Steam releases · Week 40, 2021

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

WEEK 40 ’214 Oct – 10 Oct 2021227 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2021 at a glance

In week 40 of 2021 (4 – 10 Oct 2021), 227 games released on Steam, and 33 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Stumble Guys (103,687 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (147 releases), it is 54 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	227
With a playable demo	33
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,547
Free to play, of 220 with a known price	15 %

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

178

95%

——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
Stumble Guys	2021-10-07	103,687
Vagrus - The Riven Realms	2021-10-05	26,115
Ship Graveyard Simulator: Prologue	2021-10-07	7,326
Haunt Chaser	2021-10-06	6,030
Arthurian Legends	2021-10-04	3,045
Eronoctosis: Put Yourself Together	2021-10-10	3,014
Star Hunter - Infinite Lagrange	2021-10-07	2,700
Succubus With Guns	2021-10-08	2,487
Hentai Sakura 🌸🌊	2021-10-10	2,304
Jack Axe	2021-10-06	1,692