Indie Fan Fest Stream Reveals Dozens of Demos Before Steam Next Fest

Indie Fan Fest’s February 19 livestream, produced by The MIX and Digital Bandidos, laid out a heavy slate of demos, world premiere trailers, and release windows for games that will have demos during Steam Next Fest, which runs February 23–March 2, 2026. IGN promoted the stream’s timing at 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 7:00 p.m. Central Europe time and invited viewers to "Find new favorites worthy of your wishlist as we share exclusive new game reveals, world premiere trailers, and more."

Coverage and recaps emphasized the practical payoff for players ahead of Steam Next Fest. Bleeding Cool ran a full recap titled "Everything Revealed During Indie Fan Fest – February 2026" and noted that "some of these may be a bit familiar to some of you, as multiple games from this livestream popped up in other livestreams, just in case you forgot the game existed a few hours ago." Bleeding Cool published its recap on February 20, 2026 and listed the dozens of titles shown during the broadcast.

Engadget singled out several playable highlights and scheduling context from the stream. Engadget wrote that "A bunch are available already, including one for Denshattack!, which I definitely recommend checking out," and described the game as "doing Tony Hawk Pro Skater-style tricks with a high-speed Japanese train absolutely rips." Engadget also flagged Raccoin, observing that "Balatro publisher Playstack could be about to cause another mass reduction in collective productivity with Raccoin, which now has a release date of March 31."

Bleeding Cool’s published list of games featured a wide range of genres and projects, including Airframe Ultra, Among The Trolls, Atmosfar, Australia Did It, Alwaysis, Box Kinght, Call of the Elder Gods, Cleaning Up!, Coffee Talk Tokyo, Candlewood, Collector's Cove, Curse of Resthaven, Denshattack!, Dungeons of Dusk, Esports Manager 2026, Sanguis, Fallen Tear: The Ascension, FightLife: Vanguard, Fishbowl, Froggy Hates Snow, BRIDbeat, Grimtrails, Gunboat God, Hidden Around The World, Hordes of Fate: A Hand of Fate Adventure, inKonbini, Let's Build A Dungeon, Luna Abyss, Mexican Ninja, Moonintroll: Winter's Warmth, Nocturnal II, NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager, Order Automatica, Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf, Pro Jank Footy, Psycho Finger, Raccoin: Coin Pusher Roguelike, Rainbow Legends, Regret, and Retail Hell.

The IndieFanFest official site records that this was the second edition of the showcase, following the first airing on September 24, 2025, and the site footer credits read "Website Developed by CodeThirtyTwo | Design by Fully Illustrated." SteamDB summarized the showcase as "Indie Fan Fest showcases new games and exclusive looks at hotly anticipated titles for early 2026 By The MIX,Digital Bandidos." Engadget placed the stream among a busy week of events, writing "On Thursday, there were four showcases highlighting indie games all in a single day" and calling the second edition "a trove of goodies as well."

With Steam Next Fest beginning February 23, the demos and trailers revealed during Indie Fan Fest move from preview to hands-on availability during the Feb 23–Mar 2, 2026 window; Denshattack! is already playable, and Raccoin carries a March 31 release date listed in coverage pending confirmation of the year and formal publisher credits.