Steam releases · Week 44, 2025

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

WEEK 44 ’2527 Oct – 2 Nov 2025531 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2025 at a glance

In week 44 of 2025 (27 Oct – 2 Nov 2025), 531 games released on Steam, and 153 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ARC Raiders (461,764 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (516 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	531
With a playable demo	153
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,715
Free to play, of 524 with a known price	13 %

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

416

97%

——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
ARC Raiders	2025-10-30	461,764
MIMESIS	2025-10-27	63,767
The Outer Worlds 2	2025-10-29	62,662
Master of Command	2025-10-27	30,115
Escape Simulator 2	2025-10-27	28,890
Outbreak Island	2025-10-28	25,404
Echoes of the Living	2025-10-31	15,787
The Séance of Blake Manor	2025-10-27	15,324
Silly Polly Beast	2025-10-28	14,274
Superball	2025-10-28	10,169