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No Body No Problem Turns a Cleanup Job Into a Party Bluff
No Body No Problem! is a multiplayer party game from Crime Cleanup Co., published by Red Axe Games. One player is the cop; the others are suspects trying to hide a body, clean the scene and keep their story straight.
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Among Shadows Mixes Fantasy Combat With Hidden Traitors
Among Shadows is an asymmetric fantasy multiplayer game from TMXN Games. It sits just outside Next Fest’s top 15 in the October 24 live snapshot, combining social deduction with action and real-time tactics.
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Dungeonbound Makes Its Dungeon Crawl an Auto-Battler
Dungeonbound is a first-person auto-battler dungeon crawler from solo developer louidev, scheduled for November 15. The demo has reached the top 20 of the October 24 Next Fest live chart.
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Mortuus Reworks the Zombie Horde With Procedural Maps
Mortuus is a round-based co-op zombie FPS from solo developer Hamuno. Its Next Fest demo has climbed among the more-played titles, with support for one to four players.
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Traffic Architect Puts the Junction at the Centre of the City
A growing city supplies the traffic; your job is to design a network that can handle where everyone wants to go.
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Meltdown Crew Turns Reactor Maintenance Into Co-op Panic
Meltdown Crew is an online co-op physics game by Meltdown Games, slated for December. Its Next Fest demo is among the event’s more-played smaller releases in the October 24 snapshot.
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Main Sequence Takes the Factory Floor Into Deep Space
Designing ships and stations gives this automation game a physical place for every production decision.
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Ski-E-O! Builds a Resort Around More Than the Perfect Ski Run
Weather, lift placement and guests who would rather have hot chocolate all belong in this mountain-management plan.
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Log Drop Makes Lumber Logistics a Physics Toy
Build a contraption, release too many logs and see whether your carefully planned route survives the result.
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Deadzone Rogue 2 Builds Its Next FPS Run Around New Combinations
Deadzone Rogue 2 is a sci-fi FPS roguelite from Prophecy Games and one of the most-played demos outside Next Fest’s top ten in the October 24 snapshot. It follows the original Deadzone Rogue with a new campaign set on a fallen Earth.
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Everyone's Tier List Makes Your Friends' Opinions the Puzzle
A simple ranking prompt becomes a party game about how well you can read the people around you.
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Grr Grr Gnomes Sends Tiny Sailors Into a Very Big Ocean
Grr Grr Gnomes is a co-op adventure from emolingodev and FireAtacck. The Next Fest demo has found a solid audience, with a premise built around tiny gnomes sailing between islands on a very large ocean.
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Tavernia Turns Party-Game Skills Into a Battle for the Board
Trivia claims the land; typing races and other duels help steal it from your friends.
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Geometry Rift: Apocalypse pairs neon chaos with growing firepower
Dad & Son Games’ arcade roguelite combines swarming geometric enemies, unlockable ships and build upgrades with two-player local co-op.
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Reshine Finds the Pleasure in Bringing Old Objects Back to Life
Quite OK Games trades business management for the patient work of restoring one treasured object at a time.
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Sandcastle Brings a Little Beach Engineering to Next Fest
A quiet creative sandbox makes building walls, carving moats and watching the tide its whole afternoon.
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ArcheAge Chronicles Brings a Familiar MMO World to Next Fest
ArcheAge Chronicles is an upcoming MMO from XLGAMES, appearing in Steam Next Fest and ranking just outside the chart’s top ten in the October 24 snapshot. Its store page invites players into Auroria, a new frontier for exploration and action.
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MOLTYN Turns Superhero Powers Into a Destruction Sandbox
Hingston Digital's pixel-physics world treats lava, water and collapsing buildings as parts of the same experiment.
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Desktop Dreampair Makes Room for Two Little Desktop Companions
Character customization, tiny conversations and a focus timer share the screen in shrimpwarrior's desktop project.
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Frostrail Turns Survival Into a Journey Across a Frozen Wasteland
Frostrail is a survival FPS from FakeFish and Shiro Unlimited, and one of the most-played Next Fest demos in the latest chart snapshot. Its defining image is a steam-powered train crossing a frozen, corrupted world.
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Can 'Em All Gives Factory Growth a Very Dark Joke
LuisDev's first-person incremental game connects shooting, processing and automation in one increasingly busy factory.
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Expedition: Into Darkness Makes Getting Home Part of the Dungeon Crawl
A PvE extraction adventure gives every weapon and recovered treasure a reason to matter on the return journey.
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Blue Prince turns choosing the next room into the puzzle
Blue Prince’s shifting manor makes navigation a choice and a setback a reason to rethink the floor plan. A spoiler-free look at the design, and who might enjoy investigating it.
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Go Next! Takes the Horde-Survival Loop Up the Walls
Mixidev's third-person survivor gives its growing arsenal a parkour playground.
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Loftia Pairs Cozy Multiplayer With a Sustainable Future
Loftia is a multiplayer life sim from Qloud Games, due into early access on November 3. It is among the more-played Next Fest games in the October 24 snapshot, bringing farming, crafting, exploration and decorating together in a shared setting.
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Fart Together Turns Co-op Coordination Into a Shared Raft Ride
Fart Together is a physics-based co-op game from GamesMrkt, listed for October 29. Two to four players steer a shared raft through obstacle courses using carefully coordinated bursts of propulsion.
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Abyssal Lapidary Makes Gem Cutting a Gothic Management Sim
Abyssal Lapidary is a gothic management game from Light Worm, published by XD. Its Next Fest demo has drawn a notable crowd, and the premise centers on running a jewelry workshop in a Victorian-inspired underground city.
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just volleyball Keeps the Sports Pitch Simple and the Matchups Flexible
Solo developer temkosoft brings just volleyball to Next Fest ahead of its listed November 4 release. The game supports online and offline play, with match sizes ranging from one-on-one to full six-player teams.
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Melvor Idle 2 Brings a New Idle RPG to Next Fest
Melvor Idle 2 is the next entry from Games by Malcs, whose first game built an audience around skill training and background progression. Its Next Fest demo is one of the event’s most-played idle titles in the October 24 snapshot.
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Worst Class Ever Makes Classroom Mischief a Social Deduction Game
Funcore Games’ upcoming social deduction party game is one of the most-played demos in the October 24 Next Fest snapshot. Its 1–6 player setup casts one person as the teacher and up to five others as troublemaking students hiding among NPC classmates.
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