Steam releases · Week 39, 2025

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

WEEK 39 ’2522 Sep – 28 Sep 2025399 releasesMTWTFSS

week 39 of 2025 at a glance

In week 39 of 2025 (22 – 28 Sep 2025), 399 games released on Steam, and 71 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hades II (292,906 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (412 releases), it is 3 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	399
With a playable demo	71
Median followers, top 20 by demand	23,689
Free to play, of 391 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

89%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

293

——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
Hades II	2025-09-25	292,906
Slime Rancher 2	2025-09-23	159,397
EA SPORTS FC™ 26	2025-09-25	96,756
Tokyo Xtreme Racer	2025-09-24	57,364
Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds	2025-09-25	47,300
Aethermancer	2025-09-23	36,523
Spooky Milk Life	2025-09-24	35,266
SWORN	2025-09-23	35,099
Celestial Empire	2025-09-23	33,245
Renown	2025-09-22	32,286