The 20 Most-Played Steam Next Fest Demos Features Troublemaking Students, Farting Hippos
Steam Next Fest’s most played demos are led by multiplayer games, with co-op and competitive titles drawing strong interest among the more than 8,000 demos at the event. Valve shared the 20 most popular demos while the festival runs through 26 October, offering a snapshot of what players are discovering ahead of upcoming releases.
The article highlights Worst Class Ever, an asymmetrical classroom game whose developer says more than 300,000 people have played its demo, alongside titles including the shopkeeping sim Probably Stolen and the fart-powered co-op game Fart Together. Other games span fantasy MMO ArcheAge Chronicles, survival shooter Frostrail, and cosy shared-world life sim Loftia, which enters Early Access on 3 November. The article also notes that the list includes shopkeeping and desktop-companion games, as well as a cartoon volleyball game.
In short
- Multiplayer demos dominate Steam Next Fest’s most-played list.
- Worst Class Ever reports more than 300,000 demo players.
- Upcoming games range from shopkeeping sims to fart-powered co-op.
Explained simply
Steam Next Fest is an online event on Valve’s PC gaming platform, Steam, where developers offer free demos of games they plan to release. Players can try the demos and give developers an early sense of interest.
The games range from multiplayer challenges to simulations and cosy life games. Worst Class Ever has players act as disruptive pupils in a classroom, while Probably Stolen centres on running a shop and Fart Together is a co-operative game built around fart-powered antics.
The festival gives smaller and upcoming games a chance to reach players before release. The range of popular demos also shows how varied the games on Steam can be.
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