Steam Next Fest day 5: the most played demos right now

It is day 5 of Steam Next Fest, and 162,359 people are playing its demos right now. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim leads with 30,824 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: 30,824 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
2. Worst Class Ever: 21,110 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
3. Abyssal Lapidary: 4,068 playing. By Light Worm. Lovecraftian, Mystery.
4. Frostrail: 3,441 playing. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
5. Among Shadows: 3,063 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
6. just volleyball: 2,867 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
7. Loftia: 2,745 playing. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
8. ArcheAge Chronicles: 1,975 playing. By XLGAMES. Open World, MMORPG.
9. Grr Grr Gnomes: 1,744 playing. By emolingodev, FireAtacck. Action-Adventure, Exploration.
10. Fart Together: 1,488 playing. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.

Climbing fast

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

1. Worst Class Ever: up 4,150 to 21,110 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
2. Among Shadows: up 1,012 to 3,063 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
3. just volleyball: up 531 to 2,867 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
4. Fart Together: up 349 to 1,488 playing. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.
5. Dungeonbound: up 339 to 928 playing. By louidev. Auto Battler, Asynchronous Multiplayer.

The top demo in each genre

• Horror: Frostrail, 3,441 playing
• Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 21,110 playing
• Cozy: Loftia, 2,745 playing
• Roguelikes: Deadzone Rogue 2, 1,233 playing
• Strategy: Among Shadows, 3,063 playing
• Survival: Frostrail, 3,441 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.