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.
874 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 →


