Steam releases · August 2025

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

Aug 20251 Aug – 31 Aug 20251,776 releases

Jul 2025 Now Sep 2025

August 2025 at a glance

In August 2025 (1 – 31 Aug 2025), 1,776 games released on Steam, and 400 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Titan Quest II (134,232 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,868 releases), it is 5 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,776
With a playable demo	400
Median followers, top 20 by demand	31,885
Free to play, of 1,743 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

19%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

214

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,385

59%

——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 August 2025

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Titan Quest II	2025-08-01	134,232
Mafia: The Old Country	2025-08-07	105,647
Stormgate	2025-08-05	76,554
Wicked Island	2025-08-21	47,362
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition	2025-08-14	45,278
Abyssus	2025-08-12	42,448
ERA ONE	2025-08-06	37,121
Mortal Sin	2025-08-29	36,694
Plan B: Terraform	2025-08-29	35,458
Tiny Bookshop	2025-08-07	35,409