From now until October 16 @10:00AM Pacific, explore demos from teams all over the world across any genre you can imagine.

These are all games you have a chance to sample before they launch on Steam, so wishlist your favorites to be notified once they do.

Check out the official livestream event happening now (11am PT kickoff), followed by developer livestreams all week long (the schedule on the front page will help you find the ones you want). You can also interact with the teams behind the games through developer live chats throughout the week.

Here's a list of some notable demos available.

• PixelJunk Eden 2: Return to the gardens of light and sound in this hypnotic platforming adventure from the award-winning PixelJunk series.
• A Thug's Ascension: A Thug's Ascension is a low-poly action-adventure / FPS story set in the dying city of Maratha, circa 2023. Become Chief, a feared mercenary, and experience a dark, slow-paced crime drama marrying cinematic, dialogue-driven storytelling with intense shooting and driving gameplay.
• Celestial Empire: The Emperor has chosen you as a new provincial governor. Design the city of your dreams, admiring its details from a bird's-eye view. Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
• Echoes of the Living: Echoes of the Living is a dark Classic Survival Horror inspired by the greatest hits from he 90's focused on reimagining visual horror, your goal is to make it alive while undercovering the truth about the incident.
• Super Crazy Rhythm Castle: It’s Super Crazy Rhythm Castle, the chaotic rhythm adventure! A puzzling co-op mashup unlike anything you've ever heard. Solo, or with a band of up to three friends … … Can you conquer the castle?
• Apocalypse Party: Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.
• Gods Against Machines: You are a god born of necessity. Your world is under attack by a ruthless race of machines, and you are its only hope. Create an arsenal of powerful spells and eliminate the enemy before they irrevocably poison your home in this roguelite strategy game!
• AMEDAMA: Side-scrolling, soul-shifting sandbox action adventure brought to life with a striking new 2D style! With only his soul remaining, Yushin must fight tooth and nail, possessing body after body on a quest to find his sister. With just seven days left until his soul departs, can he save her in time?
• Pioneers of Pagonia: The city builder Pioneers of Pagonia is all about exploration, discovery, and reuniting the fantastical islands of Pagonia. Build over 40 different buildings, use more than 70 different types of goods, manage widely branched production chains, and get creative in establishing your economy.
• Block Buster VR: Destroy cities with your bare hands! Toss tanks! Grab – and eat – people! This is Block Buster, the game where YOU are the Kaiju. It’s all about raw destruction – and a healthy helping of cosplay in this arcade action scavenger hunt. Pick from five monsters to destroy cities across the globe.
• Never Mourn: Become a powerful battler necromancer and challenge death with your double-edged weapon. Kill and resurrect your enemies to grow your army and do the impossible to revive your child.
• EMPTY SHELL: EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
• Histera: Histera is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter with a battlefield that changes on the fly: chunks of battlefield from past, present and future eras transform in real time! Join our Early Access and shape the present and future of the game (if not the past)!