Steam releases · Week 41, 2025

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

WEEK 41 ’25Oct 6 – Oct 12, 2025463 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2025 at a glance

In week 41 of 2025 (Oct 6 – 12, 2025), 463 games released on Steam, and 80 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Battlefield™ 6 (422,687 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (350 releases), it is 32 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	463
With a playable demo	80
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,301
Free to play, of 381 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	350 (+32 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Battlefield™ 6	2025-10-10	422,687
Little Nightmares III	2025-10-09	108,219
Absolum	2025-10-09	49,524
The Farmer Was Replaced	2025-10-10	43,786
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance	2025-10-09	42,038
Deathground	2025-10-07	27,447
Seafarer: The Ship Sim	2025-10-07	21,916
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch	2025-10-09	19,206
Bye Sweet Carole	2025-10-09	17,971
Backseat Drivers	2025-10-09	11,354

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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

92%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

383

——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.