Steam releases · Week 9, 2026

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

WEEK 9 ’2623 Feb – 1 Mar 2026391 releasesMTWTFSS

week 9 of 2026 at a glance

In week 9 of 2026 (23 Feb – 1 Mar 2026), 391 games released on Steam, and 74 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Resident Evil Requiem (269,147 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (323 releases), it is 21 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	391
With a playable demo	74
Median followers, top 20 by demand	5,034
Free to play, of 378 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

309

85%

——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
Resident Evil Requiem	2026-02-26	269,147
Laysara: Summit Kingdom	2026-02-27	45,193
Nested Lands	2026-02-25	20,436
Rise of Piracy	2026-02-24	18,257
Railroad Corporation 2	2026-02-25	9,498
Tales of Berseria Remastered	2026-02-26	6,714
Heavy Hearts	2026-02-26	6,359
FRESHMAN	2026-02-26	5,228
Vikings: Sex and Blood	2026-02-27	5,216
They Killed Your Cat	2026-02-24	5,048