Steam releases · Q2 2025

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

Q2 20251 Apr – 30 Jun 20255,120 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2025 at a glance

In Q2 2025 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2025), 5,120 games released on Steam, and 1,096 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SCUM (456,611 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (4,637 releases), it is 10 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	5,120
With a playable demo	1,096
Median followers, top 20 by demand	133,194
Free to play, of 4,992 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

26%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

15%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

203

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

232

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

610

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

4,004

46%

——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 Q2 2025

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
SCUM	2025-06-17	456,611
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	2025-04-24	318,614
Dune: Awakening	2025-06-10	277,128
Stellar Blade™	2025-06-11	240,449
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN	2025-05-29	228,771
DELTARUNE	2025-06-04	210,255
PEAK	2025-06-16	203,112
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon	2025-05-23	167,184
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered	2025-04-22	160,279
Broken Arrow	2025-06-19	138,890