Where are the demos?

[pants]

I may be losing my mind. I can find demos in search, but when I click on one, it takes me to the store page for the regular game. And there's never an option to download the demo! Or at least I can't find it. Am I nuts?

[Cathulhu]

Do you have an example?

[pants]

Sure, like Thalamus Demo or Tomato Jones Demo... or any demo.

[Cathulhu]

I can confirm that i can't see a button to download the demo for those games as well.


Can you see a download button for this game?

[pants]

Yeah, that one has the button. Any idea how to search for games that have a downloadable demo?

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by pants:

Yeah, that one has the button. Any idea how to search for games that have a downloadable demo?

Literally an option on the main page under "Categories" you can click on "Demos":
https://store.steampowered.com/demos/

[pants]

Yeah that's what I was doing. 99% of those don't actually have a demo. Wondering if there's a way to filter to the few that do?

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by pants:

Yeah that's what I was doing. 99% of those don't actually have a demo. Wondering if there's a way to filter to the few that do?

I checked the first 7 pages, every single one of them has the green line that says demo, which also has it when you go to each store page. Maybe something's up on your end.

[pants]

I think the problem is you can't combine that demo page with search. If you search, even if you limit your search to demos, the results are all demos, but very few of them actually have a download link. Do you know how to filter search results to downloadable demos?