https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest
Steam Next Fest is a week-long celebration featuring hundreds of FREE playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats. Players try out upcoming games on Steam pre-release, developers gather feedback and build an audience ahead of their Steam launch, everyone wins!
Stray Gods (formerly Chorus) is one game I’ve been looking forward to ever since the original announcement on the now-defunct Fig (a musical RPG with Laura Bailey, yes please).
Little Cat Big City looks like a lot of fun. And so cute too!
How does the gameplay work in that one? I checked the screenshots but couldn’t tell
I’m uncertain, but it seems like during the singing bits, it’s a dialogue tree with with musical/lyrical matching parts as well! So you can set the tone to match the person you’re singing with/against.
Check out the game A Musical Story. It’s ostensibly a rhythm game, but I don’t think there is a failure condition other than that you have to keep trying the music loop until you clear it to get to the next vignette. It’s sort of a wordless short story told through animated slides and deeply groovy musical interludes