Steam Next Fest: Demon Bluff, Desktop Explorer, Blood Dungeon

I’m at the end of a game I’m writing about, but then I remembered: it’s Steam Next Fest time again! Let’s take a break from my backlog bingo escapades to look at some stuff I liked that’s coming over the horizon… Demon Bluff, by UmiArt is a single-player social deduction game. This game’s higher profile compared to a lot of games, on account of promotion by and involvement of everyone’s favorite bald streamer. But dang it, do I really like this. A village has a deck of people with their own abilities to flip over. Hunters will say how close they are to the nearest evil and empresses will give a list of people and say one of them is evil, for example. Then there’s a group of characters labeled as outcasts, who are neutral but shouldn’t be killed, like the wretch who’d register as evil to people like the hunter and empress, or the bald man that causes truthsayers near him to tell him to shut up – confirming them as truthsayers while robbing you of potentially valuable information.…