Steam releases · Week 21, 2026

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

WEEK 21 ’2618 May – 24 May 2026458 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2026 at a glance

In week 21 of 2026 (18 – 24 May 2026), 458 games released on Steam, and 89 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Forza Horizon 6 (335,318 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (447 releases), it is 2 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	458
With a playable demo	89
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,301
Free to play, of 458 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

88%

——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

356

——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
Forza Horizon 6	2026-05-18	335,318
Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core	2026-05-20	137,519
LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight	2026-05-22	68,325
ZERO PARADES: Director's Cut	2026-05-21	38,088
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II	2026-05-21	27,905
Thrifty Business	2026-05-18	19,579
Project: Mist	2026-05-19	16,842
Thick As Thieves	2026-05-20	15,953
SPITE: Taking the Boss's Wife, Sister and Mother	2026-05-22	13,028
Phonopolis	2026-05-20	11,622