Category: Steam Next Fest June 2025
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Bad Summer Chills and Thrills with an Exciting, Ethereal Demo
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Browsing through the games showcased during Next Fest is always a great time. Getting an idea for interesting indie games coming soon, trying out a few demos, and really lengthening my wishlist is a favorite pastime of mine. I’m also a sucker for classic slasher horror films akin to Friday…
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The Bleakest Keep Demo Keeps Things Interesting!
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Things are looking bleak… and that’s okay! From the creator of the Indie Arcade ‘Slay-Em-Up’ Slay the Minotaur comes a new daunting challenge: avenge your king, climb the keep, and defeat the wicked wizard who betrayed him! Easier said than done. KEEP it Coming! The newest project by indie developer…
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Texnoplazm Demo – Unleash Your Inner Cybermartial Artist
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Last year in June 2024, developer and publisher Mothership Loudspeakerz released GHOSTWARE: Arena of the Dead, a retro FPS boomer shooter set in a futuristic world that blurred the line between technology and magic. This year, they’re taking that shooter experience and mashing it with hardcore close quarters combat. Available…
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The Cat Named Mojave Demo is Very ‘Purr’omising!
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The desert stretches into infinity all around me. Cacti clawing the sky like prisoners reaching for a key. Only the gossamer beads of sweat slipping down my face keep me cool… There’s a tall figure crossing my path like a mirage… and I think it has a tail… Like the…
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The Remnants of R’yleh Demo is R’yleh Shaping Up!
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‘My mind quaked and shivered as I regarded the game’s preternatural form… its unsettling qualities evoking the most primitive horror in the pit of my very being…’ Let’s address the shoggoth in the room: making Lovecraft media is tricky. Lovecraft games? Doubly so! The works of H.P Lovecraft are more…
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Bar Soviet’s Demo gives a taste of post-war bar-tending.
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Developed and published by solo dev Labour Battalion Games, Bar Soviet is a post-war bartending simulator mixing recipe memorization with political commentary. As part of Steam Next Fest: June 2025, a demo for Bar Soviet was made available for the weeklong fest. So, let’s dive into the fictional post-war soviet…
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A Calming Descent into Madness: The BLUMA Experience
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Right from the start, BLUMA presents itself as a light-hearted, magical indie gem that took me on an emotional rollercoaster—and then politely dropped me off a cliff. BLUMA, created by Potaco Studio, begins in a moonlit rainforest, where you play as an adorable chinchilla with big eyes and even bigger…
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Gumshoe Detective Agency: The First Case demo is a charming retro mystery
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The year is 1995. You are a detective at Gumshoe Detective Agency, which has solved approximately zero cases. Victoria Mason, the daughter of a local tech tycoon, has gone missing. And most importantly, you’ve received your very first computer. Inspired by The Roottrees are Dead, Gumshoe Detective Agency: The First…
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The Dread Protocol Demo Is Out Of This World!
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Faced with the destruction of their home world by the nefarious Federation, the survivors aboard the Dread Protocol band together with one purpose: REVENGE! Who doesn’t love a good underdog story? Blending Mass Effect-esque third-person combat with roguelite mechanics comparable to Void Bastards and Heat Signature, Dread Protocol’s demo will…
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Rue Valley’s Demo Gives us a Topsy Turvy Story
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For Steam’s June 2025 Next Fest, Emotion Spark Studio and Owlcat games released a demo for their highly anticipated narrative isometric RPG, Rue Valley. With over 100,000 wishlists on Steam, the hype surrounding Rue Valley is real and widespread. Will it live up to the expectations placed on it, though,…