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Friendly neighborhood dragon. Dabbles in a little bit of everything, and tries to help where possible.

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · 5d

You can find the myth here if you'd like to give it a read

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Askevir's Legacy (Part 1) - Dragon Press

Before objects had form, before words had meaning,Before shadows could hide, what light brought to being.In this space without space, a location sublime,The only one present, was the master of time. A...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · 5d

A while ago I was looking for artists to do a fun experimental project of illustrating one of my dragon myths. I think it's high time to share the results! I'd love to do more of these, but need to figure out how to best do so

Art by @cattusaur.bsky.social, Ahrikima, and Ardent (who aren't on bsky)

A pale dragon clutching an egg shape, inside of which there are two silhouettes, one blue, one black

A cosmic dragon inside a nebula of stars

A drawing featuring a collection of dragon gods, posing together as if on an ancient illustration

TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

Inkshade provides the same mysterious atmosphere in a dark setting as Inscryption, but instead of cards it has you play a hexagonal strategy game with permadeath pieces every run, as well as a cross-run progression where you can upgrade all your units and your chance to survive

Inkshade on Steam

Inkshade is a turn-based tactics game carved out of strange wooden miniatures, wrapped in a web of locked rooms, and orchestrated by an otherworldly game master. Victory is not guaranteed, and the onl...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

A cozy action-adventure, that has an unlikely group of heroes battle loneliness and figure out who their companion is. It may sound a bit generic, but the vibes are most delightful, and I enjoyed the writing that really does give each character a different personality and mannerism

The Lonesome Guild on Steam

In a world consumed by loneliness, only friendship can save the day. Lead a quirky cast in this colorful single-player ARPG full of heart, battles, and bonds that change everything.

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

An RPG where you control a small party of heroes on an honorable quest. Turn-based, with dice rolls for map movement and card moves for combat. While the demo is single-player in the full game each hero can be controlled by a different player, which I think will be an ideal way to play

VIractal: World of Viractalia on Steam

A strategic board game-style RPG where dice rolls guide your journey! Build your deck, explore changing maps, and face events shaped by your choices and luck. Play solo or online with friends—every ad...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

A hack'n'slash roguelike in a sci-fi samurai setting. The world is very beautiful, and you are very powerful as you combo your regular moves with randomized upgrades. Very high quality game to look forward to

Morbid Metal on Steam

Morbid Metal is a Hack 'n' Slash, Action Rogue-lite, where you can shapeshift into unique characters to slaughter enemies with powerful combos. Switch characters in real-time to unleash your power and...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

This is a PvP focused game, where you and your opponent will battle via summoning various "dragimons". At the start of each turn you roll die that distribute resources, and then it is your job to do the best you can with the resources you get. Matches are surprisingly long and deep with strategies

Dragimon Dungeons on Steam

Prepare to challenge your friends in this mix of Dice, Monsters, and Strategy! Best your opponent by building your own mix of Monsters and Dice. Then, expand your path to fight your Rival's monsters u...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

A gravity-bending 3D grid puzzler, where every level has you figure out a slightly new way to use the very limited tools at your disposal. I was overthinking a lot of the puzzles, but they're great. It's rare to see first person be both free look and grid-based, and they pull it off exceedingly well

He Who Watches on Steam

Manipulate gravity, walk on walls, and uncover secrets in this atmospheric dungeon puzzler where every room offers a completely unique idea.

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

A truly unique rhythm fishing game. It mixes up individual mechanics you may have seen in other rhythm/fishing games, and puts it together into a musical mayhem. I have never had this much fun fishing in a game, and the boss fish at the end of a demo is a perfect culmination of it all

Sinker sound on Steam

Fishing in a Strange domain of mermaid and find many strange fishes with its own unique original music! You must REEL to the beat to the song! This is a Fishing game with Musical Rhythm gimmick!

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 15

And the final day of #NextFest is here! Some real great stuff this time around, and some more goodies for the end. I wanted to go through all the demos people suggested, so I've got a lot of good quality stuff to end off the Fest

Highlights: Inkshade, Sinker Sound, He Who Watches

Next Fest 25|2 Day 7

Micro-reviews for Day 7 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Sinker Sound, He Who Watches, Dragimon Dungeons, Morbid Metal, VIractal: World of Viractalia, The Lonesome Guild, and Inkshade

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

Our Journey is a unique co-op game in which one player guides the other via selectively picking cards with colors and shapes on them. It feels weird to play a heavily co-op game without talking, but it is an intriguing title nonetheless

Our Journey on Steam

Our journey is a co-op (2 players) asymmetric adventure game. Communicate creatively with symbols to unveil the path to success. Find out who you really are by meeting intriguing characters and visiti...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

A rhythm bullet heaven, where each song is a simplified beatmap defining when you can attack. Chaining specific attacks can activate special moves, but doing so is quite difficult in the mayhem of the fight. Dying is also difficult, and the demo lacks a goal, but is otherwise a well-made concept

Strik-9 on Steam

Cute rats, Killer tunes, Hellish world! STRIK-9 fuses bullet heaven chaos with rhythm action. Blast, dodge, and groove through a musical wasteland in this beat-driven adventure starring Strik and his ...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

The whole point of ODDLI is to move your character on a grid, onto the goal, avoiding all the previous characters you moved to their goals. Very quickly it becomes a choreography of dancing Oddles. It is missing some QoL features, but is otherwise as satisfying as it claims to be.

