The Steam Next Fest February 2025 Edition is live! Which demos have earned your wishlist?

The first Steam Next Fest of the year is live once again, with well over 2,000 games taking part. That's way too many for anyone to even look at, so let's help the cream rise to the top by sharing our favorite demos here.

Some of the most notable participants this time around include:

• Wanderstop, a teashop management game by Ivy Road, the new studio from Davey Wreden of The Stanley Parable - and music from C418, the original Minecraft composer.
• The Talos Principle: Reawakened, a glow up of the first-person puzzler that brings quality-of-life changes, all-new content, and a level editor.
• The First Berserker: Khazan, a soulslike spinoff of the Dungeon & Fighter franchise.
• Promise Mascot Agency, a Japanese mascot management simulator developed by Kaizen Game Works of Paradise Killer, and featuring voice work from the likes of Takaya Kuroda (Kiryu Kazama in the Like a Dragon/Yakuza series), SWERY (developer of Deadly Premonition), and Shuhei Yoshida (former president of PlayStation Studios).
• Gothic 1 Remake, a modernization of the gritty 2001 cult classic RPG.

A few others that caught my eye have been:

• Deliver At All Costs, a physics-focused driving game in a city sandbox where you must deliver increasingly wacky items from one end of town to another.
• Demon Tides, the full-3D sequel to the 2021 platformer Demon Turf, now with a more expansive moveset and even larger levels.
• The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-, a Danganronpa-reminiscent narrative RPG with grid-based tactics combat, developed by some of the original creators of that series.
• Skin Deep, a systems-driven immersive FPS from Brendon Chung at Blendo Games, developer of such titles as Thirty Flights of Loving and Quadrilateral Cowboy.
• Moves Of The Diamond Hand, the first-person followup to Cosmo D's bizarre dice-based, tabletop-esque pizza-making RPG Betrayal At Club Low.