Steam releases · Q3 2025

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

Q3 20251 Jul – 30 Sep 20255,286 releasesJAS

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Q3 2025 at a glance

In Q3 2025 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2025), 5,286 games released on Steam, and 1,146 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hades II (292,906 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (5,120 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	5,286
With a playable demo	1,146
Median followers, top 20 by demand	112,454
Free to play, of 5,177 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

22%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

179

34%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

281

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

645

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

4,091

34%

——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 Q3 2025

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Hades II	2025-09-25	292,906
Arena Breakout: Infinite	2025-09-15	237,942
Mecha BREAK	2025-07-01	223,342
Dying Light: The Beast	2025-09-18	171,885
Borderlands 4	2025-09-11	169,743
Slime Rancher 2	2025-09-23	159,397
Jump Space	2025-09-19	138,878
Abiotic Factor	2025-07-22	138,268
Titan Quest II	2025-08-01	134,232
Grounded 2	2025-07-29	118,729