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.
2,413 demos, tagged Action, including 761 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 →Frostrail
FakeFish
Through the frost, death follows the tracks. Dive into a ruthless survival FPS, solo or co-op. Explore, scavenge, craft and fight to endure a frozen, corrupted world. Operate and upgrade your steam-powered train through an unforgiving wasteland, where every choice is a matter of survival.
Early AccessOpen World Survival CraftFPSSurvivalCrafting▶ Peak: 4,920 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 →Fart Together
GamesMrkt
Fart Together is a physics-based parkour game where 1–4 players steer the same boat using fart power. Play alone or with friends and coordinate your direction, timing, and gas power to overcome challenging obstacle courses.
ActionCasualAdventureRacingParty Game▶ Peak: 2,096 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 →ReBlade: The Death Spiral
ChillyRoom
You are a condemned Synthetic, marked for destruction and trapped in endless resets. In a cyberpunk world inspired by Chinese mythology, harness weapons, chips, and augments to cut through mechanical creatures. Each run brings you closer to breaking the cycle and unravelling the truth.
ActionDifficultAction RPGAdventureSouls-like▶ Peak: 1,371 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 →BORE
BavelGG
A survival horror game for 1–4 players. Operate a giant drilling machine. Explore caves, collect valuables, and escape the creatures below. Return to the surface to sell what you found and buy upgrades and equipment. Play solo or in online co-op.
Survival HorrorHorrorActionOnline Co-OpAdventure▶ Peak: 1,168 playersMore like this →Emberville
Cygnus Cross
Awaken with no memories inside the Vitromotus, a vast underground world created as a magical dungeon where death no longer lasts. Explore its depths, battle dangerous creatures, rescue survivors, and rebuild the ruined town of Emberville while uncovering the truth behind this prison.
Early AccessActionRPGPixel GraphicsAction RPG▶ Peak: 1,165 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 →Wyldheart
Wayfinder Studios
Embark on bite-sized campaigns in this co-op action RPG set in a rustic fantasy world. Start from nothing, and freely build your character as you investigate rumors, explore strange ruins, and survive the dangers threatening the fallen Kingdom of Caerwyn.
Early AccessAction RPGSurvivalDungeon CrawlerCrafting▶ Peak: 972 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 →Ignite the Depths
SK Studios
Ignite the Depths is an atmospheric dark-fantasy PvE dungeon crawler set within a sprawling, hand-crafted labyrinth. Descend into the darkness alone or unite with up to 4 players in a co-op adventure. Will you conquer the Abyss?
Online Co-OpDungeon CrawlerDark FantasyActionAction RPG▶ Peak: 513 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 →Debauchery & Magic
3rd Shift Studios
In Haven, magic thrives and debauchery is strictly forbidden. Defy a ruthless new ruler as you and your friends quest, loot, party, and battle your way across the kingdom to bring freedom back to its people.
Action RoguelikeRPGDungeon CrawlerFishingPvE▶ Peak: 454 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 →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 →Nekome: Nazi Hunter
ProbablyMonsters
Hunt and kill Nazis in a stealthy single-player campaign with bloody and brutal melee combat. Study your enemies, confirm your approach, and become an unexpected assassin fueled by violent revenge.
ActionCombatStealthAction-AdventureThird Person▶ Peak: 305 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 →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 →Never Wither
Geo Seed Games
Experience unprecedented creature collection gameplay—Transform into almost any creature you see! Collect and raise fantastical creatures, and command them to farm, build, and craft. In this open world survival crafting game, Establish your settlement, become the last hope against the Corruption.
Creature CollectorAdventureOpen World Survival CraftRPGSingleplayer▶ Peak: 278 playersMore like this →Keelblade
Digital Confectioners
Sail across a fantasy world in your own pirate ship. Master souls-like combat and powerful magic to hunt deadly bosses. Discover new islands and loot them for hidden treasures to craft upgrades for both you and your ship. (1-6 Players)
Open World Survival CraftOnline Co-OpSailingBase BuildingCombat▶ Peak: 231 playersMore like this →No Mortal Space
Stellia Games
Rise from a mortal to a cosmic deity in this voxel-based, open-world survival craft game. Master the power of OverDeity to level forests and shatter mountains, traverse black holes with your physical body. The universe is your resource—conquer it.
Open World Survival CraftXianxiaOnline Co-OpAction RPGAction Roguelike▶ Peak: 231 playersMore like this →Cranked
Session Syndicate
Explore, race, and freeride in Cranked and experience the raw thrill of downhill mountain biking. It’s fast, responsive, and grounded -- we're chasing what it really feels like to ride. Easy to pick up, impossible to put down, and packed with virtually endless skill depth.
Early AccessBikesCyclingSportsBMX▶ 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 →Dawn of Defense
6side Studio
Dawn of Defense blends RTS, Tower Defense, and Roguelite progression. In a last defense, lead your tribe against the Empire: Command warriors in battle, fortify defenses, and build an economy as you fight to reclaim your ancestral homeland.
Tower DefenseRTSRogueliteVikingsStrategy▶ Peak: 217 playersMore like this →GRAVHOUNDS
Octopus Panic, Inc.
GRAVHOUNDS is a 1–4 player co-op action builder. Drop into hostile planets as a pack, build and defend your base in physics-driven mayhem, and extract with everything you can carry before you become alien chow! The longer you stay, the greater the danger... and the rewards.
Online Co-OpThird-Person ShooterAction RoguelikePvECo-op▶ Peak: 209 playersMore like this →Expedition: Into Darkness
Antediluvian Interactive
Brave forbidden dungeons in a quest for knowledge and treasure in this medieval PvE co-op extraction looter. Craft weapons, customise gear and join forces with up to four allies. Survive the ruins together—or lose everything you carry.
Survival HorrorOnline Co-OpDark FantasyExtraction ShooterGun Customization▶ Peak: 206 playersMore like this →Hunting Simulator 3
Nacon Studio Ghent
This open-world game lets you experience the thrill of the hunt, with your faithful dog by your side! Choose your equipment from official brands, and explore the wilderness in search of your next game.
HuntingOpen WorldSimulationRealisticFirst-Person▶ Peak: 188 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 →Oar'some Adventures
Haymaker Games
Paddles up, Hosers! OAR'SOME Adventures is a cozy/chaotic rafting and nature adventure for 1-8 players. Casually paddle your way down the river alone, or gather your friends for whitewater mischief and exploration in beautiful, yet dangerous, surroundings.
ActionAdventureIndieParty GameMultiplayer▶ Peak: 176 playersBenny's Backrooms
GameName
A co-op horror where you and your friends (if applicable) explore a seemingly infinite expanse of eerie creature-infested liminal spaces, armed only with a glorified vacuum and specialized equipment to help you locate and extract a rare substance in the name of science.
Early AccessOnline Co-OpHorrorFunnyMultiplayer▶ Peak: 167 playersMore like this →Firefighters Code Red
Chronos North, Smart Ambition
When fear takes over, your mission begins: in Firefighters Code Red you battle flames, smoke, and the clock - alone or in cross-platform multiplayer with your squad.
SimulationActionImmersive SimRealisticAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 158 playersMore like this →僵尸驾到
SanShineStudios
This 1-4 player cooperative horror game centers on breath and sound management. In darkness, every breath, step, and collision can expose you to the Lich King. Team up to gather resources, distract threats, and rescue each other.
ActionHorrorMultiplayerSurvival HorrorOnline Co-Op▶ Peak: 156 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 →






