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 March 3rd at 10am PST!

• A-RED Walking Robot: A-RED Walking Robot is a physics based toy robot simulator where you pilot tiny A-RED, a small clockwork operated robot that needs to overcome the trials it’s creator set in a workshop. A miniature nerve-wrecking/patience-proving journey where you are granted to fall… a lot.
• Arctic Awakening: A first-person narrative adventure set in the unforgiving Arctic. Your plane crashed in a storm, leaving only your court-mandated therapy bot for company as you journey to find your co-pilot and uncover the mysteries buried beneath the ice.
• Badlands Crew: Create, customize and command your battle wagon to conquer crazed enemy factions and save innocent survivors scattered throughout the lawless Badlands in the aftermath of a devastating apocalypse. Do you have what it takes to Build, Evolve and Fight to survive?
• Candy Shop Simulator: Dive into a sugary world of sweetness in Candy Shop Simulator! Open your shop, create delectable pastries, manage sales, and expand your candy empire. Satisfy your sweet tooth and build your confectionery legacy now!
• Car Mechanic Shop Simulator: Manage a prosperous car shop empire and enter the complex car maintenance and repair world. This simulation game offers a comprehensive, in-depth experience that combines strategic business management with the technical nuances of car maintenance.
• Castle of Blackwater: Castle of Blackwater is a 2D, action-packed, social deduction game with a magical twist. In this intense game of trust and betrayal, up to 10 strangers are trapped in a castle of danger and deception, with a mission to complete tasks and escape with their lives.
• Cattle Country: Howdy partner! Welcome to Cattle Country, the Cozy Cowboy Adventure Life Sim. Become a determined pioneer traveling west to start a new life. Make a home in the mountains, take on bandits, discover dastardly plots, build a farm, develop your town, and make friends with fellow residents
• Chains of Freedom: Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern Europe as you unravel a sinister conspiracy threatening the nation. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
• City Tales - Medieval Era: City Tales is a medieval city builder. With an organic building system, you're free to shape vast, living cities beyond the usual grid. Manage resources, plan vibrant districts in accordance with your citizens' needs, and build a thriving city you'll be proud of!
• Clutchtime: Basketball Deckbuilder: Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.
• Cold Abyss: Directors Cut: Cold Abyss is a relaxing and atmospheric exploration game where you repair internet cables on the bottom of the ocean.There are no enemies or other forms of danger down there. Just you.
• Conquest Dark: Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms.
• Crusader Knights: Templars: Travel to the Holy Land with the First Crusades. Rise from a humble knight to the founding father of a world-spanning holy order. Lead through war, faith, diplomacy, and cunning schemes. Experience a unique blend of RTS, city-building, and sandbox gameplay, and shape history!
• Darkwater: Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.
• Deadlock Station: Turn the battlefield into your ally in this tactical rogue-like with indirect controls. Assemble a unique squad, destroy the alien invaders with precise planning, and uncover the truth about the Event and the mysterious disappearance of humans.
• Doloc Town: Doloc Town is a cozy pixel art farm simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Build your dream farm from scratch and explore this mysterious wasteland. Harvest, plant, build, and battle against ferocious creatures while discover the untold stories of this forgotten land!
• Driveloop: Driveloop is a fast-paced driving roguelike shooter. Drift, blast and ram your way through waves of steampunk enemies. Upgrade your vehicle with powerful weapons, recruit unique crew members and survive intense battles as you build the ultimate combat machine. Can you survive the chaos?
• Empyreal: Empyreal is a complex, challenging, feature-rich action RPG. In a far-flung corner of the galaxy an Expedition arrives on a hitherto unexplored planet to find a colossal Monolith built by a lost civilisation.
• Escape The Mad Empire: Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?
• Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson: In this turned-based RPG, wield powerful legendary instruments, gather mighty riff attacks and save the land from Rick Riffson's devilish goons and musical hybrid monsters!
