Steam releases · Week 16, 2021

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

WEEK 16 ’2119 Apr – 25 Apr 2021173 releasesMTWTFSS

week 16 of 2021 at a glance

In week 16 of 2021 (19 – 25 Apr 2021), 173 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139... (142,516 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (179 releases), it is 3 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	173
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,349
Free to play, of 164 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

125

93%

——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
NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139...	2021-04-23	142,516
Torque Drift	2021-04-20	22,267
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion	2021-04-22	16,242
Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book DX	2021-04-21	8,185
Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings DX	2021-04-21	4,712
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX	2021-04-21	4,541
WAIFU IMPACT	2021-04-23	2,046
Plan A	2021-04-23	1,603
Spheria's Familiar	2021-04-20	1,526
Cognition Method: Initiation	2021-04-22	1,492