Steam releases · January 2025

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

Jan 20251 Jan – 31 Jan 20251,426 releases

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January 2025 at a glance

In January 2025 (1 – 31 Jan 2025), 1,426 games released on Steam, and 255 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Foundation (235,982 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,612 releases), it is 12 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,426
With a playable demo	255
Median followers, top 20 by demand	38,224
Free to play, of 1,381 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

21%

——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

184

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,123

64%

——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.

inside January 2025

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Foundation	2025-01-31	235,982
Marvel's Spider-Man 2	2025-01-30	118,475
Assetto Corsa EVO	2025-01-16	86,194
FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH	2025-01-23	85,817
Space Engineers 2	2025-01-27	72,780
Age of Darkness: Final Stand	2025-01-15	72,292
Aloft	2025-01-15	71,024
Hyper Light Breaker	2025-01-14	49,202
Hello Kitty Island Adventure	2025-01-30	47,997
The Headliners	2025-01-30	42,819