The Steam Next Fest demos I enjoyed the most | Kaser Focus

Now that the showcases from Summer Game Fest are behind us, we can all get to the work of playing the actual games. The deluge of trailers is all well and good, and I’m especially pleased with the fact that so many indie games received screentime across all of the shows. However, a trailer is not a game — to truly get a feel for an upcoming game, a demo is still your best choice, despite the greater time investment upfront. Enter Steam Next Fest, the demo-rich platform event where we can actually try several of the games we saw at the show.

I played several demos at this Next Fest (though admittedly, not as many as I would have liked). So I thought I’d report to all of you which games I tried that I connected with the most. They’re not in any order, and I don’t have a particular favorite, but I’m happy to shout out the demos I felt deserved some form of recognition.