Steam releases · Week 2, 2021

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

WEEK 2 ’2111 Jan – 17 Jan 2021132 releasesMTWTFSS

week 2 of 2021 at a glance

In week 2 of 2021 (11 – 17 Jan 2021), 132 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Word Game: Episode 0 (10,987 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (182 releases), it is 27 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	132
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	919
Free to play, of 127 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

63%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

102

31%

——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
Word Game: Episode 0	2021-01-14	10,987
Cloud Climber	2021-01-14	4,350
鸢之歌-Singing Iris	2021-01-11	2,609
Farmer's Life: Prologue	2021-01-15	2,380
hexceed	2021-01-15	1,570
Cinderella Phenomenon: Evermore	2021-01-13	1,539
Dungeon and Puzzles	2021-01-14	1,247
Object N	2021-01-13	1,137
Diving Disorder-下潜症	2021-01-15	942
Kore	2021-01-14	935