Steam releases · Week 45, 2021

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

WEEK 45 ’218 Nov – 14 Nov 2021226 releasesMTWTFSS

week 45 of 2021 at a glance

In week 45 of 2021 (8 – 14 Nov 2021), 226 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Forza Horizon 5 (587,019 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (200 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	226
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,407
Free to play, of 216 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

37%

——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

162

57%

——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
Forza Horizon 5	2021-11-08	587,019
Russian Fishing 4	2021-11-10	114,693
Bright Memory: Infinite	2021-11-11	99,755
SYNTHETIK 2	2021-11-11	24,193
BLUE REFLECTION: Second Light	2021-11-08	17,993
Ship Graveyard Simulator	2021-11-10	14,495
Axis & Allies 1942 Online	2021-11-09	12,484
JUNKPUNK	2021-11-12	8,639
Star Shift Origins	2021-11-08	3,238
NOeSIS02_羽化	2021-11-08	2,442