Steam release density by week

how crowded the shipping windows are — past and announced

Release dates from all 300k+ Steam store pages. Dashed violet = announced future.since1997

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17822121.1kreleases · color = percentile among periodsannounced futurebeyond source depth — dates that far exist only for chart-toppers

releases per week · last 12 weeks

Steam took 10,274 releases over the last 12 complete weeks — an average of 856 a week. Every week links to its own page with the releases themselves.

Games released on Steam per week over the last twelve complete weeks.
Week	Releases
Week 25, 2026	602
Week 26, 2026	850
Week 27, 2026	668
Week 28, 2026	707
Week 29, 2026	927
Week 30, 2026	867
Week 31, 2026	947
Week 32, 2026	823
Week 33, 2026	950
Week 34, 2026	931
Week 35, 2026	928
Week 36, 2026	1,074

Data as of 2026-09-13. Every number comes from Steam’s own public surfaces or is computed from them; definitions are in Metrics.