Steam Next Fest is a week-long celebration featuring hundreds of FREE playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats. Players try out upcoming games on Steam pre-release, developers gather feedback and build an audience ahead of their Steam launch, everyone wins!

The press preview version for Steam’s Next Fest is available. The public version starts next week, but you don’t need to be press to access it.

It is a bit challenging to find the good stuff right now because you don’t have options to sort the list by quality, or for most popular or most wishlisted. But you can have some luck in your discovery queue.

I enjoyed playing Don’t Kill Them All, Chained Beasts, CastleOn, Takeover 2, Brigador Killers, Some Type of Trip, and Hollow Home. I still have a handful more demos to test.

Tip: Use ‘steam://openurl/’ at the start of the url to open links from your browser directly on steam.

steam://openurl/https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest_june26_press/ (just copy and paste this into your browser, and it will ask if you want to open it with Steam).