Steam releases · Week 29, 2026

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

WEEK 29 ’2613 Jul – 19 Jul 2026738 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2026 at a glance

In week 29 of 2026 (13 – 19 Jul 2026), 738 games released on Steam, and 258 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is GROUND BRANCH (115,739 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (473 releases), it is 56 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	738
With a playable demo	258
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,102
Free to play, of 735 with a known price	9 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

6032,016too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

18%

3082,81426%

Smallpublisher median 50–200

12%

3735125%

Micropublisher median under 50

241too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

597

60%

28532%

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
GROUND BRANCH	2026-07-16	115,739
The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu	2026-07-15	62,323
Funnel Runners	2026-07-16	32,831
Go-Go Town!	2026-07-16	26,352
Denshattack!	2026-07-15	20,793
Pathogenic	2026-07-16	16,814
SpiritVale	2026-07-15	15,504
Farlands	2026-07-16	14,750
Dead Weight	2026-07-16	13,150
Hell Maiden	2026-07-16	12,050