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.

Spend Steam Next Fest playing as many demos as you want; just don't forget to wishlist your favorites so that you can stay in-the-know with the developers when they officially launch.

Valve/Steam hosts Next Fest three times a year (February, June, October) as a way to give developers from around the world a captive audience for their demos on games they haven't released yet. If you already have a bunch of genres that are your faves, feel free to search that way. BUT we also encourage you to try something new-- check out the video player at the top of the main Next Fest hub for a new sprinkling of demos each day and perhaps discover your NEW favorite genre or theme!

Several developers are hosting livestreams as well, so be sure to check those out.

The October edition of Steam Next Fest is on now through October 20th at 10 a.m. Pacific on Steam!

• Astro Burn: Astro Burn is a sci-fi, retro-inspired bullet hell shoot ’em up. Play as a feline space pilot and her robot buddy, blasting, dodging, and upgrading through waves of evil robot machines. Uncover Earth’s mysterious downfall in a fast-paced, pixel-art arcade adventure packed with chaos and style.
• ASTROBOTANICA: Discover Earth 300 thousand years ago as an alien biologist. Utilize your expertise in botany to survive, grow plants, harvest crops, compose and brew tonics. Reveal hidden powers of unknown plants. Engage with primal humans, leaving your mark on the future of civilization.
• Capote: Capote is a multiplayer card game inspired by classic Brazilian bar games, where luck, bluffing, and strategy collide in a lively bar setting. Victory is never guaranteed—and one single card can flip the whole match. Can you deliver on your bet, or will you crash and burn?
• Cairn: Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.
• Chaos on Wheels: Fast-paced Destruction Car Combat game where you are behind the wheel of a heavily armed car. Drift, drive, and shoot out your way to victory. Destroy your friends in split-screen mode, or make your Career and become King of Chaos in this singleplayer high-octane car combat chaos.
• Confidential Killings - A Detective Game: A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
• Crystal of Atlan: Crystal of Atlan is a Magicpunk MMO Action RPG where you can immerse yourself in a Magicpunk world. Build your skills, fight and uncover the secrets of this world with your allies! Time to embark on a wondrous journey of Magic and Machinery!
• Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked: A cooperative tactical RPG set in the D&D universe. Embark on a fantasy tabletop adventure. Your quest, on your schedule.
• Destiny Code: Beautiful girls and thrilling card battles, all in one RPG! As factions clash over the relics of a lost civilization, the fate of the world — and your companions — hangs on your choices. A dramatic tale where your strategy and decisions shape destiny!
• Digging Together: Start digging with the map left by your grandfather… but the great treasure isn’t in the demo! Dig deep underground in 4-player co-op, grow stronger, and beware of falling rocks, exploding dynamite, and greedy rivals. A short, fun, chaotic experience that shows you only the beginning.
• Dread Meridian: Dread Meridian is a survival horror adventure for VR. Play as Daniella on a desperate search for her lost sister on an frozen island spiraling into madness. Scavenge for resources, solve cryptic puzzles and battle unimaginable creatures while unraveling the mystery of her disappearance.
• Dungeon Market Simulator: A strategic medieval market simulation game. Equip your dungeon with traps. Hunt down outcast warriors and earn mysterious chests. Upgrade the items you obtain and increase their value. Bargain with customers and earn promotions.
• Earth Must Die: These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from my dear, sweet, extremely dead father? This is complete bullsh*t, and I'm going to make them dead.
• Eclipse Breaker: Eclipse Breaker is a strategic action roguelike: dodge, parry, and strike in real‑time combat where every second counts. Master fast-paced combat, inspired by classic JRPGs, collect divine powers, and fight through ever-changing dungeons in a relentless cycle of epic boss battles.
• Fading Serenades: Hike, jump, and climb to traverse the treacherous terrain of the island to help villagers deliver parcels and complete their tasks and requests. Experience a story of vanishing traditions, a missing scientist, and an unfolding mystery. Serenading a quieter life, the island calls!
• Final Sentence: Final Sentence is a Battle Royale typing game. Together with other players, you find yourself in a hangar, with a typewriter in front of you and a revolver loaded with a single bullet at your temple. Every mistake can be fatal. Only one will remain.
• Find Your Way Home: Last Flight: Build your colony in the zombie apocalypse, gather resources, and defend against raids. Send your team to loot houses for supplies, advance through research, struggle to survive, and try to build your plane to return home.
• Fish Hunters: Most Lethal Fishing Simulator: Hunt fish solo or in co-op. Haul them in and take them down with crazy guns. Try out different baits and rods, explore unique locations, and complete your fish collection in the atlas. Or just kick back by the campfire with friends in this wild webfishing adventure.
