Steam releases · Week 20, 2025

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

WEEK 20 ’2512 May – 18 May 2025352 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2025 at a glance

In week 20 of 2025 (12 – 18 May 2025), 352 games released on Steam, and 51 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DOOM: The Dark Ages (128,093 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (368 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	352
With a playable demo	51
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,663
Free to play, of 343 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

69%

——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

273

20%

——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
DOOM: The Dark Ages	2025-05-14	128,093
The Precinct	2025-05-13	82,950
Blacksmith Master	2025-05-15	30,976
Cubic Odyssey	2025-05-14	22,901
LISC - Season 1	2025-05-16	16,070
Omega Crafter	2025-05-14	13,942
Maltese's Fluffy Onsen	2025-05-13	13,063
Capcom Fighting Collection 2	2025-05-15	11,382
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade	2025-05-14	8,762
Golden Chambers	2025-05-12	4,175