Next Fest, without the AI
The demos people are actually playing, most played first.
7,008 games in Steam Next Fest until 26 October. 2,506 of them declare AI.
Some developers don't declare it, so a few may slip through. Player counts are checked every few hours.
2,432 demos, tagged 2D, including 933 that declare AI, marked in yellow.
Melvor Idle 2
Games by Malcs
Embark on a brand new adventure building upon its predecessor. Melvor Idle 2 expands the world with deeper mechanics and greater challenges. Master new Skills, face powerful Combat challenges, or uncover the history of the world via Quests, all while enjoying zen-like progression.
Early AccessRPGIdlerAdventureCasual▶ Peak: 6,624 playersMore like this →Legend of Defenders
KaiPlay Studio
A thrilling idle tower defense game with automated battles and endless growth! Build your defenses, deploy heroes, and watch your fortress evolve from a humble outpost into an unstoppable stronghold—even while you’re away.
CasualStrategyTower DefenseIdlerIncremental▶ Peak: 799 playersMore like this →Warhammer Survivors
Auroch Digital
Warhammer Survivors is the official grim and dark bullet-heaven game from the developers of Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun. Play as over 40 iconic champions from the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Age of Sigmar universes and obliterate those who champion death and destruction.
ActionBullet HeavenRoguelikeAction RoguelikeBullet Hell▶ Peak: 511 playersMore like this →Dungeonbound
louidev
Dungeonbound is a retro first-person auto-battler dungeon crawler. Send your Warrior, Mage or Rogue into monster-packed depths, watch battles play out turn by turn, and grow stronger every run. Death just sends you home with the loot. Merge gear, buy upgrades, descend again.
Inventory ManagementDungeon CrawlerLootIncrementalRoguelite▶ Peak: 466 playersMore like this →Tavernia
Workable Games
A strategy board game for 2–8 players. Answer trivia to claim empty tiles, then beat your opponents in minigame duels to take theirs. Play cards to challenge them to typing races, word puzzles, reaction tests, and more.
CasualTriviaBoard GameEducationParty Game▶ Peak: 378 playersMore like this →Hack You
Mahlo
Desktop hacking and social engineering in a moral thriller. Write viruses, hide them in game builds, crack other people's PCs — to get to the former friend who stole your life and built a new success on its ruins.
HackingEspionageSimulationRealisticStory Rich▶ Peak: 264 playersMore like this →Screen Stocks
Conradical Games
Screen Stocks is an online multiplayer trading game featuring a real-time simulated market. Buy, short, and sell stocks to gain unprecedented levels of wealth. Team up with other traders or outsmart them all. It's time to make some money!
StrategyDesktop CompanionIncrementalMinimalistIdler▶ Peak: 216 playersMore like this →Slotbound
Optima Arch
A roguelike auto-battler defense where luck meets strategy. Spin a 3x3 slot machine to summon units and grow your army by absorbing others. Use Items and Cores to manipulate the odds and survive challenging judgement waves and boss waves. Every spin and every choice counts.
StrategyAuto BattlerRoguelikeTower DefenseReal Time Tactics▶ Peak: 180 playersMore like this →Meltdown
Team STEP GmbH
Meltdown is a nuclear reactor desk-job simulation where you, the newly recruited operator, must control the reactor to power the surrounding city. Maintain the wires in the power grid, regulate the water tank's flow, and tune the steam ventilation to keep the reactor from overheating.
CasualManagementPuzzleScore AttackFast-Paced▶ Peak: 169 playersMore like this →Angel Investor Simulator™
Bigosaur
Invest into promising startups with sometimes wacky ideas. Help them grow with your team of experts. Capture the market share with quality product, smart pricing and marketing. Cash out big after the IPO. Compete with the other angels and show them who's the boss.
SimulationCapitalismTradingManagementEconomy▶ Peak: 160 playersMore like this →Warlapse
Bad Engine Studio
War isn't heroism — it's ruthless order and maneuver. Across 7 ages from the Stone Age to modern times, encircle the enemy, cut their supply, and break morale to melt them in the killbox. Lead veterans through Campaign, dive into fast Skirmishes, or mod tomorrow's wars with your own units!
StrategyRTSAction RTSReal Time TacticsWargame▶ Peak: 144 playersMore like this →Little Writer Desktop Companion
JSLegendDev
Your little companion is an ambitious writer with very little discipline. Type, and they'll write too. Every keystroke moves their work forward. In this idle productivity game, help them become a renowned author while you get things done.
CasualIdlerUtilitiesDesktop CompanionSimulation▶ Peak: 142 playersMore like this →Robo Frenzy
YummyYummyTummy, Tamatin Entertainment
Slay giant robots and loot their parts to build your own unique, shareable boss battles! Arm yourself with swords, tesla orbs, and potato cannons to capture colossal robos. Customize abilities, style with accessories, and upgrade their attacks to unleash your ultimate boss for the world to fight!
