Demo Week, without the AI
287 of 539 demos declare AI.
Every new Steam demo from the last seven days, 26 Oct to 1 Nov.
539 demos came out this week. 287 of them declare AI.
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through. New demos are added every three hours. Player counts are checked every few hours.
114 demos, tagged Atmospheric, most played first, including 54 that declare AI, marked in yellow.
Thalassomania
OffTheHookGames
A PS1-style co-op horror game for 1–4 players. Set at sea, you run a fishing trawler with your crew — haul, gut, steer, repair — while something lurks in the shadows. Keep the ship alive. Get home. You're not alone out there.
HorrorOnline Co-OpFishingSurvival HorrorFirst-Person▶ Peak: 249 playersMore like this →Solbrand
Dead People Dreaming
2409. As the new Spook on HMS Solbrand you dive deep into a past steeped in grand norse myth and quiet local legend. Command your submersible, survey sunken ruins, uncover puzzling fragments, commune with the dead, and untangle a pseudo-historical knot of cosmic proportions: Why is the sun so loud?
Story RichExplorationChoices MatterPuzzleMystery▶ Peak: 76 playersMore like this →Water TD
Managagrau
Water TD is a tower defense game where the enemy is a real flood. Hundreds of thousands of drops pour downhill toward your base, piling up, finding gaps and carving the terrain as they go. Shoot it, burn it, zap it, or blow it back. Just don't expect the ground to hold.
StrategySimulationTower DefensePhysicsPixel Graphics▶ Peak: 75 playersMore like this →Winds of Viridia
Shark Jump, Matt Trobbiani
Explore the valley of the towering Grantree, battle grand beasts, and find out what’s driving the creatures in these forgotten lands mad. Discover secrets, make new friends, and find powerful lost relics. Take on fearsome bosses, and uncover the truth of the wild frenzy.
Action-AdventureAdventureExplorationSouls-likeFantasy▶ Peak: 20 playersMore like this →Desktop Maid Haru
PUNG
Endless hours at your desk, staring at your monitor until Haru appears by your side. More than a simple desktop companion, she helps you stay focused, keeps track of your time, and talks with you through her built-in AI. Customize your desktop and share your space with Haru
CasualTime ManagementPixel GraphicsAtmosphericUtilities▶ Peak: 17 playersMore like this →Alisa: The Parting
Casper Croes
Alisa: The Parting is an unforgettable action packed adventure, that looks and plays exactly like a late 90's and early 2000's 32bit game. With crispy pixely polygons and pre-rendered backgrounds and cinematics, Alisa: The Parting is enjoyable in both solo and co-op play.
ActionAdventureAction-AdventurePuzzleShooter▶ Peak: 14 playersMore like this →INANIMA
Obscure Tales
A survival horror game set in the isolated facilities of a strange corporation. Search for limited supplies, and fight terrifying creatures to reveal the truth behind the Lazarus project. Be part of something that will change the future of humanity.
Survival HorrorPsychological HorrorAtmosphericAction-AdventureSci-fi▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →New York Mysteries: The Undying Collector's Edition
FIVE-BN GAMES
Investigate a case even the police are afraid to touch. “New York Mysteries: The Undying” is an adventure game in the Hidden Objects genre, with plenty of mini-games and puzzles, unforgettable characters, and complicated quests.
CasualAdventurePoint & ClickPuzzleHidden Object▶ Peak: 10 playersMore like this →Backrooms Anomaly Project
Mahatsu
An anomaly-spotting horror game set in the Backrooms. Explore eerie corridors, study every detail, and spot anything that shouldn't be there. Move forward when everything is normal, or turn back when something is wrong. Avoid the darkness and run when something starts chasing you.
ExplorationPuzzleHorrorImmersive SimCasual▶ Peak: 9 playersMore like this →Breadwinner
Mithika Games
You are the eldest child and the only one with a job. Over six paydays to Christmas, split one salary between rent, the electric bill, Nanay's medicine, and what your family asks of you, then come home to see what it cost them. A Filipino horror game about things that happen to real families.
Psychological HorrorStory RichChoices MatterMultiple EndingsLife Sim▶ Peak: 7 playersMore like this →Grave Benders
Nullsmith Interactive
Rob the graves of the rich after curfew. Dig with your friends, which is loud, in a cemetery that listens... It's 1947 and the plague never ended. There's room in the van for four. Keep your voices down. The watchman can hear you, and not every grave is as quiet as it looks.
