Steam releases · Week 34, 2021

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

WEEK 34 ’2123 Aug – 29 Aug 2021216 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2021 at a glance

In week 34 of 2021 (23 – 29 Aug 2021), 216 games released on Steam, and 24 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Townscaper (78,947 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (187 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	216
With a playable demo	24
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,272
Free to play, of 215 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	187 (+16 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Townscaper	2021-08-26	78,947
Super Animal Royale	2021-08-26	51,841
Sprocket	2021-08-26	45,331
Psychonauts 2	2021-08-24	40,676
King's Bounty II	2021-08-24	30,233
Tormented Souls	2021-08-26	24,680
MIR4	2021-08-25	23,688
Myst	2021-08-26	18,794
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery	2021-08-25	15,994
Claire's Quest: GOLD	2021-08-23	10,366

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

77%

——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

158

16%

——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.