The first Steam Next Fest of 2024 has begun, kicking off a full week of free demos on upcoming games on Steam. You'll also find loads of developer livestreams (check out the schedule for the week on the front page!) plus the official livestream today (February 5) around 11am PT!

Spend the week exploring demos of all kinds, and wishlist the ones you like - that way you'll be notified when the full game officially launches.

The February edition of Steam Next Fest is on now through February 12th at 10am PT. See you there!

• #BLUD: Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons.
• #DRIVE Rally: #DRIVE Rally lets you relive the 90s in the most exciting era in motorsport history, where dust, mud, and snow are badges of honor. Unleash the raw power of legendary rally beasts, admire every second of the stunning landscapes, and remember: the faster you go, the better!
• Abiotic Factor: Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
• After Light Fades: A mystical, magical puzzle game about letting go. After the loss of her beloved partner, Alice is left with seven emotionally resonant artefacts. She embarks on a journey to revisit seven of their favourite places and cast each artefact into an abyss, so she can finally be free.
• AutoForge: A 2D automation sandbox adventure. Build an automated factory reaching up to the sky and deep underground, uncover a vast world filled with wonder and danger, upgrade yourself with ancient technologies, and defend it all from enemy attack.
• Balatro: The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
• Beat the Beats VR: Beat the Beats is an electric mix of rhythm and boxing game! Use actual boxing-style punches to pound your way through musical arcade levels in hypnotic VR. Get pumped, get moving and beat the beats!
• Botany Manor: Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
• Chicken Police: Into the HIVE!: A wild tale of loss, friendship, conspiracy, and... chickens?! Two rooster detectives are about to venture into the insect underworld to uncover a worldwide conspiracy, while also battling their inherent demons in this animal noir adventure satire.
• CONSORTIUM Remastered: Become Consortium Bishop Six, a global peacekeeper in the year 2042. Speak and form friendships or enemies with a full cast of characters using your own voice. Take an active role in a murder mystery, on a plane, in the future. Every choice counts.
• Contenders: Arena: Contenders: Arena is an exhilarating 3v3 shooter that takes you into a world of fast-paced action, strategic gameplay, and thrilling competition. Become the skilled pilot of a new kind of gladiator and prepare to engage in intense battles unlike anything you've experienced before!
• Crow Country: The year is 1990. It’s been two years since the mysterious disappearance of Edward Crow and the abrupt closure of his theme park, Crow Country. But your arrival has broken the silence, Mara Forest. If you want answers, you’ll have to venture deep into the darkness of Crow Country to find them…
• Crown Wars: The Black Prince: The War of Crowns rages on. Knights and brigands run rampant throughout the land, sowing destruction. From your castle base, rise to become the lord who leads the battle against the forces of evil in this turn-based tactics and strategy game.
• DaemonClaw: Origins of Nnar: Defend humanity from a surprise attack by the mystical creatures of the world of Nnar in this high speed arcade/console style action game coming to modern and classic retro platforms.
• Demon Loop: Take on the ever-changing Loop in this tactical game from the pen of renowned board game author Alexander Pfister! Protect humans from the demons they had only recently called friends. Build your deck, recruit villagers and become strong enough to unravel the mystery of the Demon Loop.
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami: Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open, in a narrative mystery adventure where nothing is quite as it seems.
• Earl vs. the Mutants. Earl vs. the Mutants is a post-apocalyptic top-down survival roguelite, where you play as an exterminator on a mission to save humanity from never-ending waves of mutants!
• Eden Genesis: Eden Genesis is a platform game focused on fast-paced trials, quick reflexes, and a rich story in a cyberpunk world dominated by neon lights and corporations. Take control of Leah, a young cyborg lady, and overcome challenging trials to liberate her corrupted mind!
• Geometry Survivor: Geometry Survivor is rogue-lite survival where you fight waves of enemies. Unlock innovative upgrades in the shop, acquire new ships and conquer the unforgiving grid world.
• INDIKA: Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia of the late XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself.
• Islands of Insight: Islands of Insight is a sublime shared-world puzzle game where you play as a Seeker on a peaceful journey of exploration and discovery. Enjoy countless hours of gameplay as you seek out and solve 10,000+ puzzles at your own pace across an awe-inspiring world of floating islands.
• Kamikaze Lassplanes: Fly and fall for powerful Lassplanes! Discover a hand-crafted anime VN with story-driven arcade shoot-'em-up gameplay. Take part in a romantic story with drama and comedic elements set in a steampunk Kingdom filled with magic and torn by a brutal war. Decide the fate of your country and heart.
• Lotus Lantern: Rescue Mother: Lotus Lantern: Rescue Mother is a rougelite top-down action game, inspired by a Chinese mythology. Players will experience the journey of Chenxiang rescuing his mother, Sanshengmu, after mastering martial arts skills from Sun Wukong.
• Madzik: Discover the world of Madzik, where every living creature, including you, is subject to formidable transformations à la Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Shape your destiny in this enchanting narrative-driven hack and slash adventure. Immerse yourself in a unique handcrafted world with a nostalgic 80s vibe.
• Magical Delicacy: A wholesome pixel art platformer. Cook magical delicacies from a vast collection of ingredients in your own shop. Explore an unfamiliar town and deliver tasty treats to the townsfolk. Learn new ways to traverse, discover secrets, and experience a unique witchy world.
• Maniac: Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!
• Millennia: Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.
• Monarchy: A minimal 2D strategy game. Build a base, defend your crown and conquer your enemies.
