Steam releases · Week 20, 2026

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

WEEK 20 ’2611 May – 17 May 2026479 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2026 at a glance

In week 20 of 2026 (11 – 17 May 2026), 479 games released on Steam, and 99 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Subnautica 2 (487,302 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (352 releases), it is 36 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	479
With a playable demo	99
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,431
Free to play, of 466 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

10%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

374

66%

——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
Subnautica 2	2026-05-14	487,302
Space Haven	2026-05-13	130,885
Outbound	2026-05-11	75,140
SiNiSistar 2	2026-05-15	38,215
Directive 8020	2026-05-12	24,868
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes	2026-05-11	17,523
Dark Light: Survivor	2026-05-14	15,148
Hotel Architect	2026-05-14	15,123
Better Than Dead	2026-05-12	14,777
Blades of Fire	2026-05-14	12,087