Hi anyone know wher I can find a list of game demos and which ones r any good?

I want to play some demos but I don't wanna download lots of bad ones. also what websites do you download them from? I know FilePlanet but are any better?

reply #1
I've been downloading PC game demos for years and I've kept a big list of all their names and what I thought of them. I've copied the list below - I will try to update this list when I've played any new ones:

Abe's Oddysee : OK fun, sometimes frustrating classic platformer
Abe's Exodus : OK platformer sequel
Aerial Strike: Yager Missions - GOOD flying shoot'em-up
Air Conflict: NOT GOOD like Heroes of the Pacific but more basic
Airstrike 3d - NOT GOOD old-style blaster
Airstrike 2 - NOT GOOD simple blaster
Alpha Black Zero - NOT GOOD SWAT/Splinter Cell in future
Alpha Prime - GOOD doom3-style but more fun
Apocalyptica - NOT GOOD Rune with guns, average
Aquanox 2 - NOT GOOD underwater shooter, bit dull
Area 51 - OK but standard FirstPersonShooter
Arena Wars - NOT GOOD strategy with robots,tanks
Armed Assault - BAD Op Flashpoint sequel
Armed & Dangerous - OK like Giants
Arvoch Conflict - NOT GOOD Elite-style space game
Aurora Watching - BAD metal gear solid style
Back Alley Brawl - BAD shareware arena fighter
Bad Day LA - BAD cell-shaded True Crime-like
Baghdad Central Desert Gunner - BAD awful shoot'em-up
Battlefield 1942 - GOOD online shooter with vehicles
Battlefield 1942 : Secret Weapons - NOT GOOD doesnt add much, not worth buying
Battlefield 2 - GOOD bit too similar to Desert Combat mod for BF1942 though
Bet on Soldier - NOT GOOD nothing special sci-fi shooter
Beyond Good & Evil demo1- BAD poor console game, awful camera and controls
Beyond Good & Evil demo2 - OK Zelda-like
Bionicle Heroes - BAD poor camera, too blurry, not fun
Black and White 2 - OK like Populous, might get samey, takes a long time to play
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII : OK like Heroes of Pacific, good city battles
Blitzkrieg - OK strategy nothing special
Blood 2 - OK Half-life meets Shogo
BloodRayne - GOOD fun vampire action
BloodRayne 2 - OK could get repetitive
Breed - SP first demo : BAD SinglePlayer FPS
Breed - SP rev 1 : OK but nothing special, Halo-alike
Broken Sword 3 - OK bit dull, 3D point n click
Brothers in Arms - NOT GOOD Call of duty with squad stuff
Bus Driver - NOT GOOD simple bus driving game
Call of Duty - GOOD Medal of Honor-like FPS
Call of Duty United Offensive - OK more of same
Call of Duty 2 - GOOD world war FPS
Call of Juarez SP - OK wild west shooter
Cars - BAD film tie-in racer
Chaos Legion - NOT GOOD LordOfTheRings-style beatemup, consoley, too over the top
Chaser SP - NOT GOOD Shogo-like FPS
Chrome - NOT GOOD Halo / Codename Outbreak-style, bit dull
Chronicles of Riddick _ GOOD fun FPS
City Life - OK Sim City style
Code of Honor French Foreign Legion - NOT GOOD average Delta Force-style shooter
Combat Wings: Battle of Britain - NOT GOOD air shooter, awkward aiming
Command & Conquer : Generals - OK C&C with sort-of-3D
Commandos : Strike Force - NOT GOOD too consoley
Company of Heroes - GOOD strategy
Conan - BAD walk around beat em up dull
Condemned : Criminal Origins - OK like FEAR but more handtohand than shoot
Conflict Desert Storm 1&2 - BAD console shooters with bad controls
Conflict Global Storm - BAD console shooter
Conflict Vietnam - BAD awkward squad shooter
Contract Jack SP - BAD NoOneLivesForever but more Serious Sam-style
Contract Jack MP - BAD very laggy, CounterStrike-like
Country Justice Redneck - BAD buggy, poor FPS
Crashday - NOT GOOD smash em up car game
Crazy Taxi 3 - NOT GOOD same as first one
CrimeCities - NOT GOOD like G-Police
Cross Racing Champ - dunno reboots my PC
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic - OK half-life 2 meets fantasy rpg
Darkstar One - OK typical Elite-style space shooter/trading
