Steam releases · Week 3, 2021

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

WEEK 3 ’2118 Jan – 24 Jan 2021184 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2021 at a glance

In week 3 of 2021 (18 – 24 Jan 2021), 184 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dyson Sphere Program (253,771 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (124 releases), it is 48 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	184
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	843
Free to play, of 177 with a known price	20 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

15%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

80%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

137

——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
Dyson Sphere Program	2021-01-20	253,771
SuchArt: Creative Space	2021-01-21	10,226
Phoenotopia: Awakening	2021-01-21	9,856
Redout: Space Assault	2021-01-22	6,734
Combat Mission Black Sea	2021-01-21	4,353
Tiny Lands	2021-01-21	2,472
The Adventure of NAYU	2021-01-19	1,972
Zardy's Maze	2021-01-22	1,775
CrazyFlasher7 Mercenary Empire	2021-01-19	972
Frame of Mind	2021-01-18	912