Super GG Radio's Highlights From Steam Next Fest - Fall 2025

It may not seem like it’s been long since Steam Next Fest, and that’s true, because the last one was in June. The event is back for a fall iteration with a new slate of demos from upcoming games. This gives players a chance to get a concrete, hands-on experience with new and upcoming titles. The sheer amount of demos available is overwhelming, so I’ve dug up a few highlights of what’s on offer this time around!

Anthem #9

What if you mix the kickin’ soundtrack and aesthetic from the Persona series into a gem-matching roguelite RPG? The result is Anthem #9 . You are an agent of a secret organization who uses sweet combo attacks in your deck to defeat your enemies. Each attack has a gem combination needed, but if the end of one move has the gem that begins another move, you can continue the sequence to create massive combos — and it’s all about the combos. Watching long strings of attacks pop off at the end of your turn is so satisfying, especially to a sick acid jazz soundtrack.

Tides of Tomorrow

There is an inherent issue with story-based RPGs with multiple branching paths: You create whole swaths of game that may never be experienced by the players. Tides of Tomorrow  attempts to solve that issue by creating an online branching story that takes from the depths of a plastic polluted ocean to underground cage match fighting arenas. The trick is that at specific choice points you can see and follow other players' paths, letting you see how exactly certain choices made a difference rather than the player that came before you. It’s a fascinating premise that solves my constant choice paralysis and lets me see what exactly could’ve happened had I gone another route. 

Goodnight Universe

Built as a spiritual successor to Before Your Eyes, Goodnight Universe  has you playing through the life of an infant as they discover they have psychic powers, exploring how their abilities affect their family as well as the tech corporation who wants them for its own personal gain. With built-in webcam technology to monitor your blinks in real time, the game does its best to be immersive while also telling an emotionally compelling story. 

Effulgence RPG

Hearkening back to the ASCII days, Effulgence RPG  is a turn-based RPG roguelike that has you playing a group of adventurers exploring the lands of an ASCII landscape and tearing down enemies to create resources and weapons for combat. What really stands out is the chiptune soundtrack mixed with the colourful text-based visuals. 

Minos

Tower Defense is a genre that has waxed and waned over the years, but is definitely back with Minos . You play as the minotaur defending his labyrinth by creating elaborate traps to stop pesky explorers from finding your treasure. I loved setting up complex mazes then watching every explorer walk to their deaths in my perfectly planned route. Even if a route didn’t work, I could just get my hands dirty and take care of them myself as the minotaur. 

Eclipse Breaker

Imagine if you had returned to an old save file from your Playstation 1, and it turns out the game kept going on without you. That’s the story of Eclipse Breaker, a sleek turn-based action RPG that answers what that world would be like once you returned to an old game you abandoned. The gameplay is turn-based, but everyone has a stamina meter determining how long to wait before they can perform their next action. You can run, dodge, or even parry while waiting for your meter to fill, or meditate to fill it faster. After that, you can use specific attacks, and hit your right trigger at the perfect time for extra damage. 

MOTORSLICE

Anime hack and slash against massive mechs with a lot of 3D platforming — that’s a lot of buzz words that equate to the wild world of MOTORSLICE. You use parkour skills to defeat the mechanical creatures that inhabit this world with your chainsaw sword. It’s bombastic and action-packed but with a lot of heart. Despite things getting hectic, there’s still some downtime for conversations with your orb AI pal Orbie. It’s really a wild concoction of cinematic action that kind of took me by surprise.

Reanimal

Operating in a similar space to Little Nightmares III, Reanimal is a 3D platform puzzler where you play as tiny creatures who are exploring and attempting to save their friends in a horrifyingly grotesque world. It’s a wild ride of unnerving environments and scary chase sequences.

Ultimate Grandma Simulator

The world is a scary place, especially for a grandma. Now you get to live that life in the Ultimate Grandma Simulator. Gameplay involves walking one foot in front of the other, attempting to make it across the world running errands and whatnot. You only have so much energy to walk, with the walk buttons on separate button inputs. You have to manage your energy by not going too fast, but later on you get a breath meter as well, which requires you to periodically stop and take a rest. If you use too much energy or run out of breath you collapse and start at a respawn point. Also, since you are a grandparent, anything touching you essentially knocks you down. It’s a perfect little silly physics engine akin to Untitled Goose Game, but really emphasises how scary the world can be for the elderly. Now let me throw this virtual grandma down the stairs a few more times. 

Don’t Stop Girlypop

Fast paced as Doom 2016 but with a hyperpop wrapper. Don’t Stop Girlypop is a nonstop first person shooter that blasts you in the face with its hot pink cyberpunk visuals in the best possible way. I was bopping along to sick upbeat girl power anthems while blasting demons in the face, loving every second of it.

Moonsigil Atlas

A deckbuilding roguelike that has you playing cards, but each card features a specific shape comprised of triangles. You have to be able to fit the shape into the hexagon grid. Basically, you can play as many cards as you can fit into the grid, then they are cleared and the enemy gets a turn. Moonsigil Atlas is kind of a fascinating addition to deckbuilding spellcasting games like Magic the Gathering, where your limitation is space and geometry. Add to that tons of variables, like cards that block spaces in the playing field or various ongoing effects, and there is an endless amount of variety in this interesting take on the deckbuilding genre. 

Final Sentence

Typing game + Battle Royale. Set in a sweat shop, you and a group of other players are forced to type out sentences at gunpoint, with the first one to finish winning the match, while everyone else gets eliminated, if you catch my drift. If you make a mistake, that’s a strike against you — three strikes and they add a bullet to the chamber and play russian roulette on you. Three more mistakes and another bullet gets added. Final Sentence is a high stakes typing game that I found strangely compelling.