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Steam Just Added 6 Of The Best Upcoming PC Games You Won’t Want To Miss

This October's Steam Next Fest is more packed than ever with demos. To give you a head start on searching for the best games on offer, here are our top picks.

Inverse · Oct 15, 2025

A zombie apocalypse sim that puts you on the front lines of a The Last of Us-style outbreak is tearing up Steam Next Fest

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor

GamesRadar · Oct 15, 2025

Steam Next Fest's most popular demo is an old Half Sword tech playtest, which just proves the timeless appeal of physics-based swordfights

The people love a melee.

PC Gamer · Oct 14, 2025

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I've been playing Heroes of Might and Magic since I was 6, and after putting 10 hours into Olden Era's huge Steam demo, the strategy series has never felt better

Steam Next Fest | Vampires and griffins and dragons – oh my!

GamesRadar · Oct 14, 2025

One of Steam Next Fest's biggest survival games was a supremely zen rock-climbing experience - right up until I fell to my death

Cairn is tearing up the survival game charts

GamesRadar · Oct 14, 2025

Steam Next Fest's first big hit is a brutal medieval combat sim where I bludgeoned three other peasants with a candlestick

Half Sword is a massive early breakout

GamesRadar · Oct 14, 2025

The 50 most-played demos of Steam Next Fest include musical martial arts, a Stalker-inspired MMO, a superhero management sim, and at least 2 games that are basically Sea of Thieves in space

Time to double the length of your Steam wishlist.

PC Gamer · Jun 19, 2025

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A late contender for my favorite roguelike of Steam Next Fest combines Vampire Survivors with an arcade classic, and it's sticking around for a few more days

Ball x Pit is a real buzzer-beater

GamesRadar · Jun 16, 2025

The Stellar Blade PC release finally convinced me to try it out, but after its Steam Next Fest demo I'm going straight back to Elden Ring Nightreign

Sorry Eve, I belong to the Condemned

GamesRadar · Jun 14, 2025

My favorite Steam Next Fest city-builder so far is a chill sequel to Plague Inc, but I still ended up feeding dogs to my citizens

After Inc. proves the post-apocalypse is never a walk in the park

GamesRadar · Jun 12, 2025

I carved through my first dangerously addictive Steam Next Fest demo with the power of 'shotgun magic' in this mystical twist on Hotline Miami

Mage Tower Massacre has some surprisingly shooty spells at its fingertips

GamesRadar · Jun 11, 2025

The biggest strategy game in Steam Next Fest is a medieval siege MMO from cult devs - but it's impossible to play it most the time and I have to wait 5 hours to get in

Please, Anvil Empires, just let me play

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

I couldn't picture how Death Howl, a soulslike deckbuilder, could possibly marry the two genres—until I played its Steam Next Fest demo

Then my face got smashed, now I'm a believer.

PC Gamer · Jun 10, 2025

The Stellar Blade PC release was briefly the biggest demo at Steam Next Fest, but it's been overtaken by a controversial soulslike MMORPG revival that shares at least one thing with Stellar Blade itself

Vindictus: Defying Fate is garnering a lot of attention

GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

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GamesRadar · Jun 10, 2025

I lost all my progress in a single catastrophic fall in this impossibly hard open-world Steam Next Fest demo, and I'm not even a tiny bit mad about it

Baby Steps is the latest piece of psychological warfare from the creator of Getting Over It

PC Gamer · Jun 6, 2025

Half-Life 2 becomes a loot-hoarding roguelike dungeon crawl in this Next Fest mod demo

SourceWorld lets you live the life of a gig economy pandimensional hitman.

GamesRadar · Mar 4, 2025

This roguelike city-builder casts you as a benevolent Lord of the Rings villain, and its Steam Next Fest demo accidentally consumed my entire evening

The King is Watching is filled with a host of lazy citizens

Inverse · Mar 3, 2025

Card Games Are Getting Even More Inventive On PC, And I Couldn't Be More Excited

Some of the best demos at Steam Next Fest show how far digital card games have come, with clever twists on the roguelike deckbuilding format.

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PC Gamer · Mar 2, 2025

Steam Next Fest's most-played demo is a game almost everybody hates

Mecha Break can't catch a break.

PC Gamer · Mar 1, 2025

I wrote one-sentence reviews of over 70 Steam demos to help you decide which to try before Next Fest ends

I played way too many Steam Next Fest demos this week. Here's what I thought about almost all of them.

PC Gamer · Feb 28, 2025

I became a domestic terrorist to steal a lightbulb in the best immersive sim I've played this Steam Next Fest—and it isn't even a Next Fest demo

Peripeteia's first challenge is pronouncing its name.

Inverse · Feb 28, 2025

Steam's Next Most Exciting Sci-Fi Game Already Has Me Questioning My Loyalties In The Inevitable AI Revolution

Helping a probably-not-evil AI on a rescue mission in deep space is one of the best part of this month's Steam Next Fest.

GamesRadar · Feb 27, 2025

The hottest city builder in Steam Next Fest is actually a roguelike deck builder in disguise: "Break the game with thousands of insane builds"

9 Kings is my kind of genre soup, and people really like it so far

GamesRadar · Feb 27, 2025

The most popular open-world survival game in Steam Next Fest is coming straight for my JRPG-born obsession with floating islands

Solarpunk smashed its Kickstarter goal, and it's getting a lot of play on Steam

Inverse · Feb 27, 2025

Only One Cozy PC Game Will Help You Identify Plants In Real Life

The most fascinating cozy game at Steam Next Fest might just make your next walk in nature better by teaching you how to identify plants.

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