Steam releases · Week 52, 2025

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

WEEK 52 ’25Dec 22 – Dec 28, 2025317 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2025 at a glance

In week 52 of 2025 (Dec 22 – 28, 2025), 317 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Your Mom (14,287 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (237 releases), it is 34 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	317
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	848
Free to play, of 255 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	237 (+34 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Your Mom	2025-12-25	14,287
Sex Shop Simulator: X-RAY DESIRE	2025-12-26	5,284
HYPNOTIC EYES	2025-12-27	2,662
The Black Ice	2025-12-24	2,347
The Backrooms Deluxe 2	2025-12-24	1,902
BBY DON'T HURT ME	2025-12-24	1,679
GOSDOOMA	2025-12-27	1,488
100 Ruin Cats	2025-12-22	1,215
The Joker's Game	2025-12-23	1,123
SpaceVenture	2025-12-23	985

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

268

94%

——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.