Steam releases · January 2026

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

Jan 20261 Jan – 31 Jan 20261,623 releases

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January 2026 at a glance

In January 2026 (1 – 31 Jan 2026), 1,623 games released on Steam, and 374 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is StarRupture (142,434 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,780 releases), it is 9 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,623
With a playable demo	374
Median followers, top 20 by demand	33,147
Free to play, of 1,601 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

14%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

15%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

167

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,326

62%

——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.

inside January 2026

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
StarRupture	2026-01-06	142,434
Half Sword	2026-01-30	115,291
Terra Invicta	2026-01-05	108,798
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check	2026-01-12	102,072
Cairn	2026-01-29	80,863
Occupy Mars: The Game	2026-01-30	62,580
Out of Action	2026-01-22	42,594
Vampires: Bloodlord Rising	2026-01-30	41,041
Heartopia	2026-01-16	38,342
CODE VEIN II	2026-01-29	37,191