knight Kinda have similar feeling towards it as with "It's time to meet god", although for different reasons. Kinda jank, the handdrawn style of it honestly is bit all over the place, but "everything" being that way comes around to somehow feeling cohesive. I liked it.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Rusty Road Racing They have a bunch of undisclosed genAI bullshit in there (fun fact - nothing you can do about it), and this one feels like a genuine asset flip. Played a single race to get a feel for it, and honestly if more effort was put in, it could've been something decent but it's just "breh"

Screenshot of a Rusty Road Racing demo page in steam libary, showing 8 minutes of playtime

Screenshot of game's main menu, where there are genAI images of abominably looking wheel and engine block, as well as there being a generic asset store low poly character in what is an otherwise realistic looking environment.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

It's Time to Meet God Gonna be honest, not quite sure what I played there, but I liked it (even if I couldn't handle it for long). A roguelike FPS, but I don't think just putting a label like that gives it justice. Being able to flip through different visual presentations is a neat feature.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Undead Tread "Vehicular FPS", as in - drive in first person only, and your guns only shoot forward. Incredibly jank, big "asset flip" vibes, but also kinda endearing in a way. Looking through dev's stuff, seems like first steam release, done solo, and just a dude trying to "break in" into gamedev.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Fish^3: First Catch Steam showed it in a "non-combat racing" category, so I decided "what the hell, sure". And it is technically a race of a sort, so I'll give em this one. You catch fish, it pulls you, you catch more fish along the way while dodging obstacles. Was really into the vibes of this one.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Zortch 2 Genuinely a treasure, no idea how I didn't stumble upon the first game before, incredibly fun FPS. If making comparisons, what was in the demo felt like an unholy concoction of OG Half-Life and Serious Sam, in the best possible way. Now I *really* need to play the first one.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Crisol: Theater of Idols FPS Survival horror, *very* reminiscent of RE7/8 in gameplay (backtracking with key items, pursuer-type enemy, slow and methodical combat), really liked the idea of your blood also being your ammunition for resource management, as well as the art of it in general.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

RoadOut Really neat top-down dungeon crawler, art reminded me a lot of a "sci-fi"-ish Enter the Gungeon, isn't a bullet hell gameplay-wise tho. Wish I could play more of it as, for some reason, it kept crashing and having poor perf, and didn't feel like investigating what was the cause of it.

Screenshot of RoadOut demo page in steam library, showing 17 minutes of playtime

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

The Last Delivery Man on Earth Point-to-point racing game, title speaks for itself. A unique choice for this one is that you're *forced* to drive manual sequential w/ clutch, so there's a bit of a curve to getting a hang of the game, but tbh it just kinda didnt feel "worth it" to get the hang of it.

Screenshot of The Last Delivery Man on Earth demo page in steam library, showing 25 minutes of playtime

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Jackal A take on a Hotline Miami formula, genuinely really nice, loved the artstyle, story premise seemed quite interesting so far. "Bonus" level that was thrown at the end of the demo was 50/50, as it's a small but open map with low cover, so it is challenging, but idk if for the right reasons.

Screenshot of Jackal demo page in steam library, showing 27 minutes of playtime

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Painkiller (reboot?/remake?) A really odd one, knew it was being made, didn't know what it was going to be, and turns out it's a 3 player PvE coop, a bit like Darktide, if comparing. It plays well (played solo tho), it's just... kinda really grinds my gears it's not a single-player focused game?

Screenshot of Painkiller demo page in the steam library, 60 minutes of playtime

Screenshot of session end screen, with rewards calculation and character display.

Screenshot of personal progress screen, showing weapon challenges tracking for unlocks.

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Reptilian VladeoZ @vladeoz.reptilian.games · 15/10/2025

Uhhh, Steam Next Fest is going on, so I went through the whole list, picked a bunch of games which caught my eye (I was looking for racing and FPS games, and occasional oddballs) and it's gonna be a big thread now. Here's the list of everything I got, 16 games total.

Screenshot of a collection of game demos in a Steam library.
Game demos in the list are:
Brush Burial: Gutter World
Crisol: Theater of Idols
Fish^3: First Catch
Heist Haven
Industria 2
It's Time To Meet God
Jackal
Lac Viet Journey
The Last Delivery Man on Earth
Painkiller
RoadOut
Rusty Road Racing
The Tale of Bullet Knight
Tides of Tomorrow
Undead Tread
Zortch 2

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