I played 10 Steam Next Fest RPG demos

Steam Next Fest is up right now, and from February 5 to 12 there are hundreds of demos for a huge variety of games available to play. This is the perfect opportunity to get the lowdown on all the best upcoming indie games of 2024, and I went out of my way to play ten of them. These ten games were randomly selected from the Steam Next Fest page’s RPG section, and not all of them strictly fit into the RPG definition. That’s fine though, because there’s some gold to be found among these demos, and these are my impressions of the ten I played. As implied by the title, this is a tongue-in-cheek fantasy game with a nice artstyle and decent enough action combat. It’s simple, and characters talk in garbled language like Banjo-Kazooie characters, but it’s decent fun, and has a surprisingly large and lively world. Still, no idea if the core conceit will evolve past a drunk wizard named Grindalf. Play Yet Another Fantasy Title (YAFT) on Steam. This is a survival crafting game. It looks nice and seems pretty ambitious,