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Kaan Serin

This single-player MMO with fake players is one of the weirdest games I've seen in Steam Next Fest, and its demo is over 12 hours long

Screenshot from Erenshore, showing three old-school style mmo characters standing on a sunsetting hill.

Steam Next Fest isn't lacking in the 'weird' department, and I mean that as a compliment. The digital event bringing thousands of early demos is full of games that mix genres in delightfully odd ways or even parody those memeified PS1 Harry Potters. But the demo for 'MMO' Erenshor might be the weirdest yet (and I also mean that as a massive compliment.)

Despite its old-school RuneScape-ish style and the crowds of 'players' running about, Erenshore isn't actually a massively multiplayer online game because all those people questing with usernames above their heads are, in fact, NPCs who are simply very good at acting like dumb real people. It's an MMO where the 'O' stands for offline.

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