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 are hidden because their developers declared AI.
Some developers don't declare it, so a few may slip through. Player counts are checked every few hours.
1,517 demos without AI, tagged Adventure, most played first.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Haunted Paws
LazyFlock
A cozy and spooky co-op adventure where two puppies rescue their owner from a haunted mansion. Customize your puppy, solve puzzles together, and defeat evil creatures. Play locally or invite a friend for free with Friend’s Pass.
Local MultiplayerMultiplayerOnline Co-OpHorrorCo-op▶ Peak: 726 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 →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 →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 →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 →Arctic Drive
Pebbles Games, PlayTogether Studio
Explore and survive in the Arctic, where your car is the only thing keeping you alive. Arctic Drive is a 1–4 player co-op survival sim set in a procedurally generated winter wilderness. Find supplies, repair your rig, and haul it all onwards with only one hope left: there must be safety out there.
Early AccessDrivingSurvivalStory RichMultiplayer▶ Peak: 253 playersMore like this →False Echo
Retromagine
False Echo is a narrative cryptography thriller set in the darkest depths of the Stelantic, aboard a secret military submarine. Operate the Obscura machine, decode messages, and decide what gets through in a regime where even the smallest mistake means a huge death toll.
IndieSimulationSubmarinePoint & ClickDystopian▶ Peak: 213 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 →S.O.N.A.R. - Submarine Operators Not Actually Ready
Abylight Barcelona
S.O.N.A.R. (Submarine Operators Not Actually Ready) is a 1–4 player co-op submarine sim where teamwork is essential, panic is inevitable, and sinking is always one wrong button away. Use sonar, pilot, fight, repair, and pray your friends know what to do.
MultiplayerCo-opFunnyCasualOnline Co-Op▶ Peak: 181 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 →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 →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 →13Z: The Zodiac Trials
Mixed Realms
Go solo or team up with up to three friends in online co-op for this fast-paced, anime-inspired action roguelike. Master stylish hack and slash combat, craft overpowered builds, and conquer mythological trials to claim the title of the thirteenth Zodiac.
Action RoguelikeHack and SlashOnline Co-OpCharacter Action GameAnime▶ Peak: 138 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 →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 →Coal Duty
Corecrew Games
Coal Duty is a 1-5 player co-op extraction horror-comedy. Meet the state coal quota in procedurally generated mines, spend your tickets, plan your escape. Some miners have reportedly escaped. The state does not confirm this.
Early AccessOnline Co-OpCo-opHorrorSurvival Horror▶ Peak: 108 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →叠叠不休
IntoGames
A card strategy game combining town building and dungeon adventures. Stack cards to manage your settlement, produce resources, battle enemies, and explore the unknown. Expand your floating island, collect treasures from the abyss, and lead your town toward greater prosperity.
Card GameManagementSimulationCasualRoguelite▶ Peak: 65 playersMore like this →ROCKBEASTS
LICHTHUND
A rock-and-roll management RPG where you guide a 90s grunge band from garage obscurity to stadium glory. Set up gigs, manage egos, and navigate the music industry in an alternative America inhabited by larger-than-life anthropomorphic characters. Make it big without selling out.
RPGManagementChoices MatterStory RichAdventure▶ Peak: 63 playersMore like this →DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Withered World
Square Enix, TOSE CO., LTD.
In this RPG, you befriend monsters from the DRAGON QUEST series, raise them up, synthesize new creatures, and pit them against other monsters in battle. Join fledgling monster wranglers Bianca and Nera as they set off on the adventure of a lifetime.
RPGActionAdventureJRPGSingleplayer▶ Peak: 61 playersMore like this →There Are No Ghosts at the Grand
Friday Sundae
Inherit a crumbling English hotel and restore it by day - while battling ghosts by night. With a sardonic cat, a talking power tool, and a twisting supernatural plot, this is a musical mystery unlike any other. Will you be able to hold it together while everything around you falls apart?
SimulationFirst-PersonStory RichAdventureSingleplayer▶ Peak: 60 playersMore like this →Amiko Legends
Aurory
A creature-collecting extraction RPG where every expedition is a risk. Charm wild Amiko and fight alongside them across an untamed world shaped by your actions. Push deeper or pull out, but only what you extract is yours to keep.
Creature CollectorTurn-Based CombatJRPGParty-Based RPGCollectathon▶ Peak: 57 playersMore like this →Elta: Defy All Gods
Afterburner Studios
Brawl your way out of corrupted worlds alongside your dragon-god companion in an adrenaline-fueled action-platformer blending free-form melee combat, fluid platforming and sci-fi exploration. Become the champion of your fallen god, Elta.
SingleplayerExplorationBeat 'em upThird PersonSci-fi▶ Peak: 57 playersMore like this →Seikyu Let’s Go!
ACE Entertainment
A 1-4 player co-op campervan trip through the yokai-filled wilderness. Snap photos of elusive creatures, decorate your van together, and help the locals you meet along the way. Camp, cook, and clamber across diverse biomes, from misty swamps to snowy mountains. Adventure awaits, so Let’s Go!
AdventureMultiplayerCo-opPuzzleExploration▶ Peak: 57 playersMore like this →JOHN GLEEP
monthbug
JOHN GLEEP is a tiny alien with a big problem. His casino is a failure and he owes the mob a galaxy. Solution? Fly from planet to planet and forcibly abduct gamblers to boost business, pay off your debt, and fix your failed marriage in this unexplainable intergalactic action-roguelike mashup.
