NEXT Studios

Profile updated Jun 2026

NEXT Studios is the developer behind Unheard - Voices of Crime, with 2 title(s) on Steam and 44,182 total reviews. Their best-known titles include Unheard - Voices of Crime and Biped. The dominant genre for NEXT Studios games is Indie.

NEXT Studios is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 4 titles by NEXT Studios, together holding 47,089 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Unheard - Voices of Crime, which holds 30,767 Steam reviews (2019). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 2 publishers, including NEXT Studios and Team17. indielist tracks releases from NEXT Studios starting in 2017. That averages about 11,772 Steam reviews per title. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind NEXT Studios can be audited rather than taken on trust.

Across its 4 tracked titles released between 2017 and 2020, NEXT Studios has accumulated 47,089 Steam reviews, an average of about 12,000 per game, and its most-reviewed entries are Unheard - Voices of Crime, Biped, Crown Trick, Death Coming/死神来了. Review counts are the most reliable public proxy indielist has for an indie studio's reach, since raw sales are almost never disclosed, so this spread is a fair snapshot of how widely the studio's work has landed. Developers can read these figures as a benchmark: a studio of this output and review volume is a useful reference point when projecting where a comparable project might end up, and indielist shows the white-box sales estimate behind every one of those titles, so the comparison rests on visible Boxleiter math, factor by factor, rather than on a reputation or a single black-box number.

On the business side, NEXT Studios has shipped with 2 publishers (NEXT Studios and Team17), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around NEXT Studios can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.