{"id":84347,"date":"2026-06-11T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84347"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:36:30","slug":"the-number-of-steam-next-fest-demos-this-month-is-too-damn-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84347","title":{"rendered":"The Number Of Steam Next Fest Demos This Month Is Too Damn High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Not-E3 season starts to wind down and everyone&#8217;s wishlist starts to look crowded with games scheduled for September and October, the next big event on the calendar is Steam Next Fest.\u00a0The second of three planned week-long demo showcases for 2026, Next Fest is positioned to provide an early taste of upcoming games across a wide variety of genres. The demo showcase has grown in the years since it was first introduced, and the June 2026 edition has ballooned to a truly ridiculous size, with 4,931 demos being featured at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Normally, having too many free game demos to play is a great problem to have, but with\u00a0Next Fest, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/steam-next-fest-february-2026-30-of-the-best-demos-you-can-download-right-now\/2900-7515\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sheer number of participating games<\/a> feels like overkill. It&#8217;s worth noting that the original goal of Next Fest was for each demo to only be available to play for the week of the event, but it&#8217;s not unusual to see these early slices of game remain in place long after the Steam event wraps up. It&#8217;s also not unusual for these demos to go live before Next Fest even begins, and plenty of these demos have also been around for a while before they got a quick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Not-E3 season starts to wind down and everyone&#8217;s wishlist starts to look crowded with games scheduled for September and October, the next big event on the calendar is Steam Next Fest.\u00a0The second of three planned week-long demo showcases for 2026, Next Fest is positioned to provide an early taste of upcoming games across a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":84349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84350,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84347\/revisions\/84350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}