Demo Week, without the AI
299 AI demos hidden, 270 left.
Every new Steam demo from the last seven days, 25 Oct to 31 Oct.
569 demos came out this week. 299 are hidden because their developers declared 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.
97 demos without AI, tagged 2D, most played first.
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 →Test Fire: Armor Penetration Sim
Fishbed Studio
Real engineering simulation with any projectile, any target, any material. Test Fire is an armor penetration sandbox with a campaign of engineering challenges and an open sandbox editor for making (and breaking!) whatever you want.
SandboxPhysicsBuildingMilitarySimulation▶ Peak: 73 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 →Ichorous
Monster Crate
The blood-splattering roguelike where you shred through enemies infested with Ichor. Use the blood you spill to heal and grow stronger! As you collect ichor for the god of blood, known only as The Patron, he will grant you upgrades that not only help you but also your enemies!
Dark FantasyHack and SlashRoguelikePlatformerAction Roguelike▶ Peak: 26 playersMore like this →我家猫猫是女仆!
土豆花制作组
A short, slice-of-life romance visual novel. As an anime merch shop clerk, you meet a cat-eared maid "cosplayer" while running an errand for your manager. Her request? Adopt her! Wait—she’s a real catgirl?! Your cozy life with an adorable catgirl begins!
2D PlatformerRPGInteractive FictionWord GameVisual Novel▶ Peak: 18 playersMore like this →Ore Express
Vj Tenacious
Build chaotic, physics-powered factories. Chop trees and mine ore, then catch the avalanche with belts, ramps, fans, pistons and cranes, smelt and craft it into goods, and fill the trucks. Every item is a real physical object, so every contraption is gloriously unpredictable.
StrategyCasualSimulationSandboxIncremental▶ Peak: 9 playersMore like this →红尘游记
梦想家工作室
Hong Chen You Ji is a 2D top-down pixel wuxia action RPG. Play a village-raised youth seeking his origins among sects and officials. Real-time combat uses movement, weapons, and martial arts. Day, night, weather, and seasons change what you can do. Be a hero, doctor, or escort on your own path.
RPGActionCasualAdventureAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 7 playersMore like this →Northern Saga
Bluetome
Northern Saga is an old-school real-time strategy RPG inspired by classics like Ogre Battle. Command your clan across real-time battlefields, construct specialized combat formations, and master combat where every positioning choice matters.
RPGStrategyAction RPGStrategy RPGReal Time Tactics▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Treeternal
GrumpyLion
Chop, upgrade, repeat. Venture into a fast-regrowing forest in this top-down incremental roguelite. Draft cards to expand your level-up deck, recruit woodcutter friends, and scale your logging empire to harvest massive amounts of timber.
IdlerIncrementalRogueliteArcadeRoguelike▶ Peak: 4 playersMore like this →Night of the Wolves
Chenke Games
A simple trip across town on Halloween to see his girlfriend goes off the rails when José runs into an unexpected parade, a blocked shortcut, a racist cop... and a cursed beast. Join him and his sister-in-law Tina as things only get worse from there!
PuzzlePoint & Click2DAdventureThird Person▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Vignus
Codifyre
Ignite the everburning spark of life on a perilous alien world. VIGNUS is a top-down action RPG blending build-crafting combat with creature automation. Purify corrupted creatures, chain them into thriving production lines, defend your home, and uncover the truth of your origin — the Lifespark.
Action RoguelikeStrategyAction-AdventureTop-DownAction▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Frogball
Atomic Arc
Classic 90's GameBoy style Pinball... this time with frogs! Compete against your friends and the world for the highest scores on 8 unique, interlinked pinball tables. It's fast, fun and impossible to put down!
CasualArcade2D PlatformerPrecision Platformer2D▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Meal Quest
CatHat Games
Explore the magical world inside your fridge, plan meals, and fight your way to the Dream City. Your in-game nutrition choices grant you combat bonuses that reflect each vitamin’s actual role in the body.
