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.
1,700 demos, tagged 3D, including 538 that declare AI, marked in yellow.
ArcheAge Chronicles
XLGAMES
Explore Auroria, a vast and vibrant world brimming with rich lore and thrilling action. ArcheAge Chronicles delivers an immersive experience that will capture players' hearts, whether they are newcomers to the setting or seasoned adventurers.
Early AccessControllerOpen WorldPvEMMORPG▶ Peak: 7,330 playersMore like this →just volleyball
temkosoft
just volleyball is an online and offline volleyball game with simple controls and deep player expression. take on others in anything from 1v1s & 2v2s to full team-based 6v6 matches. there's no right way to play, it's just volleyball!
SportsActionMultiplayerArcadeVolleyball▶ Peak: 3,963 playersMore like this →Meltdown Crew
Meltdown Games
Run a barely-stable nuclear reactor with your friends in this online co-op physics chaos game. Fix broken systems, manage radiation, survive power outages, and prevent a total meltdown before everything goes horribly wrong.
ActionSimulationStrategyParty GamePuzzle▶ Peak: 2,229 playersMore like this →Abyssal Lapidary
Light Worm
A gothic management sim set in a Victorian-inspired underground metropolis. Appraise raw ores, cut exquisite gems, and craft unique jewelry for strange clients. Some stones are worth a fortune. Others stare back.
RPGSimulationLovecraftianMysteryCasual▶ Peak: 1,712 playersMore like this →Deadzone Rogue 2
Prophecy Games
Fight as Talon 13-10 in this FPS roguelite adventure set on a fallen Earth. Combine weapons, augments, and elements to forge devastating builds, and blast through Monarch’s endless machines. Grow stronger each run, solo or with friends.
Action RoguelikeOnline Co-OpActionFPSMultiplayer▶ Peak: 1,397 playersMore like this →Dumpster Gang
Coyote House Games
Play as a gang of mischievous raccoons in this chaotic co-op sandbox for 1-4 players. Complete ridiculous missions, steal everything you can carry, and outsmart a relentless Exterminator determined to throw your gang behind bars.
MultiplayerSimulationPhysicsFunnyOnline Co-Op▶ Peak: 1,283 playersMore like this →Grr Grr Gnomes
emolingodev, FireAtacck
A co-op adventure about tiny gnomes on a very big ocean. Sail from island to island, scavenge for supplies, fight strange creatures, survive whatever goes horribly wrong, and keep your ship moving toward one goal, finding the way home...
ActionSimulationAction-AdventureExplorationChoose Your Own Adventure▶ Peak: 1,049 playersMore like this →Stronghold 4
Firefly Studios
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Early AccessSimulationStrategyCity BuilderColony Sim▶ Peak: 889 playersMore like this →Worst Class Ever
顽核社 FuncoreClub
This is a fun 1-6 player asymmetric party game! Five player are mischievous troublemakers,hide among dozens of NPC students to sneak snacks, pass secret notes, and use phones secretly in class. One player acts as a strict teacher, track down all hidden troublemakers in the crowd.
MultiplayerFunnyParty GameHidden ObjectSimulation▶ Peak: 765 playersMore like this →骤影:绯月杀
TMXN Games
Among Shadows is an intense blend of fast-paced combat and identity-based deduction. You are sent to stop a deadly infection from spreading across a corrupted land, but traitors have infiltrated your team. With the Blood Moon rising, can you escape from this place under the conspiracy?
PvPMultiplayerHack and SlashThird PersonParty Game▶ Peak: 723 playersMore like this →DREADMOOR
Dream Dock
DREADMOOR is a dark first-person fishing adventure game set in a submerged world, rotting from a past catastrophe. Fish in murky waters, upgrade your boat, craft survival gear, and fight monstrous creatures that lurk under the water and on the land.
AdventureExplorationSimulationLovecraftianFirst-Person▶ Peak: 621 playersMore like this →Half Grip
Half Games
Get hooked on this brutal one-armed rogue-like combat racing game where every action is a gamble. Steer, shoot and reload - each split-second counts as you compete against armed rivals across atmospheric tracks rendered in harsh pixelated detail.
