MondayDemos

№ 2 · last week · 12 to 18 October 2026

No Body No Problem! peaked at 667, expected 2

Every demo that went live on Steam last week, read morning and evening from the day it dropped. Below: the demos that drew a crowd their following does not explain, the biggest crowds, which ones players came back to, what launched off a demo, and who got signed.

demos: 1,072; demos
playtests and betas: 36; playtests and betas
launches with a demo: 98; launches with a demo
signings: 2; signings

Top xCCU

Which demos drew more players than they should have? xCCU, our own metric, predicts a demo's crowd from what it starts with: its followers, its publisher and its store page. Expected is that prediction. Peak (d3) is the most people playing at once in its first three days. These demos beat their prediction by the most, so the game itself brought the players in.

Based on 6,007 demos since 17 August. Each demo is scored after three days, so this covers demos that dropped Saturday 10 October to Friday 16 October.

No Body No Problem!PUBLISHED

Action-Adventure · Arcade · Party Game

Expected 2 · Peak 667 (d3) · no community group

34 reviews · verdict 57

Demo has been on the store before

Fenestra: my focus, her futureSELF-PUBLISHED

Visual Novel · Life Sim · Time Management

Expected 1 · Peak 179 (d3) · no community group

no reviews yet

A Pond HuntSELF-PUBLISHED

3D Platformer · Immersive Sim · Shop Keeper

Expected 0 · Peak 105 (d3) · 2 followers

22 reviews · verdict 52

Blades & TradesPUBLISHED

Shop Keeper · Crafting · Combat

Expected 1 · Peak 158 (d3) · no community group

26 reviews · verdict 66

Demo has been on the store before

10 Million PixelsSELF-PUBLISHED

Incremental · Mining · Idler

Expected 1 · Peak 123 (d3) · no community group

20 reviews · verdict 84

Stickiness

Did players come back? Opened is the most players a demo had in its first two days. Day 7 is how many were playing a week later. Kept compares the two; above 1× means the crowd grew. Demos that dropped 5 October to 11 October and opened to at least 10 players.

Fart TogetherSELF-PUBLISHED

Party Game · Precision Platformer · Cute

Opened 142 · Day 7 2,026 · kept 14.3×

81 reviews · verdict 83

Arctic DrivePUBLISHED

Driving · Survival · Co-op

Opened 77 · Day 7 353 · kept 4.6×

5 reviews · no verdict yet (under 10)

Daydream Cat: DreamSpirits Idle AdventureSELF-PUBLISHED

RPG · Idler · Auto Battler

Opened 32 · Day 7 107 · kept 3.3×

no reviews yet

UnharvestSELF-PUBLISHED

Incremental · Idler · First-Person

Opened 32 · Day 7 93 · kept 2.9×

82 reviews · verdict 90

Keelblade (formerly Triarchy)SELF-PUBLISHED

Open World Survival Craft · Online Co-Op · Sailing

Opened 25 · Day 7 69 · kept 2.8×

16 reviews · verdict 64

Top CCU

The demos that drew the biggest crowds this week. CCU is the most people playing a demo at the same moment. We take two readings a day, so a small number can miss a few players. Only demos that dropped this week; Sunday's have one reading so far.

A Pond HuntSELF-PUBLISHED

3D Platformer · Immersive Sim · Shop Keeper

Peak 1,643 · 6 readings · dropped Tue · 2 followers

22 reviews · verdict 52

MortuusSELF-PUBLISHED

Zombies · FPS · Online Co-Op

Peak 1,455 · 5 readings · dropped Wed · 718 followers

208 reviews · verdict 93

Abyssal LapidaryPUBLISHED

RPG · Lovecraftian · Mystery

Peak 1,191 · 3 readings · dropped Fri · 2,112 followers

no reviews yet

DungeonboundSELF-PUBLISHED

Inventory Management · Dungeon Crawler · Auto Battler

Peak 760 · 5 readings · dropped Wed · 428 followers

no reviews yet

HANDS OVERSELF-PUBLISHED

Card Game · First-Person · Stylized

Peak 711 · 4 readings · dropped Thu · 3,582 followers

64 reviews · verdict 63

wishlist rank 471

Top reviews

The demos that got the most new reviews this week. Any demo we track counts, not only this week's drops. Verdict is a cautious 0 to 100 score of how positive the reviews are; 70 or more is what Steam calls Positive. Played verdict is the same score from reviewers who played for at least an hour. The language is the one most reviewers wrote in.

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper SimPUBLISHED

Shop Keeper · Cyberpunk · Inventory Management

+366 this week · 1784 total · verdict 98

played verdict 98 · Simplified Chinese 62% · peak 11,201 this week

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee RemasteredPUBLISHED

Remake · Destruction · Nostalgia

+214 this week · 214 total · verdict 88

played verdict 89 · English 81% · peak 486 this week

MortuusSELF-PUBLISHED

Zombies · FPS · Online Co-Op

+208 this week · 208 total · verdict 93

played verdict 96 · English 72% · peak 1,455 this week

Rain98SELF-PUBLISHED

Psychological Horror · Anime · Romance

+192 this week · 192 total · verdict 53

played verdict 56 · Simplified Chinese 57% · peak 343 this week

The Serena Villa FilesSELF-PUBLISHED

Choose Your Own Adventure · Immersive Sim · Visual Novel

+183 this week · 183 total · verdict 98

played verdict 94 · Simplified Chinese 67% · peak 100 this week

Launched, with a demo behind them

Games with a demo that went on sale last week. Copies sold is an estimate based on the game's reviews. Peak players is the most people playing at once since launch. The arrow shows whether opinion held up: the demo's verdict before launch against the full game's verdict now.

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

Metroidvania · Action RPG · RPG

est. 180,300 copies sold · peak players 21,637

no demo verdict → launch verdict 72 Mostly Positive

over the hillSELF-PUBLISHED

Driving · Co-op · Racing

est. 109,500 copies sold · peak players 13,364

demo verdict 80 → launch verdict 91 Very Positive

Valor MortisPUBLISHED

Souls-like · First-Person · RPG

est. 55,700 copies sold · peak players 4,447

demo verdict 70 → launch verdict 75 Mostly Positive

Trash DaySELF-PUBLISHED

Co-op · Online Co-Op · Funny

est. 40,700 copies sold · peak players 1,692

demo verdict 94 → launch verdict 95 Overwhelmingly Positive

Realm of TaiwuPUBLISHED

Action Roguelike · Top-Down · Hand-drawn

est. 31,700 copies sold · peak players 1,790

no demo verdict → launch verdict 67 Mostly Positive

Signed

Games we track that found a publisher last week. We check 1,070 of them every day. Seen is the first day the publisher was on the store page; unsigned on is the last day it was not. The publisher was added somewhere in between.

Spooky TalesPUBLISHEDSIGNED

Horror · Psychological Horror · Dark Humor

Signed to TBA · seen Sunday 18 October, unsigned on Friday 16 October

896 followers

Demo dropped Wednesday 26 August

Grandpa Needs FishPUBLISHEDSIGNED

Idler · Incremental · Automation

Signed to Armored Cat, 2Tellers · seen Monday 12 October, unsigned on Saturday 10 October

82 followers

Followers, rising

Unreleased games picking up followers faster than usual. Followers are the best early sign we have of sales. Each card shows new followers a day this week, the game's usual daily pace before that, and how many times faster this week was. The percentage is how fast the game is growing for its size.