We're so psyched 🤩 Blackeye_toast played through our demo on her stream! Through the heart-warming and the horribly tragic, she battled her way from beginning to end. Here's a collection of highlights 😤 ⚔️ Now it's your turn, go play the demo on Steam! #indiegame #steamnextfest

8 Australian & New Zealand Demos To Play During Steam Next Fest Here are our picks of demos to play during Steam's Next Fest

HOLY HELL THIS GAME IS SO GOOD!! The folks at @astrodiaries.bsky.social have been working so hard on this for so long and the demo really delivered! Thanks for hanging with me, congrats on this milestone!! And everyone else? CHECK IT OUT store.steampowered.com/app/1589820/...

Super excited for this!! 😱 Our dear friend, TheeSlushee, an incredible voice actor who's worked on titles like Old Skies and Ventreville (and was even in the prototype for Expedition 33) is streaming our DEMO right now! Come hang out on Twitch! 😁 #indiegame #steamnextfest

100% POSITIVE STEAM REVIEWS! Come play what reviews are raving about (and sharing their custom level codes in?)

Is this boss for our indie game too hard?! 😭 Not if you use our new multi-dash, charged dash or perfect-block abilities!! ⚔️ You can be everything from a total coward to an unhinged glass cannon and still win 😤 Play our demo on Steam now! #indiegame #steamnextfest

For @ninjakiwigames.bsky.social and @astrodiaries.bsky.social 's Steam Next Fest Demo, I got to help design, and write the music for, a rhythm minigame! And fulfill the dream of writing my own Rhythm Heaven Fever level 😌 Go check out the demo on Steam and give it a go! #steamnextfest #indiedev

What a legend!! Blackeye played the whole demo twice - with controller, then keyboard and mouse! She's streaming a Denari art piece now - go check it out 👩‍🎨

Our long time friend, the incredible artist BlackeEyeToast is playing our demo right now! 🔥🔥 Go watch her play on Twitch, or even on our Steam page! 👀 She miiiight be cooking up some Denari artwork right after... so stay tuned... 👩‍🎨 #steamnextfest #indiegame

Try not to irritate this dude... But if you do... You can use Sekiro-like perfect-timed blocking to return damage to him, then catch his big swing with a chunky slow-mo parry! ⚔️😤 Try it out on our Steam demo right now! #steamnextfest #gamedemos #indiegames

New trailer and an even better demo. We got Denari ready for Steam Next Fest!!! If you like what you see in the video do us a solid, head over there and Wishlist it. Helps other people see us as well and we KNOW they'll love it too. Demo is ready to take on as well! I reckon you could beat it 😜

📢 We're pleased to announce Sludgineers is taking part in Steam Next Fest! 🚂 Starting June 15th PT! 🫧🧹 But why wait to check out the demo? Wishlist and Play now: funk.games/sludgedm ✅ #sludgineers #indiegame #gaming #incremental #clicker #simulation #cozy

It's #SteamNextFest and I'll be checking out the newly available demo of Ventreville: A Cure for Sorrow by @spicybreadprods.bsky.social I did some voice work for this so excited to check it out! Plus I love mystery games like this 😁😁 Come check it out on stream with me tonight if ya like!

Here’s EVERY ANZ Game Demo in Steam Next Fest June 2026 👀 Let us know if we missed any! #steamnextfest #gamedemos #indiegames 🔗⤵️ next-play.com.au/heres-every-...

It's Steam Next Fest time!! 😤⚔️ Check out DENARI, our epic action adventure game where you use telekinetic abilities to fight back against the invasion of an empire🔥 Play our demo on Steam now! #indiegame #steamnextfest #indiedev

Our public demo is finally live!!! If you've ever asked me about Denari. Now is the easiest time to see what it's all about on your own! Go pick it up and let us know what you think 🔥❤️‍🔥🔥

Attention GAMERS!!! 📣 The Denari Steam DEMO is live now! Prove you have what it takes to defeat the Denari Empire!🔥⚔️ Wishlist and Play NOW!! 🙏 #indiegame

If you wanted to know a bit more about making Penguin Colony as a mostly Indigenous team:

Denari is coming to Steam Next Fest!! 😤 Super amped to release our demo publicly soon!! 🎮⚔️ Make sure to wishlist the game on Steam at the link below and keep an eye out for that Demo 👀 #indiegame

HUGE congrats to our buddies Whistling Wizard on the release of the incredible Rose and Locket today!! We've looked up to them from a distance for years and have more recently been proud to call them friends ❤️ Head over to Steam and pick up your copy!! 🎮 #gaming #indiegame

What's happening all?! Check out our new skill tree in development! 🌳 The result is super cool, especially with this soothing @davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social chillhop tune playing in the background... but building it has been truly painful... UI is the Dark Souls of #gamedev ☠️ 😭

Welcome to everyone who followed thanks to that last post 😅 Here's what we get up to beside all the bug hunting. Working on getting our "perfect block" and "parry" mechanics tight! ⚔️ Our game has plenty of long-ranged telekinetic mechanics, but straight up melee has to go hard too 🤘 #indiedev

If you’re wondering who had the best gifts at BitSummit it was the New Zealand booth by a landslide.

