Steam releases · Week 20, 2021

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

WEEK 20 ’2117 May – 23 May 2021205 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2021 at a glance

In week 20 of 2021 (17 – 23 May 2021), 205 games released on Steam, and 24 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SnowRunner (154,535 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (177 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	205
With a playable demo	24
Median followers, top 20 by demand	997
Free to play, of 196 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

94%

——too few

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

148

——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
SnowRunner	2021-05-17	154,535
Panzer Knights	2021-05-19	15,967
Prison Simulator Prologue	2021-05-20	14,217
Mind Scanners	2021-05-20	10,206
Samorost 1	2021-05-20	4,543
SNKRX	2021-05-17	3,591
Essays on Empathy	2021-05-18	3,065
Farlanders: Prologue	2021-05-18	1,475
Rise of the Slime	2021-05-20	1,279
Atlantica Europe	2021-05-20	1,113