• GLUM: In this unique “First-Person Booter” you take on the role as Glum, the crude ass-kicking goblin with his magical ass-kicking boot. Indulge in wacky physics-based combat, over-the-top violence and dark humour with a dash of platforming and points for being extra stylish and sadistic.
• Haneda Girl: Haneda Girl is an action-platformer game with brutal and frantic action. Clean stages swapping between two playable characters. Bullets or Slashes, your choice, but be creative. A wide variety of ways to solve each encounter are at your disposal. Dance the waltz of destruction, end the threat.
• Hyper Empire: Play a 4x game in 40 minutes... or less! We streamlined 4x strategy down to a game that captures the fun in a manageable play time. Lead your faction against escalating enemies and expand the reach of your empire. Multiple paths to victory allows for a variety of strategies. Build your empire.
• Hoover Heroes: Hoover Heroes is a physics-based multiplayer party game for up to 8 players to play online, featuring cute and silly cleaners. Funny animations, colorful graphics, and fun mechanics will keep you laughing every moment.
• Kaodi: Kaodi is a brief, narrative-driven 2D platformer experience where you control Barren on his journey back home after playing a key role in the victory over the Republic of Shan. Explore a kingdom fractured by war and discover the scars it has left on its people.
• Keep the Heroes Out: An asymmetric, cooperative dungeon defense game for 1-4 players where you play as the monsters protecting their hard earned treasures against invading hordes of looters (so-called heroes) trying to steal it
• King of Retail 2: Ready to build another empire? You are once again back in the role as the manager, trying to make the best of a busy store. Find the right things to sell, get the right employees and turn every stone for a profit. Can you handle the pressure or will you buck under? Welcome to King of Retail 2.
• Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game: Little Problems is a Cozy Detective game about solving mysteries around minor inconveniences, everyday misunderstandings, and of course, little problems. This game is not about saving the world; it's about enriching it, one case at a time.
• Locomoto: Locomoto is a cosy, life-sim adventure game set on a train, where you are the conductor! Customise and manage your train, while tending to your colourful passengers. Get onboard and embark on a journey through beautiful landscapes, accompanied by a soft, lofi original soundtrack.
• Love in Space: 50% Visual Novel - 50% Sci-Fi Karaoke-Musical. Mankind has fled the scorched crusts of planet earth, leaving some to survive in leaky domes beneath the sea, including you. As the meaning of your existence dissolves, you daydream to escape the darkness and cling to sanity - through song.
• Maliki : Poison Of The Past: Join Maliki and her wacky family in their epic battle against Poison, a fearsome plant creature that has colonized space-time. Go along on a fantastic odyssey through the ages that provides a unique mix of exploration, temporal riddles and turn-based fights full of surprises.
• NITRO GEN OMEGA: A Spaghetti Anime turn-based tactical RPG where you lead a crew of mercenaries through wastelands overrun by ruthless machines. Engage in high-octane cinematic Mech battles, recruit pilots and grow relationships. Play solo or join an online world where every character is procedurally generated.
• Nubs!: Arena: As a true chaotic Nub warrior, your skills will be put to the ultimate test in a trap-filled arena. Arm yourself with fish(sticks), squeaky pigs, and a can-o-beanz as you battle your way to the top in short fast-paced brawls.
• OUTLAWED: OUTLAWED is a crime-themed PvPvE first-person extraction shooter, set in a modern city overrun by gangs. Enter solo or with a squad to challenge powerful enemies and search for riches, and use everything at your disposal to make it out alive.
• Outworld Station: Take the helm as a new Station Commander and exploit an alien star system in this stunning space-station factory automation game. Amass resources and construct starships using increasingly advanced manufacturing and expand your station in a hostile universe.
• Piece by Piece: Piece by Piece is a literal puzzle platformer where each level is fragmented into puzzle pieces. Clear each puzzle by connecting and unconnected each piece to make your way through each of our 100 handcrafted levels. Discover new themes and mechanics along the way!
