Steam releases · Week 40, 2025

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

WEEK 40 ’2529 Sep – 5 Oct 2025367 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2025 at a glance

In week 40 of 2025 (29 Sep – 5 Oct 2025), 367 games released on Steam, and 65 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Digimon Story Time Stranger (100,432 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (332 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	367
With a playable demo	65
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,405
Free to play, of 354 with a known price	19 %
Same window a year earlier	332 (+11 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Digimon Story Time Stranger	2025-10-02	100,432
Train Sim World® 6	2025-09-30	18,725
LEGO® Party!	2025-09-30	11,274
KAIJU NO. 8 THE GAME	2025-09-30	9,170
Upload Labs	2025-10-03	8,392
Sani Yang's Laboratory	2025-09-29	6,135
UNYIELDER	2025-09-29	3,807
IDLE BOSS RUSH	2025-09-29	3,588
KALPA: Cosmic Symphony	2025-10-01	3,576
My MILF Stepmom: Free Use💋	2025-10-01	2,446

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

56%

——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

302

41%

——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.