Darwinia - GOOD but time-consuming strategy
Dead Hunt - BAD Serious Sam but stuck in tiny arena
Dead Man's Hand - OK fun but nothing special western
Delta Force Black Hawk Down - GOOD soldier action
Delta Force Xtreme SP - OK revamp of DF1 nothing special
Delta Force Xtreme MP - OK BF1942-lite with vehicles
Desperados 2 - BAD strategy/FPS
Deus Ex - OK sneaky fps/rpg, bit boring
Deus Ex 2 - OK fps/rpg, different ways to play
Devastation - BAD uninspired shooter
Devastation Zone Troopers - BAD overhead shooter
Devastro - NOT GOOD cannon fodder with aliens
Die By The Sword - NOT GOOD old slasher like Nightmare Creatures
Diver Deep Water Adventures - NOT GOOD underwater hunting and shooting
Drake - OK Max Payne-style cell-shaded shooter
DropTeam - NOT GOOD could be good but too basic and dull at the moment
Duke Manhattan - NOT GOOD 2D platformer
Earache Extreme Racing - BAD carmageddon style racer
Emergency Fire Response - OK firemen strategy
Enclave - BAD very Rune-like
Exitinction - BAD old skool platform shooter
Evil Genius - OK Dungeon Keeper meets NoOneLivesForever
Fahrenheit - OK good adventure
Far Cry - GOOD shooter, Half-Life meets SoldierOfFortune on islands
Fast Lane Carnage - BAD overhead supercars
FEAR - GOOD scary Half-Life2-style shooter
FEAR:Extraction Point : OK but same as FEAR not much new
Firestarter - BAD weird Quake3 style
Flatout - OK fun Burnout/Destruction Derby style car game
Flatout 2 - OK like first but with city tracks too
Freedom Fighters - OK Operation Winback-like with team
Freelancer - OK space game could get dull
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers - OK tactical shooter
Galactic Federation _ NOT GOOD indie elite
Gangland - OK Gangsters/Syndicate RPG
Ghost Recon Advanced Wargighter - BAD like SWAT but outdoors, awkward
Ghostmaster - OK Sims-like, could get repetitive
Gothic 2 - BAD poor RPG
Gothic 3 - OK RPG performance NOT GOOD
Gravity Drive - BAD platform shooter
Ground Control 2 - GOOD prob best 3D Command&Conquer style game
GTR 2 - BAD boring lap race game
Gunner 2 - BAD Beachhead style
Gunship Apocalypse Demo - BAD Descent-style, boring
Gun Metal - BAD robot shooter controls bad
Half-Life - GOOD sci-fi FPS
Half-Life 2 - GOOD sci-fi FPS
Halo - GOOD SinglePlayer quite absorbing; MultiPlayer OK but small NOT GOOD
Hell In Vietnam - NOT GOOD poor man's Call of Duty, buggy
Heroes of the Pacific - GOOD plane combat
Hidden & Dangerous 2 - GOOD Enemy at the Gates style sniping
Hitman Contracts _ NOT GOOD good ideas but not fun
Hitman Blood Money - NOT GOOD pretty sneak'em-up, gets annoying
Homeworld 2 - OK same as HW1, nothing special
House of Dead 3 - NOT GOOD Doom3 on rails
Hulk - OK could get dull
Infernal - GOOD 3rd person supernatural shooter
Incredibles - BAD like Hulk etc
Iron Storm - OK amateur MedalOfHonor style
James Bond 007 Nightfire - OK like No One Lives Forever 2
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast - OK like ST Elite Force meets SW BattleFront
Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy- BAD just Jedi Knight again, dull
Jetfighter 2015 - NOT GOOD limited air shooter
Joint Operations MP Beta - NOT GOOD just BF1942 again but feels wrong
Judge Dredd vs Death - NOT GOOD old fashioned shooter
Juiced - BAD pretty cars but that's it
Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer - BAD Tony Hawks style but you just stare at a wave
Killswitch - NOT GOOD Splinter Cell with action, nothing special
King Kong - NOT GOOD shallow like Lord of the Rings style games
Kingpin - OK Half-Life in urban setting
Kiss Psycho Circus - OK Unreal-style
Knights of the Temple - NOT GOOD Lord of the Rings style beatemup
Knights of the Temple 2 - see above
Kreed - BAD poor shooter
Land of the Dead - NOT GOOD just like the UnrealTournament zombie mods
Lego Star Wars - GOOD fun console-type platform game