RacingAction RoguelikeCombat RacingDrivingPvE▶ Peak: 539 playersMore like this →No Body No Problem!
Crime Cleanup Co.
One of you is the cop. The rest are panicked suspects. Hide the body, clean up the evidence, don’t rat each other out, and get rid of everything before your cop friend knocks on the door. There is only one rule: if the body is found, you’re all done for.
ActionCasualAction-AdventureArcadeParty Game▶ Peak: 401 playersMore like this →Banana Airways
Eggscape Entertainment Inc.
Feed your passengers. Or they'll eat each other. Run an airline with cannibal chickens, radioactive passengers and screaming babies you can throw off the plane. Fly, serve, repair and try to land. Play solo or with up to five friends.
Co-opOnline Co-OpFlightComedyPhysics▶ Peak: 394 playersMore like this →Hellforged
Moonpyre
Hellforged is a loot-driven, extraction bullet-heaven game. Fight through demon-infested maps, pre-craft your build, hunt powerful gear, and combine abilities into epic synergies. Every run is a tense heist. Safely extract epic gear mid-battle or risk it all for greater rewards!
Action RPGAction RoguelikeBullet HeavenLootRPG▶ Peak: 326 playersMore like this →Rip It! Card Collector
Cybernetic Walrus
A single-player incremental game where you hunt down 1,809 collectible trading cards. Sell dupes and upgrade your retro-futuristic gear to pull more cards, quicker! Enjoy the satisfaction of ripping packs, filling your binder, and completing the ultimate card collection. It’s time to get cracking!
CasualCollectathonSimulationOrganizingRelaxing▶ Peak: 325 playersMore like this →Reshine
Quite OK Games
Gently restore old objects by cleaning away layers of dust, rust, and time. Reshine is a minimalistic, relaxing experience: use a range of tools to watch years of grime disappear before your eyes. No management, no pressure - just you and the satisfaction of bringing vintage treasures back to life.
CasualIndieCleaningRetroRelaxing▶ Peak: 313 playersMore like this →Hela: of Mice & Magic
Windup
See the world through the eyes of a brave little mouse in this enchanting 3D co-op adventure. Explore breathtaking landscapes inspired by Northern Sweden, solve puzzles, and be a force for good in a land where heartwarming storytelling and the beauty of nature intertwine.
MultiplayerExplorationPuzzleParkourPlatformer▶ Peak: 308 playersMore like this →Carry On Together
Butiq Games
Carry On Together is a physics-based online co-op moving game for up to 4 players. Run a tiny delivery company with your friends: lift heavy furniture together, drive the truck across town and deliver everything in one piece… or don’t. Can you keep the company alive?
Online Co-OpActionAdventureMultiplayerComedy▶ Peak: 299 playersMore like this →Never Sort By Color
Bryan Livingston
Somewhere under that mountain of bricks is your floor. Sort the impossible Pile with a magnet glove, sieves, and part-seeking vision. Fill labeled drawers, pull parts, watch MOC builds snap together brick by brick. Cozy, satisfying, and governed by one rule: never sort by color.
RelaxingOrganizingCollectathonPuzzleSingleplayer▶ Peak: 296 playersMore like this →Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered
Pipeworks Studios
The ultimate Godzilla arena brawler is back, completely remastered. Choose your monster and battle it out with a range of brutal attacks through recreated cities and other locations. Face off against your friends and foes in local co-op or new online multiplayer.
MultiplayerRemakeDestructionNostalgiaFighting▶ Peak: 294 playersMore like this →Dude, Trust Me
Sefik Studios
Get hopelessly misunderstood by your two best friends. One of you goes blind, one goes deaf, one loses their voice, and no puzzle here can be solved by one person. Can the three of you work out how to understand each other?
Time ManagementPuzzleCasualParty Game3D▶ Peak: 247 playersMore like this →Crazy Life
ADOMI GAMES
A life simulation game for up to 6 online players.Become a resident of Shishizaka City and aim to become the richest by getting jobs, changing careers, buying properties, getting married, raising children, and using cards.Experience a turbulent life in a vast city!
