Xbox drops free game demos: 33 titles you can play right now

Xbox dropped 33 demos for indie games, so you're almost certain to find something you like.

Xbox just gave you something to do while you're bundled up inside, hiding away from the winter cold.

As part of its ID@Xbox Game Demo Winterfest promotion (ID@Xbox is Xbox's indie games publishing program), Microsoft dropped a whopping 33 free game demos you can play between now and Dec. 31. As you might expect, these are all for independent games and not shiny billion-dollar AAA titles.

Still, it's good to expand your horizons beyond the biggest, most popular games.

Which new games can you play?

The list includes the self-explanatory Dinosaur Fossil Hunter, the turn-based post-apocalyptic RPG Vagrus - The Riven Realms, and a whole bunch of other games that are either upcoming or out now. Here's the full list:

• 502's Arcade

• Backbeat (Ichigoichie)

• Captain Bones

• Champion Shift

• Chessarama

• Deceive Inc.

• Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

• Donut Dodo

• Go Mecha Ball

• Hidden Through Time 2

• Howl

• Kiborg

• King Arthur: Knight's Tale

• Kingdoms and Castles

• Long Gone Days

• New Star GP

• Oppidum

• Parcel Corps

• Pinball FX

• Pinball M

• PlateUp!

• Puzzledorf

• Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion

• Shoulders of Giants

• Sker Ritual

• Slave Zero X

• Slopecrashers

• Space Boat

• SquadBlast

• Strings Theory

• The Holy Gosh Darn

• The Land Beneath Us

• Vagrus - The Riven Realms

Between all of those demos, you should have plenty to do during those moments when you don't really want to hang out with your family during the holidays. Get to downloading, gamers.

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