Steam Next Fest lets you get a hands-on first peek at the best upcoming new games. Here are the best demos from this Next Fest. Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category. He ...

Demos are making a comeback, with indie games benefiting from public demos. Try demos for niche games like "Crow Country" and ...

Steam demos are changing, as Valve tackles an increasing number of developers releasing free games on its store in their place. The creator of the leading PC gaming storefront says it is responding to ...

Steam Next Fest 2025 is almost here, and likely already has arrived by the time you read this. As always, Steam is allowing developers to release demos for upcoming titles in 2025 and beyond. If you ...

Next Fest is back! The biannual Steam event that celebrates demos for hundreds of forthcoming games begins today, October 13, and runs until 1 p.m. ET on October 20. But with 3,276 demos to choose ...

Steam Next Fest, which kicked off in 2021 as the successor to the Steam Game Festival, remains one of the best ways to see what good games are on the horizon. The event, which runs several times a ...

Steam Next Fests are as delightful as they are overstimulating: There are so many interesting new games to sample, but there are so many new games to sample. That's why we like to take stock after a ...

I wasn’t expecting much when I downloaded the Stellar Blade PC demo. Not because I had doubts about the game — it’s one of the slickest action titles lately, and I've been waiting for it to reach PC ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Third-person survival horror game PSYCHO DEAD will launch for PlayStation 5 alongside its previously announced PC (Steam) version, developer MOON CATALYST announced. A demo is available now for PC.