In week 40 of 2026 (Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026), 281 games are scheduled to release on Steam, and 79 of them ship with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Nivalis Nights (68,475 followers, Popular Upcoming #19, wishlist rank #26). Compared with the same window a year earlier (443 releases), it is 37 % quieter. Data as of .
Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.
classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w
Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews
2
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——too few
Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000
4
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——too few
Midpublisher median 200–1,000
9
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——too few
Smallpublisher median 50–200
7
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——too few
Micropublisher median under 50
26
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——too few
Self-publishedno external publisher
233
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——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.