ODDLI: A satisfying game on Steam

ODDLI is a casual puzzle game about creating satisfying loops. Solve moving puzzles where the only obstacle is your past self. Reach the goal with your character, avoid your previous movements and wat...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

A curious beast. This is a 2D pixel adventure game. But I'm not actually sure what it's meant to be beyond that. You've got items and there are interactions/mechanics, but they only feel excused by "the game demands it". The style and polish is strong and the game knows what it's doing, but I don't

Everdeep Aurora on Steam

An ongoing apocalyptic meteor shower has forced the world’s population to settle underground. As Shell, a feline child who awakens to find her mother missing, drill downward from the surface layer thr...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

An escape room inside of a manor in search for an inheritance. A generic setting, and with a level of mystery appropriate for an escape room - requires to connect the dots, but isn't a brain scratcher to solve. Sadly the framerate could use a little boost, regardless of how good your PC is

Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room on Steam

Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But y...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

Gemporium is a cute mining sim about mining out gems, polishing them up, and then selling them to customers. A simple, cozy loop that does precisely as much as it needs to do to be enjoyable: not too much, not too little

Gemporium: A Cute Mining Sim on Steam

Mine, Refine and Sell Gemstones of various rarities to eagerly awaiting customers in Gemporium, a mining simulation management game! Manage your time wisely while purchasing upgrades and growing your ...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

A simple puzzle game about being a bomb caterpillar, and using the bombs in clever ways to explode your way past obstacles. Well made, but I wish the demo was more than a few minutes long. Though it did showcase everything it needed to, so it's just a sign of it being a thing one would want to play

A Bomb Caterpillar's Big Adventure! "Öoo" is a charming yet mysterious exploration puzzle platformer where you discover creative ways to use bombs!

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 14

A little bit on the shorter and simpler side for Day 6 of #NextFest. Day 4 was an unbeatable peak, but nonetheless there are always more cool demos to check out

Highlights: Gemporium, Our Journey

Next Fest 25|2 Day 6

Micro-reviews for Day 6 of Summer Next Fest 2025, exploring Öoo, Gemporium, Secrets of the Blackrock Manor, Everdeep Aurora, ODDLI, Strik-9, and Our Journey

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

A vast puzzle game based on exploring an alien planet full of hi-tech megastructures filled with a good balance of exploration, exposition, and experimentation with the mechanics. Would be flawless had it not been for the game causing my GPU to go full oven mode, though the performance was fine

Memory's Reach on Steam

Memory’s Reach is a first person puzzle-adventure metroidvania. Explore labyrinthian megastructures, solve mind-bending puzzles, and wield fantastic alien technology in a quest to reveal the legacy of...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

A musical puzzler, where as you solve the level it turns into an arrangement of notes, often with a loop that keeps the music going. It's satisfying, but the levels would have to be a lot more complicated for the note sequences to turn into musical symphonies. Neat nonetheless

Cadence on Steam

Solve Problems. Make Music. Feel Nourished. Cadence is a minimalist puzzle game about solving circuits to create music. This is not a rhythm game, but a zen music sandbox that rewards curiosity and pr...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

A straightforward grid-based puzzler about guiding "panikers" to the goal tiles. Problem is that they're often too panicked to move, and you have to figure out how to arrange them on the board so that they're able to move when you need them to. A very clean and effective puzzling experience

PANIK is a puzzle game where you have to guide different characters to the goal. But remember: Don’t panic!

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

I got lured in, thinking it'll be a puzzler about fitting oddly-shaped stamps together, with some roguelike repetition sprinkled in. Turns out the roguelike bit is more like balatrolike, but with missing explanations, polish, and VFX/SFX. Could be fun, but it's not yet satisfying where it should be

Roach Post on Steam

Roach Post is a roguelike puzzle game where you place polyomino stamps to teleport packages. Combine shapes, colors, and roach worker effects, build your deck, gather power — and make sure every deliv...

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

Manipulate differently-colored spotlights to activate switches and solve puzzles. Simple premise that's well executed. Sadly, the puzzles are also quite simple and there are not a lot of them, so it's hard to judge the game on its puzzling valor

Chromatic Conundrum on Steam

Chromatic Conundrum is a first person puzzle game where you manipulate light. Combine different colors and form shadows to illuminate your way through an enigmatic world.

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

A game about moving colors around to either remove them from the grid (match3 rules) or put specific colors on specific tiles. Overall fine, and the puzzles have the signature "trick you into making a wrong move", but they are otherwise straightforward and lack a very much needed undo button

Prism Shift on Steam

A minimalist, grid-based puzzle game where you merge colored blocks using additive color mixing. Clear connected blocks and interact with special blocks to progress through each level.

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TNT Dragon @tntdragon.bsky.social · Jun 13

A metroidbrania in disguise. Chronoquartz's main method of puzzle solving is you learning about how the world operates, where there are secret passages, and how to deal with enemies; all while you're stuck in a 10-screen time-loop. I really enjoyed their execution of the concept

Chronoquartz on Steam

In Chronoquartz, every move matters! You have 10 turns per loop: explore, solve puzzles, and use your past knowledge to progress. Strategy, critical thinking, and time management will be your allies i...

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