Steam releases · Week 42, 2025

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

WEEK 42 ’2513 Oct – 19 Oct 2025302 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2025 at a glance

In week 42 of 2025 (13 – 19 Oct 2025), 302 games released on Steam, and 61 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Escape From Duckov (130,132 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (255 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	302
With a playable demo	61
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,706
Free to play, of 295 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

33%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

11%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

244

55%

——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
Escape From Duckov	2025-10-16	130,132
Pax Dei	2025-10-16	119,580
Necesse	2025-10-16	113,989
Fellowship	2025-10-16	75,719
BALL x PIT	2025-10-15	45,801
Mohrta	2025-10-14	16,193
Keeper	2025-10-17	14,377
Concubine	2025-10-13	13,142
Industry Giant 4.0	2025-10-17	12,750
Touhou Dystopian	2025-10-17	7,106