Steam Next Fest day 3: the most played demos right now

It is day 3 of Steam Next Fest, and 145,263 people are playing its demos right now. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim leads with 33,865 players. These are the ten demos with the most people in them right now, from our hourly count of every demo in the fest.

The full live chart, with every demo and the hourly trend, is at outputlag.com/next-fest.

The 10 most played demos right now

1. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: 33,865 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
2. Frostrail: 5,199 playing. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
3. Worst Class Ever: 4,352 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
4. Loftia: 3,792 playing. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
5. ArcheAge Chronicles: 3,315 playing. By XLGAMES. Open World, MMORPG.
6. Abyssal Lapidary: 3,187 playing. By Light Worm. Lovecraftian, Mystery.
7. just volleyball: 2,072 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
8. Among Shadows: 1,980 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
9. Grr Grr Gnomes: 1,496 playing. By emolingodev, FireAtacck. Action-Adventure, Exploration.
10. Deadzone Rogue 2: 1,376 playing. By Prophecy Games. Action Roguelike, FPS.

Climbing fast

The demos that gained the most players in the last 24 hours.

1. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: up 6,390 to 33,865 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
2. Hearth Fable: up 1,197 to 1,210 playing. By Silverdew Games. Resource Management, City Builder.
3. Abyssal Lapidary: up 963 to 3,187 playing. By Light Worm. Lovecraftian, Mystery.
4. Among Shadows: up 904 to 1,980 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
5. No Body No Problem!: up 593 to 1,342 playing. By Crime Cleanup Co.. Action-Adventure, Arcade.

The top demo in each genre

• Horror: Frostrail, 5,199 playing
• Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 4,352 playing
• Cozy: Loftia, 3,792 playing
• Roguelikes: Deadzone Rogue 2, 1,376 playing
• Strategy: Among Shadows, 1,980 playing
• Survival: Frostrail, 5,199 playing

How we count

We read the live player count of every Next Fest demo from Steam’s public player count API every hour. This is people in a demo at that moment, not wishlists or sales, and nobody pays to rank. Idle and desktop companion games are left out of these lists because they keep counting players while they run in the background (Character House -Desktop Companion-, Find The Needle, Melvor Idle 2 would otherwise rank near the top). Made one of these demos? The live chart has a badge you can put on your site.