Boss RushCreature CollectorSandboxHack and SlashCharacter Customization▶ Peak: 138 playersMore like this →Epic Seven
Smilegate
PLAY THE ANIMATION! A playable anime in your hands, Epic Seven. A turn-based Hero collection RPG alive with stunning 2D visuals. Collect unique Heroes in the Seventh World and plan your path to victory through elemental effects and skill combinations. Challenge Heirs worldwide in World Arena PvP.
2DAnimeStrategyJRPGPvP▶ Peak: 132 playersMore like this →KILLSEC
TurboNerds Games
Breach containment and carve your way out of a megacorp black site in this hardcore top-down shooter roguelite. Master your control of physics weapons to parry swords, bullets, lasers, everything. Time moves faster when you move, but staying still won't get you anywhere.
Action RoguelikeTop-Down ShooterBullet TimeSwordplayViolent▶ Peak: 126 playersMore like this →MOLTYN
Hingston Digital
MOLTYN: Destruction physics superhero sandbox where every pixel is simulated: rock, sand, water, lava, ice and metal that melt, flood, freeze and collapse for real. Play a superhero with every power of the earth in 18 story missions, free-play worlds and kaiju fights. Early Access 12 November 2026.
SandboxPhysicsDestructionSimulationAction▶ Peak: 126 playersMore like this →键盘农场 Keyboard Farm
UMa Studio
"Keyboard Farm" is a desktop idle farming game. Place it on your desktop and focus on your work. Every key is a plot of land—each keystroke helps plants grow. Harvest crops to collect coins, unlock various keycaps, and create your own keyboard world.
TypingFarming SimIdlerCasualSimulation▶ Peak: 126 playersMore like this →Log Drop
Who Nose Studios
A physics sandbox with one noble goal: get more logs into the core than physically reasonable. Chop the trees, build the contraption, then unleash a wave of logs for combo-fueled cash. Kick back and let it flow, or engineer the perfect cascade. Your sandbox, your rules.
PhysicsCasualSimulationAutomationSandbox▶ Peak: 119 playersMore like this →Warpack
N1ghtmare Studios
Build a fantasy war-band, pack each unit's backpack, and feed your champions to make them monsters. An async-PvP auto-battler: every opponent is a real player's saved army. Five factions, shaped items, commander skills. Forge a new build every run, then climb the ranked ladder.
Auto BattlerInventory ManagementAsynchronous MultiplayerPvPFantasy▶ Peak: 103 playersMore like this →みんなでティア表!
bookbook
A party game that gets everyone excited with a tiered chart. Arrange five words based on a given theme, and have other players guess the order. It also includes a viewer-participation mode designed for streamers. With custom genres, the possibilities for themes are endless.
CasualParty GameMultiplayerOnline Co-OpLevel Editor▶ Peak: 101 playersMore like this →Lenin Street Geek Shop
perelesoq
Become a shopkeeper in the first geek store in a snowy 2000s town: sell CDs, snacks, and fan merch, influence your customers' lives, get involved in shady business, and grow your small store.
Shop KeeperAtmosphericChoose Your Own AdventureTradingLife Sim▶ Peak: 97 playersMore like this →Malignus
Mossbomb
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
SimulationStrategyColony SimVillain ProtagonistBuilding▶ Peak: 84 playersMore like this →GrimKeep
Resolution Games
GrimKeep is a roguelite dice-builder in a nightmare fairytale. Find items, roll your dice, and optimize your build to fire off massive damage. Cut through the horrors in the cursed city to get to the Princess. Then end her.
Roguelike DeckbuilderCard GameCard BattlerRoguelikeDeckbuilding▶ Peak: 77 playersMore like this →Outbreak Z
Frozen Logic Studios
Three survivors, one outbreak, and a whole dead city of gear to find. A party-based auto battler RPG: your squad fights every wave on its own while you kit them out, level all three, and push them through 30 areas across three worlds.
Party-Based RPGRPGAuto BattlerZombiesLoot▶ Peak: 77 playersMore like this →Sirius the Stargazer : Furry Idle
O.Z.D.K.
Awooo—! Follow Sirius into the starry lands! Sirius the Stargazer is a cozy desktop idle game. Start with a simple branch, defeat monsters, collect gear with random abilities, and help Sirius grow stronger. When he’s tired, let him rest by the campfire and keep you company.
IdlerDesktop CompanionLootCuteCasual▶ Peak: 74 playersMore like this →Seres Universalis:Three Kingdoms
Boqi Island
Return to the Three Kingdoms period. On the grand strategic tactical battlefield, use terrain for defense setup and resource allocation to shift the battle situation. Control the war via hexagonal grid movement and tactical ability activation, and unify the realm.
