Demo Week, without the AI
291 of 554 demos declare AI.
Every new Steam demo from the last seven days, 26 Oct to 1 Nov.
554 demos came out this week. 291 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.
102 demos, tagged Horror, most played first, including 35 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 →Wheel of Death
ItsBen321
Spin the wheel... or die. Wheel of Death is a dangerously addictive deck-builder and where you'll spin Death's wheel, changing your fate with powerful Tarot card combos, rule-breaking chips, illegal contraband, and a wheel where the numbers go up!
Card GameStrategyRoguelikeRoguelike DeckbuilderDeckbuilding▶ Peak: 46 playersMore like this →Ray Ray Zombies
Wow Cool Games
Ray Ray's Zombies is the new lightweight generation of zombie survival horror. Survive waves of undead and discover the elemental secrets of the Wonderplex Corporation with Ray Ray and his team.
ZombiesFPSActionSurvival HorrorLevel Editor▶ Peak: 15 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 →Adopt Me Please
Joyever Studio
Welcome to the Softlight Shelter . The animals are cute. The coffee is warm. Your job: vet the strays and find them a home. But keep your eyes open. Mimics are hiding in perfect pet disguises with innocent eyes, waiting to get inside. Are you sheltering a pet... or a Mimic?
Psychological HorrorHorrorSimulationChoices MatterIndie▶ Peak: 12 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 →Dark Forest
YEE
Something has come to an isolated archipelago. After three days boarded up at home, you step outside. Scavenge, craft, build, hunt and fish in first person, alone or with up to five Steam friends, and live through nights that grow more dangerous each time.
SurvivalOpen WorldSurvival HorrorCraftingAdventure▶ 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 →Final Night At Hotel
Kinj14, Reikoarts
Final Night At Hotel is a horror game for up to 5 players. Together, you must investigate the creature haunting the hotel, collect clues, and vote each night for determine the strategy to defeat it. When night falls, your goal is clear: kill or exorcise the creature...
Early AccessHorrorPsychological HorrorInvestigationMultiplayer▶ Peak: 5 playersMore like this →PNEUMA
Gravity Grid Studios
Pneuma is an online co-op sci-fi paranormal investigation experience for up to 4 players. Operate advanced paranormal tech to investigate, analyze, and outmaneuver deadly entities before you are possessed.
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-op▶ Peak: 5 playersMore like this →Departure of Darkness
Red Vault Interactive
Emma is forced to clear a horrifying parasite-infested airport as she fights to save her brother. In this 90s style Retro Survival Horror, you’ll have the option to save or leave behind fellow survivors during your adventure. However, your choices will have consequences...
Survival HorrorAction-AdventureOld SchoolPuzzleFemale Protagonist▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →Coulrophobia - Pizza Place
Matan.N
Coulrophobia: Pizza Place is a first-person psychological horror game set in a small pizzeria. Prepare pizzas from scratch, serve customers, and work through three increasingly disturbing days as a clown takes an unsettling interest in the restaurant.
SimulationJob SimulatorShop Keeper3DFirst-Person▶ Peak: 2 playersEmpty 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 →Night Viewing
HaoCheng
A first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a late-night apartment. Switch between nine strange TV channels, inspect the room, and piece together clues hidden in broadcasts, sounds and notes. Your choices shape the final viewing.
Psychological HorrorExplorationPuzzlePoint & Click3D▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Shardana
Alessandro Melia
🌊 SHARDANA is a survival horror game set in Nuragic Sardinia. Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, you must survive, explore, and find a cure for a terrifying infestation. But beware of the night: that’s when the monsters emerge. 🌙🗿
ExplorationPvEAction-Adventure3DThird Person▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →忌質物管理局第七保管室
STUDIO:NEGABITE
Welcome to the Ishitsubutsu Management Bureau. Earn ¥10,000 an hour inspecting cursed objects. Compare each item with its inspection record, identify anomalies, and choose to Store, Incinerate, Seal, or Report it. A job-simulation horror game with a seven-day mystery. Japanese only.
Job SimulatorHorrorSimulationPsychological HorrorMultiple Endings▶ 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 →Infernal West
Don't Know Studio
Infernal West is a first-person psychological horror puzzle game set in a Wild West saloon. Observe every detail, identify the anomalies warping reality, and unravel the mysteries hidden within an endless loop. Every decision may bring you closer to the exit... or trap you in the loop forever.
AdventurePuzzleExplorationHidden Object3D▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Mr. StoryTeller
Erick Alejandro Perez Orona
Mr. StoryTeller is an ever-expanding psychological horror and mystery anthology. From a timeless cosmic library, choose from multiple standalone 15-20 minute chronicles: liminal spaces, existential dread, and shocking narrative twists. Are you ready to cross into another dimension?
Psychological HorrorFirst-PersonAtmosphericStory RichEmotional▶ 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 →Miredrift
Bylon Studio
A year after a bio-engineered organism drowned the world in mutation, an infected ex-captain steers his battered boat into a flooded, hand-painted swamp to find his lost family. Explore, scavenge fuel, and fight the twisted creatures of the mire, before the infection takes you too.
ActionAction-AdventureExplorationFPS3D▶ 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.
Card GameDeckbuildingGothicCard BattlerRoguelike▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Grave Rounds
Tallow Row Games
Miss shooting zombies? Here you go! A round-based zombie shooter for one player, in a boarded-up graveyard house and a snowbound village in 1944. The dead come in rounds, more of them each time. Buy guns off the walls, find the power, spin the Lucky Wheel, and see how long you can hold out.
ActionZombiesFPSGoreSurvival▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Making Room?
VAINSANE
An unpaid-rent argument leads Var to a house book that changes her housemates whenever they cross the kitchen threshold. A short psychological horror visual novel about living together, resentment, and making other people easier to bear.
AdventureVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureIndie2.5D▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Siege of Nightmares
BS Gaming
Siege of Nightmares third-person action tower defense where a wooden jester toy defends your childhood self from their nightmares. Build and upgrade defenses, combine tower effects, fight alongside your creations, and survive increasingly dangerous waves before the nightmare consumes the defense.
StrategyTower DefenseAction RoguelikeRoguelitePvE▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Slender Island
Ponetti
Slender Island is a first-person survival horror game where you find yourself on an abandoned island with a goal of stealing all the treasures hidden in its dungeons. However, Slender Mouse and other monsters won't give them up without a fight.
HorrorSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonExplorationWalking Simulator▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →What do you see, Nell?
Dusty Rocket Games
A horror survivors like drawn in charcoal and blood by a seven year old who can't wake up. Survive each page of her nightmare, fold it into an ink blot, and tell her doctor what you see. Every answer changes the rules of the next page.
Bullet HeavenActionHorrorRogueliteHand-drawn▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Lune 13: triskaidekaphobia
Saphielle
Lune's mother left after a stranger called him "Little Bunny," promising to return in 13 minutes. She never came back. Explore a surreal psychological horror world shaped by triskaidekaphobia—the fear of the number 13—and help Lune uncover what happened to his mother.
AdventureInteractive FictionImmersive SimThird PersonHorror▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.