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.
week 50 of 2026 at a glance
In week 50 of 2026 (7 – 13 Dec 2026), 233 games are scheduled to release on Steam, and 146 of them ship with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Drunken Goddess Reflux (28,503 followers, Popular Upcoming #32, wishlist rank #54). Compared with the same window a year earlier (499 releases), it is 53 % quieter. Data as of .