Steam releases · Week 43, 2025

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

WEEK 43 ’2520 Oct – 26 Oct 2025646 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2025 at a glance

In week 43 of 2025 (20 – 26 Oct 2025), 646 games released on Steam, and 223 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Farthest Frontier (243,357 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (571 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	646
With a playable demo	223
Median followers, top 20 by demand	37,932
Free to play, of 632 with a known price	11 %

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

28%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

513

68%

——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
Farthest Frontier	2025-10-23	243,357
Dispatch	2025-10-22	231,217
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2	2025-10-21	192,261
Escape the Backrooms	2025-10-23	160,203
RV There Yet?	2025-10-21	136,145
VEIN	2025-10-24	123,077
Jurassic World Evolution 3	2025-10-21	79,774
MISERY	2025-10-23	74,539
Super Fantasy Kingdom	2025-10-24	42,003
NINJA GAIDEN 4	2025-10-20	38,882