Steam Game Festival: A Celebration by the Devs With 500 Playable Demos

Steam is taking you along to one of the biggest virtual gaming festivals every year. And you can not possibly think of any reason to miss this exclusive opportunity. Valve has promised that its week-long event “Play What’s Next” will be an event like never before.

“Play What’s Next” will be a week-long interactive event on Steam. The event will comprise over 500 game demos that developers will eventually release on various platforms. But for now, Steam Game Festival will let you download, play and interact with developers and pass on any feedback they may have.

It’ll enable gamers to get a firsthand experience of the games from genres that interest them. It will also allow devs to get reviews, allowing them to polish them for the final release.

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When to Login?

The dates for the Steam Game Festival by Valve are out. As stated above, players will have an entire week to enjoy every bit of the festival.

It begins at 10 AM on the 3rd of Feb PST (1PM in Washington, DC, USA) and extends till the 9th of Feb, 10 AM PST (or 1 PM in DC). All users have to do is log in to their Steam account using the web or the client software. They will find over 500 demo games being livestreamed or see devs conducting interactive sessions there.

What to expect from the Steam event

The tagline gives most of the itinerary away- play 500+ demo games that are yet to be released, watch your favorite streamers and devs livestream them. And lastly, talk to them, ask them questions about their journey, suggest changes, or anything else viewers might want to discuss.

Steam, on its official Steam YouTube channel, has released teasers of games that will be available next week.

Fierce strategy games like Floopy Knights and Timberborn, realistic VR games like Battle Blocks and Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia, Horror games like Slender Threads and Lamentum, are just a fraction of the games available on the platform during the event. Other genres expected include adventure, action, platformer, puzzle, RPG, racing and visual novel.

Steam Game Festival released various teasers, one such being Strategy.

Steam, although, has not mentioned what will happen to the games after the event is over. Most probably, the games will be inaccessible after the week since they are yet to be officially released. Or the demos will simply remain in Steam Store in case people want to play them beyond the event.