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.
1,400 demos, tagged RPG, including 590 that declare AI, marked in yellow.
Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim
Questing Goose Studio
Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk shopkeeping simulator set in a dystopian space station. Craft, trade, and smuggle goods of questionable origin, navigate faction loyalties, and stop rampant AI by killing those it controls. Earn enough to buy out your shop before rising rent forces your hand.
Shop KeeperSimulationTradingManagementCrafting▶ Peak: 18,144 playersMore like this →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 →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 →Loftia
Qloud Games
Welcome to Loftia, a cozy, multiplayer world where you can build towards a brighter, more sustainable future! Connect with friends both old and new, to farm, craft, explore, decorate, and create a meaningful impact - together.
Life SimFarming SimMassively MultiplayerDecoratingCharacter Customization▶ Peak: 5,535 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Path of the Yaoguai
RedKardia
Path of the Yaoguai is a Journey to the West-inspired roguelike that blends deckbuilding with RPG progression. Begin as an unknown little yaoguai, grow through countless adventures, reshape familiar legends, and rise to become the mighty King of All Yaoguai.
XianxiaCard GameRoguelike DeckbuilderIndieOpen World▶ Peak: 268 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 →Spirit Crossing
Spry Fox
From the makers of Cozy Grove: Glide through pastel clouds, help lost spirits along the way, and design your own home nestled high on a mountain peak. Befriend strangers around a warm campfire, or share memories while lazily fishing in the sky with a friend. Welcome to your strange new home. 🏠🏔️
SimulationMMORPGRelaxingCozyBuilding▶ Peak: 213 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 →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 →HELLCARD II
Thing Trunk
Hellcard II is a unique co-op deck-builder roguelike game. Descend into the paper dungeons on your own or invite friends to fast-paced tactical card battles against hordes of evil and dragons. Lots of dragons!
RPGStrategyAction RPGCard BattlerCard Game▶ Peak: 146 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 →Idlescape
Idlescape LLC
Idlescape is an MMORPG combining idle mechanics with RPG elements. Progress continues offline, allowing mastery of skills like Mining, Fishing, and Combat. Engage in crafting, gathering, and strategic battles. Perfect for casual and hardcore gamers alike.
IdlerMMORPGRPGMassively MultiplayerFantasy▶ Peak: 131 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 →Daydream Cat: DreamSpirits Idle Adventure
StandinFire Studio
An idle collection RPG that keeps adventuring on your desktop. Build a team of three Dreamspirits, combine roles, skills, equipment, and innate affixes, then push farther through auto-battles, hatching, fusion, and talent progression.
RPGIdlerCasualAuto BattlerDesktop Companion▶ Peak: 108 playersMore like this →Shadowstone
Secret Door
A tactical roguelite where survival comes down to what your heroes can do together. Choose your heroes, build your power, chain your skills, and break the run. Play solo or co-op, up to 4 players.
Turn-Based TacticsRogueliteOnline Co-OpTurn-Based CombatRoguelike Deckbuilder▶ Peak: 104 playersMore like this →Stormforge
Roboto Games
Brave magical storms where tornadoes hunt you in this open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. Outrun the tornadoes or ride their winds, sail to new islands, defeat bosses to unlock classes, and build a home that can weather the next chaos storm.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalCraftingCo-opBase Building▶ Peak: 98 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 →The Serena Villa Files
Storytaco
'FMV Queen' Wang Han's First K-FMV! At your new job as a security guard in a women's only residence, feelings blossom between you and the charming residents, but strange events also haunt you from your first day. What mystery awaits you and the five ladies of Serena Villa?
Choose Your Own AdventureImmersive SimVisual NovelRPGInteractive Fiction▶ Peak: 90 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 →Iron Hunters
Sires
BUILD A WAR MACHINE. BREAK THE RUN. A survivor-like where you build a mech into an absurd war machine. Upgrade, evolve, and combine weapons mid-run to create game-breaking synergies as you battle hordes of enemies across alien worlds.
Bullet Heaven3DAction RoguelikeRogueliteBullet Hell▶ Peak: 81 playersMore like this →Sil and the Fading World
IceCrack Games
Solo Challenging Raid Bosses, Your Way! Craft your perfect build to master intense multi-phase raidboss encounters in this exciting ARPG. Deep customization with 9 specializations, 100s of items, skills and more. No Group, No Queue, All Boss Raids!
Dungeon CrawlerPvELootReplay ValueAction RPG▶ Peak: 81 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 →万象之环
梦界拾荒(DreamScav Studio)
"OMNIRING" is an, multi-cycle, strategy role-playing game. Assemble a team of Samsarans, experience stories in vastly different worlds during continuous cycle adventures - battle, interact, make choices, resolve events... Train your team, step into the final battle, and become The detached.
Party-Based RPGCharacter CustomizationTurn-Based TacticsChoices MatterReplay Value▶ 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 →Dungeons & Dynasties
Bretticus82
Football Manager meets D&D. Heroes die. Dynasties rise. The realm remembers both.Lead an adventuring guild through a living realm where every fixture is a dungeon, every hero can die in it, and every season is written down.
StrategySimulationParty-Based RPGChoose Your Own AdventureRPG▶ Peak: 70 playersMore like this →Home Paige
Minimin
A momentum-driven 3D platformer set inside a strange Operating System. Run, jump, swing and dash through a vast digital world as Paige, an optimistic girl from the Recycling Bin, a place where useless people get deleted.
AdventureSingleplayer3D PlatformerCartoonyAction▶ Peak: 70 playersMore like this →ワロタ、俺の家のとなり魔王城www
One or Eight, Team EARTHWARS
【Village-Building Action RPG】 Saved by a goddess, you arrive in a ruined world ruled by the Demon King. Gather resources, build your village, swap hats to change classes and give villagers their roles. But one night, the Idol Demon King holds a Live next door...and monsters come pouring in!?
Action RPGIndieCity BuilderActionColony Sim▶ Peak: 70 playersMore like this →Road Truckers: New Beginning
Road Studio S.A.
Be a TRUCKER, not a truck. Haul cargo, restore a forgotten town, and grow your trucking business in the first true trucking RPG. Get on foot to forge relationships, then jump back into your fully customizable rig to rule the road.
Automobile SimDrivingLife SimRPGEconomy▶ Peak: 67 playersMore like this →







