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Steam Next Fest Is On Now, Hundreds Of Demos Available - Day #1

by Rainier on Oct. 9, 2023 @ 4:46 p.m. PDT

The October 2023 edition of Steam Next Fest is officially underway, with hundreds of free demos just waiting to be played!

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.

  • Ghostrunner 2: Blood will run in Ghostrunner 2, a hardcore FPP slasher set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Become the ultimate cyber ninja and prepare for epic boss fights, improved skills, an interactive story, new game modes, and captivating synthwave soundtrack.
  • Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin: Wage a campaign of brutal conquest in this realm-shattering real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer Age of Sigmar universe. Prepurchase the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition now to receive 3 days Early Unlock and unique Profile Customisation sets.
  • Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance: Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is a gritty RTS that puts you in the middle of the Future Wars between humanity and Legion's synthetic intelligent machine network. Take command and lead your army to foil Legion's plan to destroy humanity or play as one of three factions in skirmish and multiplayer.
  • Crime Scene Cleaner: Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, outsmart the police, and get ready for the next mission.
  • RoboCop: Rogue City: Become the legendary part man, part machine, all cop hero and deliver justice in Old Detroit.
  • No Stone Unturned: Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road? Find the Answer. Featuring Loveable Characters, Multiple Endings, Puzzles, Mini-Games and Choices that Truly Matter!
  • The Talos Principle 2: The Talos Principle 2 is a thought-provoking first-person puzzle experience that greatly expands on the first game's philosophical themes and stunning environments with increasingly mind-bending challenges.
  • Let Them Come: Onslaught: Survive the relentless offensive of the alien horde in Let Them Come: Onslaught, a sci-fi survival roguelite. The pursuit of the perfect build and an ever-expanding arsenal of abilities are the keys to your success.
  • Cats on Duty: Cats on Duty is a purr-fect blend of RTS, tower defense, and match-3 game genres. Manage two game fields at once as well as arm and upgrade your cat towers to defeat hordes of formidable foes. Enjoy the meow-nificent battle!
  • Toy Trains: Let’s play Toy Trains! A playful track-building VR game where you create your own small world and engage in a captivating storyline. It’s all about imagination, creative thinking, having fun and… trains!
  • Solium Infernum: Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?
  • Demeo Battles: Demeo Battles is a competitive PvP turn-based strategy game. Choose your champion, assemble an army of monstrous minions, and team up with fellow champions in your quest for turn-based glory!
  • Bish Bash Bots:  Bish Bash Bots is a unique mix of casual tower defense strategy and all-out brawling action. Team up in couch co-op / online play or go it alone and fight to save the world by building upgradable turrets, unlocking gadgets and bashing bots with giant hammers.
  • Lunar Lander Beyond: Guide a roster of colorful pilots, eclectic advisors and state-of-the-art landers through a taxing series of missions. Deliver cargo, retrieve resources, and rescue stranded pilots as you navigate a mysterious universe of moons and planets.
  • Sky: Children of the Light: Sky: Children of the Light is a peaceful, award-winning MMO designed to help players meaningfully connect with one another. You are a Child of the Light with a magical cape, set out into a wide world to find others like yourself. All are welcome in this cozy, open-world adventure above the clouds!
  • Wéko The Mask Gatherer: Discover a vast world of mystery, filled with fearsome enemies, extraordinary tales and unforgettable scenery. Find and collect powerful masks to help an unlikely hero fight back the darkness.
  • Wizordum: Wizordum is a retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. With a wide arsenal of spells and magic items, battle your way through the world of Terrabruma in this unique blend of classic 90s shooters and modern gaming elements. Smash, burn, and loot!
  • Vexlands: Vexlands is a realm of surprises. Every newly opened space brings a surprise: loot, resources, dungeons, monsters and disasters! Build your village where you craft new equipment before you explore uncharted areas, and find relics that explain who came before and why these lands are cursed.
  • Below the Stone: Below the Stone is a pixel-art roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.
  • Make Way: Speed around loops, dart through train crossings, drift around helter skelters, and unleash wacky weaponry in this modern take on classic top-down multiplayer racing games. The twist? You build the track.
  • Songs of Silence: Songs of Silence is a story-rich strategy game, set in two distinct fantasy worlds threatened by the all-devouring Silence. The game features a unique mix of turn-based kingdom management, exploration, and hero development, contrasted with short and intense real-time battles.
  • Simpler Times: Simpler Times is an experiential, interactive meditation that rewards patience and attention with poignant moments that can be replayed like a favorite song.
