Steam has kicked off its winter demo festival "Games to Be."

Steam Winter Next Fest "Games To Be" Kicks Off

Steam has launched the February Next Fest "Games To Be" with hundreds of demos of upcoming games. You can try out racing games, action games, puzzles, walking simulators, platformers, shooters, and a whole lot more. The winter demo-pocalypse ends on March 2nd at 21:00 Moscow time.

There's a whole sea (and a small puddle) of demos available—it's hard to try everything—so we've picked out a few interesting samples for you (links in the game titles lead to the demo pages on Steam).

• Truckful — A solo adventure where the player drives through a seemingly quiet rural landscape, runs errands for the locals, and gradually uncovers the mystery of an ancient forest on the outskirts. You must carefully transport all sorts of cargo—from perishable fish to fragile ceramics—navigate through foggy lowlands, swamps, and quicksand, and upgrade and customize your pickup truck to handle increasingly difficult routes.
• Denshattack! — A crazy action game about a train speeding through a vibrant Japanese dystopia, ignoring gravity and any rules. The player performs tricks and grinds on the move, customizes the train to their style, races against trains based on real Japanese models, and earns a reputation among underground gangs. Together with a group of outcasts and the heroine Emi, they challenge the megacorporation Miraidō, fight absurd bosses—from mecha-girls to giant mechanical castles—and blaze a trail through Kyushu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Hokkaido to become the legendary Densha Warrior and reclaim the railway.
• Phonopolis — The long-awaited project from the masters of insanely cozy games at Amanita Design. The player takes on the role of a young garbage collector, Felix, who, by putting on headphones, frees himself from the total control of loudspeakers and becomes the only one aware of the threat in a cardboard dystopia ruled by the Leader's commands. Exploring the Workers' Quarter, he tries to thwart a plan to turn residents into mindless servants by solving puzzles through interaction with the "singing" city—turning walls, moving paper constructions, and using heralds for his own purposes. The visual style was inspired by the avant-garde of the interwar period, and the handcrafted cardboard world with stop-motion-like animation comes to life to the music of Tomáš Dvořák.
• 60 Seconds! Souper Scavenger — A dynamic runner in a nuclear wasteland from the creators of the original survival game 60 Seconds! The McDoodle family took shelter in a bomb shelter after the apocalypse, but supplies are dwindling, and the mutated Mary Jane has to venture out again and again. The player runs and jumps through procedurally generated locations, collects food and supplies, avoids raiders, mutants, and other threats, finds allies, and tries to bring home as many cans as possible to extend the shelter's life—otherwise, its inhabitants will go mad and start talking to socks.
• ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies — A narrative RPG about espionage from the studio ZA/UM. You play as Herschel Wilk, codenamed CASCADE—a talented, broken heroine who doomed her squad five years ago and now gets a chance to make things right. In a new city torn by ideological struggle, she must gather the shreds of a destroyed network, engage in delicate conversations, manipulate allies and enemies, pass skill checks, and make decisions that affect the loyalty of those around her and her own psyche.
• Outbound — A cozy adventure in the near future where the player travels through an open world in an electric van and turns their vehicle into a dream home. The van can be expanded with modules, repainted, furnished, and equipped with solar, wind, or water generators to live off clean energy. Along the way, you'll explore different biomes, gather resources, develop production, grow vegetables and mushrooms, cook food, and even get a pet helper. You can play solo or with up to four friends.
• Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss — A dark first-person adventure thriller set in 2053, when corporations go to the ocean depths for resources and awaken an ancient horror. The player takes on the role of an agent from Interpol's occult division named Noah and investigates the disappearance of miners at a station in the Pacific Ocean, descending into the cyclopean city of R'lyeh—a prison where the influence of Cthulhu is felt. Together with the AI companion KI, the hero explores the labyrinths of the sunken metropolis, collects evidence, solves branching puzzles, and tries to maintain sanity as reality begins to crack at the seams.
• Far Far West — A cooperative PvE shooter where one to four players assemble a squad of robotic cowboys and take on dangerous contracts from the town sheriff. In this strange Wild West with cursed mines, living skeletons, and a giant ghost train, the team tracks down targets, fends off waves of enemies, battles bosses, and earns rewards. In combat, you can switch between firearms and spells, combine abilities, and adjust tactics on the fly. In town, heroes upgrade weapons and skills, choose perks, and customize the appearance of their cowboy and their steed.
• Drift Survivors — A mix of Absolute Drift and Vampire Survivors, where the player drifts across neon arenas, fends off escalating waves of enemies, and upgrades their car to survive as long as possible. Drifting here isn't just a stylish trick: it's needed for dodging and position control, and the car itself becomes a combat platform with homing missiles, ricocheting shots, bombs, and other crazy weapons. Each run offers new upgrades and builds.
• Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! — A first-person shooter set in the Starship Troopers universe, where the player, as Major Samantha "Sammy" Ditz, leads the Mobile Infantry into battle against hordes of Arachnids invading human colonies. The campaign takes gamers to the resort planet Zegema Beach, which quickly turns into a battlefield: you must clear beaches, hold bases, cover evacuations, and repel attacks from flying, poisonous, and swift bugs.

After the demo festival, another event awaits us on Steam—the "Tower Defense Festival." We'll be defending our base with various towers until the bitter end from March 9th to 16th.

• Tower Defense Festival — from March 9th to 16th.
• Steam Spring Sale — from March 19th to 26th.
• Home & Interior Festival —