It is the final day of Steam Next Fest, and 116,177 people are playing its demos right now. Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim leads with 23,274 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
- Probably Stolen – Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim: 23,274 playing. By Questing Goose Studio. Shop Keeper, Trading.
- Worst Class Ever: 9,670 playing. By Funcore Games. Team-Based, Social Deduction.
- Abyssal Lapidary: 3,411 playing. By Light Worm. Immersive Sim, Job Simulator.
- just volleyball: 2,573 playing. By temkosoft. Sports, Arcade.
- Loftia: 2,196 playing. By Qloud Games. Life Sim, Cozy.
- Frostrail: 2,098 playing. By FakeFish. Open World Survival Craft, Survival.
- Among Shadows: 1,678 playing. By TMXN Games. Party Game, Real Time Tactics.
- Fart Together: 1,544 playing. By GamesMrkt. Physics, Party Game.
- Dungeonbound: 1,107 playing. By louidev. Auto Battler, Asynchronous Multiplayer.
- Deadzone Rogue 2: 1,096 playing. By Prophecy Games. Action Roguelike, FPS.
Climbing fast
The demos that gained the most players in the last 24 hours.
- Happy Lane: The Threshold: up 151 to 178 playing. By Rover Studio. Horror, Procedural Generation.
- Message From Aliens: up 58 to 188 playing. By Artless Games. Aliens, Text-Based.
- CUMING FEAR: up 57 to 95 playing. By KG/AM. Dark, Visual Novel.
- Guns, Princess and Braves: up 44 to 55 playing. By Cryotrix Games. Bullet Heaven, Roguelite.
- Towers of Babble: up 28 to 71 playing. By Everybody House Games. Tower Defense, Word Game.
The top demo in each genre
- Horror: Abyssal Lapidary, 3,411 playing
- Co-op: Worst Class Ever, 9,670 playing
- Cozy: Loftia, 2,196 playing
- Roguelikes: Dungeonbound, 1,107 playing
- Strategy: Among Shadows, 1,678 playing
- Survival: Frostrail, 2,098 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-, 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.
