Steam Next Fest is over. We counted the players in every one of its 7,310 demos every hour for the whole week, and these are the demos people played the most, ranked by their peak player count.
The full live chart, with every demo and the hourly trend, is at outputlag.com/next-fest.
The top 10 by peak players
- Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: 39,696 at peak. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
- Worst Class Ever: 27,684 at peak. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
- ArcheAge Chronicles: 19,855 at peak. By XLGAMES. Open World, MMORPG.
- just volleyball: 9,598 at peak. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
- Frostrail: 8,834 at peak. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
- Loftia: 7,427 at peak. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
- Abyssal Lapidary: 4,766 at peak. By Light Worm. Immersive Sim, Job Simulator.
- Fart Together: 4,405 at peak. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.
- Among Shadows: 3,063 at peak. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
- BORE: 2,923 at peak. By BavelGG. Survival Horror, Horror.
The top demo in each genre
- Horror: Frostrail, 8,834 at peak
- Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 27,684 at peak
- Cozy: Loftia, 7,427 at peak
- Roguelikes: Meltdown Crew, 2,404 at peak
- Strategy: Among Shadows, 3,063 at peak
- Survival: Frostrail, 8,834 at peak
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-, Melvor Idle 2, Find The Needle would otherwise rank near the top). Made one of these demos? The live chart has a badge you can put on your site.