Out of Context Gamedev #gamedev

Yooo I totally forgot there's a Game UI Database!! Thank you! 🙏 We had a browse this morning and tried out different UI style ideas that could work. Here's a quick experimentation with a scene in development:

Our game has been featured in The ANZ Indie Showcase & ANZ Indiefest 2026, hosted by @theindiebrew.com.au Check out all the amazing ANZ indie games here: buff.ly/mJI5Piz 🎮 Wishlist, Follow and play our demo on Steam: buff.ly/3lrBMxz #anzindiefest #indiegame #indiedev

2 years of Games Exchanges... in a blip! 😍 We've traded Aussie indie games with so many cool devs, including devs from Aotearoa this Friday! Drop by to playtest and hang out! 📍Redfern Community Centre ⏰8th May, 5:30PM - 8:00PM RSVP: events.humanitix.com/australia-x-...

Hey all! 👋 💬 We've been talking forever about updating our dialogue boxes and we're finally taking a look at em. 💬 How do these ideas feel so far? 🤔💭Any favourites? #indiegame #gamedev

I'm a simple gamedev. I see Vagrant Story appreciation, I hit repost.

🌹We are publishing Rose and Locket, an action-adventure indie game made by @whistlingwizard.bsky.social! Check out their social media and follow the project if you love westerns, high-stakes gunslinging, and their vibrant art style! #RoseAndLocket #indie #gamedev #steam #platformer #western #games

Check out the anime op I made for Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! !! This game's been so much fun to work on, looking forward to everyone being able to hear the full soundtrack soon.

Love low poly pigeon

Introducing even more games from Aotearoa that we'll be showcasing at the Games Exchange: 🗡️Denari by Astronaut Diaries 🫧Sludgineers by @snickerdoodlegames.com and @funkgames.bsky.social 👨‍🍳Doomsday Diner by @spacerockgames.bsky.social Come hang out! RSVP here: events.humanitix.com/australia-x-...

lmao why is our april fools post getting a bunch of likes again

Sekiro / Nine Sols style perfect-blocking 🥷🐱 #indiegame #gamedev

Super proud of our resident muso @davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social!! Check out his latest project, from the insane mind of senpai @origamedigital.bsky.social 🐧😱

Check out some of my new music in PENGUIN COLONY from @origamedigital.bsky.social and @fellowtraveller.games

Penguin Colony has joined the Fellow Traveller family! From @origamedigital.bsky.social, the creator of Umurangi Generation, this Lovecraftian adventure told from the perspective of a colony of penguins is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year. 🐧 bit.ly/PenguinColon...

A cozy corner for studying, a deadline-fighting witch, and of course, a kitty for breaks.🐱 So proud of this cozy little space! 📚✨ #indiedev #steam #cozygame #indiegame

Fishbowl is 💜 OUT NOW 💜 on PS5 & Steam (PC, Mac, Steam Deck) 🫧 Play at your own pace 🪞 No bad endings only different paths 🗓️ Do as much or as little as you are able to 🛏️ Remember, no matter what, you got through the day The two of us are in tears. Our game is out today! 🥹🥹

CONGRATULATIONS to our play testers, who kept complaining that our ending was too depressing 😢 We listened to your feedback and now... 👏👏 We're doing an Evangelion! 👏👏 #indiegame #evangelion #anime #denari

Fishbowl is at @dayofthedevs.org! 🥹🥰😍 We couldn’t make it to San Francisco but it feels so special to see Fishbowl at this beloved event, alongside amazing devs and brilliant games! Pinching ourselves! Thank you so much Toot Games for the beautiful picture! 🥹🫶🏽💜

BING BONG. So, @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social and @landfall.se were very kind to allow Bing Bong into the Teeto universe… You have to do him justice. Get him to the top. No excuses. #indiegame #peak #bingbong

Ten Thousand Coins: The Golden Merchant is part of the Women’s Day Sale on Steam, organised by @wingsfund.me Play the latest demo of our merchant trading game at: buff.ly/3lrBMxz 🏷️ Wishlist & Follow us! #IndieGame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #WomensDaySale

To read more on this announcement, check out the full Steam post here: https://ninja.kiwi/ffovp6 Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697850/Rose_and_Locket/

Yup! That sounds right - with the shared entry/exit, we avoid getting states entangled by pointing at each other, and are just more interested in deciding which one plays/doesn't. State machine of this bro (using Any state interrupts, because there's no good reason for us to do anything fancier)

#SteamNextFest Teeto demo is live! We've also got a time trial version of the Lawn & Order level. Record your best time, submit on our Discord and be in to win STUFF. Here's my best time so far - you can probably do much better. SHOW ME. #indiegame #gamedev #speedrunning

#SteamNextFest is right around the corner and we’ll be there with a brand new Teeto demo! 🩵 If you loved games like Super Mario Odyssey, A Hat In Time, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Kirby, Banjo Kazooie or It Takes Two… then you HAVE to jump in! #indiegame #gamedev

✋ this is an 'ANZ-made games participating in the upcoming Next Fest' checkpoint, gimme da demos!

Look at my boy. He's all rigged up and runin' and slicin' around. They grow up so fast.