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.
51 demos without AI, tagged Exploration, 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 →Spaceflight Simulator 2
Team Curiosity ✦
Build rockets and fly them around the Solar System in this realistic aerospace sandbox. Attempt landings, build space stations, drive rovers, perform spacewalks, explore alien worlds, and get your crew home safe.
SimulationSpace SimSandboxExploration3D▶ Peak: 33 playersMore like this →海特兰世界
Destined game Studio
Haitland World is an idle single-player MMORPG. You are the only human on the server; every other player is AI: they trade, steal your mobs, form guilds and seek revenge. Hardcore progression, auto-battle, offline rewards. No internet, never shuts down. In-game "top-ups" are for show, no real money.
LootHack and SlashIdlerAction RPGIsometric▶ Peak: 22 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 →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 →Gobble Inn
Spilt Milk Studios Ltd
Gobble Inn is a soothing, relaxing roguelike with no fail states. Use powerful tools to dig deep for delicious, rare foodstuffs. Eat dishes to power up. Experiment with builds that help you explore the Chasm. Fill your pack with food and cursèd trinkets, and keep the inn supplied with ingredients!
Action RoguelikeExplorationRogueliteShop KeeperAdventure▶ Peak: 6 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Clone XVI
Two Rowers Studio
A first-person climb up a white tower where colors shows the way. Dodge, bunny hop and slide to the top, earn Trackmania-style medals on every segment, race the ghosts of the best players… and fall. A lot.
ParkourPrecision Platformer3D PlatformerScore AttackFirst-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 →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 →Sojourn Saga
LaRoche Games
Sojourn Saga is a retro JRPG roguelite where every step through the dungeon is life or death. Build your party, raise evolving companions, master powerful gear and ornament combinations and descend 99 floors through a prison realm ruled by the woman who refused to stay dead
Mystery DungeonRoguelikeJRPGTurn-Based CombatDungeon Crawler▶ Peak: 2 playersMore like this →Backrooms: Steal the Furniture
tupeksia
A 1–4 player co-op horror comedy. Noclip into the Backrooms, steal the furniture, sell it upstairs and make rent before the smiling thing finds you. Then blow the rent at the company casino. Some nights the elevator opens somewhere else. Every death is on tape.
Online Co-OpHorrorCo-opPsychological HorrorFunny▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →Verum Titan
Luca Bacilieri
A first-person narrative driven action game. You wake up as Carla, no memories, lost in a futuristic world. On your journey you must blast through an army of enemies. Accompanied by Romer, your Vacuum cleaner sidekick you will travel to unlock the mysteries of what happened.
ExplorationFPSPvEShooterAction▶ Peak: 1 playerMore 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-fiFunny▶ 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →Helyoran
Ximnos Games
Welcome to Helyoran! A cozy ghostly life sim where you farm, fish, mine and explore a colorful fantasy world. Befriend villagers, gather resources, discover mysterious lands and slowly automate your peaceful island!
SimulationLife SimAdventureFarming SimRelaxingDemo out 28 OctMore like this →Kitty Killshot
Hunky Junky Studios
A Survival FPS where you scavenge broken pottery fragments to craft new pots while fending off kitties determined to smash your fragile pots. Once crafted, your precious pots need to be extracted out of the warehouse and safely delivered.
ActionAdventure3D FighterShooterExplorationDemo out 28 OctMore like this →Montone
Ochsii, Dranoel, Filianore
Montone is a story horror exit game, where you walk your way though a seemingly never ending apartment and industrial building. Stay hidden and move with care, you might have to face your biggest fears. And always look for an exit, it is your only chance of survival. Good luck on your journey!
HorrorPsychological HorrorAdventureEscape RoomActionDemo out 28 OctMore like this →The Liminal Descent
AngourStudio
Fall into a living nightmare. Explore liminal spaces, outsmart deadly entities, manage your sweat, and uncover the truth across story levels, with co-op and six additional horror experiences. Multiple endings await. Play the free demo.
AdventurePuzzleExploration3DFirst-PersonDemo out 28 OctMore like this →Crossroads: Forgotten Paths
Seth Fasnacht
A light-hearted adventure that whisks you around the micro-fantasy land of Bargvia, join The Mages guild, meet The First Mage, explore The Undercroft, engage with colourful locals and grind in enemy-filled Micro-Dungeons.
AdventureRPGJRPGExploration2DDemo out 26 OctMore like this →The Lost Study
SONAK : Story Design Project
A forgotten study. Lost because no one remembers it. Solve puzzles, recover stories, and restore it — one chapter at a time. 14 stories, 14 worlds. Cozy, eerie, funny, and strange. They seem completely unrelated. Until they're not.
AdventurePoint & ClickPuzzleDetectiveStory RichDemo out 26 OctMore like this →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.