Steam Next Fest 2024

Steam Next Fest 2024 Feed

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

5 comments

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Create cutesy fire hazards in socket management puzzler Plug It In

Who dogs the outlet?

Oct. 18, 2024James Archer

5 comments

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

7 comments

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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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The player inspects a large submarine as it floats in a green-tinted ocean.

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I have embraced the subaquatic dread of not knowing which button to press in Full Fathom

That sinking feeling

Oct. 15, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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My Arms Are Longer Now is a thievery game where the thief is a stretchy boneless flesh tube

Limb crim

Oct. 15, 2024James Archer

5 comments

The player kicks an alien while the alien attacks with a pistol.

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The most obnoxious shooter you vaguely remember has returned in 420BlazeIt 2

lol wtf??

Oct. 14, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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A colourful and sparkly set of shapes in Sektori, a twin stick shooter

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Geometry Wars and techno live on in Sektori's demo, but you probably won't for long

Beat the beat

Oct. 14, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Sadie is ambushed by bootleggers in a scene from the Silent Sadie demo.

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Buster Keatoncore platformer Silent Sadie harkens back to the roaring, jumping, sliding twenties

Do your own stunts

Oct. 14, 2024James Archer

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Some little fellas on ski slide towards some ice in Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders.

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Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders is a slick ski 'em up, if its demo is any indication

It's a slippy slidey ice world out there

Oct. 14, 2024Graham Smith

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An eerie child stares at the player as they travel together on a train, while a businessman works in the background.

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Trip is a pleasant train journey with normal folk, like this unblinking child who speaks only in dark symbols

That tracks

Oct. 14, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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A screenshot of the most played feed for Steam Next Fest 2024

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Steam Next Fext 2024's most popular demos include goblin maid sims, horror shooters and a Chinese game about an unmarried no-lifer

Truly, a festival of nextness

June 18, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Nor points a pistol at an otherworldly sphinx-like god in Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn.

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Our 9 favourite demos from the summer Steam Next Fest

Try them

June 13, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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A funky disco with extra guns and swords in Disco Samurai

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Disco Samurai is a brutally difficult and brilliant Sekiro-like rhythm slasher

Disco stu-dent of the blade

June 12, 2024Nic Reuben

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The team prepare to slug some metal in Metal Slug Tactics

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Metal Slug Tactics’ demo is pure nostalgia for better and worse

I feel snails have already solved the need for metal slugs actually

June 11, 2024Nic Reuben

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FACEMINER is a dystopian management sim where you'll take great pleasure in harvesting mugshots for money

Welcome to the retro-future

June 11, 2024Ed Thorn

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The Caravan SandWitch demo teases a gorgeous exploration-adventure

Featuring a van and some sand, no witches yet though

June 11, 2024James Archer

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Two dudes in armour fighting in a posh ballroom in Half Sword

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Half Sword's demo is a chivalric edition of Gang Beasts in which people are disemboweled for hats

Rags-to-riches by means of blood-and-guts

June 7, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Horrible structures of which no man should speak tower-ishly defend in Bella Wants Blood

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Playing Bella Wants Blood is satisfying in the same way pulling clogged hair from a shower drain is

I wish I hadn’t touched it but I want to do it again

June 7, 2024Nic Reuben

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