• RoadCraft: As the leader of a company specialized in restoring sites devastated by natural disasters, use your construction machinery to restart the local industry. Clear debris and faulty equipment, rebuild roads and bridges damaged by weather, and much more!
• Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings: A combination of strategy, roguelite runs, and RPG-like progression creates an epic adventure set in the Legend of the Five Rings universe. Unlock powerful cards, build a party of samurai, and lead them into the Shadowlands where their fate rests on your choices.
• Shotgun Cop Man: GO TO HELL, ARREST SATAN. Propel yourself to justice and glory on a journey through hell in this punchy, crunchy, son-of-a-gun precision platformer from the creator of My Friend Pedro.
• Spray Paint Simulator: Bring color to the world in Spray Paint Simulator! Restore worn-out surfaces with a fresh coat of paint and watch them come back to life. Use your spray tool with precision, cover every inch, and enjoy the satisfaction of a flawless finish.
• Survival Machine: Build your base on a machine in constant motion, travel through biomes with different resources, and prepare for the night when a zombie threat is much higher than during the day. Would you go solo or explore this new world with your best friends?
• Squeakross- Home Squeak Home: In Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, solve and transform puzzles into furniture to decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend. Collect hundreds of decorations, accessories and stickers in this cozy game full of charm!
• Starless Abyss: Earth has fallen. Science and the Occult have united forces to brace for the arrival of the Eldritch. But will the efforts against this strange, alien race be enough? Play as one of many Proximae used to help defend humanity in this turn-based, roguelike, intergalactic deck builder.
• Squirreled Away: Be the squirrel. Scurry through gardens, up trees, and leap limb to limb in this craft and thrive parklife adventure. Explore solo or with up to three squirrel buddies in co-op. Meet and help other residents and collect bits here and there to build and decorate your dream treehouse.
• Tales of Seikyu: Settle into your magical new life in a world of Yokai! Harness your powers of transformation to manage your farm and explore the world, grow bonds with extraordinary islanders, and uncover the secrets of Seikyu. Adventure, magic and romance await in this enchanting farming life-sim!
• Tempest Rising: Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
• THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: Remake: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2: Remake is a remake of the second entry in the well-known and popular rail-shooter series. Take on the lone role of a secret agent as James or Gary, or team up in co-op mode to neutralize the dangerous undead monsters standing in your way.
• Tower of Babel- Survivors of Chaos: Battle hordes of monsters, acquire new skills, and upgrade your abilities. Customize your build with hundreds of item combinations and reach the top to fulfill your deepest desires. Conquer the tower in this thrilling roguelite hack and slash survivors game!
• Trolls vs Vikings: Reborn: Strategy meets mischief! Explore an amazing and lush fantasy world, where an epic battle between Trolls, Vikings and the Nordic Gods rages on. Get ready to don your tactical horns and dive into Trolls vs Vikings: Reborn where strategy is king, trolls reign supreme, and your sanity is the final boss!
• Vilde: Fast-paced roguelite FPS inspired by Norse mythology. Explore ever-changing levels, fight dangerous enemies, and master powerful magic and weapons. Create unique builds each run by combining different abilities, weapons, and upgrades.
• Wartorn: Harness the elements in fierce real-time battles while gathering and upgrading a crew of fantasy creatures in this rogue-lite adventure across a world torn apart by war.
• Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade: Defeat malevolent forces in this stunning Japanese-inspired roguelite world! Become a master of the Demon Blades and combat swarms of demons in a fantasy realm set in the Edo period. Through every journey, you will unveil the hidden truths concealed within troubled times.
• Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall: Rule your crumbling kingdom as you try to satisfy the petty needs of your people in this cinematic kingdom management RPG. Balance your resources, collect taxes, hire agents and make difficult decisions to see your kingdom prosper or fail.
• ZPF: ZPF is a retro-inspired horizontal shooter for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Blast your way through a cosmic gauntlet of epic boss battles, addictive scoring, and hidden secrets in a thrilling arcade-style adventure through fantasy, sci-fi, and alien-themed worlds.