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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 3 - The Untold Story

This 'overwhelmingly positive' Steam Next Fest autobattler demo feels like someone bolted a Path of Exile-style map onto Halls of Torment, and I fear for my future productivity

Conquest Dark joins a host of other autobattlers that devour my free time.

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With backing from Slay the Spire and Among Us devs, this Steam Next Fest roguelike inspired by an unlikely classic immediately stands out – even if I am a little confused

Castle V Castle has the Slay the Spire team on-side

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I've waited 3 years for this high-speed roguelike-flavored runner, and now that it's finally playable in Steam Next Fest my eyeballs can hardly keep up

Haste: Broken Worlds is already climbing the Next Fest charts

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Steam Next Fest 2026 and beyond: all the dates, details, and everything else you need to know

Steam Next Fest is coming back in 2026, so here are all the dates, times, and details to know about the future events

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I've got high hopes for this League of Legends and Overwatch-fueled Steam Next Fest hit, but I'm worried history will repeat itself

Supervive was a smash - but it did seem pretty familiar

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Multiplayer games dominated Steam Next Fest with extraction shooter Delta Force wearing the crown, and even the top roguelike and weird sim are technically co-op

Police sandbox The Precinct is the only fully single-player game in the top 10

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Multiplayer focus aside, the Steam Next Fest demo charts reveal the weird unpredictability of PC gaming

From camo-clad throwbacks to dimension-flipping anime teens to killer elevators.

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Dune and Ghibli collide in Steam Next Fest's strangest strategy game, where you drive steampunk war-crabs across an interplanetary Austro-Hungarian empire

Frank Herbert and Howl meet in a steampunk take on Sea of Thieves

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Steam Just Released Sci-Fi RPGs and Chill Puzzles in These 10 Must-Play Free Demos

From sci-fi RPGs to road trip simulators, Steam Next Fest is full of excellent demos for upcoming games. Here are 10 of the best in the October 2024 edition.

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The 5 most popular Steam Next Fest demos are all multiplayer because the people thirst for PvP

Upcoming PvP games of several genres have stacked the most-played Next Fest demos list.

PC Gamer

A battle royale hero shooter MOBA from ex-League of Legends devs is smashing the Steam Next Fest charts

Supervive is making it big

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Horror game devs team up to create the most ridiculous spiritual successor to PS1 Harry Potter games, and Steam Next Fest players are loving it

Welcome to the world of Secret Agent Wizard Boy and the International Crime Syndicate

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25-year-old FPS Delta Force is back with an extraction shooter revival that's already tearing up the Steam Next Fest charts

It's spooky good

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The single-player breakout of Steam Next Fest so far is an open-world crime-fighting game that looks like the exact opposite of GTA

The Precinct is already dominating Steam Next Fest's charts

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Just in time for Steam Next Fest, one of the storefront's most wishlisted FPS games gets a new demo, and it's already surpassed over 20,000 concurrent players

Delta Force has a demo available for the next week on Steam

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From horror gardening sims to RPG puzzlers, here's 15 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this June

List | With a torrent of Steam Next Fest demos released this week, here’s a handy list of which ones you have to play

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This Clever Persona-Inspired Horror RPG Just Got Its First Public Demo At Steam Next Fest

'Demonschool' is a spooky (but not too scary) tactical RPG that blends social sim with clever combat, and both are on display in its new Steam Next Fest demo.

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'The baddest motherf***er in the room' is, unexpectedly, the cozy building game Tiny Glade—which is already ruling Steam Next Fest with over 800,000 wishlists

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Inside the best horror demos of Steam Next Fest: "Gaining traction for your game is tough, no matter how strange and f*cked up we make them"

Interview | The best horror demos I found across Steam Next Fest are living (dead) proof that the genre is thriving in 2024

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This Steam Next Fest was dominated by two massive strategy games, and that feels weird for an event all about discoverability

Opinion| Homeworld 3 and Stormgate were huge hits in the latest festival

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From Metroidvanias to roguelikes, survival games to strategy games, here are the best things we played during Steam Next Fest

Here are the indie games to keep an eye on

PC Gamer

A giant snake monster ruined my apple-fueled medieval utopia in the Steam Next Fest demo for this settlement sim

It's all fun and games until an apocalyptic fog makes a mess of your orchards.

GamesRadar

Kill someone every 10 seconds or die in this must-play Steam Next Fest FPS that's set inside a classic anime style

With roguelike influences to boot

PC Gamer

I played 50 Steam Next Fest demos this week, and these are my top 5

From deckbuilders to city builders, these are the demos you shouldn't miss.

PC Gamer

We're in a golden era of game demos

We're spoiled for choice in an unending tide of free game trials.

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