The Steam Next Fest (soberly called “Game Preview” in the German store) has once again started in the Valve games store. Until February 12, 2024, you will find a tile prominently on the homepage that leads you to over 1000 demos for games large and small. Many of them are new, but others were not published until the festival. For example, the demo for the German indie title is also there Children of the Sun (in the preview) even though it was released last week. There are also lots of live streams for the titles, some from the developers themselves, which are integrated on the respective product pages.
Various demos are again time-limited and will no longer be available after the end of the event – these can no longer be started even if you have downloaded them before the end of the event.
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Below we list a small selection of interesting mock-up versions:
- Backpack Battles – Auto-Battler, in which the strength of your heroes is measured by how you arrange looted items in the limited backpack (including bags within bags).
- Copycat – In the narrative adventure, you play an animal shelter cat who believes that he would fare better in the wild than with a new owner.
- Crow Country – Survival horror à la resident Evil with a graphic style that appeals to Final Fantasy 7 on the first PlayStation.
- Duelcorp. – Soulsike with HD 2D aesthetics, randomized areas and co-op mode.
- Harold Halibut – Adventure in stop motion style.
- Homeworld 3 (Played report) – Continuation of the space RTS.
- Indika – 3D adventure about a Russian nun in the Middle Ages from Publisher 11 bit.
- Islands of Insight – Puzzle game with shared world in which other players also wander.
- Pacific Drive – Motorized survival road trip that’s all about keeping your station wagon in good shape.
- Magical Delicacy – The basic idea is reminiscent of Kiki's magical delivery service from Ghibli: You play a delivery witch, here you deliver home-cooked food in a 2D side view.
- Millennia (in preview) – Civilization competition with a flexible era system and detailed city building portion.
- Mullet Mad Jack – The arcade roguelike shooter seems a bit like Duke Nukem in the style of an anime from the 80s.
- News Tower – Mad TV Ralph Stock once left Mad News follow, in this indie title (not from Stock) you have a newspaper written and printed like in the latter.
- Never Grave – Metroidvania from Palworld-Studio on the trail of Hollow Knight
- Outcast – A New Beginning – Late sequel to the cult title from THQ Nordic.
- Redwood – Comic-style co-op fantasy hack-and-slash by Klei (Don't Starve).
- Stormgate (Played report) – Real-time strategy by former Blizzard veterans on the trail of Starcraft and Warcraft with science fantasy scenario.