Steam releases · Week 48, 2021

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

WEEK 48 ’2129 Nov – 5 Dec 2021254 releasesMTWTFSS

week 48 of 2021 at a glance

In week 48 of 2021 (29 Nov – 5 Dec 2021), 254 games released on Steam, and 18 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ICARUS (276,666 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (217 releases), it is 17 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	254
With a playable demo	18
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,158
Free to play, of 246 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

183

96%

——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
ICARUS	2021-12-03	276,666
Century: Age of Ashes	2021-12-02	75,990
Chorus	2021-12-03	32,432
Bloons TD Battles 2	2021-11-30	17,777
Lost: Find	2021-12-03	14,096
SiNiSistar Lite Version	2021-11-29	12,293
Knell of St. Godhrkar	2021-12-04	8,593
BURIED STARS	2021-11-29	7,724
FarmD	2021-12-03	5,402
The Captain	2021-12-03	4,581