Steam releases · Week 51, 2025

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

WEEK 51 ’2515 Dec – 21 Dec 2025425 releasesMTWTFSS

week 51 of 2025 at a glance

In week 51 of 2025 (15 – 21 Dec 2025), 425 games released on Steam, and 96 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is PIONER (48,925 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (376 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	425
With a playable demo	96
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,490
Free to play, of 413 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

13%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

347

82%

——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
PIONER	2025-12-16	48,925
Raiders of Blackveil	2025-12-15	12,300
NTRaholic SS	2025-12-17	9,990
Lust Theory Season 3	2025-12-19	3,809
KEEP GAMBLING	2025-12-16	3,557
Kats Trigger	2025-12-17	3,512
Utawarerumono: ZAN	2025-12-15	3,507
Hunters Inc	2025-12-19	3,243
Pure Badminton	2025-12-16	2,973
Varthos - Heir to the Throne	2025-12-16	2,712