Steam releases · Week 21, 2026

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

WEEK 21 ’26May 18 – May 24, 2026580 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2026 at a glance

In week 21 of 2026 (May 18 – 24, 2026), 580 games released on Steam, and 95 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Forza Horizon 6 (327,057 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (507 releases), it is 14 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	580
With a playable demo	95
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,329
Free to play, of 456 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	507 (+14 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Forza Horizon 6	2026-05-18	327,057
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core	2026-05-20	136,657
LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight	2026-05-22	66,176
ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies	2026-05-21	37,011
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II	2026-05-21	27,908
Thrifty Business	2026-05-18	19,573
Project: Mist	2026-05-19	16,649
Thick As Thieves	2026-05-20	16,044
Luna Abyss	2026-05-21	15,631
SPITE: Taking the Boss's Wife, Sister and Mother	2026-05-22	11,482

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

89%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

485

——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.