The Game Festival is a “first-of-its-kind digital consumer event” that is launching its digital pilot program in 2019 and will run from Thursday, December 12 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm GMT to Saturday, December 14 at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm GMT. Following the end of The Game Festivals, the demos will be removed from Steam.The list of announced free game demos is as follows;

• System Shock (Nightdive Studios)
• Eastward (Pixpil/Chucklefish)
• Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)
• Moving Out (SMG Studio/Devm Games/Team 17
• Roki (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)
• Carion (Devolver)
• SkateBird (Glass Bottom Games)

“Six years ago I bet everything I had to create The Game Awards as a way to celebrate our passion for gaming,” Geoff Keighley, creator of The Game Awards said in a statement. “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.”

The Game Awards 2019 begins on Thursday, December 12, 2019, at 5:30pm PT/8:30pm ET and you can check out all the nominees here.

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