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A curated showcase from The MIX and Digital Bandidos, spotlighting unreleased indie games launching demos in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest, designed to help standout games drive maximum wishlist growth, reach new fans, and build buzz with press, creators, and players — when it matters most.
Games from this event

Anthem#92026
Combine Gems to unleash Skills in ANTHEM#9, a deck-building rogue-lite puzzle-battler! Customize your Recipes for a wide variety of deck ideas, and explore the thrilling story of secret agents fighting for world order.

Appulse2026
Discover pinball like never before with Appulse! The game is a roguelite shooter, where you protect a Galactic Federation ship! Upgrade your ball, your weapons and your ship to pushback waves of unwavering robots.

Astrobotanica2026
Discover Earth 300 thousand years ago as an alien biologist. Utilize your expertise in botany to survive, grow plants, harvest crops, compose and brew tonics. Reveal hidden powers of unknown plants. Engage with primal humans, leaving your mark on the future of civilization.

Beatdown City Survivors2026
Punch a car so hard it EXPLODES! Dash through flaming gas to create a fire trail burning everything. Destroy a hydrant to douse out the fire. Beatdown City Survivors is an immersive sandbox meets survive-em-up with dynamic environments & outrageous lite weapon crafting & team building.

Below the Crown2026
Explore the dungeons Below the Crown, in this love letter to Roguelikes, Dungeon Crawlers, and Chess. Prepare for strategy, game-changing spells, psychological tests, and challenges from your fellow players.

Beneath2025
Plunge into a treacherous and enigmatic underwater world and brace yourself to confront the heart-stopping horrors that await as you fight against all odds.


Blind Descent
Blind Descent is a multiplayer open-world survival adventure game with up to 4 players set in the Martian underground.

Cairn2026
Reach a summit never climbed before in this survival-climber from the creators of Furi and Haven. Climb anywhere and plan your route carefully, managing pitons and resources to survive the unforgiving Mount Kami. Discover what Aava is willing to sacrifice to achieve the ascent of a lifetime.

Curse of Pirates2026
Ahoy, matey! How about slicing up some sea beasts and sending a couple of rivals to feed the kraken? Curse of Pirates be a true action roguelike, inspired by Vampire Survivors and Hades! Set sail upon the high seas, gather ye brave crew, and stand firm against the relentless tides of foes!

Dancing with Ghosts2026
A cozy wholesome narrative about a young teen girl who befriends a ghost that only she can see. Weighed down by the death of her parents, the girl finds healing through friendship, dance, and helping others. Created to share the message of joy and appreciation for the gift of life.

Dunebound Tactics2026
Lead your band of survivors on a perilous trek across unforgiving sands in search of a new home. Battle ruthless factions, scavenge dwindling resources, reshape the terrain to your advantage and make life-or-death choices in Dunebound Tactics, a Roguelite Turn-Based Tactical RPG.

Enter the Chronosphere2026
A psychedelic roguelike that blurs the line between real-time action and turn-based tactics. Play as misfit aliens, craft wild combinations between hundreds of weapons, items and abilities, and disable uncharted chronospheres: Colossal structures that consume time and distort reality.

Escape from Duckov2025
A single-player top-down looter-shooter game. Loot, escape, build, and eventually become a mighty bird soldier. Beware! If you are knocked down, items in your inventory will be lost! But don't worry. With your infrastructure built nicely, you will rise again soon.

Fish Stick Protocol2025
Gather up to 8 players and dive into chaotic procedural dimensions to collect artifacts for the Owner's peculiar galleries.

Froggy Hates Snow2026
A survival roguelike where a frog digs through freezing snow, uncovers treasures, unlocks upgrades, and battles mystical creatures. Find the escape door or defeat the final boss to survive.

Frontier Paladin2026
Begin your first quest as a Paladin in this isometric Action RPG with weighty, stamina driven combat. Delve into the depths of the Crater, then fortify your positions and survive relentless enemy waves in tactical action-tower defense battles. Can you rebuild a shattered Order?

Gloom Punks2026
Not your average co-op roguelike. Where the price for power is death, and you’re trapped in a gloom-scape of fever dreams and fairytales gone feral, you can only rely on Punks like yourself. Cheat death, bounce back, and take on a world that so badly wants you dead!

Gunny Ascend
A Roguelite Block-Stacking Adventure — Stack, Adapt, Escape! Gunny Ascend is a high-speed puzzle game where every falling block is a chance to escape. Build clever loadouts, adapt to ever-changing hazards, and outsmart the Collectors in this chaotic, dimension-hopping adventure.

