Steam releases · Week 39, 2021

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

WEEK 39 ’2127 Sep – 3 Oct 2021265 releasesMTWTFSS

week 39 of 2021 at a glance

In week 39 of 2021 (27 Sep – 3 Oct 2021), 265 games released on Steam, and 28 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is New World: Aeternum (405,074 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (191 releases), it is 39 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	265
With a playable demo	28
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,050
Free to play, of 258 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

200

97%

——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
New World: Aeternum	2021-09-28	405,074
Goose Goose Duck	2021-10-03	135,024
FIFA 22	2021-10-01	109,396
eFootball™	2021-09-29	107,085
MELTY BLOOD: TYPE LUMINA	2021-09-29	45,963
Turing Complete	2021-10-02	38,889
Legion TD 2 - Multiplayer Tower Defense	2021-10-01	38,005
Impostor Factory	2021-09-30	19,944
INDUSTRIA	2021-09-30	16,339
In Sound Mind	2021-09-28	14,045