Steam releases · Week 17, 2021

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

WEEK 17 ’2126 Apr – 2 May 2021217 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2021 at a glance

In week 17 of 2021 (26 Apr – 2 May 2021), 217 games released on Steam, and 23 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is World of Tanks (108,092 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (169 releases), it is 28 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	217
With a playable demo	23
Median followers, top 20 by demand	759
Free to play, of 209 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

13%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

166

83%

——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
World of Tanks	2021-04-28	108,092
Predator: Hunting Grounds	2021-04-29	30,224
Gas Station Simulator: Prologue - Early Days	2021-04-28	13,649
Incredibox	2021-04-30	8,961
R-Type Final 2	2021-04-30	8,142
MAMIYA	2021-04-30	2,787
R18Plus Monster Girl You-ki chan	2021-05-01	1,829
Dragon Creek	2021-05-02	1,645
Abyss of Neptune	2021-04-26	1,192
NINJA GIRL	2021-04-28	828