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.

There are so many awesome demos to play, I want to encourage you to stop reading this THIS INSTANT and head straight there!

Ah, you're still here. Well, we'll at least tell you how these demos are of games that HAVEN'T EVEN RELEASED YET and you can play as many as you like all week for free! Wishlist your favorites and you'll stay in-the-know for when those games have their official launches.

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. Play free demos all week, and wishlist your favorites so you can be notified when the full game officially launches at a later date!

Steam Next Fest is on now through June 16th at 10am Pacific!

• 100 in 1 Game Collection: 100 in 1 Game Collection is a gigantic compilation of 100 arcade games that blend classic arcade games with fresh concepts. Unlock new minigames, improve scores, and challenge yourself solo or in multiplayer.
• Abra-Cooking-Dabra: Abra-Cooking-Dabra is a cooking card game. Manage ingredients and make British dishes to keep toves, borogoves, and mome raths fed. Meet timers and fulfill puzzling orders despite the angry wacky Cat being your boss. You are Wonderland's new chef.
• Action Game Maker: The latest in the long-running “Maker” series of game development toolkits, “ACTION GAME MAKER” brings 2D action game development to those of all skill levels! Built using Godot Engine, “ACTION GAME MAKER” provides access to professional level functions without any programming required!
• All Will Fall: Physics-Based Survival City Builder: A post-apocalyptic city builder where every structure can collapse. Master a unique physics-based 3D construction system, create a sprawling vertical settlement on water, scavenge for resources, explore the ocean, and ensure the survival of your colony by making difficult yet necessary decisions.
• and Roger: It was a morning like all others, until she realized her dad wasn't home. In his place, a stranger who speaks nonsense and insists she "takes her medicine". Who is he? Where is dad?
• Autogun Heroes: Supercharged: Blast your way through alien-infested planets and help Gus rescue his crew, one by one, to save the galaxy. This challenging roguelike 2D action platformer combines intense shoot-'em-up chaos with smooth, responsive controls. Dodge. Roll. Dominate!
• Baby Steps: Explore a world shrouded in mist, one step at a time. Hike the serene mountains by placing each footstep yourself, in original physics-based gameplay from the minds behind Ape Out and Getting Over It. Take in the sights, fall in love with the local fauna, and try to find meaning in a wasted life.
• Baseless: Baseless is a challenging planet-jumping shooter where shooting = movement! Blast from planet to planet with 360° gravity, creatively demolishing every enemy in your path. Fire powerful weapons, rescue cute friends, and discover a galaxy worth fighting for!
• Become the Moon: The deckbuilding auto battler. Draft cards, collect relics, and cast spells to create game-breaking combos. Assemble a team of oddballs and misfits, and shoot for the moon!
• Bus Flipper: Renovator Simulator: Have you ever wondered “What if I buy an old bus and convert it into a camper? Or maybe a cafe on wheels?”. This bus conversion simulator will give you that! You will get a variety of different buses and vans to convert. Clean, destroy, create, customize, test it, sell and make profit!
• Bloodthief: Bloodthief is an ultra-fast melee dungeon-runner where you use momentum to parkour through hazardous dungeons and brutally slash through enemies. Speed-run through medieval dungeons and castles and learn what dark secrets lie beneath the surface.
• CloverPit: A rogue-lite slot machine nightmare. Gamble for your life in a never-ending debt simulator!
• Cottonville: Create, farm, and style in Cottonville – a cozy dress-up game with farming and sim mechanics!
• Dave x Jones: Ascend to the highest fathom of a pirate underworld with the infamous Davy Jones on this action-packed, revenge-driven journey. Control the captain's headless body, stay on pace with his autonomous skull and keep his legend alive.
• delivery pals: Put on your thermos bags and head outside with your friends. You will have to deliver food to the aliens and make sure that the last company on Earth does not close down.
• Discounty: Manage your own discount supermarket! Get caught up in small-town drama, organize and plan your shop's layout, and strike lucrative trade deals as you expand your secretive aunt's business empire. Selling more frozen fries will surely heal this broken community...right?
• Dispatch: Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy where choices matter. Manage a dysfunctional team of misfit heroes and strategize who to send to emergencies around the city, all while balancing office politics, personal relationships, and your own quest to become a hero.
• Dunebound Tactics: Lead your band of survivors on a perilous trek across unforgiving sands in search of a new home. Battle ruthless factions, scavenge dwindling resources, reshape the terrain to your advantage and make life-or-death choices in Dunebound Tactics, a Roguelite Turn-Based Tactical RPG.