Online Co-OpHorrorCo-opFirst-PersonHeist▶ Peak: 7 playersMore like this →SCROLLS: Tidy up the Library of Olympus!
J+G
Restore order to a divine library by sorting 3,048 scattered scrolls, reuniting ancient collections, and unlocking powers worthy of Olympus. Read the markings, gather the volumes, and give the wisdom of the gods its rightful place in solo or co-op!
CasualSimulationOrganizingCollectathonIndie▶ Peak: 6 playersMore like this →Pine Creek
DREADMITH Games
A weekend getaway to Pine Creek in '86 turns into a nightmare when your wife vanishes as strange lights appear in the sky. Solve puzzles, hide from the grays, save Sarah and survive the night in this first-person stealth survival horror. The truth is darker than you think.
Survival HorrorAliens1980sPuzzleStealth▶ Peak: 6 playersMore like this →The Restoration Studio: Masterpiece Nonograms
JJJI STUDIO
The Restoration Studio is a puzzle game where you restore darkened masterpieces by solving nonogram pieces. Mona Lisa, The Starry Night, The Kiss and more: 50 paintings split into 708 puzzles, from 10×10 to 20×20.
CasualPuzzleIndie2DCozy▶ Peak: 5 playersMore like this →Cat's Endless Stroll
coralshroom
Pick a cat and a place, and a slow stroll begins. Wander through gently changing scenery as your cat grows, little by little, into a shape all its own. Keep it in a small window on your desktop while you work, or walk together with your Steam friends.
CatsCasualIdlerCozyRelaxing▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Blooming Courtyard
Team Dinosaur
Blooming Courtyard is a cozy logic puzzle game on a grid. Follow the placement rules to solve hundreds of puzzles. Enjoy the scenery of all four seasons as you fill your little sunlit courtyard with flowers and greenery!
CasualPuzzleBoard GameSingleplayerHand-drawn▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Deskside Express: World Tour
Tonegames
A cozy idle train game that travels along the bottom of your desktop. Enjoy scenic journeys while you work or study. Collect classic locomotives, customize your train, meet travel companions, and discover local souvenirs, postcards, and stories along the way. At your desk, a world away.
IdlerDesktop CompanionCasualSimulationTrains▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →BUNSIK
BENTCUBE
BUNSIK is a first-person psychological horror game about working the night shift at a Korean snack bar. Take orders, cook food, clean the shop, and make your way through an old neighborhood to your rooftop home. With each passing day, the familiar routine becomes increasingly unsettling.
Psychological HorrorHorrorJob SimulatorCookingFirst-Person▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Unknown Depths
Unknown Games
Climb down a deep, dark shaft with up to three friends. A blind worm grows out of the rock and hunts you by scent: move fast and it follows your trail. Light holds it back, but not for long. Hook, swing and rappel deeper, while your friends' voices echo down the shaft.
HorrorOnline Co-OpSurvival HorrorPhysicsCo-op▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Opolution
Opownage Studios
Opolution is a story-driven incremental game set in atmospheric dream worlds. Queue actions, manage resources and dream stability, and unlock automation. Return with lasting upgrades, refine your strategy and uncover more of each dream with every run.
IncrementalStrategyIdlerResource ManagementAutomation▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →VULTURE
Anton Sharipov
PROJECT: V.I.R.A. is a 4-player co-op horror extraction FPS. Explore abandoned facilities, recover valuable resources, complete objectives, and survive creatures hunting your team through the darkness. Work together, use specialized roles, and extract before you lose everything.
Early AccessExtraction ShooterHorrorFPSOnline Co-Op▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Seashell Hoarder: Tidy Up
Zirve Games
A cozy first-person beachcombing game where you gather, clean, and shelve thousands of seashells along a sun-warmed coastline. Sort each find into its rightful place, restore the shore, and turn a scattered coastline into a curated collection at your own pace.
CasualCollectathonOrganizingCleaningSingleplayer▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Pale Static
Veilgrain
The town went quiet before the squad arrived. A cinematic first-person survival horror: search rain-soaked streets, ration every bullet, and trace an outbreak back to something buried far longer than anyone admits.
Early AccessSurvival HorrorHorrorActionPsychological Horror▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →The Veil Express
Altergaze
A cosy management game on a hidden magical train, where you build rooms and workshops for goblins, witches, fairies, ghosts and vampires. Keep the Five Houses happy and spend the Veil wisely: the same magic that powers your train and keeps it hidden.
