Steam releases · Week 18, 2025

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

WEEK 18 ’2528 Apr – 4 May 2025426 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2025 at a glance

In week 18 of 2025 (28 Apr – 4 May 2025), 426 games released on Steam, and 78 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Wuthering Waves (75,698 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (359 releases), it is 19 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	426
With a playable demo	78
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,533
Free to play, of 418 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

340

95%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Wuthering Waves	2025-04-28	75,698
MEMORIAPOLIS	2025-04-30	50,108
Ratopia	2025-04-30	37,634
Infinity Nikki	2025-04-28	31,751
gogh: Focus with Your Avatar	2025-04-30	26,196
Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening	2025-05-01	22,310
Age of Reforging: The Freelands	2025-04-28	18,156
Conquest Dark	2025-04-30	17,314
Vellum	2025-05-02	13,724
KIBORG	2025-04-30	13,075