Our favorite demo from Steam Next Fest Winter 2025

Our favorite demo from Steam Next Fest Winter 2025

Another Steam Next festival is over, having to compete with Monster Hunter Wilds for PC-Owner Eye Eye, but not losing any good and different games to release in the future. A quick danger of our independent demo Astrolabe shows that we are a few months later Next The next festival, although at the time of posting, there are still a few valuable hours to download and try the best samples that this winter showcase provides. Here are our favorite items last week, and if you have played something you think deserves more attention, why not share it in comments?

Double us

A crowd of NPCS stared at the player in Doublewe.

Image credit: Rock Paper’s shotgun/Nightbyte game

James: I do not have psychological knowledge to really grasp why paranoia, a feeling originated from non -trust, stress and fear, making such entertainment games. However, that, as the popularity of those who shoot and shoot high power-and, and I guess, the word “sus”-proved. Perhaps it will be helpful when that paranoid is perfectly reasonable, as the case in Doublewe: A Roguelite of the first person, the first person, where your killer can rush through the NPC convulsions and turn you into a victim of fake-Fraticide. The fighting back is the target, but double the boundary between Hunter and hunted, in cases where weapons open slowly and often look like stress in a piano tension. Even check your mirror, to remind yourself of your random appearance (and thus, the copy), it feels like a mistake that can easily lead to a surprise.

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Provide at all costs

Driving through a chaotic fireworks accident in providing at all costs.

Image credit: Konami

Brendan: I like the way to drive felt in the game of delivery from the top down of the comics in the 1950s. It has all the correct Vroom and Zoom. The story, about a courier person, cannot get an eccentric work to pay overdue rent, absolutely nothing seriously. And that mood continues when you take a walk out of the block and crash into your rusted truck through the nearest fruit counter. Almost everything can be destroyed, and when your only tool is a large car, everything begins to look like a traffic cone too Smug.

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Wanderstop

Alta swung the blower to heat the water in the tea machine.

Image credit: Stone paper pistol / annapurna interactive

Brendan: The “cozy” agricultural sim offers a lot of relief for the brain. Simple jobs in a world often do not conflict, where the grass is green and the clouds threaten the rain that can predict not to reduce your mental as much as watering the plants. Wanderstop is targeting this genre and makes it tilt. Your hero, Alta, is not a classic “cute” protagonist or a player with a simple face, but a warrior warrior, who does not know what is good for her. In this case: Cool the flip and make a cup of tea. The demo gives us an opening part of the game (if there are many examples of the tasks you will do) and I have ignored the desire to cuppas more than it teased.

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Horror at Highrook

A screenshot of horror at Highrook, showing a design style of the home layout with cards representing characters and items, plus some mysterious effects. At the front, a spectral entity is talking about a missing child.

Image credit: Nullpulum / outterloth game

Edwin: Not long before the latest festival, I expressed my desire to deepen some of Weirder’s games, a more surprising game, beyond the sets that have been established and brought me out of my comfort area. After that, I was caught up in press events and other things and exhausted my abilities to handle newness, so here I am developing horror at Highrook, a haunted house’s competition, bringing my passion for the universe, mysterious in the style of hell and playing environment like maps. I am looking for dust from that detailed plan, and the exploitation of anything diffusion fluctuations hidden in those card manufacturing systems.

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The impact of Artis

The heroes confronted a giant army in an impact video of Artis.

Image credit: MAS

Edwin: My enthusiasm on Artis’s effects were tested by my disgust for the eccentric scenario of the Demo, in which your main character was defeated by many different NPC Otaku-Ass, but maybe some of that is due to the localization of English WIP. In addition, this is really a delicious product. It is a Pixelart role -playing game with fighting and turning in turn is both monumental and skillful. Look forward: The image manga board in the image for actions like pressing the button; A Florid art style includes minimalist scribbles through emotional icon to live photography, without never losing itself; Exquisite observations for fabric, hair and sword attacks. The exploration occurs in the Snowglobe environment from the top down, while the battles are placed in a book computer operating system. I really hope the script finds its legs.

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Is this seat taken?

Can people on the bus on this seat be done?

Image credit: Healthy game presented

Nic: Despite the conclusion to the reader that, yes, this To be A play about the logical questions you get in the tests, I’m still talking to get adequate conditions. Jumping between large RPG reviews has recently brought me Toucan’s appetite for snacks, and this special fish is suitable for my invoice. Stuffing the sophisticated polishing people in the seats is soothing – but still crispy enough for the game to not land the skeleton and collapse into a cozy invisible puddle. In addition, I also respect anyone who strides into the cinema with a cowboy hat and when asked, saying that I am wearing my large hat.

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Sandustrry

A complex cave network filled with sand and water in the sand.

Image credit: Game Lantto

Ollie: Usually in the factory games, whenever you have to do crafts with your own human hands, that’s tedious. Deliberately like that. This is the motivation behind the desire to automate. In Sandvestry, a game where you are building a large dirt factory to pour gold in a large box of dollars, everything is provided by one of those lovely physical sand engines. And so, whenever I have a reason to get a sand of sand with my own human hands, it is Hella satisfied. I almost did not have time to do more than the basic setup to pour the sand into the water, then put the wet sand on a conveyor belt to sift a pile and the useless slag into another, but that was enough to see that there could be something in this. The demo is an interesting small evidence of the concept; I hope the developers go deep into the depth now.

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Deadwire

Aiming at a bad guy through a hacked door at Deadwire.

Image credit: Shotgun anaconda

Graham: There are many Cyberpunk games that allow you to use hacks in battle, but very few people have an instant explosive consequence like Deadwire. This is a Topdown shooter in Miami, but you can move anytime into a gun -type view that allows you to link almost all elements of the environment. The enemy, TV, doors, explosive barrels: All can be connected so that when you shoot one, others also die and explode. You need vision to what you are linking, so there are some factors resolving the puzzles here and restarting immediately if you return to a corner, but mostly about the delirious power of an explosive barrel when a door opens because you turn on the switch.

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