The Steam Game Festival will return for an autumn edition later this year.
Offering access to demos of unreleased games, the digital event is the work ofThe Game AwardshostGeoff Keighley.
It originally premiered as a spin-off to the awards show in December 2019, before returning in March and June 2020.
“Valveis planning anotherSteamGame Festival: Autumn Edition this Fall, running October 7 – 13,” Keighleysaid. “Another chance to play free previews of upcoming games.”
The first Steam Game Festival featured limited time demos of 14 unreleased games coinciding with the annual awards show.
The second one offered demos of some 40 titles originally scheduled to be shown atGDCbefore its cancellation, while the most recent summer edition includedover 900 demos.
The formatexpanded to Xbox in late July, when over 60 demos for unreleased games were available to sample for one week through a Game Fest Demo tile on theXbox Onedashboard.
Keighley will hostGamescom: Opening Night Live on August 27. “We’re planning a spectacular show that will also be the grand finale ofSummer Game Fest,” he said in May.
