The Game Awards Launches Game Festival Unlocking Free Demos of Indie Games for 48 Hours

With The Game Awards 2019 scheduled to Stream live at 5:30 pm PST, the event has introduced a new branch called Game Festival.

The Game Festival aims to showcase demos of upcoming popular titles that anyone can download. However, the catch is that they are only available for 48 hours, starting on Thursday at 10:00 am PT Until Saturday at 10:00 am PT. Still, all you need is a Steam account and you’re good to experience these 13 titles from talented developers.

System Shock (Nightdive Studios)
Eastward (Pixpil/Chucklefish)
Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus)
Moving Out (SMG Studio/Devm Games/Team17)
Röki (Polygon Treehouse/United Label)
Chicory (Greg Lobanov)
Wooden Nickel (Brain&Brain)
Haven (The Game Bakers)
Heavenly Bodies (2pt Interactive)
Acid Knife (Powerhoof)
The Drifter (Powerhoof)
CARRION (Phobia/Devolver)
SkateBIRD (Glass Bottom Games)

Our recommendations include Spiritfarer, Haven, and SkateBIRD, but we are open to talking about what you think are games that people should try out. This is an excellent opportunity for gamers to try out unreleased games, it’s sad that we will only have 48 hours with them though so let’s make this time worth it and discover are next favorite indie title.

The Game Awards streams live on various streaming services. The show will include game reveals and announcements along with the best titles of 2019.