StrategyCasualArcadeIncrementalResource Management▶ Peak: 54 playersMore like this →The Dark West
Black Hand
The Dark West is a western occult ARPG set across a dying frontier that is consumed by corruption. Fight to survive with era-specific weapons and dark magic as you face deadly encounters and uncover tools of destruction.
Action RPGHack and SlashLootIsometricWestern▶ Peak: 53 playersMore like this →ZONE L.O.S.T.
DAKA Production
YOUR BODY IS YOUR WEAKNESS. A four-player co-op horror game that puts you in the shoes of the chief scientists of a research facility. Your sole objective is to carry out the self-destruct plan and escape the facility.
HorrorOnline Co-OpActionMultiplayerComedy▶ Peak: 52 playersMore like this →Sirens
Silent Lamb Studio
Become a deadly Siren and hunt down the most dangerous sea creatures that have ever swim in the depths of the oceans! Experience a fascinating journey through the world as seen from the perspective of Sirens at various stages of their evolution.
Early AccessHidden ObjectHuntingAction-Adventure3D▶ Peak: 48 playersMore like this →下一站青城
白玉京工作室
Enter the mythic world of Sanctum: Whispers of Qingcheng, Seek ascension through the Three Orthodox Schools, or delve into the Nine Unorthodox Arts of the mortal realm—mastering forbidden arts like corpse refinement and demonic shapeshifting. Your path defines the realm.
XianxiaMythologyOpen WorldStory RichRPG▶ Peak: 47 playersMore like this →Frontier Tale
APOPHIS GAME STUDIO
Frontier Tale is a cozy adventure farming game that blends extraction-style gameplay with town building. Forge weapons, explore a charming cel-shaded fantasy world, gather rare resources, recruit unique companions, and build your dream frontier from the ground up.
CasualAdventureRPGFarming SimAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 44 playersMore like this →Queen's Domain
Freshly Baked Games LLC
A retro-fantasy action RPG with brutal combat and traversal-focused exploration. Embark on a quest to find your father who disappeared on the mysterious Isle of Neasied, where sinister forces gather, secrets hide everywhere, and the sleeping Queen has begun to stir…
Action RPGDark FantasyFirst-PersonDungeon CrawlerExploration▶ Peak: 44 playersMore like this →BLOODY HELL 2
Pun Intended
HUNGER for power, THIRST for blood. Take control and LAUNCH Demons into the frozen walls of Hell or into the burning shell of Heaven. Explore Bloody Hell's deepest depths, and uncover the truth of how Heaven fell.
MetroidvaniaBullet HellIsometricGoreTwin Stick Shooter▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →Culdcept BEGINS
Neos Corporation
A hidden classic that fuses board and card games, Culdcept features a unique, innovative system that has captivated fans since its debut. Players become Cepters, wielding cards in intense battles where luck and strategy collide. After ten years, a brand-new story begins once again.
AdventureCasualSimulationCard GameBoard Game▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →Did You See That?
Ashen Studios, IURAS Studios
A 2 Player psychological horror game where not every player sees the same reality. Explore a carnival trapped in an endless transformation, detect anomalies, verify with your friend if they see the same thing and make the right decisions before the clown Bobby loses his temper...
Online Co-OpPsychological HorrorExplorationWalking SimulatorImmersive Sim▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →PRISON OF HUSKS
Glass Head Dolls
A nostalgic souls-like set in a painted afterlife. Awaken as a doll and seek your beloved. From parries to pistols, tune your build to overcome adversity. Explore dense, interconnected levels full of secrets and shortcuts as you battle pigment-hoarding bosses and seek your lost love.
AdventureSouls-likeExplorationRetroAction RPG▶ Peak: 43 playersMore like this →Pax Astra
ben_cardino
A political sim RPG space opera with 4X elements, inspired by Suzerain and Stellaris. Become the first president of a fallen empire, choose any ideology, and expand into the stars. Your decisions shape the nation and the galaxy. Follow any ideology, be the leader you want in Pax Astra!
Political SimChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelGrand StrategyInteractive Fiction▶ Peak: 42 playersMore like this →Catch Meow If You Can
Tempest Games
An online co-op survival game for up to 4 players. Play as a famous, award-winning cat. While the owner is away, different types of burglars invade the mansion. Explore dark rooms, solve puzzles, outsmart intruders, fight back, and escape without getting caught.
MultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opComedyCats▶ Peak: 41 playersMore like this →Ravenwood Academy: A Wizard101 Story
KingsIsle Entertainment
Step into the role of an outcast student wizard attending Ravenwood Academy and prepare to discover the truth behind the school’s bizarre events. Search for clues and solve mysteries in this story-book style puzzle game where things often aren't what they seem.
Choose Your Own AdventureMagicChoices MatterFantasyLife Sim▶ Peak: 40 playersMore like this →Terrible Lizards
WDR Studios LLC
Terrible Lizards is a horror parkour game set against the backdrop of an old Route 66 attraction… with something dark and sinister lurking below. To escape, you’ll need to move fast, navigate challenging terrain, and uncover what Dalton’s Dinos is really hiding. You’d better start running.
HorrorDinosaursPlatformerAtmosphericExploration▶ Peak: 40 playersMore like this →












