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Steam Next Fext 2024's most popular demos include goblin maid sims, horror shooters and a Chinese game about an unmarried no-lifer
Truly, a festival of nextness
Everyone loves Steam Next Fest. There are loads of exciting new games to play before they are released, but there's one problem: where do you start? That's why we've created Wishlisted, a week of curated content designed to tell you about the games and demos you should be playing and, well, wishlisting during Steam Next Fest: June 2024.
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Wishlisted | OutRage: Fight Fest is a back-to-basics beat 'em-up that blends old and new
Making a fist of it.
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The Caravan SandWitch demo is a teaser of gorgeous exploration
Featuring a van and some sand, no witches yet though
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Heart and Horsepower | Golden Lap is a wonderful reminder that motor racing’s about the perfect blend of terrifying thrills and mind-numbing math
You take your life in your own hands, all for a grasp at glory conveyed by tenths and hundredths.
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PREHISTORIC CHORES | Amber Isle is exactly the Animal Crossing-like you think it is, and that's not a bad thing
Cute dinos and a cozy village are exactly what we're getting.
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Wishlisted | Sumerian Six's pulpy stealth-tactics almost manages to fill that Mimimi-shaped hole
Don't let this slip under your radar.
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Heart and Horsepower | Golden Lap is a wonderful reminder that motor racing’s about the perfect blend of terrifying thrills and mind-numbing math
You take your life in your own hands, all for a grasp at glory conveyed by tenths and hundredths.
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Wishlisted | Demonschool is Persona meets Buffy and I love its 90s vibes
I've got faith in this one.
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PREHISTORIC CHORES | Amber Isle is exactly the Animal Crossing-like you think it is, and that's not a bad thing
Cute dinos and a cozy village are exactly what we're getting.
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Wishlisted | Neko Odyssey marries cute cat photography with satisfying sleuthing
Meow-grapher.
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Wishlisted | Aero GPX is the F-Zero GX sequel Nintendo won't make
Whoa, you're way out in front!
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Disco Samurai is a brutally difficult and brilliant Sekiro-like rhythm slasher
Disco stu-dent of the blade
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Wishlisted | You may be stuck behind a PC terminal, but The Operator is my dream FBI fantasy
"Hello?"
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Metal Slug Tactics’ demo is pure nostalgia for better and worse
I feel snails have already solved the need for metal slugs actually
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FACEMINER is a dystopian management sim where you'll take great pleasure in harvesting mugshots for money
Welcome to the retro-future
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The Caravan SandWitch demo teases a gorgeous exploration-adventure
Featuring a van and some sand, no witches yet though
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Wishlisted | OutRage: Fight Fest is a back-to-basics beat 'em-up that blends old and new
Making a fist of it.
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Wishlisted | Wax Heads remixes punk rock with cosy vibes to brilliant effect
Tuned to perfection.
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Indict the Future | The Operator reimagines The X Files as a work-from-home saga that may or may not be about little green men
The truth is several mouse clicks away.
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Heal A Community | Life is Strange meets The Sims in deeply moving Steam Next Fest demo for Closer the Distance
Closer the Distance is an emotional simulation game that tells the tale of a beautiful town amidst a terrible tragedy.
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Half Sword's demo is a chivalric edition of Gang Beasts in which people are disemboweled for hats
Rags-to-riches by means of blood-and-guts
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Totemo Suteki Desu | So to Speak gamifies the teaching of basic Japanese, but you shouldn't sleep on this fun retro puzzle game even if you have no aspirations to learn the language
Relax and take in the sights in a pixel-art Japanese town while practising your kanji, in this upcoming indie by solo dev Erik Andersen.
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Playing Bella Wants Blood is satisfying in the same way pulling clogged hair from a shower drain is
I wish I hadn’t touched it but I want to do it again
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Wishlisted | Conscript is a Resident Evil inspired survival horror game set in WWI where the real monster is war
Over and Verdun.
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Wishlisted | Dystopika is a toy for making cyberpunk cities and it's rad
Bring on the Light Brush.
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Wishlisted | Weyrdlets is the virtual desktop companion you didn't know you needed
Take care of your pet and your pet takes care of you.
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Nothing Hollow Here | Forget the Silent Hill 2 remake, this Steam Next Fest demo is my most anticipated survival horror game
Hollowbody borrows from some familiar places, and looks to be doing something special with them.
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Wishlisted | Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus' demo reminded me of the sanctity of tea
Steep calm and carry on.
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Hollywood Animal is a nifty and detailed golden age simulator populated with eminently hireable alcoholics
There's no business like it
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Enotria: The Last Song's demo reveals a sunnier Soulslike with a powerful sense of theatre
Presto start to play
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Circle of Hell | Dark and Deep is a cosmic horror blend of modern and classic art, and you can play the demo during Steam Next Fest
From solo developer Walter Woods, Dark and Deep is exactly what it says on the tin: dark… and deep…
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Silkbulb Test's demo is a fun quiz game as long as you ignore the noises and don't look behind you
Have a seat
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Space-Western Wild Bastards has OK shooty, decent looty, but darn fine rooty and tooty
Information on booty forthcoming
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Wishlisted | Oddada is the best kind of video game toybox as you get to keep downloadable WAVs of all the tunes you make
It's trebley good.
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Phantom Spark is a hover racer of impeccable chill and wistful fantasy worldbuilding
From the creators of... NUTS?
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Making History | Mexico 1921: A Deep Slumber might be worth a go for Pentiment fans craving a fresh stop in the historical gaming time machine
Mácula Interactive’s intriguing creation feels like it might have a crack at delivering a unique history lesson, even if it’s not quite Pentiment
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Deeply unusual gardening game Grunn’s shear snip deserves every award Geoff Keighley has ever invented
Shear genius
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Tactical Breach Wizards is refreshingly unlike XCOM despite wearing the same tactical underwear
Necro-Clancy
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Wishlisted | Tavern Talk is a tasty blend of Coffee Talk and Legends & Lattes
Serves you right.
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Make Friends | City 20 is the dystopian survival game you've been waiting for – and it has a Steam Fest demo
City 20's demo is limited in size, but offers a glimpse of a truly deep experience.
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Here's a demo for Megacopter, a Desert Strike parody with a splash of Mars Attacks
Everything was mega in the 1990s
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Wishlisted - Our 10 Best Steam Next Fest Demos
Another Next Fest kicks off soon, but we've already done the digging for you.
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Wishlisted | 10 Steam Next Fest demos you should play right now
The Steam Wishlist deluge cometh.
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I made the witchy cottage of my dreams in Tiny Glade
I could listen to these clicky clacks all day
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Possess office equipment and batter your coworkers in Office Fight
I’m going to need those TPS reports attached to a haunted monitor
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Kill Knight’s flowing twin stick carnage hides layers of thoughtful complexity
Does a Kill Knight get his meals cooked by a Food Chef?
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Shadow frog? Shadow frog! Shadow frog puzzler Schim has a free demo you can play now
That's one more free shadow frog than you had yesterday
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Kickback is a cross between Doom: Eternal and the bouncing DVD logo
Dude we've been watching this thing for four hours I think it's working