  • Noxia Somnia: Face your fears in this chilling 2D survival horror action game about understanding and overcoming mental health struggles. Explore twisted nightmares, engage in challenging fast-paced combat and survive encounters with terrifying stalker enemies.
  • Mars Tactics: The Red Planet is at war. Lead either Capital’s corporate army or Labor’s worker revolutionaries and wage war across a vast strategic map, then assume direct control in turn-based tactical battles featuring artillery, vehicles, and fully-destructible environments.
  • Headbangers Rhythm Royale: Headbangers is a light-hearted, Rhythm Battle Royale Game where you and 29 other Pigeons compete against each other, all to complete your quest of claiming the title of Master Headbanger!
  • Goalgetter World Cup: In the first-person football career simulator, you can make your dream of becoming a top striker in one of the major European leagues come true. You are a young, talented striker. Now, you have the opportunity to play professional football.
  • Return Alive:  Return Alive is a Top-Down Post-Apocalyptic Looter Shooter with PvE and PvP elements where players compete to survive. Players can utilize a variety of loadouts, including different characters, weapons, and battlesuits.
  • Asbury Pines: A grisly murder in a small town unfolds across centuries. Incremental-style interactions with the people, places, and events of Asbury Pines grow resources and build rewarding production engines that unlock a sprawling mystery embedded in the flow of time.
  • FatalZone: FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost!
  • Monolith: Requiem of the Ancients: Journey across Gliese, a mystical world under threat by dark forces in this vibrant, action RPG. With the power of the Runic Swarm in your hands, crush the minions of evil on your path to fulfill your destiny and become the planet’s savior.
  • Solium Infernum: Take the Infernal Throne in this hellish turn-based grand strategy game. The Prince of Darkness has vanished, leaving Archfiends to conspire: muster your legions while intoning dark sorceries, devilish schemes, and machiavellian plots. Who will be the new ruler of Hell and ascend the Throne?
  • Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom: Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom is an arcade bump'a'jump platformer where you take people for rides and the oil industry for all they have.
  • Wild Country: Wild Country is a cozy-competitive card game with city-building elements! Collect cards, construct buildings, explore Big Sky, and challenge friends in this cozy competitive strategy game.
  • Phantom Rose 2 Sapphire: Phantom Rose 2 is a roguelike deckbuilding game. Fight and collect powerful cards as Aria, trying to survive in her cherished school that’s being ravaged by evil creatures.
  • Japanese Drift Master: Welcome to Japan, the drift capital of the world! Compete, drift, and race on miles of varied roads and winding mountain trails. Drive through towns nestled at the scenic Haikama Lake. Spend your savings on new cars and get a taste of Japanese tuning style.
  • A New Leaf: Memories: You wake up on the beach of a foreign island, unable to recall anything. Alone and equipped with only basic farming tools provided by the town residents, you aim to recover your memories. Complete quests and explore Omoide Island to unfold your story.
  • The Crust: Your lunar colony holds the last hope for humanity—if you can survive. A narrative-led lunar colony sim game where you build on and beneath the surface, explore the lunar surface, and expand into interplanetary space. Harness lunar resources and shape the destiny of mankind as a CEO of a Lunar base.
  • Earthless: EARTHLESS is a sci-fi, roguelike deckbuilder where humankind has been thrust into the cosmic wind on a fleet of starships captained by you. To find a new home, you must draw your own path through the stars and play the hand you’re dealt. You are our hope in the darkness.
  • Dungeons 4: The Absolute Evil and its trusted *cough* servant, the Dark Elf Thalya, return in Dungeons 4 after the events of its fabulous predecessor to bring about their triumph over the forces of good once more.
  • The Inquisitor: Jesus did not die on the cross, but came down and unleashed vengeance on all the nonbelievers. 1500 years later, an army of Inquisitors brutally enforce the faith. In this dark fantasy adventure you solve intricate cases and unveil abysmal secrets as Inquistor Mordimer Madderdin.
  • Foundry: Build a factory in an infinite simulated voxel world. Mine resources, craft machinery and automate your research to progress. Face logistic challenges by planning and building a conveyor belt and pipe network. Manage a complex power system and expand your constantly growing production lines.
  • UNITED 1944: UNITED 1944 is an innovative WW2 shooter combining weapon crafting, base building & team strategy. Fight for territory in 16v16 urban guerrilla battles in Domination Mode, or explore a city in ruins as a lone wolf in Survivor Mode. Unlock skills and customize your hero. Play your way. Make history.
  • Turnip Boy Robs a Bank: Turnip Boy is back! This time he’s teaming up with the fearsome Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time. Shake down hostages, steal precious valuables, battle the fuzz, and use wacky tools bought off the dark web to move further into the vaults of the Botanical Bank.
  • Stronghold: Definitive Edition: Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
  • Anomaly Agent: ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-platformer featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
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