The Crimson Hunt Demo — The Crimson Hunter

The Crimson Hunt demo is a free, standalone Steam release with its own store page, and it went live on May 22, 2026, months before the full game. It is not a browser sample or a time-limited trial: it is a separate download that lets you play the vampire hunter opening, and the same build is mirrored on the developer's itch.io page. Steam lists it with Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen and Remote Play Together support, so the demo covers both the solo and the split-screen version of the campaign opening.

What the demo includes

The demo pages themselves are thin on prose, which limits how much can be stated with confidence. The itch.io listing describes the download with a single line, that this is only a demo of the game, and points to the Steam page for the full release. Steam's demo page carries no description text at all, only the feature tags. What is documented is the shape of the experience: a third-person survival horror opening in a Victorian mansion, playable alone or with a second player on a shared screen, with the same control set as the full game.

Demo build size, versions and patches

The concrete numbers all come from the itch.io listing, since Steam does not publish a separate size for the demo. The demo has received at least one dedicated patch, dated before release, and the developer keeps it on the same version numbering as the project build.

Item	Detail
Demo release	May 22, 2026
Price	Free
Steam app ID	4662870
itch.io file	the-crimson-hunt-win.zip, 5 GB
itch.io version	37
Latest demo patch note	May 27, 2026, base enemy animations
Modes	Single-player, co-op, shared/split screen, Remote Play Together
Controller	Full controller support

The May 27, 2026 Demo Patch Notes devlog is the only patch note published specifically for the demo. Its summary says that animations for the base enemies were added and updated so their movements fit their type and combat feels better. The page body could not be retrieved during capture, so the full list of changes is to confirm; the itch.io entry also lists a later June 17, 2026 devlog, Gameplay Enhancements and Co-op Experience Improvements, whose contents are likewise not documented here.

How to get it and what carries over

The demo is reachable from the full game's steam page, which links the demo app, or from the developer's itch.io listing, which serves the same Windows archive directly. Because it is a separate app rather than a prologue bolted onto the main download, it installs on its own and can be removed without touching the full game.

What is not documented yet is progress carry-over. Neither store says whether demo saves transfer to the finished version, so assume they do not and treat the demo as a systems check rather than a head start. For the full picture of what the shipped build adds, the guide and review pages cover the systems and the early player response.