The year’s second Steam Next Fest is currently live, with thousands of playable demos at your disposal, and you’d have to play them for months before you could possibly try them all.
In case you’re wondering how the Next Fest works, it’s basically a tri-yearly 7-day festival where publishers from all corners of the gaming world list playable demos for everyone to try before buying. All these games are yet to be released, so if you like any of them, you’ll need to wishlist them and wait until they’re out. The June 2026 Steam Next Fest has over 4,350 titles (4,354 titles, to be exact, at the time of writing) listed in its catalog, and if each one of these demos ran for 30 minutes, that would bring the total playable time to 2,175 hours. And that is around 90 days’ worth of content.
Since the fest is only going to be live for 7 days, it’s impractical to aim to play every one of those listed demos, of course. Unless you play every demo for 2 minutes, which isn’t very ideal either. To top it off, Steam is expected to add more demos throughout the event.
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