CasualSimulationBoard GameMultiplayer3D▶ Peak: 223 playersMore like this →Can 'Em All
LuisDev
A juicy first-person incremental game about turning cute creatures into cans. Kill them, collect their bodies, can them, and sell them. Make money, upgrade your weapons and machines, and produce more and more.
SimulationActionStrategyIncrementalShooter▶ Peak: 221 playersMore like this →Guns of Eschaton
Eschatology Entertainment
The world’s first soulslike FPS pulls you into an apocalyptic Western by the legendary Viktor Antonov: a land of dust, blood, and horror. Study your enemies, count your bullets, forge your own style with gunpowder and prayers. Solo or in co-op—go West, gunslinger, go West and die with the country!
WesternActionFPSSouls-likeAlternate History▶ Peak: 183 playersMore like this →Teach My Little Sister How To Drive
Easy Fox
TEACH MY LITTLE SISTER HOW TO DRIVE is a chaotic simulation game where you have to teach your sister who's driving on deadly roads. Trapped in the passenger seat, the only thing you can do is to give proper directions to your sister through your voice.
CasualDrivingDifficultIndieFunny▶ Peak: 183 playersMore like this →Clear the Snow
Garden of Dreams
Play with up to 4 friends and help clear the city of snow. Work together using shovels, snow blowers, and heavy machinery to complete jobs and upgrade your gear. Enjoy cozy winter vibes, and the freedom to play your own way!
CasualSimulationFirst-PersonRealisticAtmospheric▶ Peak: 163 playersMore like this →Too Deep To Quit
Demon Max
Grab your gear and your friends for a hilarious, golden-age co-op adventure! Dive into cursed temples, hunt for the ultimate treasure, and work together to stay alive. Beware of everything and everyone... after all, only the survivors get to split the gold!
MultiplayerAdventureOnline Co-OpPhysicsExploration▶ Peak: 142 playersMore like this →Traffic Architect
Green Signal Games
Become the master of traffic with your expert infrastructure designs. Lay down streets, shape junctions, time traffic lights, design a public transport network, and watch the city come alive. It grows on its own, and every new building sends more trips onto the roads you built.
City BuilderSimulationStrategyTransportationPuzzle▶ Peak: 139 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 →Alien Archeologist
TheClassifiedX
Alien Archeologist is a chill incremental digging game. Use a variety of upgradeable tools to mine ore, blast through earth, and clean strange artifacts as you journey yet deeper toward the mystery hiding at the planet's core.
AdventureMiningCleaningCasualIncremental▶ 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 →STARHOME
DIGIFOX
Lead the last survivors of your civilization through a hostile galaxy aboard a fleet that has become your new home. Manage every inch of space, balance living quarters, production, defenses, and weapons, and search for refuge before an overwhelming threat finds you.
SingleplayerCity BuilderBase BuildingAction RTSSpace▶ Peak: 95 playersMore like this →Fenestra: my focus, her future
STAYRESIDENT
Fenestra awakens inside your PC knowing only her name. Work, study, and create with her in this Princess Maker-inspired raising-sim adventure with focus tools. Your focus time fuels her growth; the stats you raise and words you choose shape her personality, appearance, your bond, and her future.
CasualSimulationVisual NovelLife SimTime Management▶ Peak: 93 playersMore like this →Surfpunk
Double Stallion
Surfpunk is a 1-4 player co-op "Surf 'n Slash" featuring radical surfer-pirates, procedurally-generated islands, awesome loot and endless swarms of monsters. Surf, Shred, Scavenge, Repeat!
Online Co-OpAction RoguelikeLooter ShooterHack and SlashRoguelite▶ Peak: 86 playersMore like this →DIG
Alkame Games
A cozy online co-op digging game for 1-4 friends. Dig a hole in your sunny backyard, find ore and lost blueprints, craft lovely things in your workshop and ship them to customers around the world, who write back with letters and photos. No timers. Just dig.
Early AccessExplorationSandboxCraftingEconomy▶ Peak: 82 playersMore like this →



