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Nothing to miss here
No timer, nothing to claim. A demo stays up until the developer pulls it. This is the page for something to play tonight.
It is also the part of the site that only grows. The giveaway board turns over every week. This list just gets longer.
Steam Next Fest is worth a calendar entry
Steam runs Next Fest a few times a year: a week where hundreds of unreleased games put demos up at once. Most of them stay up afterwards, so the fallout from past events is still playable.
Playtests are a different animal. The developer has to let you in, slots are usually capped, and the build vanishes when testing wraps. Anything here that is a playtest is labelled.
What a demo will and will not tell you
A demo is a sales pitch, so it is the best thirty minutes the game has. Trust it on feel. Controls, art, whether it holds framerate on your machine, whether the core loop clicks.
Do not trust it on length, difficulty curve, or whether a good idea survives hour twenty. Plenty of games have a superb demo and nothing behind it.