Steam releases · Week 42, 2025

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

WEEK 42 ’25Oct 13 – Oct 19, 2025386 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2025 at a glance

In week 42 of 2025 (Oct 13 – 19, 2025), 386 games released on Steam, and 64 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Escape From Duckov (129,250 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (294 releases), it is 31 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	386
With a playable demo	64
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,009
Free to play, of 293 with a known price	17 %
Same window a year earlier	294 (+31 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Escape From Duckov	2025-10-16	129,250
Pax Dei	2025-10-16	119,568
Necesse	2025-10-16	113,110
Fellowship	2025-10-16	75,572
BALL x PIT	2025-10-15	45,239
Mohrta	2025-10-14	16,087
Keeper	2025-10-17	14,350
Industry Giant 4.0	2025-10-17	12,768
Concubine	2025-10-13	12,492
Magic Pussy: Chapter 3	2025-10-18	7,395

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

30%

——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

331

58%

——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.