Lego Star Wars II - GOOD very fun, better than first
Liquidator - BAD dated amateur shooter
Live For Speed - BAD racer
Lord of the Rings - NOT GOOD Rune-like, a bit dull
Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter - NOT GOOD mix of FPS/shooter, tough too
Mad Tracks - NOT GOOD Mario Kart
Made Man - OK bad boys 2/winback style
Manhattan Chase - BAD looks like Urban Chaos but full of bugs
Mark, The - BAD poor man's Black Hawk Down
Max Payne - GOOD slow motion shooter
Max Payne 2 - OK but v similar to MP1
Medal of Honor - GOOD worldwar FPS
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault - OK same as MedalOfHonor but in jungle
Messiah - GOOD unusual platformer
Midnight Club 2 - GOOD racing
Mob Enforcer - OK NoOneLivesForever meets Mafia, bit too Contract Jack though
Moment of Silence - BAD boring prison point'n'click adventure
Monster Garage - BAD customise monster trucks
Mortyr 2 - BAD Call of Duty wannabe
MX vs ATV Unleashed - BAD motocross
Myst V - NOT GOOD pretty 3D but annoying puzzles
Need for Speed Underground - OK racer
Need for Speed Most Wanted - GOOD good pursuit mode
Need for Speed Carbon - NOT GOOD step backwards for series
Neocron - NOT GOOD Deus Ex style
New York Race - OK futuristic racer
New World Order - BAD poor singleplayer CounterStrike-like FPS
Nightwatch - BAD movie RPG
Nitro Family - BAD Serious Sam style, like a mod
No One Lives Forever - GOOD unusual FPS
No One Lives Forever 2 - GOOD FPS sequel
Obscure - OK Blair Witch / Resident Evil style spooker
Onimusha 3 - OK beat em up
Open Tennis 2000 - OK tennis game
Operation Flashpoint Resistance - BAD strategy shooter
Pacific Heroes 2 - dunno wont install on my PC
Painkiller - OK insane shooter, bit exhausting
Panzer Elite Action Dunes of War - OK like Call of Duty tank bits
Pariah MP - NOT GOOD cut down UnrealTournament2004
Pariah SP - NOT GOOD Unreal 2 style shooter
Penumbra Episode 1 - OK physics horror-puzzler, short demo
Pilot Down - NOT GOOD consoley cartoon MedalOfHonor
PlanetSide - OK Tribes2 -like but more complex, not worth monthly fee
Postal 2- GOOD rather sick shooter
Prey - GOOD quake 4-style but starts off well
Prince of Persia - GOOD Tomb Raider style platformer
Prince of Persia 2 - NOT GOOD buggy, awkward
PRISM Guard Shield - OK decent terrorist FPS, action and stealth
Project Nomads - BAD unusual but dull
Project Snowblind - OK decent FPS
Psychonauts - GOOD Zelda-type, weird though, a bit much
Psychotoxic - OK but very weird FPS
Punisher - BAD Max Payne copy
Quake 4 SP: NOT GOOD Doom 3 all over again, dark and laggy
Quake 4 MP: NOT GOOD just Quake 3 again
Rainbow 6 Lockdown - BAD buggy SWAT4 copy
Red Ace Squadron - BAD biplane shooter
Red Faction - OK half-life 1 style shooter
Red Ocean - NOT GOOD FEAR/Half-Life-style shooter, a bit weak
Red Shark 2 - BAD helicopter shooter
Redneck Kentucky - OK simple chicken shoot'em-up
Refuze.HomeSweetHome - OK Toy Story 2 with guns, very consoley
Return to Castle Wolfenstein - GOOD worldwar FPS
Robocop - BAD poor shooter
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 - OK good 3D but just ThemePark again
Romanians in Space - NOT GOOD Elite-style space game
Rome Total War - OK epic 3D strategy
Savage - OK FPS/Strategy
Scooter War3z - BAD poor handling
Scrapland - OK like a future GrandTheftAuto, not that good
Scudbuster - NOT GOOD 3D-battleships on land, not great
Second Sight - NOT GOOD though demo was too short to tell really
Secret Weapons over Normandy - OK Rogue Squadron-style WWII shooter
Serious Sam 2 - OK futuristic Serious Sam but a bit too much
Shade - OK Rune-like but better
Shadowgrounds - OK Aliens from top-down view, idea almost works
Shadow Ops:Red Mercury OK fun consoley shooter
Shanghai Street Racer - BAD amateurish racer
Ship Simulator 2006 - OK ship sim - ok for a few minutes play
Silverfall - BAD cell-shaded rpg
SiN - GOOD duke nukem style shooter
