Steam releases · Week 43, 2021

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

WEEK 43 ’2125 Oct – 31 Oct 2021251 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2021 at a glance

In week 43 of 2021 (25 – 31 Oct 2021), 251 games released on Steam, and 34 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition (317,755 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (227 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	251
With a playable demo	34
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,453
Free to play, of 247 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	227 (+11 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition	2021-10-28	317,755
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy	2021-10-26	74,585
FATAL FRAME / PROJECT ZERO: Maiden of Black Water	2021-10-27	53,580
Crab Game	2021-10-29	44,821
SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer	2021-10-25	27,350
Ziggurat 2	2021-10-28	9,097
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut	2021-10-26	5,323
Subway Midnight	2021-10-28	3,546
Gachi Bird	2021-10-28	3,364
Hypnagogia² 無限の夢 Boundless Dreams	2021-10-29	2,017

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

81%

——too few

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

184

13%

——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.