Steam releases · Q1 2021

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

Q1 20211 Jan – 31 Mar 20212,369 releasesJFM

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Q1 2021 at a glance

In Q1 2021 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2021), 2,369 games released on Steam, and 216 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is It Takes Two (565,556 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,529 releases), it is 6 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,369
With a playable demo	216
Median followers, top 20 by demand	61,437
Free to play, of 2,275 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

36%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

429

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,755

47%

——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 Q1 2021

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
It Takes Two	2021-03-25	565,556
Dyson Sphere Program	2021-01-20	253,771
Little Nightmares II	2021-02-10	171,663
Breathedge	2021-02-25	106,314
DEVOUR	2021-01-28	94,977
Carnal Instinct	2021-03-01	89,341
Tales from the Borderlands	2021-02-16	80,115
Soul Dossier	2021-03-29	68,695
Hellish Quart	2021-02-16	66,574
Mr. Prepper	2021-03-18	62,291