Grand StrategyHex GridStrategyHistoricalReal-Time with Pause▶ Peak: 64 playersMore like this →Kaiju Princess: Super Survivor Showdown
硬猿団 O.U.E.N. Apes, PantyParrot
Explore a phantasmic realm! Pulverize your enemies! Don't die! Ah... But don't forget to find a way out! Choose from a variety of weapons, skills, and items to complement your character's traits and customize the optimal combat style for survival. Get ready for a fast-paced roguelike survival game!
Bullet HeavenBullet HellRogueliteCasualCute▶ Peak: 63 playersMore like this →Seabun
Moon Buns
Seabun is an incremental 2D survivor-like with creature collection elements, where you play a scientist bunny diving deeper and deeper to find the source of the sea's corruption. Haul your loot home between dives, grow your lab, and raise the fish you rescue into rideable mounts.
IncrementalBullet HeavenUnderwaterCasualCute▶ Peak: 56 playersMore like this →Dominus Gladiatus
Brain Seal Ltd
Dominus Gladiatus is a brutal gladiator management simulator where you recruit, train and equip gladiators and make life or death decisions throughout a deadly tournament against rival Domini.
ManagementAuto BattlerSimulationRomeStrategy▶ Peak: 55 playersMore like this →MR. RECORDS
Glee-Cheese Studio
Meet George, an old dreamer with an extraordinary gift that lets him transcend through music. After a lifetime of standing still, he breaks free from routine and opens the store he always wished for.
CasualRhythmStory Rich2DPsychedelic▶ Peak: 55 playersMore like this →DungeonBox
Foxtail Games LLC
A party RPG for up to 8 players, played from your phones. Type your boldest move, vote for the best idea, roll the dice and battle by ballot while a quick-witted Dungeon Master weaves your choices into an ever-branching adventure.
CasualChoose Your Own Adventure2DComedyChoices Matter▶ Peak: 51 playersMore like this →Here Comes the Horde
Not Polished Yet
Here Comes the Horde is an auto-battler incremental game where your loyal soldiers fight against hordes of undead enemies led by a formidable necromancer. Earn coins, improve your army, unlock new units, grow stronger, and fill the screen with your troops.
Auto BattlerIncrementalRelaxingTower Defense2D▶ Peak: 48 playersMore like this →Hamster Time
Sinkhole Studio, Moonlab Studio
Your desktop hamsters run on their wheels in response to your keyboard and mouse input. Get things done with friends while collecting cute hamsters and stylish wheels. Enjoy a variety of multiplayer modes, plus a timer and to-do list.
Desktop CompanionCuteMultiplayerCreature CollectorCozy▶ Peak: 47 playersMore like this →Alchemortis
Firebelley
Alchemortis is a roguelike inventory-management auto-battler about alchemy. Transmute and combine items to merge their stats, properties, and forms, then organize your inventory to unlock powerful synergies. Experiment, optimize, and craft the perfect build through the power of alchemy.
Auto BattlerInventory ManagementRogueliteStrategyIndie▶ Peak: 46 playersMore like this →Logic Arrows
Artem Yashin
Logic Arrows is a sandbox game where you design your own mechanisms: from logic gates to an entire computer. Use simple elements to build complex systems, solve engineering challenges and master computer logic.
ProgrammingLogicSandboxSimulationAutomation▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →妖潮:以杀证道
WhaleRise Studio
A cultivation-themed roguelite survival game. Forge your build with Innate Traits, Cultivation Arts, Artifacts, and Divine Arts. Slay demonic hordes, break through realms, and claim your own Dao Name on the path to immortality.
Action RoguelikeBullet HellBullet HeavenRogueliteRoguelike▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game
Giant Light Studios
A surreal corporate horror deckbuilder where you gamble your life for cash, dodge murderous JERRY cards, and “maximise synergies” to climb the company ladder in Mr Magpie’s office nightmare.
Card GameHorrorStrategy3DGambling▶ Peak: 42 playersMore like this →Granule
Tevark
A physics sandbox about Murray, who didn't let a witch merge onto the highway. She sent him to The Granule, and something already lives there. You. Burn, freeze, shock, slice, and mend him. None of it is scripted, and the room is not all there is.
SandboxPhysics2DActionSimulation▶ Peak: 41 playersMore like this →High Roller Penny
Kniv Studio Co., Ltd.
A bold pachinko-inspired roguelike. With bunny girls. Build your best pegboard with special pegs, balls and passive effects to reach legendary scores. Lose and get executed on the spot. Oh did we mention this is a death game?
CapitalismSimulationEconomyArcadeRoguelike▶ Peak: 39 playersMore like this →Nullnest
Mgfa Studio
Defend the Core in a dark tower defense. Survive relentless enemy waves, unlock new abilities, and collect gems of different rarities that completely transform each run. Experiment with endless combinations and create unique strategies to overcome ever-growing challenges.
StrategyIncrementalTower DefenseDark FantasyArena Shooter▶ Peak: 38 playersMore like this →







