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

by Rainier on Oct. 14, 2024 @ 1:58 p.m. PDT

The October 2024 edition of Steam Next Fest is officially underway, with hundreds of free demos just waiting to be played!

Hundreds of free demos await you as Steam Next Fest kicks off a full week of fun, all in celebration of upcoming games on Steam.

Be sure to check out the livestream schedule to see when your favorite devs are in action! And don't forget to wishlist your favorite demos to be notified when they ship.

Steam Next Fest is on now through October 21st at 10am PT!

 

  • 10 Dead Doves: 10 Dead Doves is a single-player, fixed-perspective narrative horror set in the heart of Appalachia. Avoid strange noises, collect lifelines, and creep through a forest that seems to hate you. Will you discover why the birds drop dead -- or leave behind nothing but footprints?
  • Aaero2: Trace ribbons of light to release the energy in the Monstercat music as you speed through stunning alien worlds. Fly solo or team up with a friend. Encounter strange enemies and giant boss creatures. Unleash devastating missile barrages and rain heavy cannon fire to the beat of the epic
  • Achilles: Survivor: Achilles: Survivor is a dynamic single-player bullet heaven game where you face thousands of enemies, build destructive structures, develop your character to return as an even more powerful machine of destruction and survive waves of enemies.
  • Across the Wonderlands: A whimsical open world survival crafting game! Build your magical base dimension and craft fun dishes to fight quirky foes on your journey to the fallen star.
  • Among Ashes: Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿  
  • Ascending Inferno: Experience rage-inducing precision platforming as a recently deceased soccer player damned to Inferno! Kick your sibling's soul out of Hell for your chance at redemption!
  • Atomic Owl: Atomic Owl is a pixel art-based single-player, side-scrolling roguelite that combines fast-paced platforming with dynamic hack-and-slash combat and a variety of weapons, powerups, and a demonic blade. Journey through eight roguelite zones, save your friends, and take up arms against Omega Wing!
  • Axe Ghost: A tiny, turn-based, score attack challenge. Survive a monster onslaught and vanquish their formidable boss.
  • Ballionaire: Ballionaire is a fast-paced pachinko roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
  • Bloodshed: Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!
  • Bonaparte - A Mechanized Revolution: 1789, Paris. Take Napoleon’s place in an alternate history as Céline or César Bonaparte in this ideology driven, turn-based strategy journey. Defend, reform or oppose the monarchy and write your own alternative history by combining cunning political skills and tactical military prowess.
  • Border Pioneer: As the kingdom's most promising pioneer, embark on a legendary journey to tame the frontier! Build thriving towns across various landscapes, fending off waves of diverse enemies until you establish a firm foothold and have explored everything the eye can see!
  • Business Heroes: Street Grub: Drawing on the spirit of the classic Lemonade Tycoon. Master the art of a street food business. Design mouth-watering recipes, strategically set prices, and manage inventory to prepare for the rush. Dive deep into analytics to optimize operations and tackle complex scenarios to test yourself.
  • Call of Boba: manage and save a struggling Boba tea shop!
  • Candy Rangers: Go on a single player, On-Rails Shooter Adventure in Candy Rangers and match 4 colors with 4 rangers! Each ranger can take down enemies that match their color, and it's up to you to use each one accordingly! Can you match them all?
  • Captain Blood: Captain Blood is a pirate-themed action game where you play as a fearsome pirate seeking gold and glory. Expect adventures with cannon firing, pistol shooting, swashbuckling sword fights, and plenty of pirate shenanigans. This hack'n'slash features fierce combat, hordes of enemies and flashy combos.
  • Care Bears: To The Rescue: Care Bears: To The Rescue is a brand-new action-platformer set in the world-renowned Care Bears universe, drawing direct inspiration from the original animated show “Care Bears: Unlock the Magic”!
  • Card of Legend: Unite the legends to prevent the resurrection of the evil forces! A competitive Anime TCG game featuring fantastic story of heroes joining forces with angels to stop the evil forces.This game features PvP, PvE, Roguelike, Single Player Missions, and others. Play your cards right!
  • Castaway Hand: A relaxing vacation, a leisurely journey - that’s how it was supposed to be, but due to a cruise ship crash, you are stranded on a tropical desert island. With its vast sandy beaches, dense woods, and possibly less dangerous animals - do you, by any chance, have what it takes to survive?
  • Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector: A tabletop-inspired RPG, in a human and heartfelt sci-fi world. You are an escaped android, with a malfunctioning body, a price on your head and no memory of your past. Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt.
