Steam Next Fest day 7: the most played demos right now

It is day 7 of Steam Next Fest, and 177,503 people are playing its demos right now. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim leads with 28,389 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: 28,389 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
2. Worst Class Ever: 22,658 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
3. Abyssal Lapidary: 4,342 playing. By Light Worm. Immersive Sim, Job Simulator.
4. Frostrail: 4,207 playing. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
5. just volleyball: 3,756 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
6. Fart Together: 3,440 playing. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.
7. Loftia: 2,910 playing. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
8. Among Shadows: 2,295 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
9. Grr Grr Gnomes: 2,130 playing. By emolingodev, FireAtacck. Action-Adventure, Exploration.
10. No Body No Problem!: 1,658 playing. By Crime Cleanup Co.. Action-Adventure, Arcade.

Climbing fast

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

1. Fart Together: up 1,152 to 3,440 playing. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.
2. Ski Lines: Trail Map: up 266 to 266 playing. By Yunogames. Relaxing, Puzzle.
3. Malignus: up 205 to 345 playing. By Mossbomb. Colony Sim, Villain Protagonist.
4. Northgard Battlegrounds: up 165 to 894 playing. By Funday Games. Auto Battler, City Builder.
5. Rideshare “Stimulator”: up 163 to 330 playing. By UNIGINE. Artificial Intelligence, Life Sim.

The top demo in each genre

• Horror: Abyssal Lapidary, 4,342 playing
• Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 22,658 playing
• Cozy: Loftia, 2,910 playing
• Roguelikes: Deadzone Rogue 2, 1,632 playing
• Strategy: Among Shadows, 2,295 playing
• Survival: Frostrail, 4,207 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.