• Egging On: This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
• Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream: Experience an isometric, narrative-driven stealth game and join Hanna’s adventure in the vibrant city of Eriksholm. The mysterious disappearance of her brother, Herman, ignites a chain of catastrophic events that will forever change their lives and the fate of the entire city.
• 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!
• Ferocious: Immerse yourself in a survival FPS adventure. Stranded on a dangerous island, face mercenaries, dinosaurs, and a vibrant yet hostile ecosystem. Explore breathtaking environments and survive the onslaught of intense, fast-paced encounters.
• Flick Shot Rogues: Plan, Aim, Shoot! FLICK SHOT ROGUES blends the tactile satisfaction of flicking stuff across a table with the strategic depth of your favourite turnbased roguelikes. Chain together ridiculous combos, unlock characters, items and skills, and conquer the island!
• Formula Legends: From the golden age to the modern era, race through time in Formula Legends. Master reimagined circuits, command legendary cars, and chase glory across decades of motorsport history. A love letter to Formula racing, where speed, skill, and strategy define the champion.
• Gloomy Eyes: Within a world where the sun has stopped rising, the darkness awoke the dead from their graves, and an oppressive leader has cast them out. Play Gloomy and Nena, a zombie and a human , on a quest to find the sun in this dark but poetic narrative puzzle game.
• Gold Gold Adventure Gold: Gold makes god. Embrace city-building chaos. Pet giant monsters! Watch puny adventurers! Bend nature to your will with powerful spells and the greatest of all forces of nature - GOLD. Colony sim / reverse RPG
• How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine: Team up with a friend to reach a lost submarine and prevent the outbreak of war. Work together on two devices to solve increasingly challenging puzzles, where each of you has your own unique role to play.
• Hungry Horrors: A culinary roguelite deckbuilder where you feed monsters instead of fighting them. Prepare traditional dishes and serve Horrors from British and Irish folklore. Match cravings, build combos, and stay alive one turn at a time.
• Iwakura Aria: The Iwakura mansion holds a dark secret. Ichiko the new young maid joins looking for nothing but safety and security, but would soon find herself entangled with the beautiful daughter of the Iwakura household. Unravel the secrets of the Iwakura mansion in this gripping suspense visual novel.
• ILA: A Frosty Glide: Set foot on a magical island and explore a whimsical small open world as ILA, a spirited young witch-in-training searching for her lost kitty, Coco. With your trusty skatebroom, find secret places, collectables, and improve your magic and flying abilities as you reach the summit.
• Into The Grid: Become a master hacker in this Cyberpunk Roguelike Deckbuilder. Explore the dangers of cyberspace and fight evil corporations. Build and upgrade a deck of powerful programs. Unlock perks and skills, and unleash digital hell on your enemies. Dive Into The Grid!
• Jump Ship: Jump Ship is a mission based co-op PvE for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Engage in intense battles both on the ground and in space, and always keep your ship upgraded and intact.
• Kaizen: A Factory Story: Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
• 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.
• Kick'N Hell: Kick, climb, fall, rage… Rise to the top and take on Satan, or fall like the rest. Beware, there’s no mercy in Hell.
• Kimono Cats: Pop bubbles, collect coins, and build a dream cat village in Kimono Cats – an uplifting festival adventure set in old Japan!
• Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter: Janus Institute's Class of '89 are trapped and forced to kill each other 'for science', is survival in the cards? A murder-mystery tribute to retro anime and pop culture of 1980's Japan, underlined with a dark twist of horror and conspiracy!
• LAN Party Adventures: Okay, Pedro is AWOL, and you have to get this LAN Party set up at the Game Store for the session later. Connect cables, install software, and solve puzzles all while you and the gang uncover the mystery of your missing friend.
• Leaf Blower Co.: Blow your leaves and your cares away in this chilled out work sim. Build up your business, buy new tools, and unlock upgrades - all while watching the leaves fly. After all, one man’s trash is another man’s cash.
• Let Them Trade: Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.
• Little Rocket Lab: Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!
• Loot of Baal: Recruit, manage, and send your hireling crew to conquer demons and gather treasure—all from the corner of your screen. "Loot of Baal" is an idle desktop game where adventure runs alongside your daily tasks. Can your heroes save the world from chaos?
• Lost Rift: Lost Rift is a high-stakes First-Person Survival Shooter Adventure. This demo allows you to explore the first section of Pioneers' Landing, our PvE Survival zone, and repeatable Expeditions to our first PvPvE island in groups of up to 5.
• Lotus: Lost Memories: Step into the richly woven tale of Atsushi, a young samurai bound by duty to his ailing father. Undertake a journey of purpose as he faces skilled adversaries and uncovers the echoes of a legacy that will shape his destiny. Realized in a pixel art visual novel with turn based combat.
