Steam Next Fest Collections Highlight Don’t Fret, Cozy Marbles and More Demos

Game.Press and Keymailer have shared two more Steam Next Fest collections with demos from upcoming indie games. Volumes 3 and 4 cover horror, cozy building, repair-shop simulation, deduction, bartending and several other ideas that do not fit neatly into one genre box.

The third selection opens with Don’t Fret, a horror adventure about a sentient guitar trapped inside a nightmare music school. Players hide, distract enemies and solve musical puzzles while piecing together fractured memories.

Cozy Marbles goes in the opposite direction. Mythwright’s sandbox is built around relaxed marble runs, with homes, fairytale spaces and spacecraft parts used as building blocks. ReStory: Chill Electronics shifts the mood again, putting players in a mid-2000s Tokyo repair shop for old consoles, phones and music players.

More demos in the spotlight

The list also includes T.W.I.R.L., a short 3 a.m. narrative horror set in a childhood home, and Storm Horse Simulator, where an untamed stallion tries to rescue its captive family in a cozy open-world adventure.

Volume 4 brings Legion Was Here, a dark-comedy spy deduction game built around evidence, disguise and identity theft. Something to Drink? takes a smaller, grimier angle: a bartender wipes down a dive bar, serves regulars and works through another sticky shift.

The collections are meant as a quick route through a crowded festival. Instead of one headline release, they show how varied the current demo wave has become, from stealthy horror to quiet repair work and strange comedy.