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.
868 demos without AI, tagged Exploration, 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Horses of Hoofprint Bay
Thogli Studios
Horses of Hoofprint Bay is a lovingly hand-drawn 2D barn buildup and simulation game. Take care of your horses, train them to build up their strength and confidence and compete for prize money! Breed adorable foals, explore beautiful trails, hire and manage staff and build the stable of your dreams!
HorsesHand-drawnNatureManagementNostalgia▶ Peak: 547 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Silicone Heart
Garden of Dreams
Build a self-sustaining cyber farm on a planet-sized junkyard. Grow biomechanical crops, automate production, repair discarded robots, and secretly reshape a mechanical society from the inside in this cozy farming and automation adventure.
Farming SimMultiplayerLife SimRobotsSandbox▶ Peak: 44 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 →The Regreening
Positive Impact Games
The Regreening is a cozy simulation game about restoring nature in a soilpunk fairytale. Grow plants to create living ecosystems, become friends with ancient spirits, make your own upcycling hub, and hug ALL the animals! Can you transform this deserted world into a joyful home again?
SimulationFarming SimCozyNatureAnimals▶ Peak: 43 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 →Everlast: Undying Tale
InSpades
On Everlast: Undying Tale’s magical world of Sarkis, the undead have risen. Gather, explore, skill, and craft in this MMO-Lite Action RPG Adventure. Only by bridging the gap between the living and the dead can you break Death’s curse.
ExplorationPvEAction RPGAction-AdventureCharacter Customization▶ Peak: 38 playersMore like this →The First Pixel
Hidden Tower Studios
In the beginning there is a white screen and one black pixel. Click it, and it wakes. Grow it into pattern, memory and meaning, hunt 100 lost relics across erased worlds, and discover what a pixel sees once it has gathered everything. A quiet, mysterious incremental.
ExplorationCollectathonIdlerIncrementalArcade▶ Peak: 37 playersMore like this →My Fairy Princess
KDream
My Fairy Princess is a life sim set in an Eastern fantasy world, featuring multiple endings. You take on the role of a parent, raising your daughter in a fabled realm of spiritual beauty and tranquility. How will you guide your daughter into an uncertain future?
Life SimFemale ProtagonistRPGChoices MatterAnime▶ Peak: 34 playersMore like this →The Road of Dust and Sorrow
Painted Black Games
The Road of Dust and Sorrow is a tense, story-driven pixel art horror inspired by ’90s classics. Survive a world gone wrong and protect what matters most: your daughter.
ExplorationSide ScrollerPuzzleArcadeAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 34 playersMore like this →Code of The Savage
Geoff Jones
Thrown overboard from a slave ship, you wash ashore in chains in a brutal, handcrafted kingdom. Code of The Savage is a dark fantasy open-world RPG inspired by the classics, where exploration, survival, NPC interaction, and the consequences of your choices shape your path.
CRPGOpen WorldRPGDark FantasyExploration▶ Peak: 32 playersMore like this →Cleaner Company
Wildflame Studio
Star Wipers, ready your mops! Cleaner Company is a gory Cleaning Sim for 1-4 players. Clean abandoned space stations, alien outposts, and infested restaurants across the galaxy... starting with the corpses of your predecessors.
CleaningMultiplayerCo-opOnline Co-OpPhysics▶ Peak: 31 playersMore like this →Hide Your Cash
Funcity
Hide your cash in the toilet tank, under the mattress, behind the fridge. Then break into your friends' houses and find theirs while they block the door, shove you aside and try to look innocent. A 1–4 player physics party game, online with friends or solo against a bot.
Psychological HorrorHorrorExplorationFirst-PersonPuzzle▶ Peak: 31 playersMore like this →Second Stone
Skyward Entertainment
Second Stone is a colorful Action RPG built around two fully playable parallel worlds. Play as Shiren, a young treasure hunter who can cross between the vibrant Light World and its sinister mirror, the Shrouded World. Master fast-paced combat and forge your path to power with elemental Manastones.
ActionRPGAdventureAction RPG3D Platformer▶ Peak: 29 playersMore like this →Backpack Inspector
Fesunenko Games
Fantasy customs officer simulator. Decide the fate of the heroes who want to get into the kingdom, on whose guard you stand. Check their backpacks for forbidden artifacts, stolen items, and contraband. Be watchful, for the glory of the crown!