  • Commander Quest: Congratulations! You just found a 'one of a kind' roguelike that combines deck-building card game and auto battle strategy game! Consider unit counters, then create powerful synergy by breaking down the boundaries between the battlefield and cards, then lead your army to victory!"
  • Commandos: Origins [PC/XSX]: ALARM! You have been selected for a mission which will shape the fate of the entire world. Witness the very beginning of the legendary elite WWII force in Commandos: Origins. The long-awaited sequel to the Commandos series brings you right back to the foundation of the real-time tactics genre.
  • Cook For Love: Win the hearts of Parisians with your cooking, discover delicious recipes, and become a chef worthy of working onboard the Orient Express.
  • Critter Café: Welcome to your Critter Café! Seek out fantastical Critters in need of your help and build a new home together. Renovate your café, bond with your Critters, and uncover the secrets of mysterious portals to give every Critter a cosy home.
  • Cursebane: Cursebane is a katana-action roguelite where your choices twist your journey. Empower your blade and spells as you seek out those doomed by prophecy and save them from the Curse.
  • Deathless Death: In the quiet of conscience and shadows of sin, four souls find themselves entwined in crimes involving a woman. In this narrative puzzle game, you don the sacred robe of a priest, hear the confessions of sinners, uncover secrets, seek the truth behind their crimes and deliver the final judgment.
  • DieselDome: Oil & Blood: DieselDome: Oil & Blood is an FPS with Movement Shooter and Survivors-Like mechanics. In every run, you will create absurdly powerful builds against hundreds of enemies at a time while facing the judgment of the crowd. It takes place in an original RomanPunk universe.
  • DigDigDrill: DigDigDrill is an underground mining and resource collecting game. Dig freely for minerals and treasures. Use the items you collect to forge your original drills in a hack-and-slash style equipment system.
  • Elements and build: Form your own genre with skills in different elements, use building rewards to build your own unique maze in randomly generated levels, and fight to survive waves of monsters to win
  • Emerald Caravan: Set in a vibrant and mystical world, Emerald Caravan will invite you to embark on a journey filled with magic, mystery, and discovery. Travel, explore dungeons, sell goods in your caravan shop and discover the secrets of your family's business!
  • Erenshor: Erenshor is a single player nod to the MMORPGs of the past. Partner up with our signature "Simulated Players" to experience all of the joys of open-world MMORPG gameplay on your own schedule and without the time commitments. There are thousands of items, quests, raids, and secrets to discover!
  • Garden Designer: Garden Designer offers a rich experience filled with gardening and construction tasks. Select your gardener and let your creativity shine as you design and manage gardens, and build structures in picturesque parks and residences. Create unique buildings and gardens for an unforgettable
  • Garden of Witches: Garden of Witches is a cute roguelike action game full of danger. Help the protagonist, Sil, as she tries to round up her unruly fellow witches and save the Garden.
  • Genso Manège: Follow Emma as she fights to reawaken her magical powers in order to aid a unique cast of characters, all of whom are trapped inside a travelling amusement park. Having lost memories from youth, Emma must rediscover her past through love and friendship in this stunning dream-like fantasy otome.
  • Great God Grove: a bizarre adventure from the Smile For Me devs, suck up and launch speech bubbles and SAVE DA WORLD!!
  • Hannah: Hannah is a 3D puzzle-platformer game. You play as Hannah, whose doll goes missing and now must rescue it and try to understand her nightmares by making an internal journey to her childhood and find out what went wrong.
  • Heartworm: Pass through the threshold and enter a world born of memories. Defend yourself with a camera while solving death’s mysteries in a reverent evolution of 90’s survival horror, integrating both fixed cameras and over the shoulder perspectives.
  • IHAS: Find yourself aboard a giant spaceship in IHAS, a gripping Sci-Fi adventure handcrafted by a solo Ukrainian developer. Experience intense FPS action, mind-bending puzzles, and epic boss battles.
  • Intergalactic Battle Roosters: It’s time to cluck around and find out. Gear up and pull on the helmets of the Battle Roosters, a hotshot space brigade of poultry with panache. In this quirky, roguelike, bullet hell adventure you’ll combine weapons, upgrades and killer strategies to recover space’s best taco ingredients. Bwark!
  • Keep Driving: a road trip management RPG from developers behind Post Void
  • Kill All Lice: Play as the egocentric Captain Soepp and the sarcastic Lieutenant Xam'Pu in this wacky RFun & Gun to kill evil at its root by defeating the king of lice, Lous the First! Go solo or team up to stop the infestation spreading across Eloise's family! KILL ALL LICE is a proper soap opera adventure!
