diff --git a/Source/Game/Console/EngineSubsystem.cs b/Source/Game/Console/EngineSubsystem.cs
index 8419109..3ca2b1c 100644
--- a/Source/Game/Console/EngineSubsystem.cs
+++ b/Source/Game/Console/EngineSubsystem.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
 using FidelityFX;
 using FlaxEngine;
 
@@ -239,6 +240,73 @@ namespace Game
             }
         }
 
+        [ConsoleCommand("playdemo")]
+        public static void PlayDemoCommand(string[] text)
+        {
+            if (text.Length < 1)
+                return;
+            string demoName = text[0];
+
+            if (!demoName.EndsWith(".gdem"))
+                demoName += ".gdem";
+
+            PlayerActor playerActor = Level.GetActors<PlayerActor>().First(x =>
+                x.GetScript<PlayerMovement>().PlayerId == NetworkManager.LocalPlayerClientId);
+
+            string demoPath = Path.Combine(AssetManager.DemoPath, demoName);
+            if (File.Exists(demoPath))
+                playerActor.GetScript<PlayerMovement>().SetInput(demoPath);
+        }
+
+        [ConsoleCommand("timedemo")]
+        public static void TimeDemoCommand(string[] text)
+        {
+            if (text.Length < 1)
+                return;
+            string demoName = text[0];
+
+            if (!demoName.EndsWith(".gdem"))
+                demoName += ".gdem";
+
+            PlayerActor playerActor = Level.GetActors<PlayerActor>().First(x =>
+                x.GetScript<PlayerMovement>().PlayerId == NetworkManager.LocalPlayerClientId);
+
+            var playerMovement = playerActor.GetScript<PlayerMovement>();
+            string demoPath = Path.Combine(AssetManager.DemoPath, demoName);
+            if (File.Exists(demoPath))
+                playerMovement.SetInput(demoPath);
+
+            Action onUpdate = () => {};
+            //bool lastPlaying = true;
+            float accumTime = 0f;
+            int accumTimes = 0;
+            onUpdate = () =>
+            {
+                if (playerMovement)
+                {
+                    var input = playerMovement.input as PlayerInputDemo;
+                    if (input != null)
+                    {
+                        if (!input.IsPlaying)
+                        {
+                            Console.Print($"demo ended, time: {accumTimes} frames, avg: {(accumTime/(float)accumTimes)*1000.0f}");
+                            Scripting.Update -= onUpdate;
+                            return;
+                        }
+
+                        if (accumTimes == 0)
+                            Console.Print($"timedemo started");
+
+                        accumTime += Time.DeltaTime;
+                        accumTimes++;
+                        //input.IsPlaying
+                    }
+                }
+            };
+
+            Scripting.Update += onUpdate;
+        }
+
         [ConsoleSubsystemInitializer]
         public static void Initialize()
         {
diff --git a/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputDemo.cs b/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputDemo.cs
index 8db8e32..2f95433 100644
--- a/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputDemo.cs
+++ b/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputDemo.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using Console = Game.Console;
@@ -12,6 +13,14 @@ namespace Game
         protected List<PlayerInputState> buffer = new List<PlayerInputState>();
         protected IEnumerator<PlayerInputState> bufferEnumerable;
 
+        public bool IsPlaying
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                return bufferEnumerable != null;
+            }
+        }
+
         public PlayerInputDemo(string demoPath)
         {
             if (!File.Exists(demoPath))
@@ -19,7 +28,9 @@ namespace Game
 
             int expectedPlayerInputStateSize = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(PlayerInputState));
 
-            FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(demoPath);
+            FileStream fileStream = File.OpenRead(demoPath);
+            GZipStream stream = new GZipStream(fileStream, CompressionMode.Decompress);
+
             int ver = stream.ReadByte();
             int inputStateSize = stream.ReadByte();
             if (ver != DemoVer && inputStateSize != expectedPlayerInputStateSize)
@@ -30,6 +41,8 @@ namespace Game
                 return;
             }
 
+            // TODO: bench and compare to unsafe ptr version of this:
+            // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17549123/c-sharp-performance-using-unsafe-pointers-instead-of-intptr-and-marshal/29836312#29836312
             T RawDeserialize<T>(byte[] rawData, int position)
             {
                 int rawsize = Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(T));
diff --git a/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputLocal.cs b/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputLocal.cs
index 0572f77..3405181 100644
--- a/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputLocal.cs
+++ b/Source/Game/Player/PlayerInputLocal.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
+using System.IO.Compression;
 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 using FlaxEngine;
 using Console = Game.Console;
@@ -10,7 +11,8 @@ namespace Game
     public class PlayerInputLocal : PlayerInput
     {
         protected List<PlayerInputState> buffer = new List<PlayerInputState>();
-        protected FileStream demoFileStream;
+        protected GZipStream demoFileStream;
+        protected FileStream demoFileStream2;
 
         public bool IsNetworked => NetworkManager.client != null;
 
@@ -20,7 +22,12 @@ namespace Game
 
         public PlayerInputLocal(string demoPath)
         {
-            demoFileStream = File.Open(demoPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
+            var demoFolder = Directory.GetParent(demoPath);
+            if (!demoFolder.Exists)
+                Directory.CreateDirectory(demoFolder.FullName);
+
+            demoFileStream2 = File.Open(demoPath, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
+            demoFileStream = new GZipStream(demoFileStream2, CompressionMode.Compress);
             //stream.Position = 0;
             //stream.SetLength(0);
             demoFileStream.WriteByte(DemoVer);