Steam releases · Week 5, 2026

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

WEEK 5 ’2626 Jan – 1 Feb 2026479 releasesMTWTFSS

week 5 of 2026 at a glance

In week 5 of 2026 (26 Jan – 1 Feb 2026), 479 games released on Steam, and 120 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Half Sword (115,291 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (402 releases), it is 19 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	479
With a playable demo	120
Median followers, top 20 by demand	13,990
Free to play, of 473 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

19%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

23%

——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

389

42%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Half Sword	2026-01-30	115,291
Cairn	2026-01-29	80,863
Occupy Mars: The Game	2026-01-30	62,580
Vampires: Bloodlord Rising	2026-01-30	41,041
CODE VEIN II	2026-01-29	37,191
The Midnight Walkers	2026-01-28	31,019
Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles	2026-01-27	23,105
Project: Gorgon	2026-01-28	23,096
Highguard	2026-01-26	18,924
Echoes of Elysium	2026-01-27	15,025