  • Kill The Shadow: In an alternate post-war divided city, players take on the role of Detective Lucas. Use your eloquence, intelligence, the ability to rewind time (or even violence) to investigate and deduce various bizarre cases, unraveling a shocking secret behind them. Justice or love? The decision is yours.
  • Knights in Tight Spaces: Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
  • Liminalcore: Explore and admire while navigate through eerie, surreal environments inspired by the Backrooms lore. Explore this uncanny world lost in time and get lost in the otherworldly architecture in a world where reality bends and your sanity is tested.
  • Lynked: Banner of the Spark: Join the robot revolution—with friends! Battle through co-op roguelite missions to rescue robot allies and get resources for your fight against the Combots. Between missions, gain power for your next run by tending to your town and helping your new bot buds—it’ll take a village to save the world!
  • Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders: Skill-based skiing game follow-up to Lonely Mountains: Downhill 
  • Lovish: Lovish is an outrageous 8-bit action-adventure game! Quest with Sir Solomon through a series of bite-sized rooms, as he attempts to free Princess Tsuna, the woman he loves, from the Devil Lord's clutches!
  • Maggie's Movies - Second Shot: Become a movie director and help Maggie survive her second shot at fame, as she directs her first feature-length pirate movie!
  • Massacre at the Mirage: For less than the price of a movie ticket, experience your very own horror-fueled slasher flick in Massacre at the Mirage. Step into The Mirage cinema and face a chilling nightmare, where staff and patrons must survive a masked killer's rampage.
  • Microtopia: Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!
  • Mistery: A multiplayer game of survival and social deduction. You work with others to collect materials, survive the dangers, and complete tasks. Beware of monsters, but more of the alternates disguising as your teammates. They can change into supernatural monsters and attack you at any time.
  • Morgenstern: Embark on a medieval rogue-like journey, merging Survivor's hack-and-slay with souls-like rigor, in a third-person epic. Navigate dungeons, extract strategically, and inscribe your saga in the chronicles of legend.
  • My Little Life: A relaxing life-sim that lives on the bottom of your screen while you do other things.
  • New Arc Line: Take a stand in the eternal conflict between Arcane Magic and Steampunk Revolution and tip the uneasy balance between sorcery, elves, dwarves and mysterious monsters on one side and steampunk gadgets, zeppelins, and tesla guns on the other in this single-player, party-based, story-rich RPG.
  • October Panic: An arcade-style platformer with five levels and no saving/loading. A small trick-or-treat bag packed to the brim with both treats and tricks.
  • Orebound: Journey on a quest to find the Emberstone. Lost in the depths of time. The king has tasked you to find it buried in the mountains. Dig deep and automate mining in the mountains before you. Craft, discover runes, send precious metals and gems back to your kingdom. Grow, mine and find the Emberstone.
  • Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond: Prove your political brilliance in a grand strategy like no other: pick any contemporary country, set up your government and navigate the pitfalls of domestic and international politics. A glorious destiny awaits - the domination of not just the Earth, but the whole Solar system!
  • Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate: Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate is a side-scrolling beat'em up with the heart of a fighting game, supporting cross-platform pixel art anime action with up to 8P online multiplayer and all the characters from Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Overdrive!
  • Pilo and the Holobook: Pilo and the Holobook is an exploration-based adventure game set in a colorful galaxy where you guide Pilo, an apprentice explorer, on a journey to document the universe’s wonders and solve mysteries. Using the Holobook, a powerful encyclopedia-like tool, Pilo collects stickers to record
  • POPUCOM: Venture together with your friends on an unknown planet. Use color switching, match-3 shooting, and artifact powers to overcome challenges and keep advancing. What lies ahead of you is an adventure filled with wonder, hope, and much more to discover!
  • Rogue Rollout: Rogue Rollout is a thrilling roguelike deckbuilder where you score points in a classic dice game style, choose powerful artifacts, and face challenging obstacles as you push through endless rounds.
  • Royal Revolt Warriors: Unleash chaos in an electrifying 1-4 player co-op where survival and action-roguelite collide! Battle through relentless enemy hordes with a powerful mix of melee and ranged combat, navigating varied and dynamic environments.
  • RTS Tactical Warfare: The enemy attack on your base is imminent; secure your defenses, mobilize your troops, reinforce key positions, and get ready for the next battle. RTS Tactical Warfare will test your resilience and strategic prowess.
  • SAND: The SAND Demo is an open world PVP test where you will build and deploy gigantic mechs and engage in combat with other players upon the fallen planet of Sophie.
