Steam releases · Week 4, 2021

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

WEEK 4 ’2125 Jan – 31 Jan 2021202 releasesMTWTFSS

week 4 of 2021 at a glance

In week 4 of 2021 (25 – 31 Jan 2021), 202 games released on Steam, and 21 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DEVOUR (94,977 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (157 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	202
With a playable demo	21
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,486
Free to play, of 191 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	157 (+29 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
DEVOUR	2021-01-28	94,977
The Medium	2021-01-28	45,739
Cyber Shadow	2021-01-26	10,178
Garbage: Hobo Prophecy	2021-01-28	9,681
Yakuza 4 Remastered	2021-01-28	7,924
Substance 3D Painter 2021	2021-01-28	4,687
Märchen Forest	2021-01-27	4,244
Disjunction	2021-01-28	3,969
Angel Wings	2021-01-29	2,789
Zeepkist	2021-01-28	2,624

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

16%

——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

148

70%

——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.