In week 40 of 2026 (28 Sep – 4 Oct 2026), 706 games released on Steam, and 135 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE (71,200 followers, Popular Upcoming #1, wishlist rank #32). Compared with the same window a year earlier (367 releases), it is 92 % busier. Data as of .
Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.
classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w
Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews
2
33%
40,03946,025too few
Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000
6
26%
1,40229,835too few
Midpublisher median 200–1,000
10
21%
3255,34830%
Smallpublisher median 50–200
14
2%
10256720%
Micropublisher median under 50
81
1%
35613%
Self-publishedno external publisher
593
18%
33427%
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.
