Wraith Ops, a developing first-person shooter from Grassrootz Games and publisher Team 17, has just launched a demo exclusively on Steam. The shooter, which is ‘all about gunplay and gameplay first’, has launched the new demo as part of Steam Next Fest, the event that pays tribute to upcoming, developing games across a range of genres.
While the demo is pretty short, it gives a glimpse of what Wraith Ops promises: pure, unadulterated gun-toting action. As the game’s blurb states, there are no immersion-breaking cosmetics, no gacha mechanics, and no ‘silly killstreaks’, all of which are said in a jab at games like Call of Duty.
Wraith Ops Isn’t The Next Call of Duty
To say that Wraith Ops is anything like Call of Duty would earn you a scolding from the game’s developer. It’s stressed everywhere on the Steam page and the game’s social channels that it exists as the antithesis of Activision’s first-person shooter franchise, despite bearing similarities.
But then, how different can a first-person shooter truly be from what’s already on the market?
Steam Next Fest has welcomed a small demo for Wraith Ops, which includes a mode called Arena, a 6v6, one-life mode, made playable across three maps: Airfield, Mall, and Submarine. Since the Gamescom demo went live in August 2025, Grassrootz Games has implemented 876 bug fixes and tweaks, ready for the rollout of this new demo.
Wraith Ops has been neck-deep in the development pipeline for a very long time. The game’s social channels launched in 2019, and its original demo, under the name ‘Project Wraith’, was listed on Steam as far back as August 2021.
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