Demo Week, without the AI
295 AI demos hidden, 267 left.
Every new Steam demo from the last seven days, 26 Oct to 1 Nov.
562 demos came out this week. 295 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.
61 demos without AI, tagged Puzzle, most played first.
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?
MysteryRPGStory RichInvestigationDialogue Heavy▶ Peak: 76 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →GG Land
Ditito
GG Land is the ultimate game dev experience. Build your dream game in minutes with our intuitive level builder and no-code logic creation tool, challenge friends in multiplayer mode, and explore others creations!
Early AccessGame DevelopmentBuildingLevel EditorSandbox▶ Peak: 4 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 →Mummy's Escape
Timtres Games
After centuries of slumber, Rek awakens to find his beloved Nilo missing. Travel through ancient pyramids, oasis paths, and forgotten ruins, mastering three unique forms to overcome challenges and defeat the guardians standing in your way.
AdventurePuzzleIndiePuzzle PlatformerLogic▶ Peak: 3 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 →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 →Sundowner
Gocrabown
A third-person adventure focused on exploration and environmental puzzles. Explore a mysterious estate, underground facilities, and ancient ruins. With no text to guide you, rely on observation, logic, and intuition to find your way.
AdventureShooterPuzzleExplorationThird-Person Shooter▶ Peak: 3 playersMore like this →Only Farms: Tidy Up
NurRam
1,248 animals. One island. Total farm chaos! Herd stubborn animals, catch runaway chickens, train your loyal sheepdog, and unlock new tools to bring every animal home. A cozy first-person animal-sorting adventure where every little creature has a mind of its own!
CasualCleaningCollectathonFarming SimHidden Object▶ 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 →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 →Grace
Matias Casas
Grace is a hand-drawn 2D dark fantasy action-metroidvania. Control two rival characters bound by the same destiny: master responsive combat, traverse an interconnected world, and beware your counterpart—if you cross paths and fall in battle, you must switch sides.
MetroidvaniaActionAdventure2D PlatformerHand-drawn▶ 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 →SCRATCH FEVER
owenmakesgames
Scratch tickets, merge cash 2048-style, and set off chains of rockets, TNT, and lightning to afford your next ticket. Build broken combos with dozens of lucky charms in a neon-soaked roguelike about chasing the big win, and what it really costs.
StrategyCasualPuzzleRoguelikeRoguelite▶ 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 →LOOPEDAL
Fantasma Collective
As the DJ for Fantasma Night Club, use your looping instruments to curate the vibe! Connect an instrument to your Output Device to send music to the speakers. Take requests from the crowd and keep the party going all night!
CasualPuzzleResource ManagementAudio ProductionRelaxing▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Maeli Keus
Devoniak Studios
A world that only exists where you look. Explore a dreamlike land that manifests around you as you walk, gather crystals to relight forgotten checkpoints, and escape the creature that hunts you through the light.
AdventureAction-AdventureChoose Your Own AdventureExplorationHidden Object▶ 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 →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 →Jerry´s Secret
TopGames Studios
Jerry’s Secret is a first-person horror and mystery game in which you play as a detective investigating the disappearance of students and staff from an abandoned school. Explore, solve puzzles, and uncover the secrets of a powerful organization.
AdventureSingleplayerActionHorrorSurvival Horror▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Ocularis
Studio 127
An ancient intelligence has forgotten how to learn, so it built a place to watch you do it. Explore its abstract chambers in a first-person puzzle game with no words to guide you: experiment, observe, and master its rules. The more you understand, the more it begins to understand again.
ExplorationPuzzle3DFirst-PersonLinear▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →Underway (Remastered)
Matt McGreevy, Charlie Martini
Seven years ago, Leo gets a request from his boss to come in to work late one night. When he gets there, his boss invites him to come up to his office. But Leo faces some obstacles trying to go upstairs, for something (or someone) is trying to stop him...
IndieAdventurePuzzleRPGStory RichDemo out 31 OctMore like this →Card Counters
Charles Tatum II
Card Counters is a stimulating mashup of two other popular games – the memory card game Concentration, and the casino card game Blackjack. The object of the game is to find sets of three cards that total 21 within the number of alloted turns per round.
SolitaireTurn-Based TacticsTutorialCasualCard GameDemo out 30 OctMore like this →Inkblot: The Art Restorer
RedRock Games
A painterly puzzle about restoring masterpieces. A living ink blot has stolen the figures from 128 famous paintings and heaped their shadows on your workbench. Untangle the overlapping silhouettes, paint each one whole and send it home before the museum opens.
CasualPuzzle2DHand-drawnStylizedDemo out 30 OctMore like this →Escape Path
Visiotempus
Navigate complex mazes using your logic and avoiding enemies to rebuild the protective crystal. A hand-drawn puzzle-game combining action and problem-solving, where every mistake can be fatal! Ready to take on the challenge and find the pieces before it's too late?
PuzzleAdventure2DRelaxingCasualDemo out 29 OctMore like this →Lights On My Screen
Sleeper Vision
Lights On My Screen is a 2D adventure RPG set inside a video game. Help Kid navigate the colorful world, solve puzzles, talk to characters and fight (or don't fight) the enemies. And find the one who brought them to this world...
AdventureRPGPuzzleInteractive FictionExplorationDemo out 29 OctMore like this →Mental State. Game One
Dreaman
«Mental State. Game One" is a fantastic first–person adventure with elements of the action and horror genres. A unique feature of the game is the "System of Thoughts", which affects the mental state of the main character and the gameplay as a whole.
AdventureFirst-PersonAction-AdventureHidden ObjectPuzzleDemo out 29 OctMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.