{"id":123707,"date":"2022-02-21T09:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123707"},"modified":"2022-02-21T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T07:55:03","slug":"steam-next-fest-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/123707-steam-next-fest-starts-today","title":{"rendered":"Steam Next Fest starts today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam&#8217;s Next Fest starts today at 20:00 and will continue until Monday, 28 February.<\/p>\n<p>Next Fest is a week-long celebration of upcoming indie games, and includes watching developer livestreams, developer Q&amp;As, and playing as many demos as time allows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ocPFE4GQkvQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Steam&#8217;s previous iteration of Next Fest took place from 1-7 October last year, and it offered players a chance to explore more than 700 titles.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most notable titles from last year&#8217;s Next Fest included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1356250\/Airport_Renovator\/\">Airport Renovator<\/a>, a simulation game where you get an abandoned South American Airport back up and running.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1092790\/Inscryption\/\">Inscryption<\/a>, the wildly popular card game (with 97% positive reviews), blends horror elements with escape-room-style puzzle gameplay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/773370\/Exo_One\/\">Exo One<\/a>, a Journey-like exploration game that you can relax into at the end of a long day to enjoy the beautiful visuals and soundtrack.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1369670\/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel\/\">Motor Town: Behind the Wheel<\/a>, a driving simulator with realistic physics and many vehicles to drive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can still download and play any of the demos of the games listed above to see what you can expect from this week&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>This Next Fest won&#8217;t be focused on providing discounts, so you&#8217;ll have to wait until 28 February for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-01-valve-dates-steam-sales-and-events-for-first-half-of-2022\">next Steam sale<\/a>\u00a0if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Until Elden Ring&#8217;s release on 25 February, we&#8217;ll have to be patient and keep ourselves entertained with some of the demos available during <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/sale\/nextfest\">this week&#8217;s Next Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/123686-steams-highest-grossing-games-of-2021\">Steam&#8217;s highest-grossing games of 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has another Next Fest that starts today and carries on for the whole week &#8211; here&#8217;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":123710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[391,807,25738,697],"class_list":["post-123707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-indie-games","tag-pc-gaming","tag-steam-next-fest","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123711,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123707\/revisions\/123711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}