ActionAdventureAction RoguelikeAction RPGRoguelite▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Terra Physics & Money
Touro Loco
Explore a fully destructible procedural world made of millions of physics-driven blocks. Simulate water, lava, and steam, extract resources, build freely, and trade your materials. Every random seed creates a unique experience.
SandboxStrategyBuildingCraftingSimulation▶ 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 →Pixireels
MadCrow Games
Pixireels is a cozy pixel-art slot roguelike where you stack rule-breaking coins, chain runaway multipliers, watch a tiny score get out of hand through runs, and squeeze thirty rounds per run to unlock who knows what. Then you spend it all on a cat who does not appreciate it. Good luck!
CasualStrategyRoguelikeIncrementalRoguelite▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Wagerborn
Mardonpol
A slot-machine roguelite where your RPG equipment becomes the reel. Equip weapons and relics, manipulate your symbol pool, complete powerful matches, merge gear, and build increasingly broken combinations across each run.
StrategyRoguelikeGamblingRogueliteDungeon Crawler▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →WarSlice
Deep Strike Games
WarSlice is a military turn-based tactics game where you take command of an army as a Commanding Officer. Secure properties, produce powerful units, and outmaneuver your enemies in tactical grid-based battles.
Turn-Based TacticsTurn-Based StrategyTacticalStrategyPixel Graphics▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Click-A-Bao
SteamedKoko
Click the buns, catch the buns, don't eat the buns. A hidden objects game where you don't have to find everything. You'll unlock bun helpers that will search the pictures with you! Decorate your office, get new pictures, upgrade your buns and collect them all!
CasualHidden ObjectHand-drawnPuzzlePoint & Click▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →GOAL2D
Kaos Games
Fast, top-down, skill-based football: three-minute matches, five-a-side teams,s and one rule: whoever handles the ball best wins. In GOAL,2,D every shot, pass, and dribble is yours. Nothing is automatic, nothing is luck.
SportsFootball (Soccer)PvEActionPvP▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Masyu: Line Logic
B & M Games
A relaxing logic puzzle where you draw one loop through every circle, going straight through the white ones and turning on the black ones. Every puzzle has exactly one answer you can reach with logic alone, no guessing. Play the daily puzzle or choose from 15,000 more, Easy to Expert.
CasualStrategyIndieBoard GamePuzzle▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Scars of the Soul
ShunGuang Games
Awaken as Altos, a warrior whose memories were torn apart by the Void. Explore a dozen interconnected regions, craft your own Soul Orb builds, and face 20+ bosses in this 2D Souls-like ARPG.
ExplorationMetroidvaniaSouls-likeAction RPGAction-Adventure▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →UPG Cubed
PorpoiseGames
A fast-paced minimalist platformer where precision is everything. Master jumping, wall-jumping and dashing, collect diamonds, beat challenging levels and push your skills to the limit. And create your own levels in UPG Cubed
ActionPlatformerSandboxSide Scroller2D Platformer▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Buildot
Matrix Reliability
Help Buildot save the world of Godot from the tyranny of the Unreal Union! Solve clever puzzles using diodes, logic gates, and conveyor belts. Beware of slippery surfaces and ice, where a single move can change everything. Full version planned to include 100 levels plus extra challenges!
CasualStrategyPuzzleExploration2D▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Damned Dwellers
MNSTR SHARK
Play out your misery as entertainment for the all-seeing Dungeon that brought you to life in this hack-n'-slash rogue-lite. Delve uncharted rooms, puzzles, and fight monsters like yourself to learn what makes it tick, but DON'T let it grow bored...
Action Roguelike2D PlatformerHack and SlashDungeon CrawlerRoguelite▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Grid & Loot
Pixel vs Pixel
Grid & Loot is a casual turn-based RPG with unique gameplay: one click resolves combat on a 3x3 grid. Pick your class, explore areas, collect loot, forge legendary gear and survive traps, elites and bosses.