  • Second Sun: Second Sun is a Hi-octane FPS with RPG elements, set in an open world, filled with intriguing landmarks, procedurally generated dungeons and tons of loot! Explore a vast, picturesque map and use your abilities to save the Empire from devastation and prevent the world from falling into darkness.
  • Shady Knight: Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that seamlessly blends combat and parkour skills into a stylish dance of death full of creative chaos.
  • Shui's Odyssey: This is a puzzle game that combines text and images. Players use visual illusions to piece together fragments of memories from Alzheimer's patients, in order to reconstruct the truth of the story and witness the passage of time for three generations.
  • Sin Slayers: Reign of The 8th: Seven Deadly Sins. Have you heard about the 8th? Delve into madness in Sin Slayers, a challenging RPG Roguelite where you decide how much sin to bear as you transform the world. Assemble a party of wicked adventurers, kill, and pillage to drive off a gluttonous nightmare in turn-based battles
  • Skygard Arena: Lead your Champions to victory in this tactical RPG. Assemble your own team and adapt your strategy on every turn to outsmart your opponent. Discover the world of Skygard in the campaign or battle against other players in the Arena!
  • Slasher: Origins: Slashers is a chaotic, 2.5D, auto-attack survival game with rogue-lite elements and noir-anime storytelling. Unlock powerful heroes, create builds of unique abilities, and survive the escalating inferno of Mephistopheles’ underworld.
  • Slime Heroes: You are the last slime and the only one that can save your home from the corruption consuming it. Play alone or with a friend to find different weapons, dynamically create your own magical abilities, and express the way you want to adventure in this slimes-like action-adventure!
  • Songs of the HMong: A Hmong girl named Xiaomiao meets a mysterious old man in the forest who has lost his memory. The old man tells Xiaomiao that to restore world order, she needs to find the seed of the Sacred Tree. Can Xiaomiao, with the power of music, successfully find the seed of the sacred tree?
  • Sopa: the emotional adventure in which you venture into the lush depths of South America to search for ingredients for your grandma’s soup
  • Spilled!: Clean up ocean waste in this relaxing & satisfying cozy game! Recycle, earn coins, upgrade your boat, repeat! Explore and clean up new areas with more waste and new challenges!
  • Spirit of the North 2: Unveil the mysteries of a beautiful ancient world in this breathtaking 3rd-Person Adventure, a sequel to the acclaimed ‘Spirit of the North.’ Take on the role of an isolated fox with a raven companion on a quest to restore the lost guardians and return home.
  • Starlight Legacy: Explore the vast Evaria Kingdom in this 16-bit JRPG adventure. As the fate of the kingdom hangs in balance, three warriors are tasked with finding the Starlight Relics scattered across the Forest, Mountain, Desert, and Sky Provinces. Collect the four relics in any order in this non-linear retro RPG.
  • Stars In The Trash: Stars in the Trash brings the magic of animated movie classics into a narrative-driven platformer that combines action, exploration and puzzles. Tired of feeling trapped at home, Moka, a spoiled cat decides to run away and seek adventure. Explore, make friends, fight, and escape from the kennelman.
  • Streets of Rogue 2: Streets of Rogue 2 is a crazy, immersive RPG sandbox set in a vast randomly generated open world where freedom and fun are dialed up to 11. Fight, sneak, hack, farm, build, steal, or talk your way to power as you try to topple a corrupt president in countless possible ways – solo or with friends.
  • Striden: Loot, Build, Plunder and send the radio signal for freedom. STRIDEN is the fast-paced, sandbox looter shooter survival game that you've never experienced before.
  • Sultan's Game: The Sultan commands you to play a cruel game. Each week, you must draw one of four special cards: the Carnality card requires you to seek carnal pleasures; Extravagance compels you to spend lavishly; Conquer forces you into dangerous expeditions; and Bloodshed demands a human...
  • Super Puzzled Cat: Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can you find the way through? Travel through time and space and reach enlightenment.
  • Super Rolling Heroes Deluxe: Destroy, bounce, explode! Roll downhill with Super Rolling Heroes Deluxe, a 3D platformer all about maintaining momentum, pulling down every object, avoiding deadly obstacles, and collecting some nice shiny gems too.
  • SUPERVIVE: MOBA BR MEETS HERO SHOOTER. Jump, glide, shoot, punch, bounce, nuke, spike your enemies in this free-flowing, chaotic battleground in the sky. Face off in all-out, multi-squad teamfights, take down boss monsters for big loot, get that W and run it back.
