Steam Next Fest launches and includes over 700 free game demos

Steam Next Fest, a week-long digital event offering access to hundreds of PC game demos, is now live.

Previously known as the Steam Game Festival, the event will run until June 22 and include “over 700 demos for the newest upcoming games across all genres from teams all over the world”, according to Valve.

To promote Steam Next Fest, Valve released the following trailers showing off a number of demos set to be included across a variety of genres.

The Steam Game Festival originally premiered as a spin-off to The Game Awards in December 2019, before returning in March, June and October 2020, and most recently in February 2021.

The format also expanded to Xbox in July 2020, when over 60 demos of unreleased games were available to sample for one week.

The latest Xbox Summer Game Fest demo event launched this week. Lasting until June 21, it offers access to around 40 demos of upcoming Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S games.