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.
875 demos without AI, tagged Pixel Graphics, most played first.
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 →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 →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 →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 →Little Writer Desktop Companion
JSLegendDev
Your little companion is an ambitious writer with very little discipline. Type, and they'll write too. Every keystroke moves their work forward. In this idle productivity game, help them become a renowned author while you get things done.
CasualIdlerUtilitiesDesktop CompanionSimulation▶ Peak: 142 playersMore like this →MOLTYN
Hingston Digital
MOLTYN: Destruction physics superhero sandbox where every pixel is simulated: rock, sand, water, lava, ice and metal that melt, flood, freeze and collapse for real. Play a superhero with every power of the earth in 18 story missions, free-play worlds and kaiju fights. Early Access 12 November 2026.
SandboxPhysicsDestructionSimulationAction▶ Peak: 126 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 →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 →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 →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 →King in the Mountain
Milo Panta
A resource management incremental mining game where you rebuild your Mountain Hall. Plan each descent, choose where your dwarves dig, gather gold and rare artifacts, and return home when the torch burns out. Manage production, upgrade your crew, dig deeper, and bring your fallen kingdom back to life
CasualSimulationIncrementalStrategyIdler▶ Peak: 67 playersMore like this →Dumbfire
TitanGameDev
Launch a missile and thread it through tight obstacles as fast as you can to take out the target. A physics time-attack flight game — chase faster runs for more points— with a built-in level editor and Steam Workshop courses. For fans of Superflight and Clustertruck.
FlightArcadeFast-PacedPhysicsDifficult▶ Peak: 49 playersMore like this →Hamster Time
Sinkhole Studio, Moonlab Studio
Your desktop hamsters run on their wheels in response to your keyboard and mouse input. Get things done with friends while collecting cute hamsters and stylish wheels. Enjoy a variety of multiplayer modes, plus a timer and to-do list.
Desktop CompanionCuteMultiplayerCreature CollectorCozy▶ Peak: 47 playersMore like this →Alchemortis
Firebelley
Alchemortis is a roguelike inventory-management auto-battler about alchemy. Transmute and combine items to merge their stats, properties, and forms, then organize your inventory to unlock powerful synergies. Experiment, optimize, and craft the perfect build through the power of alchemy.
Auto BattlerInventory ManagementRogueliteStrategyIndie▶ Peak: 46 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 →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 →Granule
Tevark
A physics sandbox about Murray, who didn't let a witch merge onto the highway. She sent him to The Granule, and something already lives there. You. Burn, freeze, shock, slice, and mend him. None of it is scripted, and the room is not all there is.
SandboxPhysics2DActionSimulation▶ Peak: 41 playersMore like this →Desktop Factory
GIGAJAM
Drill deep while you work or game in a zero-stress factory builder for the side of your screen or second monitor. Power your drill, unlock alternate building shapes, and harvest the planet’s core to unlock alternate building shapes for future runs. The. Factory. Must. Grow.
Desktop CompanionIdlerAutomationCasualIncremental▶ Peak: 37 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 →Swarmbreaker
Paracorn
Swarmbreaker is an incremental tower defense game where you must defend your base from a giant living wave of alien bugs. Build defenses to block their path, deploy heavy weapons, upgrade your arsenal, and break the swarm!
IdlerIncrementalReal Time TacticsTower DefenseManagement▶ Peak: 32 playersMore like this →Third Bloc
ASCII Interactions
A text-based political management sandbox set in the Cold War. Balance the budget, recruit experts, bargain with rival powers, answer telegrams, and drag a poor new republic into the space age. Or bury it in a nuclear one. All in animated ASCII.
StrategyPolitical SimSimulationText-BasedCold War▶ Peak: 28 playersMore like this →DreadHaven: The Last Colony
Woum
Build by day. Survive by night. Each day, use a limited number of actions to expand your city, manage resources, reinforce defenses, and prepare for what’s coming. Each night, unleash the power of your towers against the ever-growing zombie hordes.
Tower DefenseAuto BattlerStrategyBase BuildingZombies▶ Peak: 25 playersMore like this →What the Buck?!
kohlgames
What the Buck?! is a satisfying incremental game about destroying money. Shred stacks of cash, set off chain reactions across the table, prestige for permanent upgrades and automate your money destruction. Your demo progress carries over to the full game.
IncrementalIdlerCapitalismDark HumorEconomy▶ Peak: 24 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 →Agromatic
Gimcraft
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
SimulationStrategyColony SimCity BuilderAutomation▶ Peak: 22 playersMore like this →IncreTop
Inspiration Beggar
IncreTop is an incremental game about whipping spinning tops. You are trapped in a series of mysterious worlds filled with nothing but tops. Keep whipping tops, earning money, upgrading, unlock and buy powerful items. Destroy world after world in search of a way out.
IncrementalIdlerAutomationPhysicsDestruction▶ Peak: 22 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 →Planet No More
WiseMonkeES
An arcade-incremental game where you DESTROY planets! Build a fleet, upgrade weapons, max out your skill tree and destroy your target slowly. You'll advance deep into the galaxy, strategically shattering planets to their cores to unlock the next celestial.
IncrementalSpaceDestructionIdlerRelaxing▶ Peak: 21 playersMore like this →Frog Knight
Mechanical Maze
A brave little frog and his talking sword climb a cursed well in this precision foddian platformer. Jump, bounce, and master your timing to save the world. No checkpoints. No shortcuts. Just one long climb... or fall.
DifficultPrecision PlatformerActionPixel GraphicsSingleplayer▶ Peak: 20 playersMore like this →I Like Trains
Super Gecko Games
I Like Trains is an incremental game about growing a single train line into a sprawling network full of trains, upgrades, and strange anomalies. Build, expand, and watch the map come to life while deciphering anomalies and revealing the story within.
IncrementalTrains2DSimulationRelaxing▶ Peak: 18 playersMore like this →Mayday: The Survival Island
Pequi studios
After a mysterious crash, you awaken alone on a strange island. Survive by hunting, farming, and crafting, then explore a vast archipelago filled with secrets, ancient ruins, and magical totems. Build your base, uncover the truth, and escape—if you can.
Open World Survival CraftCraftingSurvivalSandboxOpen World▶ Peak: 18 playersMore like this →My Own Hero Party
Sekhmet Games
A party-building casual incremental game where every expedition is a race against your stamina. Recruit allies, clear room-based dungeons, gather gold, and grow a custom upgrade tree after being kicked out of the hero party.
IncrementalAuto BattlerCasualEconomyManagement▶ Peak: 18 playersMore like this →Salty Dogs
Crossbridge Game Studios
Salty Dogs is a co-op 2D physics-based action game about a squad of badass dogs who arm up and dive into a corrupted ocean. Blast mutated sea life, haul loot back to your submarine, upgrade it between runs, and fight your way down through the dark toward dreadful Cat-o-Cthulhu.
ActionAdventureCo-opCasual2D▶ Peak: 18 playersMore like this →Heroll: IF
OFFMOON Inc.
Roll the dice, survive the chaos, and rebuild a broken world in this roguelite board-game RPG. Battle through unpredictable loops, recruit adorable pets, face wild events, and grow stronger with every roll.
Action RoguelikeTactical RPGAuto BattlerBoard GameRoguelike▶ Peak: 16 playersMore like this →Nightmere
Cupkisu
Nightmere is a detective-mystery game with psychological horror elements fused into it. Set in 1991, you play as Amelia, a young private investigator who reluctantly takes on a missing persons case in the small, quiet town of Nightmere – and finds something much darker.
Psychological HorrorMysteryDetectiveAnimeStory Rich▶ Peak: 16 playersMore like this →Spellogger
BASTI GAMES
A slow-paced, cozy fantasy RPG where you play as a Wizard Lumberjack. Take on daily tasks and upgrade your character in a relaxing work cycle similar to Stardew Valley, while setting out on Elder Scrolls-style quests and exploration.
AdventureCasualRPGFarming SimLife Sim▶ Peak: 16 playersMore like this →Evil Moon: Unspoken
Neckbolt
Boomer Shooter Metroidvania. Nun with a gun. Because of the Malediction of the Moon, only devoted sisters with vows of silence can move freely in the city of Abbadox. So take up arms, Siléncia, and blast the your way through these cobbled and winding streets!
ActionAdventureShooterBoomer ShooterExploration▶ Peak: 15 playersMore like this →Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager
Japhet Interactive
In this cozy-spooky management sim, you are in the control booth of your own haunted house dark ride! Balance heart-pounding scares with smart business choices to grow your profits and upgrade the ride to create the ultimate haunted experience for your guests.
