Steam releases · Week 4, 2026

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

WEEK 4 ’2619 Jan – 25 Jan 2026411 releasesMTWTFSS

week 4 of 2026 at a glance

In week 4 of 2026 (19 – 25 Jan 2026), 411 games released on Steam, and 94 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Out of Action (42,594 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (344 releases), it is 19 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	411
With a playable demo	94
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,344
Free to play, of 407 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	344 (+19 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Out of Action	2026-01-22	42,594
LORT	2026-01-21	31,403
Duet Night Abyss	2026-01-19	29,006
Bladesong	2026-01-22	25,649
FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves	2026-01-22	24,106
MIO: Memories in Orbit	2026-01-20	23,417
The Gold River Project	2026-01-23	21,356
Sin Spire	2026-01-23	15,571
Dwarves: Glory, Death and Loot	2026-01-22	15,408
Solargene	2026-01-19	13,337

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

336

54%

——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.