Strangest and Spookiest Games from Steam Next Fest! (October 2025)

Once again, we no-lifed our way through dozens of demos to pluck out these spooky little strawberries from Next Fest. Rather than just the Best and Weirdest, we got in the spooky season mood to deliver the STRANGEST and SPOOKIEST demos we found. And it's all quality stuff. Play these while you CAN... and IF YOU DARE! Muahahahahahahaaaaaaa

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Here's all the games in no particular order:

TEARSCAPE - cool bloodborne for the NES
https://store.steampowered.com/app/32...

DUSKFADE - ratchet and clank but goo guys to fight and death metal
https://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

Dynasthir - explore the eurojank and get lasered by a blob
https://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

Shadow of the Road - historical japan steampunk
https://store.steampowered.com/app/37...

Emotionless: The Last Ticket - spooky scary amusement park
https://store.steampowered.com/app/35...

Desktop Explorer - break your uncle's hard drive after he dies of brain illness
https://store.steampowered.com/app/25...

INDUSTRIA 2 - break robots after getting sucked into the robot dimension
https://store.steampowered.com/app/21...

Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure - spooky cards
https://store.steampowered.com/app/38...

SHARDS OF ORDER - dark card souls
https://store.steampowered.com/app/36...

PROJECT WARLOCK: LOST CHAPTERS - blow up an octopus with a blunderbuss matey
https://store.steampowered.com/app/10...

Mindscorn - get killed by walking gumlines
https://store.steampowered.com/app/40...

WARHAMMER 40,000: Mechanicus II - in the far future there is only tech support
https://store.steampowered.com/app/25...

Ashen Vow - knighty knight
https://store.steampowered.com/app/38...

Key Fairy - grappling hook dust collecting sim
https://store.steampowered.com/app/28...

PAINTED IN BLOOD - layers of fear if it had gameplay
https://store.steampowered.com/app/29...

VALOR MORTIS - yeah it's not on Next Fest but it's rad af
https://store.steampowered.com/app/28...

A Game About Feeding A Black Hole - let's relax into the singularity
https://store.steampowered.com/app/40...


00:00 Intro
00:31 Strangest and Spookiest Demos
17:17 Bonus Round
20:46 Relaxing Palette Cleanser and Patreon Thanks

Some additional music from Kevin McLeod: www.incompetech.com
Some additional SFX from: Freesound.org