Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition

Demo players are Steam's concurrent-player count for each demo's own app, read every three hours while the fest runs; a count swings over the day, so compare demos read at the same time, not one demo across hours. Followers are Steam community followers, read about daily. Steam publishes no wishlist counts. Estimated as followers × 17 (range × 10 to × 32), from 6 games whose studios stated their wishlist count — a rough estimate, not a reported figure.

Participants are the games on Steam's own fest list. Adult-only games are left out, and a game we have not catalogued yet is listed by its Steam app number.

≈ marks our estimates (wishlists gained), not figures Steam reported. How we estimate → What the terms mean →