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Steam Next Fest October 2026 Top 50 Demos Ranked, Worst Class Ever Leads
Valve published the top 50 most-played demos from Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition, which ran from October 20 to October 27.
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Why it matters
The ranking is ordered by unique players, so the top of the chart shows which unreleased games converted Next Fest foot traffic into the largest demo audiences, and Worst Class Ever's 600,000 cumulative players points to a wishlist base well beyond its concurrent peak.
Key Facts
- Steam Next Fest: October 2026 Edition ran from October 20 to October 27.
- Valve ranked the top 50 demos by unique players during the event.
- Worst Class Ever ranked No. 1, with a peak of about 28,000 concurrent players per SteamDB.
- The developer of Worst Class Ever says 600,000 people played the demo during the event.
- Probably Stolen ranked No. 2 and releases on October 28.
Worst Class Ever, an asymmetric school party game for up to six players, took No. 1 with a peak of about 28,000 concurrent players and 600,000 cumulative demo players, per its developer. Probably Stolen, a dystopian pawn shop sim, ranked No. 2 ahead of its October 28 release.
The October 2026 Edition ran from October 20 until 2:00 AM on October 27, and Valve ranked the demos by unique players over that window. Worst Class Ever splits players into mischievous students and a teacher, with students hiding snacks and passing letters while the teacher tries to catch them; the developer puts cumulative demo players at 600,000, and the full release is set for November 10.
Probably Stolen, a cyberpunk pawn shop sim where players appraise goods and pay rising rent, ranked second and releases on October 28. Find The Needle, an incremental game about searching roughly 6 million pieces of hay, placed third.
- Worst Class Ever: Asymmetric school party game; peak about 28,000 concurrent players, 600,000 cumulative demo players, full release November 10
- Probably Stolen: Dystopian pawn shop management sim; full release October 28
- Find The Needle: Incremental haystack search game; full release within the year
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- Frostrail
- just volleyball
- Character Shop
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- Loftia
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