• MechAnimals: Gear up for mayhem: From the animators behind Kung Fu Panda and The Mario Movie, MechAnimals is an upcoming Action Roguelite featuring cute tiny animal MECH PILOTS!
• MIMESIS: 4 Player co-op survival horror game. When the cursed rain falls, 'Mimesis' appear, perfectly imitating your teammates, bringing a new level of tension you've never experienced before.
• Modulus: Modulus is a factory automation game where you cut, color, stamp, and assemble 3D building blocks. Design and optimize sprawling factories with creative freedom to efficiently fulfill the orders of the Grand Neural Network.
• Morbid Metal: Morbid Metal is a Hack 'n' Slash, Action Rogue-lite, where you can shapeshift into unique characters to slaughter enemies with powerful combos. Switch characters in real-time to unleash your power and fight your way through hordes of deadly machines and intense bosses.
• Mr. Billion: Idle Rich Tycoon: Mr. Billion is an idle life and economic simulator where you’ll rise from a homeless nobody to a wealthy tycoon! Make smart choices, climb the career ladder, and build your luxury life. Tap your way to billions and live like a true money king!
• My Cozy Room: Design and decorate your dream space in this relaxing sandbox game! Choose from multiple room layouts, arrange over 500 furniture pieces and decorations, and craft the perfect cozy atmosphere that matches your style.
• Neon Abyss 2: Dive into the cybermyth roguelike chaos of Neon Abyss 2! Now featuring up to 4-player online co-op, more combat styles, and unlimited item synergies, every run delivers a dramatic, action-packed experience you won't forget.
• Nested Lands: Nested Lands is a ruthless medieval RPG game featuring in-depth village building, large-scale social management and combats. Gather survivors, build a settlement, craft, master your skills, survive, and endure alone or in online co-op.
• Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound: A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.
• No, I'm not a Human: Sunrise. Twilight of earth. The world is ending. Acrid auromas of sun-scorched streets fill the air. Blackened corpses gnarled into shapes of agony line streets. Peering outside is enough to scorch eyes from socket. The only refuge is in the night."
• Noble Legacy: Noble Legacy is a medieval city building game from a 3rd person perspective. With the depth of city building simulation games and the immersiveness of 3rd person RPGs, Noble Legacy will deliver on the power fantasy to “Be the ruler of a medieval kingdom.”
• NOVEMS: Cut open your destiny with 9 cards! Master strategy in a turn-based roguelike auto-battler. Collect cards and survive battles by utilizing 'placement' and 'linking' mechanics.
• Occlude: Occlude is a ritual disguised as Solitaire; a cosmic-horror card game where the rules are obscured and reality is at stake. Play through cryptic challenges to reveal forbidden lore in this singleplayer narrative puzzle game for the terminally curious. Don’t worry; you can always start over.
• OFF: 'I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.' -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
• oneway.exe: You’re stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their friendship.
• 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.
• Oxide Room 208: Eight people trapped in an old laboratory will try to survive their last moments in this action-packed, terrifying body horror game. Oxide Room 208 challenges you to face your fears in a dark and twisted environment where the boundary between flesh and insanity blur.
• Paddle Paddle Paddle:  Its a hard game about paddling (alone or together with a friend)
• Particle Hearts: Explore a world made entirely of particles. Use special abilities to manipulate those particles, solve puzzles, avoid detection, and uncover the role you play in this sinister and beautiful land.
• Pirates Outlaws 2: Heritage: Pirates Outlaws 2 is a swashbuckling roguelike deckbuilder. Collect & fuse cards, gather powerful relics and adapt your strategy during each run. Become a reputed pirate, loot the Sea Masters, challenge giant creatures and triumph in the great Arena!
• Pompeii: The Legacy: Rebuild the city of Pompeii and climb the social ladder. Roman society is full of intrigues that you have to solve in order to become a powerful ruler.
• Prologue: Go Wayback! Demo: Prologue: Go Wayback! is a single-player open-world emergent game within the survival genre. With classic survival mechanics and machine learning-driven terrain generation resulting in millions of possible maps, it challenges the players to explore their limits.
• Puzzling Places - 3D Jigsaw Sim: Arrange, connect and relax as you puzzle satisfying 3D dioramas of beautiful locations from around the world! No quests, no timers, no pressure - just puzzle at your pace, in short dips or epic puzzle sessions!
• Raiders of Blackveil: Join the rebellion against the evil cooperation Blackveil in this action-packed roguelite for 1-3 players. Select your MOBA-like champion, collect RPG-style loot and infiltrate Blackveil’s massive factory. Wreak havoc, and smuggle out loot to get INSANELY powerful!
