Steam releases · Week 1, 2025

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

WEEK 1 ’2529 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026197 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2025 at a glance

In week 1 of 2025 (29 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026), 197 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is My Winter Car (38,689 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (262 releases), it is 25 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	197
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	542
Free to play, of 191 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

164

99%

——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
My Winter Car	2025-12-29	38,689
Carnival Massacre	2025-12-29	1,503
Poker Fate - Anime Girls Texas Hold'em	2026-01-03	1,208
DaemonBride:ADDITIONAL GAIN	2025-12-30	945
Girl Frame	2025-12-31	737
Long Knives	2025-12-31	671
Toro 7	2026-01-01	657
Baskin All-In: The Family	2025-12-31	655
The wild darkness	2025-12-30	624
Kurotsuki	2026-01-01	575