Steam releases · Week 52, 2021

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

WEEK 52 ’2127 Dec 2021 – 2 Jan 2022127 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2021 at a glance

In week 52 of 2021 (27 Dec 2021 – 2 Jan 2022), 127 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Bro Falls (20,063 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (115 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	127
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	479
Free to play, of 120 with a known price	28 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

100

93%

——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
Bro Falls	2021-12-30	20,063
At Home Alone Final	2021-12-31	7,390
Costume Party	2021-12-27	1,523
Happy's Humble Burger Barn	2021-12-28	1,010
The Miserable Crimson Hooded Girl	2021-12-31	799
EXCALIBURIAN!!	2021-12-31	786
Peculiar Tales of Mid-Lake Pavilion	2021-12-31	762
RoboSquare	2021-12-31	756
Cemetery Mary	2021-12-29	662
MocapForAll	2021-12-30	549