Weekly Steam Report - 20 Apr 2026 - 26 Apr 2026
Week 17 produced 30 games worth watching across three angles. Biggest wishlist gain: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, adding 14,350 followers. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors was the standout debut at 45,396 concurrent players. 无名者 showed the sharpest small-studio momentum jump (+24 points).
Top Wishlist Movers
Upcoming Steam games ranked by follower gain over the 7 days ending 26/04/2026. Follower gain is the underlying signal driving our wishlist model - a proxy for real acquisition velocity.
| # | Game | Followers gained | WL estimate | Followers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  74 days to release | +14,350 | 557,790 | 106,493 |
| 2 | +10,670 | 592,311 | 74,853 | |
| 3 |  51 days to release | +6,006 | 130,620 | 38,127 |
| 4 |  22 days to release | +5,685 | 2,965,215 | 341,970 |
| 5 | +5,422 | 143,332 | 18,952 | |
| 6 | +5,057 | 271,636 | 18,215 | |
| 7 |  96 days to release | +4,700 | 96,796 | 53,668 |
| 8 |  18 days to release | +4,239 | 5,250,000 | 496,157 |
| 9 |  109 days to release | +3,847 | 656,644 | 72,361 |
| 10 | +3,765 | 75,620 | 24,777 |
Biggest Launches
Steam releases in the week of 20 Apr 2026 - 26 Apr 2026, ranked by peak concurrent players observed in the first 7 days.
| # | Game | First-week peak CCU | Reviews | Positive % | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
Released 21/04/2026 | 45,396 | 18,816 | 96.2% | $0.09 |
| 2 | 
Released 23/04/2026 | 9,369 | 15,115 | 97% | $0.25 |
| 3 | 
Released 26/04/2026 | 2,827 | 770 | 94.7% | $0.02 |
| 4 | 
Released 23/04/2026 | 1,312 | 5,748 | 79.9% | $0.34 |
| 5 | 
Released 24/04/2026 | 1,249 | 2,181 | 98.3% | $0.04 |
| 6 | 
Released 22/04/2026 | 895 | 623 | 65.7% | $0.22 |
| 7 | 
Released 25/04/2026 | 859 | 488 | 86.7% | $0.12 |
| 8 | 
Released 22/04/2026 | 851 | 801 | 77.4% | $0.10 |
| 9 | 
Released 20/04/2026 | 735 | 1,475 | 94.9% | $0.06 |
| 10 | 
Released 20/04/2026 | 508 | 159 | 61.6% | Free / TBD |
Breakouts
Small-studio games with the biggest audience-momentum jump between 20/04/2026 and 26/04/2026. Momentum is our composite score of Steam follower growth, Twitch presence, news mentions, and wishlist rank movement - so this table surfaces titles pulling in real attention from more than one channel at once, not games moving on a single signal. To keep the focus on new discovery, we exclude games with 5,000+ reviews, major-publisher backing, and anything released more than 90 days ago (upcoming games at any distance still qualify).
| # | Game | Momentum jump | Score (start → end) | WL estimate | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Released 26/04/2026 | +24.15 | 17.82 → 41.97 | 25,821 | 130 |
| 2 | +21.19 | 9.37 → 30.56 | 13,870 | 0 | |
| 3 |  57 days to release | +19.97 | 17.32 → 37.29 | 12,198 | 1,161 |
| 4 | +19.13 | 14.49 → 33.62 | 5,434 | 0 | |
| 5 |  3 days to release | +19.01 | 12.77 → 31.78 | 8,987 | 1,003 |
| 6 | +18.97 | 16.31 → 35.28 | 24,111 | 0 | |
| 7 | +18.49 | 12.93 → 31.42 | 13,661 | 0 | |
| 8 | +18.14 | 12.1 → 30.24 | 71,155 | 0 | |
| 9 | +17.62 | 14.28 → 31.9 | 9,120 | 0 | |
| 10 | +17.31 | 24.36 → 41.67 | 35,302 | 0 |