Smash em up Derby - BAD Destruction Derby game
Sniper Elite - BAD sniper, too consoley
Soldier of Fortune - OK violent FPS
Soldier of Fortune 2 - GOOD FPS
Soldiers Heroes of WWII - OK strategy
Soldner - dunno cant create account, slow to load
Sonic Adventure DX - NOT GOOD Sonic in 3D
Sonic Heroes - same as above
Space Colony - OK Sims/ThemeHospital in space
Space Haste 2 - BAD NewYorkRace but not as good
Splinter Cell - NOT GOOD good-looking but dull 3rd person shooter
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow - NOT GOOD laggy and dull
Splinter Cell Double Agent - GOOD metal gear solid style, performance NOT GOOD though
Stalin Subway - BAD very dated, awkward shooter
Starsky & Hutch - OK, GrandTheftAuto/Stuntman with shooting
Starship Troopers - OK shooter but could get v repetitive, limited
Star Trek Elite Force - GOOD sci-fi shooter
Star Trek Elite Force 2 - GOOD shooter sequel
Star Wars Empire At War - NOT GOOD typical strategy game
Star Wars Republic Commando - OK like Elite Force
Steel Fury - NOT GOOD tank simulation
Steel Walker - NOT GOOD mech shooter
Stoked Rider: Alaska Alien - NOT GOOD snowboarding, stuttering problems
Stubbs the Zombie : NOT GOOD inventive but irritating and buggy
Suave - NOT GOOD shareware tank game
Suffering: Ties That Bind - OK Max Payne meets Nightmare Creatures, camera problems
SWAT 4 - GOOD squad shooter
Syberia 2 - NOT GOOD pretty but dull adventure
Taxi Racer London - NOT GOOD Crazy Taxi ripoff
Taxi 3 Extreme Rush - NOT GOOD Need for Speed in London
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NOT GOOD beatem-up, too repetitive
Tennis Critters - BAD silly tennis game
Tennis Masters 2003 - NOT GOOD tennis
Terminator 3 Demo/ Full Trial - NOT GOOD - weak BF1942 clone with Terminators
Terrorist Takedown: Covert Operations - BAD weak shooter
Thief 3 - OK Thief meets Splinter Cell, could get boring
TimeShift - OK Half-Life 2 meets FEAR
Topspin Tennis - OK tennis game
Total Overdose - BAD GrandTheftAuto meets western
Tough Trucks - BAD just truck driving
Tribes 2 - GOOD online shooter with vehicles
Tribes Vengeance MultiPlayer - NOT GOOD UnrealTournament2004 meets Tribes
Tribes Vengeance SinglePlayer - NOT GOOD arena combat
Tribes Vengeance SinglePlayer 2 - OK sniping mission
Tron 2.0 - OK shooter based on film
Ubersoldier - OK ReturnToCastleWolfenstein style shooter
Universal Combat:World Apart - dunno seems very complicated
Unreal 2 - OK FPS sequel
Unreal 2 XMP - OK multiplayer, get Unreal Tournament 2004 instead
Unreal Tournament - GOOD deathmatch FPS
Unreal Tournament 2003 - OK but disappointing sequel to UT
Unreal Tournament 2004 - GOOD Onslaught and Assault modes GOOD
Utopia City - BAD very dated FPS
Vegas Make It Big - OK Theme Park with first-person view
Vivisector - OK but dated shooter, like Quake 2
Voidwar - BAD shareware game
Warhammer Dawn of War - OK strategy
Warpath MultiPlayer - BAD cut down Unreal Tournament 2003
War World - BAD mechs blasting, like Unreal Tournament
Wings of Honour - BAD WW1 flight shoot'em-up
Wings of War - OK Crimson Skies-like
Will Rock - NOT GOOD Serious Sam-style, very repetitive
World Racing 2 - OK amateurish but nice open levels
Worms 3d - OK 3D version
WWII Tank Commander - NOT GOOD console shooter like CallOfDuty's tank sections
X2-TheThreat - NOT GOOD typical space shooter
XWing vs Tiefighter - NOT GOOD too much wandering
XIII - OK cell-shaded shooter
X-Men III - NOT GOOD very arcade/console, simplistic
X Motor Racing - BAD racer, poor physics, controls, unfinished

reply #2
And these are where I download them from:

www.gamershell.com
www.fileshack.com
www.filefront.com
www.fileplanet.com
www.gamespot.com

reply #3
wow thats a big list thanks :)

i will definitely check out the ones you say are good

reply #4
just updated my list to include all the new demos I've played over the last year or so :)