Steam releases · Week 51, 2021

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

WEEK 51 ’2120 Dec – 26 Dec 2021190 releasesMTWTFSS

week 51 of 2021 at a glance

In week 51 of 2021 (20 – 26 Dec 2021), 190 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires (15,308 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (181 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	190
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,662
Free to play, of 180 with a known price	22 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

38%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

18%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

13%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

155

26%

——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
DYNASTY WARRIORS 9 Empires	2021-12-22	15,308
SCARF	2021-12-23	6,251
Sexy Airlines EVO	2021-12-20	4,249
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki Kai	2021-12-22	3,925
Martial Law	2021-12-23	3,572
Wild Wet West	2021-12-24	2,142
からかい上手の高木さんVR 2学期	2021-12-23	2,042
Boppio	2021-12-22	1,865
World Wide Hack	2021-12-22	1,761
I'm on Observation Duty 4	2021-12-22	1,717