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After a brief announcement on the Steamworks Development group a week ago, Valve have now properly announced the next three Steam Game Festivals. This is where Steam users get to play through a ton of limited-time demos, which originally started back in December 2019 to go along with The Game Awards.

Not just demos, as there are also livestreams, Q&A sessions with developers and a whole lot more. It's interesting but there's so much crammed in that it can be hard to follow it all. You're not expected to be able to look at everything though but it may perhaps give you a chance to demo a game or two you've been waiting on. You can see a little overview here of the last one if you missed it, which was a lot of fun.

The first is the 2020 Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition, which happens between October 7th at 10am PST, to Tuesday, October 13th at 10am PST. We also now know the next two will happen in February 2021 and June 2021. To be eligible, developers can only opt into one of the events, as their game needs to be releasing within six months of the festival. I see where Valve are going with that, as to make the demos have more of an impact any longer and the feel and excitement over a demo might have greatly diminished. It is, after all, marketing in the form of a fun event.

A new dedicated page is up on Steam here.

Developers: if you're going to have a Linux demo for this event, please reach out to us to let us know.

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randyl Aug 19, 2020
I'm down for fun event marketing. We're going to be pelted with marketing anyway so why not make it a fun event. I'm also a huge fan of demos and trials. If a game demo hooks me, I'm more likely to buy it than put it off for later. I think it puts pressure on developers to step up their game and with the flood of mediocrity hitting the market, that's a good thing.
awesam Aug 20, 2020
The previous festival was great, discovered a few cool games I had not even heard about before like Asylum and DRAG. Hoping the next one too will have a bunch of interesting demos. And for those games that are still in development, a demo is a great way to spot and report issues while there is still time for devs to fix them before release.
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