Steam releases · Week 38, 2021

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

WEEK 38 ’2120 Sep – 26 Sep 2021189 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2021 at a glance

In week 38 of 2021 (20 – 26 Sep 2021), 189 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Medieval Dynasty (292,160 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (196 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	189
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,719
Free to play, of 182 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

14%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

20%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

39%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

150

26%

——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
Medieval Dynasty	2021-09-23	292,160
World War Z	2021-09-21	135,304
Minecraft Dungeons	2021-09-22	72,128
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft	2021-09-24	18,726
Citystate II	2021-09-23	15,148
Castlevania Advance Collection	2021-09-23	13,530
Super Auto Pets	2021-09-24	13,058
Welcome to Free Will - Episode 1	2021-09-22	9,227
Love Season	2021-09-24	8,496
Attack on Toys	2021-09-24	5,149