Playing every Steam Next Fest demo for 30 minutes would take 90 days

Steam Next Fest begins today, the thrice-yearly, week-long smorgasbord of demos from creators of all sizes. This season's festival is featuring 4,347 demos, and that number will increase throughout the week. If you gave each demo 30 minutes, you'd spend 2,173 and a half hours — roughly 90.6 days.

That estimate leaves out breaks for food, sleep, biological needs and the time it takes to switch between games; start today and many titles would be released before you finished as part of this fall's frantic glut of pre-GTA game launches. The selection ranges widely.

Empulse offers wall-running and mech-dropping in the spirit of Titanfall, Omen is an isometric spaceship extraction shooter about building a starbase after cosmic horror, and Iron Nest: Heavy Turret Simulator lets you operate a very, very big cannon with steam-driven hydraulics and hand-calculated firing solutions.

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