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 →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.