Wishlist risers
who climbed Steam’s wishlist chart fastest · unreleased games, top 3,000The 30 unreleased games that improved their place on Steam’s Top Wishlists chart the most in October 2026 so far (to Oct 5), out of 2,815 in the top 3,000 with a place at both ends of the period. Ordered by estimated wishlists gained. Left out: 64 games from major publishers and 43 adult titles.
what stands out
- Biggest gain: Permafrost, about +177K wishlists, followed by Scam With Your Friends (+116K) and Find The Needle (+75K).
- Biggest jump up the chart: Theoria: A God Simulator, #4,502 → #1,462 (×3.1).
- Tags the risers carry far more often than the chart as a whole: Incremental (6 of 30; 2% across the top), Artificial Intelligence (4 of 30; 2% across the top), Physics (12 of 30; 11% across the top), Economy (6 of 30; 6% across the top), Cartoony (6 of 30; 7% across the top), Base Building (8 of 30; 12% across the top)
- 5 more games entered the top 3,000 this month from outside the chart, the highest LitGirls: Bookbound Dungeons straight at #968. They are listed separately below.
day by day
Wishlist risers · October 2026, to Oct 5the 30 risers
Wishlist risers · October 2026, to Oct 5
new in the top 3,000 this month
These games were not on the chart at the start of the period — fresh announcements or games coming back — so they have no change in place to compare.| Rank | Game | Wishlists, est. | On the chart since |
|---|---|---|---|
| #968 |  | 58K | Oct 1 |
| #1,933 |  | 24K | Oct 1 |
| #2,434 |  | 18K | Oct 2 |
| #2,501 |  | 17K | Oct 4 |
| #2,712 |  | 15K | Oct 4 |
how the list is built
The list covers games that are not out yet and sit in the top 3,000 of Steam’s Top Wishlists chart at the end of the period. A week runs from Sunday to Sunday; a month from the last day of the previous month to its own last day, and the current month is shown up to its last full day.
By default it leaves out games from big corporate publishers (SEGA, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, Capcom, Konami, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Xbox Game Studios, PlayStation, Bethesda, 2K, Take-Two, Rockstar Games, Warner Bros. Games, CD PROJEKT, NetEase, Tencent, KRAFTON, Nexon, Netmarble, NCSoft, Riot Games, Epic Games, Valve, HoYoverse) and adult games — those players tag Sexual Content, Nudity, Hentai or NSFW.
Of the rest, the 30 games whose place improved the most make the list, ordered by wishlists gained. Improvement is a ratio, not a difference in places: #4,000 → #2,000 and #400 → #200 count as the same jump.
Steam does not publish wishlist counts, so the wishlist numbers here are our approximate estimate based on the chart place. Followers are the game’s Steam community followers.
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