Steam Tower Defense Fest is now live, and so is the new demo system

When you’re not buying questionable entries in beloved franchises on the cheap, or dealing with 12-year-old Early Access releases coming out in full, you might wish to partake in one of Steam’s delightful game sales and events. Take the new Steam Tower Defense Fest as a prime example, live now.

This year’s Steam Tower Defense Fest isn’t a major unknown at all. In fact, as long as you’re even remotely familiar with the niche of tower defense games, you should have a pretty solid idea of what’s up right off the bat. Basically, you can enjoy substantial discounts on most anything even remotely related to the idea of tower defense titles, and the really neat part is that you get to do so all the while making ample use of Steam’s all-new demo policy, adding even more functionality to this feature. Big discounts and big demos? Oh, you bet.

Enjoy this year’s Steam Tower Defense Fest with improved demo availability and more

As the short-but-spicy official Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 trailer plainly shows, this is your chance to load up your account with all manner of strategic, defensible goodness. Titles such as Kingdom Rush, Mindustry, Element TD 2, and Creeper World are just scratching the surface of what’s on offer here. As per usual, all of the available deals will remain live until August 5, 10 AM PT, so you’ve got ample opportunity to make use of them in the time interim.

Naturally, there’s also the matter of free themed items you can add to your Steam profile if you choose to do so. This type of interaction isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m never going to be one to complain about collectibles. Unless they’re NFTs, that is, in which case – goodness gracious.

Circling back to the topic of demo availability, specifically, there’s now a particularly handy ‘Most Downloaded Demos’ tab under the ‘Browse Games’ section of the event page. To give the new demo features a spin, just scroll down and see what ends up tickling your fancy. Some real highlights include Emberward, Kingdom Rush: Vengeance, and The Riftbreaker, as well as the phenomenal Creeper World 4.

I recommend checking out the full Steam Tower Defense Fest details on Steam, because the odds are good you, too, will find something snazzy to play around with in these hot summer months. Is it going to be a new(ish) version of Creeper World? Well, it should be, in case my demo recommendation section wasn’t all too clear.