Steam releases · Week 35, 2026

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

WEEK 35 ’2624 Aug – 30 Aug 2026832 releasesMTWTFSS

week 35 of 2026 at a glance

In week 35 of 2026 (24 – 30 Aug 2026), 832 games released on Steam, and 200 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is STAR WARS Zero Company™ (101,227 followers, wishlist rank #25). Compared with the same window a year earlier (424 releases), it is 96 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Free to play, of 825 with a known price
Releases	832
With a playable demo	200
Wishlist rank in top 100	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,075

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

5,2965,434too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

1,2706,030too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

42%

2552,90617%

Smallpublisher median 50–200

9127310%

Micropublisher median under 50

320too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

693

43%

316717%

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
STAR WARS Zero Company™	2026-08-27	101,227
1666: Amsterdam	2026-08-25	40,629
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy	2026-08-27	35,639
METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2	2026-08-27	21,317
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2	2026-08-25	26,478
Lou's Lagoon	2026-08-26	10,148
BRIGANDINE ABYSS	2026-08-26	7,309
Inferno Protocol	2026-08-28	4,164
Divinum	2026-08-28	—
Fell & Sell	2026-08-26	8,626