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.
74 demos without AI, tagged Horror, most played first.
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 →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 →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 →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: 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 →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: 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 →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: 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Screams of the Abyss
Larmiche
Descend into the abyss, following the trail of a vanished expedition. Piece together their story through the recordings they left behind and uncover why none of them ever returned to the surface.
Psychological HorrorAtmosphericHorrorAdventureWalking Simulator▶ Peak: 2 playersMore 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 →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 →recovery_sewers.vid
Mate Games
recovery_sewers.vid is a first-person horror game with a found-footage aesthetic. On Halloween night, a game of hide-and-seek in the town's abandoned sewers turns into a nightmare when something else joins the game.
AdventureHorrorStory RichImmersive SimWalking Simulator▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Soviet Backrooms
Kazakov Studios
A survival horror game set in a liminal world of post-Soviet interiors, soaked in bleak nostalgia from floor to ceiling. Explore empty corridors, listen for sounds behind you, and try to find a way out of the nightmare.
Psychological HorrorHorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericExploration▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Hyperarousal
Aion Interactive
What are you willing to sacrifice? Garlo returns to his family home in Italy’s Camonica Valley and inherits the dreams of his ancestors. A first person psychological horror game that watches how you explore, hesitate and react, and changes the valley around you.
Psychological HorrorHorrorFirst-PersonStory RichAtmospheric▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Inherited
Dark Palace Interactive
Inherited is a atmosphere-driven psychological horror where you wake up trapped in an isolated house that watches your every step. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the truth behind the cycle you were chosen to inherit.
HorrorSurvival HorrorPsychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmospheric▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →在りし日のわたし達へ
Studio To:NEMO
'Arishihi no watashitachi e' is a "reversed pastoral adventure" set in a world where only lush nature and remnants of civilization remain. In this world, a boy who has lost his memory and a girl dreaming of adulthood weave their future together.
Visual NovelCutePost-apocalypticPsychological HorrorStory Rich▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Hollow Crew
Dark Snow Games
Hollow Crew is a survival horror set in the confines of an isolated space station. Its loyal androids have suddenly been turned against you - survive their relentless hunt and contain the emergency, or die trying.
HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericSci-fiSpace▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Pierrot
Knot Games
Pierrot is a first-person psychological horror set in a twisted theater where a small puppet is trapped in its grasp. Violence is routine and you exist only to obey. Forced to harm others Pierrot dreams of tearing his strings. Even as the curtain falls his role never ends.
AdventurePsychological HorrorSurrealAction-AdventurePuzzle▶ Peak: 1 playerMore 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: 1 playerMore like this →Mystery House
Guillotine Games, www.guillotine.games
A first and third-person horror revival of Roberta Williams' Mystery House - the 1980 classic that invented the graphic adventure. A game night in an abandoned Victorian House turns deadly. Solve its puzzles, uncover a buried legacy, and escape before the house kills you.
HorrorPsychological HorrorSupernaturalMysteryPoint & Click▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Wavie Wavie
Studio Koba, Griu Games
An impossible parking lot. A recurring anomaly. A greeting that could change everything. Explore, observe, and interact with Wavie Wavie in a first-person symbolic horror experience where every loop hides new secrets.
ExplorationAction-AdventureAdventure3DHorror▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →诡校中学实录A strange school
铲哥大栗子
A Strange School: multi‑perspective horror puzzle‑RPG. You are Kaishiniang, trapped in a weird other‑dimensional school. Flee ghosts, avoid traps, solve puzzles. Uncover dark campus legend secrets. Survive and escape the nightmare.
RPGPuzzleHorrorFemale ProtagonistPuzzle Platformer▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →LimeFlesh
Mert Başyıldız
Humanity has melted into a massive, living mass of flesh. Born from a drop of blood at the bottom of this nightmare, you must push living walls, carve tunnels, and gather resources to escape. A short, tense body horror experience.
AdventureWalking SimulatorExplorationFirst-PersonPixel Graphics▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.