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Just when you thought you might be able to take a breath after all the summertime excitement, another tentpole event has arrived: Steam Next Fest. So save your breath because there are heaps of indies ready to take it away. It can feel a smidge overwhelming trying to pick out which to begin with when there are thousands of demos to choose from. But hopefully, the list below will help you wade into the rising tide and enjoy the indie surf.
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom’s destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.
A time loop metroidbrainia where time is your best resource and secrets are your only upgrades. You’re the last of the Weavers, a remnant of a ruined society trapped in a glitching time loop. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
Virtue? That’s for suckers. But fame? Priceless. Assemble unruly bastards into a mercenary squad and build your legend through reckless adventuring, bloody fights, lucrative looting, and dirty dealings. Choose your battles, and your allies, in this irreverent open-world tactical RPG.
The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest (TASQ) is a parody/homage platformer set in a dark 8-bit world. Your vampire-hunting rival robbed you of fame by killing Count Dracula first! Reclaim your glory by resurrecting Dracula piece by piece and slaying the dark count yourself!
HEAVYDELIC is a 2D Slavic Synthpunk Platformer broadcasting on dead frequencies. Synthetic psychedelia, comic art, VHS tapes, analog ruins & robots resurrected from Slavic mythology. Every asset is manually drawn by Eniac. Signal lost. Game found.
Rebuild a community one bottle at a time in this tiny delivery adventure with your pet cow Milki. Gather resources and upgrade your barn, then bike along dirt paths, breezy meadows, and seaside cliffs to bring fresh milk back to the sleepy countryside.
Capy Castaway is a cozy exploration adventure where a capybara pup and a clever crow solve puzzles, help lost animals, and explore a mysterious island after a devastating flood. Play solo or with a friend in this relaxing narrative adventure about curiosity, friendship, and finding your way home.
Roguecraft is a casual yet challenging turn-based roguelike, crafted for fans of classic dungeon crawlers and inspired by Lovecraftian horror. Explore procedurally generated dungeons with mysterious potions, scary chickens, and secret rooms waiting to be discovered!
Engineer the marble run of your dreams. No need to get it perfect – just release your marbles and let the good times roll.
Orcs don’t die: THEY RAGE! Embody their Warchief and lead them out of misery in this brutish strategy game with base-building, where one Orc outburst can turn victory into disaster. Forge bonds between units, shape their personalities, and unleash their true potential both in and out of battle.
Nurture your farm by day and defend your haul of crops from the thieving Trash Panda Posse at night. This farming and tower defense roguelite challenges you to grow powerful and symbiotic defenses to battle tough critters and rebuild your hometown one haul at a time!
In Colorbound, color is more than just hue. As Anku, an Aymara boy with a unique gift, you’ll harness the power of color to shape the environment itself, uncovering hidden paths to navigate challenging and complex puzzles.
Echoes of Mystralia is an action-heavy spellcrafting ARPG roguelite, where rapid combat meets deep customization. Craft your own spells, unlock new combinations, fight epic bosses, and discover a narrative-rich world that never plays the same twice.
The Tanuki Festival is just a month away, and the shrine is in disrepair. Follow Pon, a well meaning, if a bit lazy Tanuki with a part-time job at the Post Office, as he works to restore the shrine before summer ends. Deliver packages, make friends, and get the shrine ready for the big festival!
Slap stickers onto your cards and beat the score counter with astronomical multipliers in this roguelite deckbuilder! Collect snacks and Monstraks game-changers, flex your style, and crush Sticker Wizard’s challenges!
Woodo feels like a 3D coloring book you can touch, a relaxing puzzle-tale told through handcrafted wooden dioramas. A toy for those who never forgot how to be a child.
A solo collectible card game with the soul of a classic JRPG. Embark on replayable dungeon runs with deceptively deep, two-choice card combat. Draft items for your backpack, master chain attacks, and even crack a few card packs…then save the world from eternal darkness!
Meet the Merlies, a tiny birds community trying to find harmony in a cute post-apocalyptic world filled with the remains of a long forgotten civilization. Gather your birdies, explore this wild world with your tiny bird squad and complete your village out of collected scraps!
Blue Ridge Hunting is a co-op horror game set in the Appalachian Mountains. Solo or with friends, investigate, document, and hunt cryptids based on real sightings, legends, and eerie phenomena from the region. Are you brave enough to uncover the truth?
Build an army of aliens to invade Earth in DiceVaders, the roguelike dice game set in the same universe as StarVaders! SCORE BIG and DESTROY humanity!
Burn With Me is a story-centric deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occultic mysteries. In order to summon a Personal Demon you’ll master inventive gameplay with position-based synergies, and permanently burn your cards and your soul.
Clean moldy messes as a brave food hero! Equip your high-pressure spray, choose the right nozzle, and clear away sticky messes in this cozy, arcade-style fridge-cleaning adventure.
Step back into the shoes of a curious photographer and set off on a brand new adventure all about uncovering hidden details, helping friends along the way, and documenting the world’s little wonders in TOEM 2, the sequel to the acclaimed TOEM.
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs. Assemble your party of mercenaries and forge your own path towards an expedition into hell to stop the demonic incursion. Choices you make along the way will determine the fate of your world.
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