If you miss the days of waking up early, pouring a giant bowl of sugary cereal, and parking yourself in front of bizarre, brightly animated Saturday morning cartoons, you are in for a massive treat.

Nowhere Studios has officially unleashed a brand-new Steam Next Fest demo for their highly anticipated upcoming fantasy survival craft RPG, Good Heavens! Blending gorgeous, expressive 2D animation with deep mechanics and an absolute refusal to take itself seriously, this is one indie title you need to put on your radar immediately.

Don’t Starve Together Meets Thank Goodness You’re Here!

How do you describe Good Heavens!? Imagine the rich, accessible, and delightfully chaotic co-op survival loop of Don’t Starve Together, then inject it with the surreal, laugh-out-loud British humour of Thank Goodness You’re Here! You play as the “Chosen Ones”—or, you know, you can just entirely ignore the prophecy if you feel like it. Dropped onto the fractured, floating islands of Xant-Rar by a god named Rar (who can barely hold his own realm together), you and up to seven friends are tasked with saving the world. Or, more accurately, building an epic citadel, beating up “kitbashed” creatures like pigeon-deer and fox-salmon, and finding the nearest tavern to avoid doing any actual work.

Unlike survival games that force you to obsessively babysit hunger and thirst meters, Good Heavens! focuses heavily on progression, exploration, and outright experimentation.

What’s Waiting for You in the Steam Next Fest Demo?

The newly updated demo gives players a massive, blissful taste of what life in this imperfect paradise will look like when the full game hits Early Access in August 2026.

Here is what you can get stuck into right now:

• Explore the First Biome: Once your spaceship lands, you are free to explore, harvest resources, and meet the bewildered locals.
• Try Out Six Tech Trees: Level up your character using Warfare, Trickery, Sorcery, Homesteading, Exploration, and Influence (perfect for building your own cult of personality).
• Build Your Settlement: Claim a patch of land, build workshops and farms, and decorate your space to turn a podunk hamlet into a thriving citadel.
• Raid Dungeons: Team up to take down formidable bosses guarding high-tier loot.

Play the Demo Today!

The Steam Next Fest is the perfect excuse to gather your gaming crew, download the Good Heavens! demo, and start causing some beautifully animated, procedurally generated chaos.

Head over to Steam, download the free demo, and make sure to hit that wishlist button to support Nowhere Studios ahead of their August launch!

Play the Demo & Wishlist:Good Heavens! on Steam

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