Steam releases · Week 29, 2021

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

WEEK 29 ’2119 Jul – 25 Jul 2021213 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2021 at a glance

In week 29 of 2021 (19 – 25 Jul 2021), 213 games released on Steam, and 20 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Death's Door (67,662 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (181 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	213
With a playable demo	20
Median followers, top 20 by demand	819
Free to play, of 205 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

48%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

152

41%

——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
Death's Door	2021-07-20	67,662
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector	2021-07-22	49,105
Mini Motorways	2021-07-20	38,929
Grey Instinct	2021-07-21	4,660
Sweet House	2021-07-20	4,409
Captain Bones: Prologue	2021-07-23	2,612
Four Kings One War	2021-07-25	1,129
The Plane Effect Prologue	2021-07-23	1,016
Car Physics Simulator	2021-07-25	991
Low Light Combat	2021-07-21	923