Demo Week, without the AI
293 AI demos hidden, 267 left.
Every new Steam demo from the last seven days, 25 Oct to 31 Oct.
560 demos came out this week. 293 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.
64 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: 6 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 →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 →
Some developers don't declare AI, so a few may slip through.