• Rue Valley: Rue Valley is a narrative RPG about a man trapped in a time loop, surrounded by a colorful cast with complex emotional stories, each hiding unexpected secrets. Dealing with mental challenges, the main character must rise from the depths, delving into the anomaly to uncover its enigmatic origins.
• Rogue Eclipse: Spaceflight action for the new age! Push your piloting skills to the ultimate test, blast and burn your way through swarms of starfighters, merciless armadas and colossal behemoths in an epic roguelike campaign that spans the cosmos. Easy to learn, tricky to master, and impossible to put down.
• Roomballs: Soccer meets air hockey with an incredible twist: fast-paced, zany robots inspired by your favorite pop culture icons. This isn’t just about speed and strength; strategy, quick moves, and clever plays are the keys to victory. This game guarantees endless fun and high-octane action.
• Ruffy and the Riverside: In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
• Space Chef: Hunt, cook, and deliver cosmic cuisine using ingredients from across the galaxy to become the greatest chef in the Horseshoe Nebula. Explore alien worlds teeming with (edible) life, win the hearts of your customers, and thwart the rise of an evil interstellar burger chain.
• Star Birds: Star Birds is a relaxing asteroid base-building and resource management game. Discover and mine countless asteroids, create production networks and guide your flock of spacefaring birds to new interstellar horizons!
• TAMASHIKA: TAMASHIKA is a high-speed, high-skill corridor shooter set in an astral plane of ever-shifting hallways. Armed with just a pistol and tantō blade, players must survive brutal daily runs—cutting through enemies, parrying bullets, and fighting for the top of the leaderboard.
• Terrifier The ARTcade Game: Step into a world of pixelated carnage with Terrifier: The ARTcade Game, a gory retro fighting beat 'em up packed with intense action, dark humor, and tons of fun! Inspired by the classic beat 'em up games of the 80s and 90s.
• The Drifter: A Pulp Adventure Thriller - A murdered drifter awakens. Alive again, seconds before his death. Hunted and haunted, help him untangle a mad web of conspiracy in this fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride.
• The Lonesome Guild: In a world consumed by loneliness, only friendship can save the day. Lead a quirky cast in this colorful single-player ARPG full of heart, battles, and bonds that change everything.
• The Prisoning: Fletcher's Quest: After a visit to the psychologist that went horribly wrong you’re trapped in the mind of a game developer on the brink of physical and emotional burnout during the last stages of an intense project. Experience a metroidvania drenched in anxiety based on a very true story.
• The Whims of the Gods: The Whims of the Gods is a strategic, cooperative city-builder created for joint gameplay in online co-op mode. Build and protect the ancient city, face enemies, and manage resources together!
• Tormented Souls 2: Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.
• Twinkleby: Twinkleby is a cozy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring neighbours.
• Vampirates: Wield and throw anything or anybody against hordes of zombies with your friends online. Survive and feed the almighty Otter god to stop his wrath!
• Vindictus: Defying Fate: Experience intense action brought to life with diverse, unique characters. Read your enemy’s attacks and strike back for maximum impact in Vindictus: Defying Fate. Immerse yourself in signature combat and a gripping narrative.
• Voyagers of Nera: Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
• Wild West General Store Simulator: Run a General Store in the Wild West. Customize and expand your shop. Make sure that your customers’ constantly changing needs are satisfied. Work every job yourself or let your employees stack the shelves and work the till. Find out what it feels like to own a Wild West Supermarket.
• Whimside: A creature collection game that sits at the bottom of your screen & fits easily into your routine. Whether you're working, studying, or relaxing, Whimside is always ready to offer you a cozy escape. Capture rare creatures, create new species & decorate your whimsical space!
• Winnie's Hole: Join Winnie on a new adventure, from within! Play as a virus in his body and mind. Capture cells to mutate and build a deck of actions to unleash in combo-driven combat. A genre-blending roguelite with a dark yet charming story. Embrace discomfort - Sometimes we can't help being seen as a monster...
• Worldwide Rush: Worldwide Rush lets you experience passenger transportation and management on a global scale. Expand your company, meet the growing travel demand, compete against other companies, and discover new continents with its unique vehicles. The entire world is yours to control.
• Xenopurge: Xenopurge is a tactical auto-battler where you are a Commander tasked with purging the Xenos threat. Operate from a remote command center, issuing indirect orders via multi-screen interfaces. Plan routes, set priorities, and adapt as missions escalate and feel the true weight of being in command.
• Yooka-Replaylee: Embark on an epic open-world 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! The search for Pagies starts anew in Yooka-Replaylee, the enhanced definitive version of the beloved indie darling with all new challenges, secrets, mechanics, and accessibility options.