Steam releases · Week 18, 2021

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

WEEK 18 ’21May 3 – May 9, 2021211 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2021 at a glance

In week 18 of 2021 (May 3 – 9, 2021), 211 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Resident Evil Village (206,079 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (147 releases), it is 44 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	211
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,731
Free to play, of 184 with a known price	18 %
Same window a year earlier	147 (+44 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Resident Evil Village	2021-05-06	206,079
PICO PARK	2021-05-07	65,356
VR HOT	2021-05-06	14,819
UNBEATABLE [white label]	2021-05-07	13,986
Miss Furry	2021-05-07	7,979
Papetura	2021-05-07	6,921
Bad Memories	2021-05-09	4,821
Yoshiwara Higanbana	2021-05-06	4,067
Five Nations	2021-05-04	2,818
Virt-U-Mate	2021-05-06	2,293

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

159

89%

——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.