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.
2,325 demos, tagged Strategy, including 996 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 →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 →Tropico 7
Gaming Minds Studios
Get rich or die trying! In Tropico 7, you step into El Presidente’s shiny boots again to build your island nation and – literally – move mountains. As glorious leader you guide your loyal citizens (and your Swiss Bank Account) through the ages toward untold prosperity.
SimulationStrategyCity BuilderPolitical SimColony Sim▶ Peak: 1,019 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 →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 →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 →Northgard Battlegrounds
Funday Games
A city-building auto-battler set in the Viking world of Northgard, where every building you place shapes your clan’s fate. Develop your village, claim the Gods’ blessings, and send your warband to battle against rival players! Every move counts, only one clan will stand.
Early AccessStrategyCasualAuto BattlerCity Builder▶ Peak: 658 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Slime Break
KisnLabs
Tower defense against a horde of thousands of slimes. Build walls, towers and traps along a funnel, pick level cards that bend each run, and watch the mass pile up, split and break through. Spend essence between runs to grow stronger.
StrategyTower DefenseIncrementalRogueliteCard Game▶ Peak: 179 playersMore like this →Fathom Reach
Feldsparc
An underwater roguelike deckbuilder where every dive is a gamble. Chain explosive card combos, push deeper for richer loot, and surface before your hull breaks. Bring the haul home to upgrade your deck—and build a base other players can raid while you're away.
Early AccessRoguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuildingCard BattlerRoguelite▶ Peak: 176 playersMore like this →Golden City
Mint Studio
Golden City is a desktop idle game blending ice-and-snow survival with simulation. Light the Furnace, build the last shelter, manage resources, extract Gold Coins, and advance technology. Idle on your desktop while you work, and keep strengthening your base to save the last hope.
Free to PlayDesktop CompanionCity BuilderIdlerLoot▶ Peak: 175 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 →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 →Ski-E-O! Ski Resort Tycoon
Falling Damage Games
You're the Ski-E-O - build the cozy ski resort of your dreams in this management tycoon game. Adapt to ever-changing weather, paint trails, build lifts, and place the lodges and après bars that keep thousands of skiers warm, fed, and happy.
Early AccessSimulationManagementBuildingFunny▶ Peak: 146 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 →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 →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 →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 →Trailblazers: Into the March
Strangers
Embark on a thrilling adventure in this roguelite colony-sim strategy game. Command your Landship in tactical battles, care for a crew composed of all sorts of characters, shape your home, manage resources, and lead expeditions into the March. Discover what lies at its heart... and in yours.
RoguelikeReplay ValueSci-fiStrategyColony Sim▶ Peak: 117 playersMore like this →Main Sequence
Tumbling Dumpling Studio
Main Sequence is a first-person space-sim factory builder where you design spaceships, build space stations, and automate everything. Start with a single ship and grow to become an interstellar industrial empire as you leave your mark on the galaxy.
Early AccessAutomationSpace SimBase BuildingFirst-Person▶ Peak: 114 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 →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 →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 →Booster Pack Heroes
zup
Rip open booster packs and pull your next foil hero in Booster Pack Heroes - an incremental game where every pack could contain your next powerhouse. Defend the tower from an endless onslaught of monsters and fight your way through the realms.
IncrementalIdlerCasualAuto BattlerStrategy▶ Peak: 87 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 →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 →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 →





