Weekly Steam Report - 5 Oct 2026 - 11 Oct 2026
For the seven days ending 11/10/2026, 21 games cleared the filters. Deadlock topped the wishlist-movers chart at +8,757 followers. Among new releases, AION 2 pulled the highest first-week peak at 397,343 concurrent. ForgeTax topped the momentum-jump chart with +20 points on the composite score.
Top Wishlist Movers
Upcoming Steam games ranked by follower gain over the 7 days ending 11/10/2026. Follower gain is the underlying signal driving our wishlist model - a proxy for real acquisition velocity.
| # | Game | Followers gained | WL gained | WL estimate | Followers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +8,757 | +0 | 5,250,000 | 464,845 | |
| 2 | +7,530 | +100,263 | 528,160 | 41,830 | |
| 3 | +6,800 | +137,992 | 318,862 | 12,919 | |
| 4 | +2,952 | +0 | 2,965,215 | 112,729 | |
| 5 |  8 days to release | +2,817 | +71,665 | 204,581 | 11,676 |
| 6 |  8 days to release | +2,759 | +70,138 | 743,766 | 35,132 |
| 7 | +2,493 | +72,851 | 180,870 | 9,323 | |
| 8 |  15 days to release | +2,226 | +22,494 | 94,266 | 11,004 |
| 9 | +2,039 | +20,426 | 75,852 | 5,418 | |
| 10 | +2,022 | +106,230 | 190,382 | 4,791 |
Biggest Launches
Steam releases in the week of 5 Oct 2026 - 11 Oct 2026, ranked by peak concurrent players observed in the first 7 days.
| # | Game | First-week peak CCU | Reviews | Positive % | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
Released 05/10/2026 | 397,343 | 6,447 | 75.6% | Free / TBD |
Breakouts
Small-studio games with the biggest audience-momentum jump between 05/10/2026 and 11/10/2026. 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 | +20 | 11.79 → 31.79 | 3,857 | 0 | |
| 2 |  Released 06/08/2026 | +19.45 | 24.03 → 43.48 | 227,668 | 3,879 |
| 3 |  Released 24/09/2026 | +13.99 | 20.18 → 34.17 | 43,662 | 276 |
| 4 |  Released 23/09/2026 | +11.58 | 21.88 → 33.46 | 33,554 | 513 |
| 5 | +11.2 | 9.59 → 20.79 | 1,463 | 0 | |
| 6 | +11.04 | 18.09 → 29.13 | 2,451 | 0 | |
| 7 |  9 days to release | +10.84 | 20.35 → 31.19 | 9,773 | 0 |
| 8 | +10.47 | 5.96 → 16.43 | 247 | 0 | |
| 9 | +10.36 | 10.25 → 20.61 | 589 | 0 | |
| 10 |  Released 29/07/2026 | +10.26 | 19.19 → 29.45 | 99,330 | 1,105 |
