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PayPalWith Steam Next Fest - February 2026 nearly over, Valve recently revealed some of the most popular choices amongst gamers. The event is still ongoing, and you have until March 2nd at 10AM Pacific / 6PM UTC. A lot of games will remove their preview demos, but plenty will also be keeping them up for a while longer.
Valve sent over a short list on February 27th to mark the half-way point of what has been the most popular during the event by then. Here's what they said people were clicking on:
Marathon
Unfortunately - unplayable on Linux / SteamOS due to the anti-cheat. Not surprising from Bungie, since they refuse to allow Linux platforms on Destiny 2.
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
Everything is Crab: The Animal Evolution Roguelite
What have been your most played demos during the event? Mine was easily Wanderburg. I fell in love with the modular moving castle combat idea instantly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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My list:
Approximately Up (meh)
Besmirch (interesting)
Burden Street Station (brilliant!)
Clicky Islands (pretty good)
Collector's Cove (not my style)
Dungeons of DUSK (slow pacing and navigation sucks)
Dungeon Sweeper (meh)
Garden Ink (pretty good)
Highreach (crashed)
Helix: Descent N Ascent (very good)
Hozy (fun)
Hypnos (confusing for no good reason)
Looking for Fael (very good)
Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth (very good)
Map Map - A Game About Maps (meh)
Nightfall Café (pretty decent)
Pluto (obtuse, didn't like it)
Shanty Town (very good)
Truckful (didn't recognize my controller)
- Ardenfall - absolutely loved it. Can't wait for release! Morrowind is back baby! (it never left but hey ...)
- Replaced - can I just hook myself up to this art style and mainline it all day every day? Incredible.
- Dead Fibers - ouch. Shouldn't have released this demo. Sadness.
- Dungeons of Dusk - seems great for the Deck!
- Darkhaven - meh. TQ2 is top of my argp list right now, and I have seen SO MANY arpgs with promising EA periods flame out and get abandoned (cough cough wolcen). So it's a "wait and see" and I hope it turns out awesome! We need more good arpgs to challenge the diablos and poes of the space!
Last edited by Jarmer on 2 Mar 2026 at 1:43 pm UTC
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