Steam releases · Week 16, 2026

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

WEEK 16 ’2613 Apr – 19 Apr 2026531 releasesMTWTFSS

week 16 of 2026 at a glance

In week 16 of 2026 (13 – 19 Apr 2026), 531 games released on Steam, and 157 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Windrose (260,653 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (401 releases), it is 32 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	531
With a playable demo	157
Median followers, top 20 by demand	19,272
Free to play, of 522 with a known price	10 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

60%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

13%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

405

17%

——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
Windrose	2026-04-14	260,653
Tap Tap Loot	2026-04-13	177,378
PRAGMATA	2026-04-16	175,952
MOUSE: P.I. For Hire	2026-04-16	109,811
REPLACED	2026-04-14	83,060
Typing Farmer	2026-04-19	34,322
Airborne Empire	2026-04-17	24,928
Sintopia	2026-04-16	22,381
BidKing	2026-04-15	20,279
Valorborn	2026-04-15	19,475