Steam releases · Week 22, 2026

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

WEEK 22 ’2625 May – 31 May 2026558 releasesMTWTFSS

week 22 of 2026 at a glance

In week 22 of 2026 (25 – 31 May 2026), 558 games released on Steam, and 140 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Paralives (275,120 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (432 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	558
With a playable demo	140
Median followers, top 20 by demand	18,063
Free to play, of 549 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

427

96%

——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
Paralives	2026-05-25	275,120
007 First Light	2026-05-26	122,732
Town to City	2026-05-26	56,490
Romestead	2026-05-25	55,617
Starminer	2026-05-27	49,009
TBH: Task Bar Hero	2026-05-27	44,783
Mina the Hollower	2026-05-28	32,474
Wild Assault	2026-05-28	31,680
Realm of Ink	2026-05-26	29,397
Cheap Car Repair	2026-05-28	25,703