Play special timed demos at The Game Festival during TGA 2019

Geoff Keighley has announced that a special event on Steam will take place coinciding tomorrow’s The Game Awards 2019 show. More than a dozen games will feature special demos on Steam as part of The Game Festival which can only be played in a 48 hours time frame between Thursday 10am PT – Saturday 10am PT.

We’re one day apart from this year’s TGA awards show where publishers and developers are not only going to receive awards for this year’s best games, but also can look forward to a slew of new game reveals and much more. The creator and host of The Game Awards, Geoff Keighley has been teasing many game announcements recently, and today he has shared details about a TGA first with The Game Festival.

“Six years ago I bet everything I had to create The Game Awards as a way to celebrate our passion for gaming,” said Geoff Keighley, creator, The Game Awards. “Now feels like the right time to take the next step with The Game Festival, a completely digital approach to the consumer event space. Let’s face it: Not everyone can attend a physical trade show or consumer event. The Game Festival is designed from the ground-up as an event without barriers, extending the benefits of a physical event to the global gaming community that watches The Game Awards.” – Geoff Keighley

For a period of 48 hours, PC gamers will be able to play timed demos for over a dozen titles. It’s a great event to try out games you look forward to way ahead of their release. The titles in question that will offer demos starting tomorrow 10am PT are as following:

• 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)

We’ve linked each game to its respective Steam store page for your convenience. This way you can check out the games beforehand and bookmark the games whose demos you want to try out.

The Game Awards 2019 stream starts tomorrow at 5:30pm PT and you can watch it on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer and more.