Steam releases · Week 36, 2026

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

WEEK 36 ’2631 Aug – 6 Sep 2026775 releasesMTWTFSS

week 36 of 2026 at a glance

In week 36 of 2026 (31 Aug – 6 Sep 2026), 775 games released on Steam, and 175 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Blood of Dawnwalker (153,580 followers, wishlist rank #8). Compared with the same window a year earlier (338 releases), it is 129 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Free to play, of 761 with a known price
Releases	775
With a playable demo	175
Wishlist rank in top 100	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,920

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

15,80428,146too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

38%

4,64050,562too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

3171,4197%

Smallpublisher median 50–200

7119819%

Micropublisher median under 50

328too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

665

48%

37619%

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
The Blood of Dawnwalker	2026-09-02	153,580
Onimusha: Way of the Sword	2026-09-03	85,229
BOMBANANA!	2026-09-02	36,954
Crimson Moon	2026-09-01	28,572
Breathedge 2	2026-08-31	39,858
Dungeon Settlers	2026-09-04	34,682
WheelMates	2026-09-01	15,391
SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed	2026-09-03	29,327
Scavland	2026-09-04	23,407
Friendly Steps	2026-09-03	5,706