Steam releases · Week 12, 2026

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

WEEK 12 ’2616 Mar – 22 Mar 2026489 releasesMTWTFSS

week 12 of 2026 at a glance

In week 12 of 2026 (16 – 22 Mar 2026), 489 games released on Steam, and 133 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Crimson Desert Enhanced (324,737 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (317 releases), it is 54 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	489
With a playable demo	133
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,464
Free to play, of 478 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

30%

——too few

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

398

63%

——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
Crimson Desert Enhanced	2026-03-19	324,737
Going Medieval	2026-03-17	180,830
Everwind	2026-03-17	103,307
DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH	2026-03-19	81,015
The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin	2026-03-16	58,062
Project Castaway	2026-03-17	33,836
Dragonkin: The Banished	2026-03-16	29,257
Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator	2026-03-17	27,161
Heroes of Science and Fiction	2026-03-17	15,464
Scritchy Scratchy	2026-03-18	14,054