Steam releases · Week 30, 2021

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

WEEK 30 ’2126 Jul – 1 Aug 2021250 releasesMTWTFSS

week 30 of 2021 at a glance

In week 30 of 2021 (26 Jul – 1 Aug 2021), 250 games released on Steam, and 31 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hell Let Loose (345,696 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (212 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	250
With a playable demo	31
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,908
Free to play, of 243 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

43%

——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

195

52%

——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
Hell Let Loose	2021-07-27	345,696
The Ascent	2021-07-29	101,990
Chernobylite Complete Edition	2021-07-28	99,473
Tribes of Midgard	2021-07-27	96,656
GrandChase	2021-07-27	77,017
Paint the Town Red	2021-07-29	61,573
Starbase	2021-07-29	54,937
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone	2021-07-27	35,339
Intravenous	2021-07-26	14,403
Fuga: Melodies of Steel	2021-07-28	12,418