Steam releases · Week 3, 2025

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

WEEK 3 ’2513 Jan – 19 Jan 2025273 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2025 at a glance

In week 3 of 2025 (13 – 19 Jan 2025), 273 games released on Steam, and 51 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Assetto Corsa EVO (86,194 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (250 releases), it is 9 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	273
With a playable demo	51
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,284
Free to play, of 265 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——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

207

73%

——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
Assetto Corsa EVO	2025-01-16	86,194
Age of Darkness: Final Stand	2025-01-15	72,292
Aloft	2025-01-15	71,024
Hyper Light Breaker	2025-01-14	49,202
Heroes of Hammerwatch II	2025-01-14	38,224
Nunholy	2025-01-16	31,197
The Roottrees are Dead	2025-01-15	25,940
Age of Water	2025-01-16	23,862
JOY OF PROGRAMMING - Software Engineering Simulator	2025-01-18	14,339
Endless Alice	2025-01-15	9,756