The Mistfall Hunter demo is currently the most played demo this Steam Next Fest

Mistfall Hunter is currently the highest trending demo on Steam Next Fest, with the game amassing a 14,496 player peak since its launch on Monday.

In addition, the demo continues its momentum, with consistent figures approaching the 15k mark (at the time of writing Tuesday). It beats out other trending demos, with Bandai’s Echoes of Aincrad floating around 11-12k players.

What’s in the Mistfall Hunter demo?

For those who don’t know, Mistfall Hunter is a 1-3 player co-op third person action game with a fantasy class system. The game also uses extraction mechanics to let people raid levels, get loot, and hopefully extract with their well thought over haul.

We covered an old alpha playtest back in September, where, back then, it was managing around 5-6k players, fighting with the original fantasy extraction game, Dark and Darker, with active player base figures. It truthfully seems like it has absolutely smashed it with its Steam Next Fest showing.

Since then, this new demo adds in the Withered Knight, a new class type specializing in heavy armor and two handed weapons, alongside a new map, Hollowgrave. It brings the total to 6 classes, with it including other typical archetypes like Merc with sword and shield, Sorcerer for those powerful mages, blackarrow for Rangers, Shadowstrix for Rogues, and Seer for that Cleric style of gameplay.

The game is also due to release on July 29th on PC, Xbox and PS5, meaning the game is almost finished. It’s getting some complaints of frame stutter and other performance issues across PCs, but so is the way for nearly all Unreal Engine 5 games. Outside of that, there’s certainly potential for it to do well.

You can still try the demo until June 22nd, giving you another six days to play the game if you’d like. For other demos, there’s also Enginefall, which so far feels like a decent attempt to revive and offer a proper endgame to survival crafting PvP players. It’s got a demo which has been released right after having an early beta, which finished just before Steam Next Fest, that’s attracted thousands of players already.

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