CozyCity BuilderTrainsFantasyRelaxing▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Better Together
Víbrur Games
A 2 to 6 player co-op psychological horror. Become neighbors with your friends in an underground experiment. Complete the studies, get paid by doing tasks, while the Institute notes your routine. Betray your friends before they do. In the end you'll know exactly who your friends really are.
Psychological HorrorCo-opOnline Co-OpHorrorFunny▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Encryption
Digital Lighthouse Games
Encryption is a cinematic first-person psychological horror adventure set during a climate catastrophe burning through southern Italy. A father searches for his missing daughter in Matera, one of the oldest inhabited places on Earth, now evacuated, while something awaits in the darkness below.
HorrorPsychological HorrorFirst-PersonStealthSurvival Horror▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Empty Heaven: Liminal Dream
Deep One Games
You are a woman exploring liminal spaces as if wandering through a dream, searching for those you lost. Uncover the mystery connecting these ever-shifting realities. No jumpscares or chases. Inspired by Dreamcore and the Backrooms.
Psychological HorrorStory RichAtmosphericExplorationMystery▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Obscurium
Wild Pepper Games
Walk a darker Brazil and uncover the creatures its folklore keeps in the deep forest, monsters most players have never seen. A roguelike deckbuilder: summon spirits onto a four-lane ritual board, sacrifice your own to pay for what comes next, and seal each one into your grimoire.
StrategyDark FantasyDeckbuildingCard BattlerRoguelite▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Boarding Denied
Pigeon-G
A document-inspection game at the end of the world. A meteorite hits in 12 days. At Boarding Window 7 you check tickets, IDs and medical papers, then stamp BOARD or DENIED. Seats are few, the rules change daily, and your family waits at home for a place.
AdventureSimulationPuzzleJob SimulatorTime Management▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →EVENTLOCATION SIMULATOR
Baked Frog Dev
Build your own club, plan events, and master lighting, sound, drinks, power, and guests. Design your venue freely, host parties, concerts, and more – a crazy sandbox simulator packed with systems, chaos, and surprises.
CasualSimulationJob SimulatorShop KeeperTime Management▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →JANO ADVENTURE
QstoFlow
This ever-changing world is not for the faint of heart. Craft weapons and armor, master a variety of abilities, and combine them. Only by using everything at your disposal wisely will you achieve victory and uncover the secrets behind these changes.
Early Access2DPixel GraphicsRPGRoguelike▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Plague Doctor: Apothecary
PolyPixel Interactive
Run your own plague doctor apothecary in this first-person shop simulator. Grind herbs, stir brews, bottle remedies and advise customers. Set prices, count change, hire staff and grow a humble remedy shop into Rookbridge's trusted apothecary.
Time ManagementJob SimulatorShop KeeperSimulationCrafting▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Hotel of Seams
yexlord
October 1997. Your grandfather’s lakeside hotel is yours now: a diner, rooms to manage, and two cats. Cook meals and serve your customers, hand out keys to guests, and keep everything clean. Some of the people who check in are not human, and nobody is going to tell you which ones.
Psychological HorrorHorrorCookingJob SimulatorCozy▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →PENANCE
FuristicStudio
PENANCE is a single-player experience where you play as Calen, a former ranger trapped in a place that feels familiar, yet wrong. Day and night levels bring different dangers, forcing you to fight with whatever you can find to survive and uncover the truth behind it.
ActionHorrorThird PersonStory RichAdventure▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Flesh Mill
muffler
ENTER THE CAMP. FEED THE MACHINE. BECOME SOMETHING WORSE. Flesh Mill is an incremental horror RPG where prisoners are nothing but fuel for your ascent. Grow stronger, unlock grotesque upgrades, and face increasingly horrific bosses in brutal turn-based combat.
CasualSingleplayer2DAtmosphericAuto Battler▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →21: Dead Man's Deck
Downdog2519
Blackjack with a knife in it. Count an 11-card shoe, bend the rules with 155 cursed trumps and outplay six masked Kept and the Fate Dealer. Lose a round and the Bone Press on your arm bites. The fourth bite kills. Bonus: Dead Man's Well, a gothic falling-block game, is in the box.
Early AccessCard GameDeckbuildingGothicCard Battler▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Adventure Jam
adventure
A survivor game. Zone 7 burned for seven days. You crawled from the ash with a still-hot gun. 100+ classes · 12 maps · 870+ weapons · 800+ items · 160+ monsters · 60+ tyrants. Horde-survive. Keep the last lamp alive.
Early AccessSurvivalBullet HellRogueliteAction Roguelike▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.