Valve's 2021 Steam Game Festival Offers 500 Playable Demos

Focusing heavily on indie developers.

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Valve has just announced the launch date for its 2021 Steam Game Festival, a celebration focusing on showcasing and supporting a whole variety of indie game developers. As part of the week-long event, the company is offering gamers a whopping 500 playable demos you can download completely for free.

While the entire roster of games hasn’t been officially announced yet by Valve, the company has dropped a teaser trailer showcasing some of the games. So far we know that players will have access to demos for titles like Narita Bay from Studio Koba, Fling to the Finish from Splitside Games, Almighty: Kill Your Gods from Runwild Entertainment, The Riftbreaker from Exor Studios, and Black Book from Morteshka. Of course, there’ll be much more, so fans of indie games should definitely be on the lookout when Steam Game Festival launches.

For those interested, Valve’s 2021 Steam Game Festival will launch on February 3 at 1:00 p.m. and last through February 9.

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