Steam releases · Week 2, 2026

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

WEEK 2 ’26Jan 5 – Jan 11, 2026448 releasesMTWTFSS

week 2 of 2026 at a glance

In week 2 of 2026 (Jan 5 – 11, 2026), 448 games released on Steam, and 73 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is StarRupture (142,160 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (317 releases), it is 41 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	448
With a playable demo	73
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,085
Free to play, of 345 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	317 (+41 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
StarRupture	2026-01-06	142,160
Terra Invicta	2026-01-05	108,510
Rising Front	2026-01-09	33,039
Pathologic 3	2026-01-09	23,991
DuneCrawl	2026-01-05	19,509
Cozy Caravan	2026-01-07	14,698
Scam Line	2026-01-10	7,961
Sophie: The Girl From The Zone	2026-01-09	7,825
Dream of Corpse Lady	2026-01-11	7,267
Ancient Farm	2026-01-07	7,062

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

27%

——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

388

67%

——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.