Steam releases · Week 1, 2021

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

WEEK 1 ’214 Jan – 10 Jan 2021144 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2021 at a glance

In week 1 of 2021 (4 – 10 Jan 2021), 144 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SCP: Escape Together (7,081 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (108 releases), it is 33 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	144
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	179
Free to play, of 135 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

115

99%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
SCP: Escape Together	2021-01-06	7,081
HudSight - crosshair overlay	2021-01-05	4,524
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues	2021-01-05	2,370
EBOLA 2	2021-01-06	2,004
Curse That Magic Cat!	2021-01-06	1,487
NERTS! Online	2021-01-05	1,277
True Mining Simulator	2021-01-07	485
Street Cleaner: The Video Game	2021-01-07	465
Monitor Girl \| 监控姬	2021-01-08	306
Hentai Coloring Game	2021-01-08	206