Steam releases · Week 3, 2026

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

WEEK 3 ’2612 Jan – 18 Jan 2026330 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2026 at a glance

In week 3 of 2026 (12 – 18 Jan 2026), 330 games released on Steam, and 75 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Quarantine Zone: The Last Check (102,072 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (273 releases), it is 21 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	330
With a playable demo	75
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,935
Free to play, of 324 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

24%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

258

74%

——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
Quarantine Zone: The Last Check	2026-01-12	102,072
Heartopia	2026-01-16	38,342
Kotama and Academy Citadel	2026-01-14	16,053
Craftlings	2026-01-15	13,820
The NOexistenceN of Morphean Paradox : The Forest of Silver Shallots	2026-01-18	13,052
WindStop Strategy	2026-01-15	12,819
MaSzyna	2026-01-14	6,345
BrokenLore: UNFOLLOW	2026-01-15	5,242
War of Dots	2026-01-16	5,125
Big Hops Together	2026-01-12	5,002