Steam releases · Week 2, 2026

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

WEEK 2 ’265 Jan – 11 Jan 2026352 releasesMTWTFSS

week 2 of 2026 at a glance

In week 2 of 2026 (5 – 11 Jan 2026), 352 games released on Steam, and 73 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is StarRupture (142,434 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (263 releases), it is 34 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	352
With a playable demo	73
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,081
Free to play, of 346 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	263 (+34 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
StarRupture	2026-01-06	142,434
Terra Invicta	2026-01-05	108,798
Rising Front	2026-01-09	33,147
Pathologic 3	2026-01-09	24,142
DuneCrawl	2026-01-05	19,645
Cozy Caravan	2026-01-07	14,773
Scam Line	2026-01-10	8,389
Sophie: The Girl From The Zone	2026-01-09	7,934
Dream of Corpse Lady	2026-01-11	7,802
Ancient Farm	2026-01-07	7,065

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

29%

——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

288

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.