IndieSimulationStrategyFirst-PersonSingleplayer▶ Peak: 26 playersMore like this →Sombie
Sugartitty, Tenzhu, SoulStep
Sombie offers action packed PvP, and PvE in an always online MMO. loot, kill, die, repeat. Explore an endless randomly generated world with your friends. Offering a unique spin on the Zombie survival genre, built from the ground up.
Early AccessSurvival HorrorSandboxMMORPGSurvival▶ Peak: 26 playersMore like this →Impurity
Incurso Studios
Build and lead a settlement in a ruthless dark fantasy world. Command companions, explore shifting open world lands, and navigate rival settlements - trading, allying, or waging war. Walk the path of light or corruption as you endure relentless seasons and ancient horrors.
Open WorldColony SimSandboxDark FantasyBase Building▶ Peak: 24 playersMore like this →Seaworks: Trap Season
Binary Impact, Alchemical Works
Seaworks: Trap Season is a hands-on crab fishing life sim set in the remote pacific northwest in the 1990s. Take fishing bounties by fax, maintain and customize your boat, brave changing weather, sort your catch and build a small life on the edge of the sea.
NavalLife SimFishingExploration1990's▶ Peak: 23 playersMore like this →Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior
Chaosmonger Studio
A brutal action game set in a collapsing sci-fi nightmare. Battle biomechanical mutants, traverse shifting landscapes, and uncover fragments of your lost mind as you descend into a twisted post-apocalyptic world.
MetroidvaniaShooterExplorationPixel GraphicsSci-fi▶ Peak: 23 playersMore like this →All Rats on Deck
Twin Beacon Studio
All Rats on Deck is an online co-op adventure game where you must navigate a paddle steam boat through dangerous waters. Forced to leave your home, you must work together to operate the boat, scour for resources, and overcome obstacles to reach the ocean.
AdventureMultiplayerOnline Co-OpExplorationFunny▶ Peak: 22 playersMore like this →Deep Trouble
Mini Kaiju Games
Dive into Deep Trouble with a crew of up to 6 and your mostly trusty submarine, slipping past massive leviathans into the mysterious depths. Pilot, swim, and salvage together to reach the bottom before your oxygen runs out, a friend blows you up, or you become a tasty treat.
MultiplayerAdventureOnline Co-OpCo-opComedy▶ Peak: 22 playersMore like this →Extreme Cleaning Simulator
GameCompany
Extreme Cleaning Simulator is a realistic game where you must restore order to the most neglected and disgustingly filthy homes. Get rid of mountains of trash, scrub walls stained with who-knows-what, and tackle the nightmare that is the toilet!
SimulationActionPhysicsImmersive SimExploration▶ Peak: 21 playersMore like this →Medium Rare
Payne Robinson, Peter Tinaglia, Giovanni Fim
Eat people and conserve ammo as you hike to the top of a mountain where a human meat factory is about to process your kidnapped wife in this turn based survival dungeon crawler.
RPGDungeon CrawlerAdventureSurvival HorrorHorror▶ Peak: 21 playersMore like this →Project SEVER
Siberian Makeshift
Project Sever is an adventure submarine simulator with a touch of horror. Master the controls of an old Project "Sever" submarine and learn to maintain it in working order to escape a deadly underwater trap and solve the mystery of the Anomalous Zone.
SimulationAdventureSubmarineImmersive SimAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 21 playersMore like this →Scramble Knights Online
Funktronic Labs
Adventure with friends in this MMO-lite action RPG! Explore the shared online kingdom of Terracott as a knight-in-training. Team up to conquer dungeons, slay monsters, discover rare loot, and return home to forge powerful new gear before setting out on your next quest.
MultiplayerRPGAction RPGCharacter CustomizationAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 21 playersMore like this →Tearoom of Terror
Sundew Studios
Tearoom of Terror is a cozy-gothic narrative cooking mystery where you investigate the mysterious death of your estranged aunt in a tearoom filled with sinister patrons, unsettling secrets, and morally questionable requests.
ExplorationInteractive FictionCookingPuzzleVisual Novel▶ Peak: 20 playersMore like this →Scawy Game
Swytapp Games
Kenguin Sting, a failed horror writer, buys a cheap asset-store house to write his masterpiece. His only job: feed the cats. And keep Grandma on her pills. And survive 4 days and 4 nights. An absurd parody horror game.
HorrorParody First-PersonExplorationAdventure▶ Peak: 19 playersMore like this →