  • Symphonia: Awaken an expansive musical realm in this non-violent and poetic platformer. In Symphonia, you'll use the power of your violin coupled with your platforming skills to gather an orchestra to bring the musical machinery of the world back to life.
  • Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim: A charming RPG where you'll discover the joys of running your own cozy cafe. From brewing the perfect cup of coffee to making friends with the locals, experience a blend of relaxation and adventure during your own coffee break.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate: TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a rogue-like quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.
  • The Coma 2B: Catacomb: The Coma 2B: Catacomb is a Korean survival horror adventure. It is the back story to the previous game, The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters, and a story bridge for the full series. You return as Youngho, the hero from The Coma 1, as you once again venture forth into the terrifying mirror dimension…
  • The Executive - A Movie Industry Tycoon: Shape the history of the Hollywood movie industry in this sandbox business simulation game. Create the movies you've always wanted to see, hire the best team, research cutting-edge technologies, and dominate the Box Office. Can you rise from a small studio to a Hollywood giant?
  • Toads of the Bayou: Lead a group of toads as they fight against Baron Samedi’s evil forces in a challenging mix of turn-based tactics and roguelike deckbuilding. Synergise card effects, gain the aid of powerful allies and engage in strategic combat to thrive in the cursed bayou.
  • Tomb Stalkers: An Arcade Action Puzzle game like few with fast paced mechanics. Walk around the tombs to open them and reveal their content, you require to get a key and a relic to be able to unlock the exit to the next level. But beware, the sorceress minions are upon you with their unique abilities.
  • Tranquil Isle: hile away the hours on the sunkissed shores of your own tiny paradise in this lo-fi town building roguelite
  • Trash Goblin: A wholesome & cosy shopkeeping game where you uncover & clean trinkets, then upcycle them to sell to endless colourful & quirky customers. Spend your savings to upgrade your shop, buy new and better tools, even expand your business to exciting new districts across town!
  • Urban Myth Dissolution Center: Join forces with the psychic Director of the Urban Myth Dissolution Center and solve a variety of cases involving cursed relics, rental properties with shady histories, and dimensional anomalies. Monstrous oddities and otherworldly planes abound in this occult mystery adventure game!
  • Usual June: Hang out, fight monsters, and discover your town’s darkest secrets in Usual June, a third person action game about summer break and the end of the world.
  • Vambrace: Dungeon Monarch: Deck-building, dungeon defense, and tactical gameplay combine in Dungeon Monarch! Recruit warriors and wizards, buff your heroes, and thrash your foes — summon your dungeon monarch to punish interlopers and defeat enemies to increase your dark powers!
  • VED: VED is a story-driven, hand-drawn RPG with a unique turn-based combat system and roguelite elements. Set in two different worlds, VED tells the story of Cyrus, a young hero who sets out on a quest to become a master of sword and magic, and save everything he knows from destruction.
  • Vindefiant: A disgruntled employee is fired from his job, sparking a path of rage and destruction. Lead Alyx through his journey of vengeance and creatively kill enemies in this pixel-art adventure where you, are the villain.
  • VOIN: Fight hordes of enemies in fast-paced first-person hack-and-slash battles. Explore the world of dark fantasy filled with secrets and dangers, and master your skill of wielding primordial elements.
  • Warside: Welcome to Warside, the fast-paced turn-based tactics game. With a single-player story campaign, multiplayer support, and a built-in map editor, the fight for victory never ends. Choose your Commander, assemble your forces, and battle your way to victory.
  • Watch Out For Goblins!: Run and jump a ragdoll goblin through a hilarious physics sandbox! Explore and collect Power Cogs alone- or with a friend in split screen! Repair Gobland and become Goblin Royalty! There's no saying what might happen, and no stopping the BIG GOBLIN ENERGY!
  • Whispers of the Void: A story-driven sci-fi VR adventure. A relic hunter caught amid a galaxy-wide power struggle, you have only your spaceship and your wits to prevent the collapse of civilization.
  • Wings of Endless: Discover the secret of a forgotten war in Wings of Endless, a platforming Action-RPG with a captivating Pixelart style that will draw you in from start to finish. Step into the role of Hariku, a brash bounty hunter who boasts of being the best at his craft.
  • Wilmot Works It Out: Wilmot Works It Out is a puzzle building game about completing beautiful images and using them to decorate the walls of your house.
  • Worshippers of Cthulhu: LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
  • Ys X: Nordics [Switch/PS4/PS5/PC]: Explore uncharted islands, engage in fast-paced action combat, and experience the high seas adventures of unlikely allies Adol and Karja in Ys X: Nordics!
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