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The Steam Next Fest is back once again, with dozens of demos announced during this past Summer Game Fest weekend and thousands of others besides. Let’s help the hidden gems rise to the top, and give the bigger games their flowers, by sharing our top picks.

There are a ton of high-profile participants this time around, including:

• Mina the Hollower, Yacht Club Games’ Game Boy-styled, top-down followup to Shovel Knight.
• Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy & co.'s goofy 3D platformer following in the footsteps of his previous frustrating titles like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and QWOP.
• NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound, the franchise’s return to 2D helmed by The Game Kitchen, developers of Blasphemous.
• Dispatch, a cinematic narrative game where you help run a superhero management agency.
• Hell is Us, an intriguing RPG with paranormal mysteries and souls inspirations that showed well in a previous PlayStation State of Play.
• Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault, the 3D sequel to 2018’s dungeon crawler x shop management simulator.
• Ratatan, the kickstarted, roguelike spiritual successor to Patapon, from its original creators.

A few others that caught my eye have been:

• Absolum, an original roguelike beat-em-up helmed by the creators of the well-received roguelike Mr X. Nightmare DLC for Streets of Rage 4.
• Consume Me, a semi-autobiographical, gamified life sim about eating disorders that won the Seamus McNally Grand Prize at this year’s Indie Game Festival at GDC.
• MotionRec, a puzzle-platformer where you can only progress by recording and playing back a few seconds of movement.
• Morsels, a wild Annapurna Interactive-published creature-collecting roguelike with art from Toby Dixon, the artist responsible for the looks of Nidhogg 2 and Atomicrops.
• Henry Halfhead, a clever sandbox game where you capture objects à la Super Mario Odyssey to perform various everyday tasks.