Check out these NextFest demos and see for yourself!
The list of amazing demos in this October Steam NextFest seems endless. We wish we could play them all and give indie games the credit they deserve. Below is our list of our top 5 personal favorites, only because this article would be thousands of words long if we didn’t try to restrain ourselves. Browse the list of Steam’s October NextFest demos and find your own favorites along the way, and remember all the hard work that the dedicated men and women put into developing indie titles that we all come to love.
Bearly Brave – Barbaric Games
Bearly Brave is a 2D roguelike deck-building game set in a deceptively charming toy shop, where the cutest teddy bears come to life each night to fight in a no-holds-barred tournament that determines their placement on the shelves, and thus their likeness to be taken to their forever home.
You’ll take on the role of Toby, a gentle bear forced into this brutal competition by the sadistic Boris. Mixing turn-based strategy with fast-paced deck building, Bearly Brave challenges you to craft unique builds in Toby’s fight to escape the sinister clutches of the toy shop.
The Bearly Brave demo lets you experiment with different builds and synergies in a limited version of the championship. There’s no time limit, so take your time exploring strategies and discovering powerful combos!
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Z After: A Point and Click Survival – MobGeeks Studios LLC
Z After is a narrative zombie survival point & click adventure game, with hidden object and turn-based fighting mechanics.
Fight through seven stages of hand-drawn areas in a narrative-driven storyline to figure out your role in the zombie apocalypse. Gather weapons, ammo, and armor to help defend yourself in a turn-based tactical combat phase, which will allow you to gather materials and fortify buildings to help thwart the oncoming horde.
Unlock multiple characters with unique talents that make each playthrough a different experience altogether.
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SWAPMEAT – One More Game
Rip through hostile alien worlds, harvest mutant body parts mid-combat, and adapt faster than the enemies before they overwhelm you. Every alien you harvest gives you new body parts with unique powers – triple jump legs, turret dropping torsos, grenade launching turkey heads.
Your job? Drop onto hostile planets teeming with absurd enemy oddities. Complete prime directives and collect meat samples. Swap out your body parts in real time. Survive long enough to receive your employee evaluation.
Each fleshy extremity changes how you fight. Time is never on your side. The pressure never stops. Learn to live in the chaos or get – quite literally – torn apart by it.
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Everdream Village – Mooneaters
Build your ideal, cozy farm in a living village. Form bonds with fellow villagers to lend a hand as you grow crops, care for animals, and craft a corner of paradise. Sail across enchanted islands to discover new resources and adventures along the way.
Your village isn’t just the buildings you construct, it’s a thriving community that reacts to your choices. Befriend NPCs, manage their moods, and even possibly find romance. The village you build and maintain affects how everyone feels and behaves from a variety of factors. Add decorations, care for your animals, remove pests, and so much more to make this a happy place to be.
Shape the world to match your vision! Raise hills, carve out rivers, or dig deep underground to uncover hidden secrets, lost treasures, and rare resources.
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Extinction Day – DryGin Studios
A doomsday simulator where you wipe out humanity using disasters, diseases, wars, and other catastrophic events. Spread chaos worldwide, combine catastrophes for maximum destruction, and crush humanity’s efforts to survive in this game of world-ending mayhem.
In the Extinction Day demo, you will gain access to 3 missions (two prologues and one full mission,) a fully replayable mission with 4 difficulty levels, 4 unique disaster abilities out of 12 total, and hours of strategic, world ending gameplay.
You can experiment with and combine multiple disasters in a variety of scenarios. From natural catastrophes to deadly diseases, full scale warfare, zombie invasions and more. Unleash destruction on an epic scale.
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