Steam releases · Week 34, 2025

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

WEEK 34 ’2518 Aug – 24 Aug 2025392 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2025 at a glance

In week 34 of 2025 (18 – 24 Aug 2025), 392 games released on Steam, and 91 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Wicked Island (47,362 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (291 releases), it is 35 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	392
With a playable demo	91
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,459
Free to play, of 385 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

12%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

313

80%

——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
Wicked Island	2025-08-21	47,362
Sword of the Sea	2025-08-19	20,465
VOID/BREAKER	2025-08-19	20,388
The Rogue Prince of Persia	2025-08-20	17,839
Horizon Walker	2025-08-24	17,831
Spirit Valley	2025-08-22	17,015
Discounty	2025-08-21	15,992
Sweet Home	2025-08-18	14,517
Herdling	2025-08-21	12,343
Sex Change Contract and Molester Girl	2025-08-19	9,288