Steam releases · Week 50, 2021

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

WEEK 50 ’2113 Dec – 19 Dec 2021265 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2021 at a glance

In week 50 of 2021 (13 – 19 Dec 2021), 265 games released on Steam, and 24 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach (118,548 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (204 releases), it is 30 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	265
With a playable demo	24
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,421
Free to play, of 256 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

18%

——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

193

71%

——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
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach	2021-12-16	118,548
Sands of Salzaar	2021-12-15	92,145
Praey for the Gods	2021-12-14	59,591
Motor Town: Behind The Wheel	2021-12-17	36,687
Noble Fates	2021-12-14	27,456
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk	2021-12-16	23,410
The Planet Crafter: Prologue	2021-12-19	23,241
Chill Corner	2021-12-17	17,897
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance	2021-12-17	12,916
Toram Online	2021-12-19	12,826