Steam releases · Q3 2021

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

Q3 20211 Jul – 30 Sep 20212,662 releasesJAS

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Q3 2021 at a glance

In Q3 2021 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2021), 2,662 games released on Steam, and 262 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is NARAKA: BLADEPOINT (587,262 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2,509 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	2,662
With a playable demo	262
Median followers, top 20 by demand	100,973
Free to play, of 2,569 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

44%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

10%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

100

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

106

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

441

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,980

29%

——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 Q3 2021

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT	2021-08-11	587,262
New World: Aeternum	2021-09-28	405,074
Hell Let Loose	2021-07-27	345,696
Medieval Dynasty	2021-09-23	292,160
HUMANKIND™	2021-08-17	199,369
World War Z	2021-09-21	135,304
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition	2021-09-02	127,693
Bless Unleashed	2021-08-06	119,100
eFootball™	2021-09-29	107,085
The Ascent	2021-07-29	101,990