Steam Next Fest

A montage of The Horror at Highrook, Deliver At All Costs, and DoubleWe screenshots with Gamer Network's Wishlisted mascot in the corner.

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Our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest Winter 2025

Until next time

March 3, 2025RPS

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Key art for As We Descend, showing a mechanical woman surrounded by armoured warriors looking over a city domed with a forcefield

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As We Descend burrows beneath the other Frostpunk-likes with ornate card tactics and writing

Downtown

Feb. 28, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Axe Ghost is a puzzle game where you group monsters and hit them with an axe, and wishlisty loves it.

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Axe Ghost is mix of Tetris, Sokoban, and Gloomhaven - a sort of 'Tekken', if you will

Please don't think about that too much

Feb. 28, 2025Nic Reuben

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The black-haired jowly white male protagonist of the Gothic Remake prologue, talking to somebody out of view with the blue Wishlisted mascot in the bottom right

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The Gothic Remake demo reveals an RPG powered by wheeling, dealing, and growling

Dark fantasy makes strange bedfellows

Feb. 27, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Speeding through a floating forest in the Haste: Broken Worlds demo.

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Haste: Broken Worlds is silly-fast, momentum-based fun, and there’s a demo out now

More than just a dash

Feb. 27, 2025James Archer

Cars drive along a dirty road on the tropical island of St Monique.

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Relieve some road rage by smashing up the city in the demo for Deliver At All Costs

Bumper-to-bumper chaos

Feb. 27, 2025Brendan Caldwell

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Alta looks at Boro as he holds her sword delicately in his hands. The Wishlisted mascot is overlaid on the image to show it is one of our favourite demos.

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Are you a failure? Wanderstop might be the "cosy" game for you

They've got it down to a tea

Feb. 26, 2025Brendan Caldwell

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A hammer striking a nail in Rogue Light Deck Builder, with the Wishlisted mascot in the bottom right.

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Rogue Light Deck Builder is not a roguelike deckbuilder, it's a cry for help

Nailed it

Feb. 26, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A cracked out blob stares longingly at Castle V Castle.

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Castle V Castle is a snappy minimalist card game with robots, witches, and sentient doomer signage

Also hard hats

Feb. 26, 2025Nic Reuben

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A crab walker fires its cannons at an enemy mechanical walker in the DuneCrawl demo.

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DuneCrawl’s on-foot fighting is no match for its crab walker warfare

Shock and claw

Feb. 25, 2025James Archer

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A screenshot of deckbuilding dungeon crawler Into The Restless Ruins with a horrific blue homunculus staring lovingly from the corner.

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Stylish roguelite Into The Restless Ruins channels classic Warhammer Quest's dungeon crawling

Harvest maiden plz my pizza is terrible

Feb. 25, 2025Nic Reuben

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A squirrel climbs a guitar in the Squirreled Away demo.

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Never mind the crafting, Squirreled Away is at its best when you’re simply a scampering rodent

May contain nuts

Feb. 25, 2025James Archer

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Lily solves a tile-flipping puzzle in the As I Began to Dream demo.

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As I Began To Dream’s quickfire tile-flipping gives its puzzles a satisfying snap

Click, clack, jump

Feb. 24, 2025James Archer

A clone rushes in to stab the player in DoubleWe's demo.

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It’s you versus yourself in the demo for roguelite clone-hunter DoubleWe

This town ain’t big enough for the both of me

Feb. 24, 2025James Archer

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A screenshot of Pinky from Promise Mascot Agency with a freakish blue blob in the corner.

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Promise Mascot Agency has a solution for the open world genre's most heinous crime

One of them, anyway

Feb. 24, 2025Nic Reuben

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A ferris wheel serves as a pachinko board in Ballionaire.

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Ballionaire is a pachinko roguelike where you build your board as you play

Ping ping ping

Oct. 19, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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Create cutesy fire hazards in socket management puzzler Plug It In

Who dogs the outlet?

Oct. 18, 2024James Archer

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A screenshot from the Steam Next Fest demo of Archons, showing the two Archon characters conjuring a damaging golden halo between them to kill nearby enemies.

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Archons doubles the chaos of Vampire Survivors by giving you two characters to control at once

Brainpower Overwhelming!

Oct. 17, 2024Ollie Toms

A traffic jam piles up at a crossroads where a violent misdeed has occurred in Streets Of Rogue 2.

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The demo for Streets Of Rogue 2 lets you roleplay as the world's most violent chef

Let him cook

Oct. 17, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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Knights In Tight Spaces kicks the Tight Fight formula in the direction of fantasy role-playing

New Steam demo introduces clerics and rogues

Oct. 16, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A view of a concrete city in FPS Straftat, with the Wishlisted mascot in the bottom right

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I hope Straftat is 2024's breakout shooter, because the demo's 25 maps are gloriously unwholesome

The ghosts of FPS past, present and future

Oct. 16, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A wishlisty-fied image of a car stopping to pick up a runaway bride in Keep Driving.

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Keep Driving made me nostalgic for road trips I’ve never been on and places I’ve never seen

(Deftones reference)

Oct. 16, 2024Nic Reuben

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A conversation with a house named Mint in Building Relationships.

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I am happy to report that Building Relationships has more than one joke, and most of them are pretty good

Solid foundations

Oct. 16, 2024Nic Reuben

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Two gladiators do battle in an arena of ancient Rome.

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Letalis is Pokémon for GameBoy except you're battling with Roman gladiators

My name is Ashimus Ketchumus Palletemus...

Oct. 15, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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Blood-crazed arena FPS Dieseldome takes DOOM Eternal and rams it into Gladiator

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAAAARGH

Oct. 15, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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