Steam releases · April 2025

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

Apr 20251 Apr – 30 Apr 20251,765 releases

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April 2025 at a glance

In April 2025 (1 – 30 Apr 2025), 1,765 games released on Steam, and 378 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (318,614 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,828 releases), it is 3 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,765
With a playable demo	378
Median followers, top 20 by demand	48,267
Free to play, of 1,718 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

11%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

198

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,384

62%

——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 April 2025

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	2025-04-24	318,614
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered	2025-04-22	160,279
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered	2025-04-03	121,787
Dinkum	2025-04-22	106,452
Tempest Rising	2025-04-24	105,544
Forever Skies	2025-04-14	104,660
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days	2025-04-09	94,814
Wuthering Waves	2025-04-28	75,698
Blue Prince	2025-04-10	58,733
MEMORIAPOLIS	2025-04-30	50,108