Steam Next Fest · October 19–26, 2026
Was your Next Fest demo streamed on Twitch?
The lookup opens here once Steam publishes the fest list (October 19, 17:00 UTC) and our first count is in: any demo on the list, whether streamers played it on Twitch, and whether we found its Twitch category. Free, no signup.
For each demo, the lookup will say one of these:
Streamed1–2 streamersNo streams yetNo Twitch category found
Until then, register your demo: we email you when streamers play it on Twitch, and once before their saved VODs can expire.
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From October 19 this space ranks the most-streamed fest demos. Until then, these are from our radar, each with what streamers said about it.
Dressmaker
55 problems · 22 highlights · 8 streams
fitting pattern pieces onto the fabric layout without wasting material is fiddly
How to Fish
62 problems · 14 highlights · 8 streams
shark boss gatekeeping the cooking unlock feels overly difficult
Shift at Midnight
104 problems · 30 highlights · 12 streams
unclear rule that trash bags can't be discarded anywhere
How the numbers are made
The fest list comes from Steam's Next Fest page; each game is matched to its Twitch category. We check live streams through the official Twitch API every 20 minutes and update this page about once a day. A streamer counts once per game however long they played. Hours are estimates from the 20-minute snapshots.
In the lookup, a stream is one streamer on one day (UTC): we keep counts per game, not the streams themselves. Games with fewer than three streamers have no row in the ranking. The lookup finds them and says whether they had none or one or two; exact numbers start at three streamers, so no single streamer can be read off a game.
We miss streams shorter than the gap between two checks, and games we couldn't match to a Twitch category, for example when the demo is streamed under a different name. Kick and YouTube aren't on this board.
Your game in the fest?
Register it, ranked or not: free alerts when streamers play it in its Twitch category (once it has one) and before their saved VODs can expire. We analyse the saved VODs through Oct 26; if three or more streams in which the player talks give enough to report, the report says where streamers got stuck, what broke and what they liked, with the minute in each VOD.
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