Fly Now! Steam Next Fest October 2026

Indie flight demos available from October 19th through October 26th, 2026

Steam Next Fest October 2026 is live and there are new indie flight games to try out! This year there is a somewhat higher amount of them available than we normally see. As always, we suggest following the Flight genre tag to see all of them.

All Flight Games

Here is a list of some flight games that have especially piqued our interest in this Next Fest:

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Strato Alto

Steam - Bluesky - YouTube

Strato Alto - high flying arcade rogue-lite with classic round survival and permadeath campaign modes. Take off with a variety of aircraft, weaponry, special abilities, to zap, blast and smash your way to victory! Upgrade, repair, and outfit your aircraft to master the stratosphere in Strato Alto!

Dancing Wings

Steam - X.com - Bluesky - YouTube

Team aerobatics flight simulator - do it solo. Fly, save the replay, fly in overlay mode, save the new replay, and repeat it up to six aircrafts. Realistic aerodynamics and landscape. Step-by-step training. Share your replay online.

ASTRIDER

Steam - X.com - Kickstarter - Website

Arcade air combat set in an alt-history Cold War gone hot in 1967, in a world where the strangest conspiracy theories turned out real. Fly three twelve-mission campaigns, one per faction, against targets on land, at sea, and in the air, with fully-voiced visual-novel scenes between sorties.

Wildfire Command '98

Steam - YouTube

The year is 1998 and you're the Air Attack Supervisor. Read the wind, the slope and the fuel, then draw the lines your tankers and helicopters will fly. Ten authored fires, endless generated incidents, two-player co-op, and a shareable replay of every run.

Iron Void: Silent Space

Steam - PlayStation Store

A lone fighter against the silent void. Weave through bullet-hell barrages across 60 hand-built missions, manage your heat, lock your missiles, and tear down 5 distinct bosses. Earn ships, upgrade your hunter, and master every star.

Sunday Fighter Pilot

Steam - Website

Take the scenic route or blow stuff up. Fly warbirds and jets across a colorful open world, discover airfields and unlock new aircraft. Enjoy relaxed exploration in Casual flying, or unleash guns and rockets to destroy ground targets and capture territory.

Fox Two Protocol

Steam - Website

Hit the afterburners in modern fighter combat. Fly the campaign, duel in PvP, race through Time Attack or take on an endless mission. Build your own mix of upgrades and equipment, then find a reason for one more sortie.

The Hollowing

Steam - Bluesky - X.com

You’ve taken a maintenance job, flying between the inter-settlement comms towers in the megastructure. Land, fix, on to the next job. What could go wrong? The Hollowing is a narrative first-person horror flight sim from the creator of Lorn's Lure.

DATUM: Rescue One

Steam - YouTube

A single-player helicopter search and rescue game. Fly through storms and darkness, locate survivors with FLIR, confirm with your searchlight, and bring them home. No weapons. Only the sea, the night, and time.

Aerosurge

Steam

Perform daring aerial stunts, destroy your enemies and weave through hazardous environments to complete your missions before the time runs out! Upgrade your weapons and abilities between objectives, before taking out enemies across a variety of landscapes and planets

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