I sometimes wonder if Steam Next Fest has run its course, if—like so much of Steam—it's become so overwhelmed by stuff that it's impossible to pick through it all and find the real gems. Is it really possible for little-known games to make a big splash anymore? I had my doubts.
And turns out I was wrong to have them, because one game that had a grand total of three players a week before the last Next Fest absolutely rocketed up the charts during the event itself. Conradical, the dev behind Desktop Defender—an idle auto-battler that perches on your desktop while you work—announced on X this week that its game had become one of Next Fest's most-played (via GamesRadar). "One week ago, we had three players".
