Steam Next Fest Launches With Over 600 Demos

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Steam Next Fest has returned for the first time in 2022. As always, Next Fest brings a cavalcade of game demos, dev streams, Q&A chats, and live gameplay reveals for the latest, greatest, and upcoming indie games. Now’s the time to explore, find those hidden gems, and wishlist everything that catches your eye.

This year's Next Fest comes with over 600 demos--628 to be exact--with almost 90 new demos releasing each and every day. Next Fest runs from now until February 28, giving us a week to test out hundreds of games.

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With this many game demos, Next Fest can be more than a little intimidating. To help narrow things down, the Next Fest page starts with a series of genres to sharpen your search. Love platformers? There's a category for that. Want to find a new VR game for your Oculus Quest 2? There's a category for that too. Want to narrow things down even further? There's a search filter on the left-hand side if you scroll down a bit that lets you combine genres and sub-genres to your heart's content.

Or you could just look at the Popular sections at the bottom to see what everyone else is excited by. Right now there are a few that are topping the list, such as the sci-fi survival city-builder Ixion from Bulkwark Studios. In Ixion, you try to ensure the survival of humanity as it floats through the emptiness of space. Build new space-based habitats, manage your population, and deal with the many potential disasters that come with floating in the great black void.

Or how about The Wandering Village? This early access farming simulator has you play as a quaint medieval village living on the back of a giant six-legged beast. Build up your village and direct your beast