Celebrating all things gaming, Steam Next Fest and its wealth of free game demos has returned for a week of summer game.
With almost 5,000 titles to choose from, we’ve got the five Steam Next Fest game demos you must play – no multi-page clickthrough required!
5 Must-Play June 2026 Steam Next Fest Demos
Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School
A new conspiracy is ripe for exploration with the new Steam Next Fest demo of Coin Crew Games and iam8bit Presents‘ Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School.
Evolving the escape room format from the original to an open world format, Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School features an all-new campaign complete with handcrafted escape rooms designed by veteran puzzle designers.
Equal parts life-threatening and wacky, one can play in solo or co-op as they explore this Academy’s home away from home.
Penguin Colony
Featuring a faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, ORIGAME DIGITAL and Fellow Traveller‘s Penguin Colony provides a front-row seat to these cosmic horrors…through the eyes of a penguin.
Yes, really.
Narrated by the iconic Lenval Brown of Disco Elysuim – The Final Cut fame, Penguin Colony transports players to the deep Antarctic in 1939 as it carries on H.P. Lovecraft’s tradition of weird fiction.
Among Us Story: On Guard
Featuring a dangerous single-player narrative adventure through space, Innersloth’s Among Us Story: On Guard has a Guard on guard.
We do love a good pun!
As part of MIRA Research & Development, Among Us Story: On Guard will have players meeting other Crewmates in true Among Us fashion as one becomes a hard-boiled private eye and attempts to identify the Impostor.
Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!
Blending together absurdist comedy and personal storytelling, Strange Scaffold and Frosty Pop‘s Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! lives up to its incredible title by having players running over pedestrians to turn them into monsters.
As the titular Truck-kun, this chaotic run-based anime driving game tasks players with making deliveries and defeating the Skeleton King across two worlds in true isekai fashion.
Heave Ho 2
The bedlam is back with the new Steam Next Fest demo of Le Cartel Studio and Devolver Digital’s Heave Ho 2.
Letting players take your partners by the hand (or even head!), this co-op adventure features pro swinging and will have players pushing, pulling, shooting, and squeezing with friends via couch co-op and online play.
Thank you to PR for all their help around this June 2026 Steam Next Fest event!
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Featuring buttery smooth platforming and countless clutch moments, N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO brings the heat (and rockets) needed to be a timeless party game staple.
A true blue Sonic entry, SONIC PICO PARK’s signature combo of speed, platforming, and sheer charm reaffirms that teamwork truly makes the dream work.
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Feeling the groove, Mr. Records truly immerses players with its distinct blend of rhythm game mechanics and record shop management.
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Enjoyed Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader like us? Needless to say, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy is a no-brainer.
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