Steam releases · Week 21, 2025

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

WEEK 21 ’2519 May – 25 May 2025447 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2025 at a glance

In week 21 of 2025 (19 – 25 May 2025), 447 games released on Steam, and 93 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon (167,184 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (336 releases), it is 33 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	447
With a playable demo	93
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,157
Free to play, of 434 with a known price	11 %
Same window a year earlier	336 (+33 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon	2025-05-23	167,184
RoadCraft	2025-05-20	106,082
FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time	2025-05-21	73,277
JDM: Japanese Drift Master	2025-05-21	68,451
9 Kings	2025-05-23	51,414
SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded	2025-05-22	27,967
Tinkerlands	2025-05-23	27,129
Warhammer 40,000: Speed Freeks	2025-05-22	25,543
Monster Train 2	2025-05-21	25,092
Deliver At All Costs	2025-05-22	17,696

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

15%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

11%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

40%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

341

22%

——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.