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.
65 demos without AI, tagged Strategy, most played first.
Dinolords
Northplay
Dinolords combines real-time strategy, city-building and action RPG combat in the genre hybrid Hack’n’Strat. Build your stronghold, command human and dinosaur armies and fight as the lord shaping a new age of warfare.
Early AccessRTSHack and SlashDinosaursBase Building▶ Peak: 110 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: 63 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 →Wait, They Can Climb?!
babia
In this incremental Tower Defense you are alone on top of a building, surrounded by thousands of zombies. Place the turrets, grab the rifle and survive 10 days waiting for rescue. But be careful: they can climb!
StrategySimulationTower DefenseIncrementalManagement▶ Peak: 16 playersMore like this →CultGame
Bucephalus Studios
Create your own cult, perform forbidden rituals, and crusade against the filthy non-believers. It's time to play god. CultGame is a retro cult simulator RPG where you start your own cult in a procedurally generated dark fantasy world with haunting ASCII art.
RPGStrategyText-BasedSimulationOld School▶ Peak: 13 playersMore like this →Highway Station Simulator
SONTEM EUROPE
Run a highway gas station with up to four friends. Pump the fuel by hand, stock the shelves, punch card payments into the register and try to keep the place from catching fire. A first-person co-op management sim about one very long shift.
Job SimulatorOrganizingManagementShop KeeperInventory Management▶ Peak: 12 playersMore like this →Respect The Horde
GFX47
You're outnumbered. Outsmart them. Lure hordes of zombies into deadly traps, shape their path with obstacles, and grow stronger with every kill. But know when to walk away before overconfidence and greed turn your strategy into uncontrollable chaos.
SurvivalStrategyZombiesPost-apocalypticAction▶ Peak: 10 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 →Oreloop
phdev
Break blocks in a first-person mine for 15 seconds. When the time runs out, spend your ore on a huge skill tree and new pickaxes. Wake up to a fresh, bigger mine. Grow from one slow block at a time to lightning, black holes and drills that break hundreds of blocks.
CasualSimulationIncrementalIdlerMinimalist▶ Peak: 8 playersMore like this →HALFTIME Manager
Lazybraindev
A football manager where your decisions count, not luck: tactics, transfers, stadium, fans, Merch Lab. Every matchday plays out as a 3D broadcast. Six game worlds, up to 3,054 clubs, 29 languages, native on Windows and Linux.
SimulationSportsFootball (Soccer)ManagementEconomy▶ Peak: 5 playersMore like this →Kingcrop
verty
Gökyüzünde süzülen bir adada çiftlik kur ve doymak bilmeyen Domuz Kral'ı koca bir yıl boyunca tok tut. Komşularını güçlendiren ekinleri, korkulukları ve hayvanları yerleştir, dev zincirleme hasatlar yap ve her oyunda farklı bir çiftlik kur.
StrategyRoguelikeRoguelike DeckbuilderRogueliteFarming Sim▶ 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 →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 →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: 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 →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 →Cricket Management Tycoon
Joynix Games
Build your cricket legacy in Cricket Management Tycoon 2026. Manage T20 franchises or take charge of new Domestic Careers in England and Australia. Scout players, negotiate contracts, develop youth, make tactical match-day decisions, handle media pressure, and chase trophies season after season.
SportsCricketTurn-Based StrategyChoices MatterMinimalist▶ 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 →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 →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 →RIPPLES
Phoetic Games
RIPPLES is an online board game for up to 6 players where strategy is everything. Buy, sell properties, negotiate with your rivals, create chaos with special cards, and become the owner of it all. Gather the group and start forging your empire!
StrategyMultiplayerCasualBoard GameTurn-Based Strategy▶ 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 →Mines and Magic
Zolden Games
Multiplayer tower defense auto battler with economy. Combine unique abilities of your units. Expand territory and build mines to get resources. Find a balance between economy and army. Use spells to help your army. Relaxing, but challenging singleplayer campaign is available.
StrategyTower DefenseMultiplayer3DFantasy▶ 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 →Club Sanguine
Lunitech
Awake each night from ancient slumber to manage Sanguine, an old occult club and vampire haven. Screen guests, control the door, and keep snoops, ghouls, demons, and werewolves from entering your sanctuary.
VampiresSimulationJob SimulatorManagementInvestigation▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Heretics Amulet
LanternWright Games
A dark, tarot-inspired roguelike card game. Draw cards and place them in a grid to get your total as low as possible. Earn souls and spend them on powerful items to improve your deck between rounds. Includes 8 rule-bending bosses and an endless freeplay mode.
AtmosphericCard GameLore-RichRoguelike DeckbuilderSingleplayer▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →HAXMAX
razkol
Run, fight, and hide! Go as far as you can as HAX, adapting to a changing economy and varied terrain in this unique roguelite autobattler. But hurry - the system's ANTIHAX is hunting you down, appearing when you least expect it and returning stronger each time!
RPGStrategyRogueliteAuto BattlerCasualDemo out 31 OctMore 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 GamePuzzleDemo 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 →Eternal Solitude
Daughters Of The Undead
ETERNAL SOLITUDE is a new turn-based 4X fantasy game, set in the World of Eternal Solitude combining deep racial society development, empire and city building, tactical combat, spells, espionage with far-reaching consequences of every decision. Become the true magic overlord, or die as a slave!
Strategy4XFantasyGrand StrategyMagicDemo out 30 OctMore like this →The Hollow Grounds
Gavin Zastrow
Survive relentless waves of the Hollowed, upgrade your armor and home, unlock and level up powerups, and invest Soulstones into permanent upgrades. Rebirth to grow stronger, fight deadly bosses, complete 50 achievements, explore the Enemy Index, and climb the leaderboards!
ActionRPGStrategy2D FighterAction RPGDemo out 30 OctMore like this →Waste Of Space
ChristianosWay
A darkly comic sci-fi deckbuilder. Fight XCOM-style tactical battles to reach the card table, build a deck from a crew of catastrophically unqualified idiots, and decide which broken future survives. Think Inscryption with worse manners.
DeckbuildingCard BattlerTurn-Based TacticsSci-fiFunnyDemo out 30 OctMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.