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Steam Next Fest Is On Now, Hundreds Of Demos Available - Day #4

by Rainier on Feb. 27, 2025 @ 2:57 p.m. PST

The February 2025 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 March 3rd at 10am PST!

  • Aethermancer: Monster Taming meets Roguelite. Become the Aethermancer and fight alongside mythical creatures. Explore the ever-changing Fractured Ruins, plan your moves in challenging turn-based battles, and watch your Monsters grow stronger from previous lives and defy death!
  • Alien Market Simulator: Run a market on your space station. Restore and upgrade the station, expand your services, and sell to a variety of alien customers. Experience the challenge of managing a business in space and growing your market
  • Bad Cheese: Bad Cheese is a psychological horror inspired by the eerie charm of 1920s animation. Step into the tiny paws of a mouse spending the weekend at home with a dysfunctional Dad while Mom's away. Be on your best behavior and KEEP DADDY HAPPY.
  • Breathedge 2: Sent on a reckless mission, you find yourself in outer space filled with numerous dangers and things to explore. Build, craft, manage your crew, look after the chicken, and defeat the evil space corporation in this new breathtaking survival game.
  • Cubic Odyssey: Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!
  • Destino Indomable: In Destino Indomable, you're the hot new actress tasked with playing the main character in a telenovela! This is a wild visual novel inspired by the craziest Latin soup operas, filled with humor, drama, romance, horses, handsome men, Spanglish and slaps!
  • Dice Of Arcana: Dice of Arcana is a wicked roguelite dice game. Survive a blood-drenched trip on a caravan led by a malevolent puppet. Bet your fingers, break the rules with special items, face major arcana and prevail: losing means death.
  • Dino Topia: Embark on an adventure across a perilous ancient land, exploring diverse regions to discover and hatch loyal dinosaur companions. Together, you'll fight, build, farm, and more, as you work toward creating a unique home that is truly your own.
  • DREADCORE - Locked Unit: A first-person psychological horror game focused on exploration, puzzle-solving, and environmental storytelling. Discover the tragic story of Unit 199, where a fragmented consciousness still haunts the place.
  • Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping: You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
  • Dust Raiders: Dust Raiders is a management strategy game, set in a lawless wasteland. Upgrade your vehicles, engage in tactical fights against raiders hunting for your resources and gather a crew to rule the area.
  • Camper Van: Make it Home: Decorate and organize the camper van of your dreams! Embark on a journey of self-discovery as you build your own home-on-wheels, using a combination of creative block organization puzzles and relaxing interior design. Make your heart feel at ease and your camper van feel like home.
  • Grimoire Groves: Join the witches in their quest to restore the Grimoire Groves! Master magic, grow cute plant creatures and discover the mystery of the Rainbow Socks in this cozy, rogue-lite dungeon crawler.
  • High School Dirty Secrets: High School Dirty Secrets is a horror/puzzle adventure where Kasuga wakes up locked inside her high school with no memory of how she got there. As she searches for a way out, strange and unsettling events unfold, leading her to uncover dark secrets hidden within the school's walls.
  • Jumping Jazz Cats: Play, race and hang with your feline friends in this online platformer party game! Purrfect your pussycat parkour as you sprint, jump, bounce, swing, skid and slide through a collection of collaborative and competitive mini-games set in a grandiose cartoon mansion. Get jumpin', jazz cats!
  • Katanaut: Katanaut is a fast-paced action-roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover its darkest secrets.
  • Leftovers KO!: Leftovers KO! is a Punch-Out-inspired, hand-drawn animated boxing game where you fight a bunch of leftovers. After a long day at work, you come home to find that your uneaten food has come to life—and it's here to beat you up... with its hands! Defeat them all and uncover the truth!
  • Nice Day for Fishing: The world needs you Adventurer! Embark on an RPG pixel adventure where you’ll play as Baelin the humble fisherman, who must rise-up to become the hero of Honeywood. Battle fish with precision timing and magic spells, upgrade your abilities, defeat evil and rebuild Honeywood.
  • Out and About: A cozy foraging adventure about the magic of real-life plants! Identify and gather wild plants and fungi, cook tasty recipes, master herbal remedies, and rebuild your community after a devastating storm.
  • Projected Dreams: Drag toys from the shelves and drop them on the table to create a shadow play in this cozy puzzle game. As the shadows unfold, immerse yourself in a heartwarming story full of nostalgia from the 90s and blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
  • Radiolight: Ashwood Creek, 1985. A child disappears without a trace. A local policeman is drawn into a national park, seeking the truth. Mysterious radio signals beckon him further and further. Investigate, survive and face the unknown in Radiolight— an '80s thriller by solo dev Krystof Knesl.
  • Rift Riff: Jump a rift, pick your towers, and fight off enemies in this strategically tight tower defense game.
  • River Towns: Solve puzzles by placing buildings and creating vibrant cities in River Towns. Each district has its own style and shapes, making every level a new challenge. Help to restore and rebuild our River Towns.
  • SEDAP! A Culinary Adventure: SEDAP! is a co-op cooking-combat adventure that combines the chaos of a collaborative kitchen and the wonders of adventuring into an unexplored world. Embark on an exciting culinary journey, whip up delectable delicacies, and serve your way through a fantastical reimagination of Southeast Asia!
  • Surviving Skeleton Island: Surviving Skeleton Island is an open world survival crafting RPG set in a primitive 3D low poly island world of 12 unique biomes. Explore, hunt, craft, build, farm and fish to survive, while quests and clues unveil the secrets of the island, and your past. Forge your destiny and plot your escape!
  • The Horror at Highrook: The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family, and choose your own path through the darkness.
  • The Little Brave: Become a brave hero and embark to the dangerous journey though mysterious forbidden lands. Reveal secrets of the legendary past, find the last pieces of gone magic and gain courage to slay the terrible monster!
  • True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3: "True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 3" concludes the acclaimed thriller trilogy with gripping point-and-click mechanics, challenging puzzles, and a haunting atmosphere. Uncover answers, confront the Stonehouse family’s demon, and experience an unforgettable horror finale.
  • Truer than You: A choice-packed visual novel about love, loss and being lost in life. Play as Rin, hired as an actor to play roles in real-life situations. Have conversations and make choices to get a good rating, but whatever you do… don’t fall in love with a client!
  • Wandering Monolith: Rogue TD: You are the Wandering Monolith, falling from the sky. Summon towers, expand the board, defend your core, and build your deck of upgrades to conquer countless worlds.
  • Ways of Alchemy: Become a medieval alchemist in this card game. Grow, craft, and brew your way to power. Hire adventurers, discover ancient recipes, and master the art of alchemy. No wands are required — just wit and wisdom.
  • Wildkeepers Rising: Tame monsters! Slay waves of enemy hordes! Explore fantasy lands! Wildkeepers Rising is a whimsical action-RPG roguelite set in a beautiful hand-drawn world that combines the power curve of bullet heaven games with the compulsive fun of a creature collector.
  • YOUR HOUSE: A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
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