Steam releases · Week 15, 2026

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

WEEK 15 ’266 Apr – 12 Apr 2026489 releasesMTWTFSS

week 15 of 2026 at a glance

In week 15 of 2026 (6 – 12 Apr 2026), 489 games released on Steam, and 139 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Soulmask (140,482 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (397 releases), it is 23 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	489
With a playable demo	139
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,698
Free to play, of 479 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

31%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

14%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

404

49%

——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
Soulmask	2026-04-09	140,482
Road to Vostok	2026-04-07	112,400
Morbid Metal	2026-04-08	40,530
Lay of the Land	2026-04-08	39,762
Samson	2026-04-08	32,026
DarkSwitch	2026-04-09	23,720
Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager	2026-04-09	21,409
Spark in the Dark	2026-04-07	20,740
Sol Cesto	2026-04-10	15,480
Prop Sumo	2026-04-09	13,252