• Glitchers: Trix joins forces with a dying warrior to reclaim a legendary armor and topple a merciless Emperor. Master visceral melee combat fusioned with fast-paced combos, and hacking puzzles in a genre-blending adventure. Unleash chaos and dive into a gripping story of friendship and redemption!
• Hold The Mine: Explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters in this innovative roguelike survival game! Collect and manage your resources, discover buildings with unique effects and unleash mighty heroes to hold monsters out of the mine until the sun rises.
• Homura Hime: Homura Hime is a third person action game, featuring anime-styled visuals and intense 3D bullet hell gameplay. Alongside Homura Hime, fight against archdemons possessed by deviant emotions, and get closer to discovering the truth behind both the archdemons and her own veiled legacy.
• Insanitorium - Don’t Be Afraid: Trapped in a psychiatric hospital, you must escape demons lurking in the shadows.Explore Insanitorium only with your flashlight and scarce batteries, defend yourself with a machete and a dart gun, and face the strange patients. Remember, do not listen to the mannequins that whisper inside your head.
• Ire: A Prologue: It’s 1986, and you’re stranded in the Bermuda Triangle -- but not alone. Trapped in a terrifying loop with a monster, you’ll have to stay one step ahead to survive and uncover the truth. Ready or not, here it comes.
• Kinsfolk: Kinsfolk is a heartfelt single-player adventure about a father and his child navigating life after loss. Explore a beautiful world, uncover forgotten memories, and piece together their story through interactive exploration. A deeply emotional journey about love, resilience, and the passage of time.
• Legitimate Space Corp Simulator LLC: NOW HIRING: Station Manager! Run a totally-legit* space biz in Sector 7-G. Farm alien crops, refuel shady ships, and sell dangerously edible snacks. Perks: gloves, oxygen insurance**, and mild relevance. No exp needed. Apply today! *Legit status not valid in all sectors. **Terms apply.
• Lessaria: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim: Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom. Explore the first 3 maps!
• Luxman Moonlit Market: A strategic spatial set-collection roguelike featuring Balatro-inspired power-up management. Under the flamboyant Uncle Luxman, build the ultimate Moonlit Market while using exotic charms to trigger game-changing combos and adapting to the crowd’s ever-changing trends!
• Monsters Are Coming! Rock & Road: Beware, Monsters are Coming! In this Tower-Survivor rogue-lite, you protect an ever-moving city from unrelenting hordes. Gather resources, fortify defenses, and boost potential through enhanced player progression. Will you reach the Arch?
• NeverAwake FLASHBACK: NeverAwake FLASHBACK' is an offshoot of the nightmare action shooter 'NeverAwake'. 'NeverAwake' is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules, and was awarded the 'VERMILION GATE AWARD' for the most outstanding work at BitSummit X-Roads in 2022.
• Pieced Together: Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship and getting older. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook as you uncover the story piece by piece.
• Psycho-Sleuth: Psycho-Sleuth is a mystery game where cognitive disorders distort the rules of murder. 13 players, each with a strange condition — like “no lying,” “no left side,” or “no faces” — are trapped in a deadly game. These disorders are contagious, and the killer hides behind abnormal logic.
• Regions of Ruin: Runegate: Embark on an explorative RPG hack-and-slash adventure where you attempt to re-establish a haven for the lost dwarven civilization. Journey across varied lands, help those in need, gather resources and fight off goblins and monsters as you slowly rebuild a home for your people. 
• Repel the Rifts: Repel the Rifts is a roguelite tower defense game where you lead a commander through an alien world, uncovering new terrain each wave, drafting powerful upgrades, and constructing defenses to hold back the chaos.
• Restaurats: Lead a medieval restaurant with a team of rats like you! Cook the food, throw it at the guests, wipe the drinks under the skeletons! Become a legendary rat chef, proving to orcs and vampires that the most delicious bloody meat is served in your restaurant!
• Revolgear Zero: Shizuku and Akane...two pilots bound by rivalry and friendship battle to save their world from malevolent cosmic forces! A classic arcade style shmup with deeply satisfying fast paced combat, wide variety of load-out combos, and even local co-op!
• Shadows of the Afterland: Madrid, 1960: A maid named Pilar dies. You arrive in the afterlife looking like Pilar but speaking as Carolina, a police officer from the future. Possess the living and cross between worlds to uncover the truth behind a soul split between two identities in this point-and-click adventure.
• Systemic War: Lead your nation in a modern grand strategy game (2008–2025), using a macroeconomic model with exchange rates, diplomacy, and hybrid warfare. Engage in kinetic warfare on the strategic map, then shift to RTS battles at focal points.
• The Beast Is Yet To Come: Unleash your inner beast in The Beast Is Yet To Come — a chaotic 3D action roguelike where you play as a brutal Troll crushing enemy hordes across multiple battlegrounds. Build devastating "punch hell" combos and fight through the storm.
• The Séance of Blake Manor: The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurrences.