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.
810 demos without AI, tagged RPG, most played first.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Cats In The Shell
Raven Studio
Provoke explosive chain reactions and experiment ever-evolving combat strategies in this mech-building roguelike auto battler. Mix and match components and mech modules to discover powerful synergies, then watch each creation spring to life in satisfying combat sequences.
StrategyAuto BattlerCard BattlerRPGMechs▶ Peak: 62 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 →Bless You Again
Gino Inc.
Lily” is a magician and a homunculus. She challenges a dungeon named “Tomb of Blessings” in search of a certain blessing! The player controls a character faithfully reproduced from the cel animation and defeats many monsters in search of a powerful blessing.
ActionAction RoguelikeDungeon CrawlerAnime3D▶ Peak: 60 playersMore like this →アノマリス/ANOMALITH
FURYU CORPORATION, Winning Entertainment Group Inc.
“ANOMALITH” is a survival third-person shooter set in Japan, steeped in the atmosphere of liminal spaces and Showa-era retro aesthetics. To search for her missing friend, a girl steps into a world writhing with anomalies.
Survival HorrorAction1980sPsychologicalPsychological Horror▶ Peak: 58 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 →We March as One
dux
Start with a few shapes and build an army tens of thousands strong. Paint your troops onto the battlefield and send them to war against enormous hordes in this incremental auto battler where every unit is individually simulated.
StrategySimulationIncrementalAuto BattlerWar▶ Peak: 54 playersMore like this →When Chests Rain Tons of Loot
LeenGameDev
A small incremental game about grabbing loot. You control the camera, and your heroes attack whatever slimes are on your screen. Grab the coins, watch your treasure chest burst when time runs out, then spend it all on upgrades and go again.
ActionCasualRPGStrategyAuto Battler▶ 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 →Here Comes the Horde
Not Polished Yet
Here Comes the Horde is an auto-battler incremental game where your loyal soldiers fight against hordes of undead enemies led by a formidable necromancer. Earn coins, improve your army, unlock new units, grow stronger, and fill the screen with your troops.
Auto BattlerIncrementalRelaxingTower Defense2D▶ 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 →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 →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 →Rise of the Merchants
Black Duke Games
Rise of the Merchants is a medieval city-building, economic, political, and trade simulation set in a persistent online world. Start with a small settlement in your county, develop it into an influential city, and establish a trade network that extends far beyond its borders.
StrategyCity BuilderLife SimResource ManagementPolitical Sim▶ Peak: 42 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 →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 →Monk & The Misfit Monsters
Nobody Games
Can a cute cat or a frog become the next Wukong? A party-based RPG roguelike inspired by Journey to the West. Lead a band of nameless animals disguised as monks — overcome trials, master magical powers, defeat demons, and journey West to meet the Buddha.
RPGParty-Based RPGRoguelite2DColorful▶ Peak: 34 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 →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 →RPG MAKER U2U
Gotcha Gotcha Games
RPG MAKER U2U is the latest entry in the RPG Maker series of easy to use game development tools. With the addition of the new P2D system for adding depth and new light & shadow effects, create world of rich detail and immersion like never before!
Game DevelopmentRPGSoftwareJRPGDesign & Illustration▶ Peak: 32 playersStarfinder: Afterlight
Epictellers Entertainment
Starfinder: Afterlight is a party-based RPG that brings Paizo's beloved science-fantasy universe to life. Battle across the Pact Worlds, lead a legendary crew where your choices shape their destiny, and well, save the galaxy while you're at it!
RPGAdventureCRPGSci-fiStrategy▶ Peak: 32 playersMore like this →GloveUp!
TurtlePunch Studios
GloveUp! is a singleplayer anime-themed female boxing game featuring realistic and physics-driven animations. Create and customize a roster of fighters, shape unique fighting styles through skill trees, unlock outfits, level up and take on tougher opponents and challenges.
SportsBoxingAnimeActionPhysics▶ 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 →Escape from Doomstown
Y.G.H.X.Studios
A post-apocalyptic survival game where you lead a squad of survivors into a zombie-infested town. Scavenge for supplies, take down dangerous foes, and get out before the horde closes in. Build your base, recruit survivors, strengthen your squad, and fight your way out of this doomed city!
SurvivalStrategyAtmosphericSingleplayerCrafting▶ Peak: 27 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 →Dungeon Automata
Medium-Rare Games
Dungeon Automata「Algolemeth」is an "autologic": a JRPG dungeon crawler meets auto battler where you control your party with visual node-based programming. Program your party and conquer dungeons automatically. Master the dungeon through trial and error!
Party-Based RPGDungeon CrawlerAuto BattlerFantasyTactical RPG▶ Peak: 24 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 →









