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Steam’s Next Fest is full of weird-ass, cool-ass games
Steam Next Fest is going on until March 3rd, and I’ve spent a considerable amount of time wading through a seemingly endless carousel of games, filling up my Steam Deck’s internal and external memory looking for the Good Shit™. I’ve landed on four standout game demos that are worth your time now and whenever their full games release.
One of Steam Next Fest’s Best Demos Finally Got Me Into a New Genre
Before Steam Next Fest February 2025 ends, be sure to check out one of the best demos before the full game releases.
Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates
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Steam Next Fest: Our Favorite 7 New Indie Games to Try for Free
If you're looking for a fresh batch of indie video games to dive into, Steam Next Fest is the perfect place to start. The limited-time event (running until March 3) showcases a massive selection of upcoming games, giving players the chance to try out free demos before the games officially launch.
The 10 Steam Next Fest demos you need to play this weekend
Steam Next Fest is upon us once again, bringing with it a veritable barrage of demos for you to sample. But with thousands of demos available, which ones are worth your time, bearing in mind that a lot of them will disappear next week? We've trawled through tons of demos to make a list of the 10 very best demos for you to try out.
All the 2025 Steam Next Fest demos to check out
We’re gobbling up these demos at Polygon, playing as much as we can and gathering our favorites to share with you. Steam Next Fest — the triannual online event dedicated to spotlighting demos from new games — is back this month for another weeklong celebration of recent and upcoming titles.
I played over 70 Steam Next Fest demos and wrote one-sentence reviews of all of them
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. You ever play so many game demos that your brain turns into a kind of game-infused gelatin capable only of learning new controls and input schemes? Well, I have, and I did it for you.
After 24 years, classic RPG Gothic returns as a top game in Steam Next Fest with a remake demo that has almost 5,000 reviews
Cult classic RPG Gothic is coming back later this year, and its remake is shaping up to be every bit as interesting as the 2001 original. Gothic 1: Remake showed its hand in the still ongoing Steam Next Fest - Valve's digital festival featuring hundreds of quick demos of upcoming games - and it seems like a return to form for a series that's been MIA for decades.
11 standouts from Steam Next Fest’s thousands of free game demos
If you head over to the Steam Next Fest charts right now, Valve will offer you a glimpse of the 2,228 games offering free downloadable demos as part of the event through Sunday, March 3. That is way too many games to effectively evaluate in such a short time, even with the massive resources of the Ars Orbiting HQ.
I played 83 Steam Next Fest demos and these are my top 5
Sometimes they're good enough that I keep playing them even after that hour, which is rare, but that's how I arrived at these five games: I played 83 of this year's Steam Next Fest demos and these were my favorites, or at least the ones that stuck out most in my mind.
11 Fantastic Free Demos Not To Miss In February’s Steam Next Fest
February 2025's Steam Next Fest is upon us, which means there are once again hundreds of free demos to checkout for all different kinds of upcoming PC games. The hail from all different genres and teams,
Steam Next Fest's biggest Soulslike is about to jump from PC to PS5 and Xbox, and everyone seems to love the demo just as much as we did
The First Berserker: Khazan is easily the Souslike standout from the latest Steam Next Fest demo extravaganza, but console fans of FromSoftware 's particular action RPG brand shouldn't feel too left ...
FIFA meets Silent Hill in Steam Next Fest’s most unhinged demo
Steam Next Fest is in full swing and there’s no shortage of great game demos you can try out for free. We’ve been keeping track of the best Steam Next Fest demos and doing deep dives into games like ...
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Moroi Official Steam Next Fest Trailer
Check out the Steam Next Fest Trailer for Moroi, an isometric action-adventure game developed by Violet Saint. Players will solve puzzles, engage in combat, and meet bizarre characters throughout this ...
Dagger Directive's Steam Next Fest demo is the single-player Tarkov with PS2-style graphics I didn't know I needed
This quote from The Sopranos, about getting whacked, was coursing through my head during my time with Dagger Directive, the ...