• Monster Run: Monster Run is a dark fantasy beat’em up with roguelite elements. Fight as a giant monster cat protecting your home forest. Destroy massive armies of human soldiers and their allies. Evolve your attacks, master non-human tactics, and discover the joy of breathing fire.
• Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure: Design automated workshops for your odd and adorable Sparks to carry and craft everything, including more of themselves! Lead your squad of Sparks into combat. Explore a strange fantasy world, in single player or online co-op. Unearth the ancient mystery of the Sparks!
• Orc Warchief: Strategy City Builder: Become an Orc warchief and fight for survival of your race. Rebuild your village and train your warriors. Gather resources and craft your weapons. Raise your warbanner and gather The Horde.
• Pacific Drive: Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
• Parry Nightmare: This is a game in which a girl trapped in a nightmare cooperates with her other self, "Honno-chan," to defeat the nightmare. In this parry-and-buddy action game, players parry the attacks of countless enemies, accumulate gauges, and wipe out them!
• PlanetSmith: Embark on an adventure in PlanetSmith, a spherical world sandbox game offering unique exploration and creative building. Journey into procedurally generated voxel worlds that defy conventional limits of block building. Showcase your artistic touch on your own spherical canvas.
• Please, Touch The Artwork 2: A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no dlc's).
• Psycho Fear: Psycho Fear is a heart-pounding escape room horror experience where players must escape to survive. Solve challenging puzzles, overcome deadly obstacles, and fight deadly enemies in an intense atmosphere, nerve-wracking and dark environment will keep players on edge.
• Quadroids: Quadroids is a single-player puzzle platformer with a twist! Don’t be fooled by its simple pixel-art style and put your neocortex to the test while you try to control 4 screens by yourself and clear 100+ mind-twisting levels!
• Ratten Reich: Ratten Reich is an RTS focusing on realistic combat in a unique, steampunk/dieselpunk world ripped apart by an ongoing war between rats, mice, cockroaches, and lizards.
• shapez 2: Dive into a factory-building game where the focus is on just that — building huge factories! Construct sprawling multi-level factories and min-max your layouts without limits. Shapez 2 is tailor-made for enthusiasts who crave the thrill of optimizing production lines and perfecting automation.
• Star Stuff: A cosmic mix of automation and strategic action! Take on the role of Mija, an engineer in a galactic star-making factory. Program helpful bots, work alongside them to solve puzzles, keep the factory running, and maybe save the universe along the way!
• Star Trucker: Haul cargo, trade salvage and keep your space suit close as you search for fame and fortune among the stars in a game that puts an interstellar twist on the truck sim genre.
• StellaGale: The Trials Of Faith: Slash every obstacle the Colosseum has to offer! In this Hand-drawn Hack-n-Slash adventure game, where you play as Stella, a young mechanic who fighting her way up to seek an answer to the mystery of the appearance of her long-lost father. In her desperation to win the fight, a miracle appeared.
• SUMMERHOUSE: A tiny building game about beautiful lived-in houses. No rules or restrictions, just pure creativity.
• Survive the Fall : Scavenge, Craft, Build and Fight! Survive the Fall is an open-world action game with a rich story. Collect loot & fight to rebuild your community and its base. Uncover the secrets of the fallen world after a meteorite strike!
• Tarnished Blood: Serve the ancient Protector Tree, as you slay gigantic beasts and harvest their essence in this turn-based roguelite RPG with a truly unique, time-bending battle mechanic! Can you help a group of hunters survive in the cruel world under the Dome…?  
• Tell Me Your Story: Uncover Grandma Rose’s extraordinary stories along with Amelia, all hidden in multiple cozy puzzles spread around the world. Dive into globetrotter adventures, discover granny’s treasures, and relax along the way.
• TerraTech Worlds: TerraTech Worlds is an open-world, PvE survival game set on an uncharted alien planet. Explore, mine, build, craft and battle your way through natural hazards and dangerous enemies, to harness the power of your environment. Play solo or up to 6 friends via online co-op, and get ready for adventure!
• Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip: Terry wants to become instantly famous by launching himself into space using his new car. Doing something this cool and reckless will surely make him the talk of the town.
• Tribes 3: Rivals: TRIBES 3: Rivals is a team-based first person shooter that elevates the genre with jetpacks, skiing, and class-based warfare. Teamwork, tactics, high speed, and intense combat are supreme in this rebirth of the world’s fastest shooter.
• Throw Anything: Radiation Zombies: Complete missions to save a world devastated by zombies, utilizing Arm Units and special abilities! Throw Anything: Radiation Zombies is a third-person shooter 3D-action roguelite game set in a world overrun by zombies, where you survive by throwing objects around.
• Ultros: ULTROS is a psychedelic metroidvania where you wake up stranded on The Sarcophagus — a cosmic uterus holding an ancient, demonic being. Trapped in the loop of a black hole, you will have to explore The Sarcophagus and meet its inhabitants to understand the part you play...
• Underling Uprising: A modern Beat 'Em Up with inspirations from nostalgic '90s cartoons. Fight across the world as the Underlings, a group of scientifically enhanced experiments, each with their own unique powers. Take revenge on the mad scientist that created you!
• Until Then: A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
• V's Rage: V’s Rage is an hand drawn action-adventure game that pays homage to classic action arcade games from the ‘80es-’90es.
• Vorax: In the gripping world of VORAX survival takes on a new terrifying dimension. As you step into this Open World Survival Horror game brace yourself for a journey where every moment is a battle for survival. Every choice, every move, every breath could be your last. Are you ready to face the unknown?
• Welcome to ParadiZe: Ever dreamt of having your own pet zombie? Then check out Welcome to ParadiZe, which combines combat, crafting and RPG fun, all set in a madcap open world.
• Zet Zillions: Zet Zillions is a single player story-based roguelike deckbuilder and space extravaganza where you use your cards to make entire planets go big-badda-BOOM!