Steam releases · Week 38, 2026

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

WEEK 38 ’2614 Sep – 20 Sep 2026693 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2026 at a glance

In week 38 of 2026 (14 – 20 Sep 2026), 693 games released on Steam, and 150 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Aniimo (96,553 followers, wishlist rank #18). Compared with the same window a year earlier (426 releases), it is 63 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Free to play, of 674 with a known price
Releases	693
With a playable demo	150
Wishlist rank in top 100	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,689

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

12%

39,21339,213too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

2,17612,603too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

2831,34517%

Smallpublisher median 50–200

5362817%

Micropublisher median under 50

423too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

555

69%

38424%

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
Aniimo	2026-09-15	96,553
Active Matter	2026-09-15	55,040
Dimraeth	2026-09-15	50,285
The Guild 1 Remake: Europa 1410	2026-09-17	41,115
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter	2026-09-16	19,263
BLACKWOOD	2026-09-16	16,455
OpenFront	2026-09-17	13,463
Woodo	2026-09-16	9,466
lily's world XD	2026-09-17	6,756
Kernel Hearts	2026-09-17	9,689