Steam releases · Week 17, 2026

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

WEEK 17 ’2620 Apr – 26 Apr 2026552 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2026 at a glance

In week 17 of 2026 (20 – 26 Apr 2026), 552 games released on Steam, and 129 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is shapez 2 - Factory (57,019 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (402 releases), it is 37 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	552
With a playable demo	129
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,492
Free to play, of 545 with a known price	10 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

19%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

412

54%

——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
shapez 2 - Factory	2026-04-23	57,019
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors	2026-04-21	44,027
Into the Radius 2	2026-04-23	30,474
Yunyun Syndrome!? Rhythm Psychosis	2026-04-23	27,091
'83	2026-04-23	26,779
Masters of Albion	2026-04-22	22,666
Sudden Strike 5	2026-04-23	15,500
Come Home	2026-04-24	15,252
Pratfall	2026-04-20	14,162
Tides of Tomorrow 🌊	2026-04-22	13,726