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.
63 demos without AI, tagged Atmospheric, 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: 262 playersMore like this →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 →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 →Winds of Viridia
Shark Jump, Matt Trobbiani
Explore the valley of the towering Grantree, battle grand beasts, and find out what’s driving the creatures in these forgotten lands mad. Discover secrets, make new friends, and find powerful lost relics. Take on fearsome bosses, and uncover the truth of the wild frenzy.
Action-AdventureAdventureExplorationSouls-likeFantasy▶ Peak: 20 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 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 →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 →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 →Plague Doctor: Apothecary
PolyPixel Interactive
Run your own plague doctor apothecary in this first-person shop simulator. Grind herbs, stir brews, bottle remedies and advise customers. Set prices, count change, hire staff and grow a humble remedy shop into Rookbridge's trusted apothecary.
Time ManagementJob SimulatorShop KeeperSimulationCrafting▶ Peak: 2 playersMore 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: 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 →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 →Adventure Jam
adventure
A survivor game. Zone 7 burned for seven days. You crawled from the ash with a still-hot gun. 100+ classes · 12 maps · 870+ weapons · 800+ items · 160+ monsters · 60+ tyrants. Horde-survive. Keep the last lamp alive.
Early AccessSurvivalBullet HellRogueliteAction Roguelike▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →The Last Shop Before Kingsfall
Ilhan Kilinc
Run the last shop on the road to Kingsfall in this cozy first-person medieval shop sim. Stock your shelves, set your prices and outfit the heroes who pass through. They have names. Out there, they can die for good. What you sell them decides who comes back.
SimulationJob SimulatorShop Keeper3DColorful▶ Peak: 1 playerMore like this →Highrise Window Washer
saga-city
Suspended high above the city, engage in the relaxing process of cleaning 1,526 windows on 23 floors of a skyscaper. Brave heights, the wind, rain and the precariousness of working in a barely well-fastened metal exterior elevator. Enjoy the satisfaction of the pristine clean.
CasualSimulationCleaningRelaxingRealistic▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →「認識」/RECOGNIZED
FIVE DUCK GAMES
An analog-horror soulslike where you fight infamous internet emoji memes. When the smiling windmill stops spinning and every finger points at you, run. Swing an umbrella, throw empty cans, and survive one night recorded on a 2011 tape.
ActionSouls-likeAdventureHorrorPsychological Horror▶ 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 →Soulful Slide
JackitK
A comfy and cozy sliding ice puzzle game with the twist of throwing snow along the path to solve puzzles. Featuring a combination of tranquil music and colorful art to bring in peaceful winter vibes. Collect gifts within levels to customize your own snowman as well.
SnowCasualPuzzleAtmosphericFemale ProtagonistDemo out 29 OctMore like this →Triox
Bellantrop Works
A short indie horror blending Sokoban puzzles with tense resource management. Deep inside a hostile mining facility, you remotely pilot a pushing machine. The world's oxygen is depleting, but a volatile new form of cyclic ozone has been discovered. Excavate it. It's humanity's only hope.
HorrorAtmosphericSci-fiAdventurePuzzleDemo out 27 OctMore like this →Cozy Cabin
Pixbistudio
Turn your daily work and study sessions into a cozy lo-fi ritual. Cozy Cabin is an ambient desktop companion featuring built-in Pomodoro focus timers, in-game task lists, coffee brewing breaks, and soothing rain soundscapes. Sit down, settle into your flow, and get real work done.
CasualCozySimulationRelaxingLife SimDemo out 26 OctMore like this →King's Table: hnefatafl
Riftstone
Hnefatafl is an ancient Viking board game full of strategy and excitement. One player defends the king, who tries to escape to the safe corners of the board, while the other player uses clever moves and tactics to capture the king. Who will triumph?
Casual3DStrategySingleplayerMultiplayerDemo out 26 OctMore like this →StackOver
EhanCreative Inc.
Stack, hold on, higher! Drop various objects and stack them as high and steadily as possible within the limited space. Consider the object's weight, balance, and collisions as you stack them, and use various augmentations to overcome dangerous moments.
CasualArcadeImmersive Sim3DIndieDemo out 26 OctMore like this →WoodsFolk
Trellcko
HushWood is an atmospheric first-person adventure set in a mysterious forest where night never ends. Follow the light, listen to the sounds around you, use your notebook for clues, and help those who live in the forest as you search for a way home—before you forget why you wanted to leave.
AdventureHorrorDark FantasyAtmosphericSingleplayerDemo out 26 OctMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.