Steam releases · Week 5, 2025

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

WEEK 5 ’2527 Jan – 2 Feb 2025402 releasesMTWTFSS

week 5 of 2025 at a glance

In week 5 of 2025 (27 Jan – 2 Feb 2025), 402 games released on Steam, and 61 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Foundation (235,982 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (336 releases), it is 20 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	402
With a playable demo	61
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,217
Free to play, of 389 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

44%

——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

323

46%

——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
Foundation	2025-01-31	235,982
Marvel's Spider-Man 2	2025-01-30	118,475
Space Engineers 2	2025-01-27	72,780
Hello Kitty Island Adventure	2025-01-30	47,997
The Headliners	2025-01-30	42,819
Eternal Strands	2025-01-28	23,046
FlyKnight Enhanced Edition	2025-01-31	20,756
Battle Realms: Zen Edition	2025-01-27	19,926
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap	2025-01-28	19,460
Exogate Initiative	2025-01-28	14,668