Steam releases · Week 31, 2021

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

WEEK 31 ’212 Aug – 8 Aug 2021186 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2021 at a glance

In week 31 of 2021 (2 – 8 Aug 2021), 186 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Bless Unleashed (119,100 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (183 releases), it is 2 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	186
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,638
Free to play, of 181 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	183 (+2 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Bless Unleashed	2021-08-06	119,100
Death Trash	2021-08-05	59,425
Hunter's Arena: Legends	2021-08-02	18,811
Jupiter Hell	2021-08-05	16,488
Big Farm Story	2021-08-02	10,158
BEACHED	2021-08-04	5,281
IdolDays	2021-08-05	3,175
The Ramp	2021-08-03	2,940
PropHunter	2021-08-06	2,813
SHIPS AT WAR	2021-08-05	2,765

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

18%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

153

74%

——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.