Steam releases · Week 29, 2025

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

WEEK 29 ’2514 Jul – 20 Jul 2025473 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2025 at a glance

In week 29 of 2025 (14 – 20 Jul 2025), 473 games released on Steam, and 111 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Wandering Village (112,454 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (428 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	473
With a playable demo	111
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,431
Free to play, of 461 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

18%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

372

66%

——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
The Wandering Village	2025-07-17	112,454
Magical Girl Witch Trials	2025-07-18	48,788
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition	2025-07-15	47,789
Back to the Dawn	2025-07-17	45,504
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream	2025-07-15	27,381
He is Coming	2025-07-17	24,286
Drill Core	2025-07-17	21,328
Ratten Reich	2025-07-15	20,196
Return from Core	2025-07-17	19,548
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business	2025-07-17	15,871