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The latest Next Fest, which showcases upcoming games, launched yesterday evening on Steam. There are over two thousand playable demos as well as developer livestreams and chats. The event will run until 3 March 2025.

Many developers, studios and publishers from the GSA present their games on the distribution platform - with great success, as the peak number of concurrently active players (CCU) via [SteamDB](https://steamdb.info/) shows. [RoadCraft](/game/roadcraft), physically distributed by astragon in GSA, is the third most successful demo to date with 12,559 players. This is followed by [THQ Nordic](/company/thq-nordic) with [Gothic 1 Remake](/game/gothic-1-remake) - Demo (Nyras Prologue) with 10,222 concurrent players. This is a standalone prologue seen through the eyes of Nyras on his first day in the colony. The demo of the clicker game Bongo Cat by Marcel Zurawka, CEO and co-founder of BlueBottle and Irox Games, reached 3,886 CCU. The survival building game [Solarpunk](/game/solarpunk) by [Cyberwave](/company/cyberwave) and [rokaplay](/company/rokaplay) was played by a peak of 3,728 people. Speaking of rokaplay, the upcoming Sugardew Island - Your Cozy Farm Shop is also taking part in the Steam Next Fest.

[Pixel Maniacs](/company/pixel-maniacs) (Nuremberg) and PM Studios also have a demo of ChromaGun 2: Dye Hard. [Daedalic Entertainment](/company/daedalic-entertainment) has a demo of Once Upon A Puppet from Flatter Than Earth, while Frogsong Studios, Metaroot and [Stray Fawn Publishing](/company/stray-fawn-studio) are once again showing a demo of River Towns. [moi rai games](/company/moi-rai-games) from Hamburg and offbrand games are demoing Aethermancer. [Instinct3](/company/instinct3) participates in Next Fest as co-publisher of Sad Socket's 9 Kings and Soulpotion's Asgard's Fall - Viking Survivors. The influencer marketing agency is working with [Assemble Entertainment](/company/assemble-entertainment) on the latter. Assemble Entertainment is also promoting Flesh Made Fear by Tainted Pact, Urban Jungle Demo by Kylyk Games and Klaus Lee - Thunderballs by [Nukklear](/company/nukklear-ug-haftungsbeschraenkt). FusionPlay (Leipzig) and Team17 have a playable demo of Nice Day for Fishing. StunForge (Wadersloh) and HypeTrain Digital are hoping to inspire with Nordhold, their blend of turn-based development strategy, tower defence and roguelite elements. Last but not least, Kasedo Games, a subsidiary of [Kalypso](/company/kalypso-media-group), is having a demo of Rise of Industry 2, developed by SomaSim. There are also playable demos of Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping from [Happy Broccoli Games](/company/happy-broccoli-games) and Grimoire Groves from Stardust.

##### The 10 demos with the highest CCU numbers so far are
1. Mecha Break - 317,522
2. Fellowship - 16,721
3. RoadCraft - 12,559
4. Gothic 1 Remake (Nyras Prologue) - 10,222
5. The First Berserker: Khazan - 4,439
6. Bongo Cat - 3,886
7. Solarpunk - 3,728
8. Tower of Babel: Survivors of Chaos - 1,923
9. Breathedge 2 - 1,792
10. Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days - 1,785

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Many GSA Studios Taking Part in Steam Next Fest