SimulationIndieManagementCozyHorror▶ Peak: 15 playersMore like this →Goodbye Seoul
JINO Games
Six months remain before an asteroid hits Earth. And a new leaf is about to turn. A narrative puzzle adventure unfolds in a bleak yet beautiful Seoul. Will you uncover the truth in time?
Story RichPost-apocalypticEmotionalPixel Graphics2D Platformer▶ Peak: 14 playersMore like this →Last Moon
Sköll Studio
Last Moon is an action RPG which embraces the vibes of classic titles from the 90s. Explore a mesmerising, vast, ruined world riddled with dangers, face tainted creatures and upgrade your abilities to regain peace. The Moon is falling. Will you bring harmony back to the world?
AdventureActionSingleplayerRPG2D▶ Peak: 14 playersMore like this →东方诡夜行
DemonDiplomat
"Touhou Infinite Nocturne"is a role-playing Touhou fan game.A terrible crisis has swept through the whole Gensokyo.Someone must stop this...! Assemble a team brave enough to traverse darkness,defeat enemies,uncover the truth behind this incident.May the Gensokyo finally embrace the dawn...
Turn-Based CombatRoguelikePixel GraphicsDark FantasyRoguelite▶ Peak: 14 playersMore like this →Bad House
Andrew Morrish
Welcome to your new home. The previous tenant left some things. You can have them, but there's just one condition: don’t go into the basement. Explore the many rooms of a mysterious basement in Bad House, an auto-battler dungeon crawler.
StrategyRPGAuto BattlerDungeon CrawlerMystery Dungeon▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Game is Full of Bugs
Alchemy Sheep
Build your magazine, stack ridiculous effects, and break the game. Game is Full of Bugs is a magazine-building roguelite where every run is about discovering just how absurd your build can become.
Action RoguelikeTwin Stick ShooterDungeon CrawlerRogueliteBullet Heaven▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →One More Flight
Nyro Interactive
A 2D pixel-art psychological horror game set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a relentless time loop. Nothing carries over between deaths except what you learn. Intervene in passengers' fates, uncover the plane's hidden mysteries, and find a way to prevent the crash.
Psychological HorrorMultiple EndingsChoose Your Own AdventureTime ManagementPuzzle▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →RippleLoop
DistortedGameDev
Chain together stone skips in this relaxing incremental game. Launch, bounce across the water, upgrade, and go further with every throw. Buy new upgrades and powers to become the best stone skipper.
IncrementalCozyRelaxingPixel GraphicsAtmospheric▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Sushiamo
Panello Games
Sushiamo is a roguelike deck-builder where you make sushi to reach absurd scores. Discover unique ingredients, sauces, game-changing tools, and navigate the map to break the game with insane combos!
Roguelike DeckbuilderCard GameDeckbuildingIndieRoguelike▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Teamcrafter
Teamcraft Studios
Gather resources, craft powerful gear, and build the perfect adventuring party in Teamcrafter, a cozy crafting roguelite where your heroes fight the battles, but you craft the victories. Explore serene procedural biomes, optimize your team’s build load out, and uncover the mystery of the Portals.
CraftingRogueliteAuto BattlerParty-Based RPGAdventure▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Terraclysm Survivors
DeadPixel
Terraclysm Survivors is a fast-paced action roguelike sidescroller. Earth is in peril, jump and attack through treacherous stages packed with enemy hordes while building the ultimate loadout. With up to 4 players online, defeat the invaders and survive in this apocalyptic and chaotic challenge!
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeBullet HellMultiplayerRoguelike▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →The Hollowing
Rubeki
You’ve taken a maintenance job, flying between the inter-settlement comms towers in the megastructure. Land, fix, on to the next job. What could go wrong? The Hollowing is a narrative first-person horror flight sim from the creator of Lorn's Lure.
FlightAdventurePsychological HorrorAutomobile SimDark Fantasy▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Lurkers
Bergice Productions, André Kiste
Lurkers is a chaotic 2D multiplayer sandbox where you can build, battle, and survive! Fight zombies, conquer game modes like Bedwars, and unleash your creativity in a world that’s yours to shape and destroy.
Early AccessMultiplayerModdableSandboxPvP▶ Peak: 12 playersMore like this →Siege of Incrementalia
Adam Travers
Command an undead army and lay siege to a continent in this incremental strategy game. Build war machines, sacrifice minions and automate hellish magic in your quest to unite the lands of Incrementalia by force.
RPGIdlerStrategyIncrementalCasual▶ Peak: 11 playersMore like this →








