Steam releases · August 2021

Who takes the attention in this window · releases grouped by the observed scale of their publisher

Aug 20211 Aug – 31 Aug 2021879 releases

Jul 2021 Now Sep 2021

August 2021 at a glance

In August 2021 (1 – 31 Aug 2021), 879 games released on Steam, and 93 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is NARAKA: BLADEPOINT (587,262 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (863 releases), it is 2 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	879
With a playable demo	93
Median followers, top 20 by demand	45,331
Free to play, of 860 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

76%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

140

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

654

——too few

Class is the observed scale of a publisher’s portfolio: the median review count of what they released over the last 36 months. Budgets are invisible to us, so these are not the industry’s AAA and AA labels.Peak players is the highest concurrent count since release. “Kept at 5w” compares the fifth week against the first-week peak, counting only releases with at least 20 concurrent players.Concurrent players are observed from 2026-07-19 onward. Releases before that date have no player columns, and that is a gap in our watching, not a zero.

inside August 2021

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	2021-08-11	587,262
HUMANKIND™	2021-08-17	199,369
Bless Unleashed	2021-08-06	119,100
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021	2021-08-11	100,973
Library Of Ruina	2021-08-10	94,209
Townscaper	2021-08-26	78,947
Death Trash	2021-08-05	59,425
Mortal Shell	2021-08-18	54,976
Super Animal Royale	2021-08-26	51,841
Twelve Minutes	2021-08-19	46,690