Steam Next Fest day 4: the most played demos right now

It is day 4 of Steam Next Fest, and 158,318 people are playing its demos right now. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim leads with 36,386 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: 36,386 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
2. Worst Class Ever: 16,960 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
3. Abyssal Lapidary: 3,791 playing. By Light Worm. Lovecraftian, Mystery.
4. Frostrail: 3,645 playing. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
5. Loftia: 3,159 playing. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
6. just volleyball: 2,336 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
7. ArcheAge Chronicles: 2,076 playing. By XLGAMES. Open World, MMORPG.
8. Among Shadows: 2,051 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
9. Grr Grr Gnomes: 1,485 playing. By emolingodev, FireAtacck. Action-Adventure, Exploration.
10. No Body No Problem!: 1,317 playing. By Crime Cleanup Co.. Action-Adventure, Arcade.

Climbing fast

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

1. Worst Class Ever: up 12,608 to 16,960 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
2. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: up 2,521 to 36,386 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
3. Abyssal Lapidary: up 604 to 3,791 playing. By Light Worm. Lovecraftian, Mystery.
4. just volleyball: up 264 to 2,336 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
5. Mortuus: up 223 to 744 playing. By Hamuno. Zombies, FPS.

The top demo in each genre

• Horror: Frostrail, 3,645 playing
• Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 16,960 playing
• Cozy: Loftia, 3,159 playing
• Roguelikes: Deadzone Rogue 2, 1,274 playing
• Strategy: Among Shadows, 2,051 playing
• Survival: Frostrail, 3,645 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.