Category: Steam Next Fest June 2025
My Card Is Better Than Your Card Demo is Adorably Addictive
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In Utu Studio’s debut game, My Card is Better Than Your Card, you step into the shoes of a child challenging the neighborhood children in a competitive card game. With a fully customizable deck in hand, it will take a combination of luck and skill to snag a victory. The…
For The Zakon Demo, The Sky’s The Limit!
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It’s Victory Day in Krasnogorie. Thanks to the wisdom and courage of Great Leader Vozhd, the city celebrates the 80th Anniversary of the war’s end… and a promising future for all! You’ve been selected to pilot the Krasnogorie Police Force’s brand-new fighter jet. Put on a good show and don’t…
Experience Refinement in Etiquette Elegance
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In the most refined restaurant in the galaxy, every single detail must be perfect. The food, the ambience, and most imperatively…the table setting. This is the crux of Etiquette Elegance, a marvelous puzzle game where the player serves as a waiter in a retro-futuristic restaurant. The demo for Etiquette Elegance…
Lover Interface’s Demo is A Pretty Boy Paradise
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For fans of BL (boys love) visual novels looking for something a little experimental, Lover Interface offers a unique twist on the traditional dating sim format. Lover Interface is the second game by solo developer Dark Chill Dusk (also known as MuYou), a studio specializing in BL visual novels. Fans…
Will you bind the ancient lich in Necromance’s Prologue?
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This dark comedy visual novel introduces us to a tale of my two favorite things: romance and death. Cleverly titled Necromance and developed by Subversionary Studios, it is set to release on Steam in August 2025. As the Prologue is available for Steam Next Fest: June 2025, I delved into…
Bloodthief Demo Sinks Its Fangs Into Steam Next Fest
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The night belongs to Bloodthief as this vampiric hack ‘n’ slash sensation joins Steam Next Fest with a meaty new demo and blood-pumping speedrunning competition. Developer Blargis (Jake Bedard), whose devlogs have amassed over 4 million YouTube views, invites players to test their reflexes in this high-octane melee runner where…
Paradigm Island Rocks the Boat with an Electrifying Demo
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The past few years have seen a drastic uptick in the number of isometric narrative adventure RPGs, due in no small part to the success of 2019’s Disco Elysium. End-all Entertainment’s Paradigm Island is one of the newest additions to the genre, showcased in this month’s Next Fest on Steam.…
OFF Prologue is a welcome, if rocky, return of the influential RPG
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In 2008, OFF was released to the French masses, with a well-known and semi-official English fan translation by Quinn K. soon to follow. The game, originally made by Mortis Ghost, was a cult classic with a wide stretch of influence on the indie and RPGMaker communities due to its quirky…
The Metal Eden Demo: Paradise Lost?
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I fondly recall the time I’d spent after school on Fridays wandering the game aisles at Blockbuster Video. For the readers who aren’t dinosaurs, in ancient times gamers used to peruse the games available and rent one for the weekend. This outing became even more exciting once they started to…
Untimely Demise in Sometimes Toast is O.K.
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“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?” -Margaret Rogerson It began with a slice of bread. It ended with my final breath. The demo of Sometimes Toast is O.K. might seem like an innocent preview of a harmless sandbox game…