You’ll Regret Missing These Indie Games | Steam Next Fest
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Steam Next Fest is live on Steam with thousands of new indie games and demos. I went through the chaos of Steam Next Fest to find the best indie games and demos that are actually worth your time, that you can play right now. Distant Shore turns magnetism into a full physics sandbox and might be the most overlooked demo on Steam right now. PAPERHEAD is a nine year solo dev indie game that lets you redraw the world with a reality bending pencil. Ardenfall brings back the kind of deep, choice driven RPG design most AAA studios quietly abandoned years ago. Denshattack is pure, unhinged arcade dopamine. Guardians of the Wild Sky might be one of the most ambitious survival indie games currently playable on Steam. REPLACED finally lands with its cinematic cyberpunk action and hand crafted pixel art and Windrose delivers the pirate survival fantasy people wanted from Skull and Bones, but as an indie game that's actually fun. Steam Next Fest doesn’t last forever. If you’re looking for the be
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