Steam releases · Week 17, 2025

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

WEEK 17 ’2521 Apr – 27 Apr 2025402 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2025 at a glance

In week 17 of 2025 (21 – 27 Apr 2025), 402 games released on Steam, and 84 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 (311 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	402
With a playable demo	84
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,251
Free to play, of 395 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	311 (+29 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33	2025-04-24	318,614
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered	2025-04-22	160,279
Dinkum	2025-04-22	106,452
Tempest Rising	2025-04-24	105,544
DARKEST DAYS	2025-04-23	26,048
Sunderfolk	2025-04-23	24,671
Havendock	2025-04-22	23,584
Survivalist: Invisible Strain	2025-04-25	21,373
Dolls Nest	2025-04-23	17,072
Post Trauma	2025-04-22	14,140

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

80%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

310

15%

——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.