CasualStrategyRPGTurn-Based StrategyStrategy RPG▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Hypnosis : Quiet Nights
MOMO Mind Lab
A psychological exploration game combining dialogue and side-scrolling action. Guide a sleepless girl through a journey of dreams, medication, and fragile emotions. Enter her dreams, battle adorable yet dangerous creatures, and gently change the course of her fate.
ActionPsychological2D PlatformerSide ScrollerAtmospheric▶ 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 →Stay in Your Lane
Sol Elan
Stay in Your Lane is a single-lane real-time tug-of-war strategy game. Build your economy, unlock units, spells, and upgrades, then summon an army that fights on its own. Outsmart your rival in campaign, skirmish, or online battles.
Side ScrollerRTSWargameReal Time TacticsTower Defense▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Trust Me Fellow
giant duck studio
A psychological deduction puzzle game where you play as a blind dealer. Hold cards only the audience can see, decipher their truth and lies, and flip all X cards to win. One wrong move on an O card means instant defeat—trust wisely or unravel their deception!
PuzzleLogicSocial DeductionCard GameDetective▶ 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 →西部打打 Western Brawl
DaDa Game Studio
In a quiet western town, the righteous gunslinger Hannah finds herself surrounded by enemies from all directions inside a saloon. Draw your revolver, take down waves of ruthless outlaws, and fight your way through intense gunfights to carve out a path to survival!
ActionWestern2D PlatformerCombatAdventure▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Disk Defragmenter
LICHAO
You watched the defragmenter as a kid. Now it's your turn. Sweep the read head across scrambled disks, hear fragments click into place, and upgrade your machine from a 1998 floppy to a 2032 archive array, recovering thirty years of one ordinary life along the way.
CasualIncremental2DColorfulMinimalist▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Farm Island
wunkus
Turn a tiny patch of land into a living island farm. Grow 20 crops, give residents a home, and let them help with harvesting and watering. Make flour, bread and preserves, fulfil deliveries, and shape your island through four changing seasons.
StrategyPoint & ClickGrand StrategyCity BuilderSandbox▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Little Colony
Panda Blade Software
An ant colony that lives on your monitor while you pretend to work. What report did Bob need? Who cares, your colony just keeps growing and boy is it more fun than responding to Bob. Did Janet just messaged you? You'd better respond to that, but it's ok, your ants will be here when you return.
Desktop CompanionIdlerIncrementalSandboxColony Sim▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Ordanum
Zera
Ordanum is a combo centred PvP auto battler where the order of your Sigils is the driving system. Arrange and rearrange your Sigils then watch your creation play out against other players' builds.
Auto BattlerAsynchronous MultiplayerMagicChoices MatterInventory Management▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Overexposed
Anemoia Planet
Get to know Ivy's peculiar vision of the world through different days of her daily life in this game where decisions completely change her path. Explore the psychology and the story of different characters that are part of her inner circle.
Psychological HorrorMultiple EndingsPsychologicalStory RichEmotional▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Accrelis: A Game About Forging Planets
Lisad Games
Smash a protoplanetary disk with your cursor, choose what your new world is made of, and put it in orbit. Watch life appear, cities spread across its surface and your star system slowly fill up. A short incremental game about building planets.
CasualSimulationIdlerIncremental2D▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →I Was Reincarnated with the [Idle] Skill, and Now I Do Nothing
Matula
Every hero summoned to this world got an amazing skill. You got [Idle]: you only get stronger while doing absolutely nothing. Your party fights the Demon Lord's armies. You nap under a tree and collect all the EXP. An idle comedy that plays better when you're not playing it.
CasualAction-AdventureIdler2DAnime▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Things Left Unsaid
Rarvex
A cozy ASMR antique restoration shop sim. Clean dust and rust, mend cracks with gold lacquer, and reassemble broken treasures across five hand-crafted tools. Then haggle with quirky collectors at your counter — every restored heirloom holds a story left unsaid.
CozyRelaxingCasualHand-drawnShop Keeper▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.