Steam releases · Week 8, 2025

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

WEEK 8 ’2517 Feb – 23 Feb 2025374 releasesMTWTFSS

week 8 of 2025 at a glance

In week 8 of 2025 (17 – 23 Feb 2025), 374 games released on Steam, and 54 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Avowed (109,325 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (337 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	374
With a playable demo	54
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,281
Free to play, of 358 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

18%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

17%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

23%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

303

34%

——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
Avowed	2025-02-18	109,325
Longvinter	2025-02-21	40,850
Peripeteia	2025-02-21	30,858
Microtopia	2025-02-18	14,051
Cabernet	2025-02-20	12,635
Blood Typers	2025-02-20	9,236
Garten of Banban 0	2025-02-21	9,136
Unbridled: That Horse Game	2025-02-19	7,880
Whisker Squadron: Survivor	2025-02-21	6,650
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH	2025-02-19	3,661