Steam Week in Review: Here are the 32 Steam games brave enough to release on GTA 6 day
Overview & Key Takeaways
All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending August 16.
Lord of Undead is a "grim" third-person RPG about building an army of vicious zombies in order to maliciously raze the villages of mortals. The goal is to defeat peace and innocence, all the better for evil to prevail. You also get to build houses. It sounds pretty fun and, as far as I can tell, it's the second most popular game releasing on November 19 behind GTA 6.
Lord of Undead does have some advantages. The most obvious is that GTA 6 isn't coming to PC. It also has the most "Follows" of all Steam games releasing that day. Follows are different to wishlists: to follow a game is to see news and announcements about it in your news and updates feed, but you won't receive a notification when it releases. Wishlist data isn't public, but follows, for some reason, is.
Lord of Undead (Image credit: Megame LLC)
Lord of Undead has a fairly impressive 2,649 follows right now, slightly more than Parry Survivor, which enjoys 2,062. Parry Survivor stars a school-uniformed anime character who must fend off waves of masked boys. It's from the creator of Kunkun League, Black Gunner Wukong and Evolve or Die, all of which have between 150 and 450 "very positive" reviews.
Parry Simulator (Image credit: Seal)
We have other games to look forward to as well: at least 30 more. Cute Country has 736 follows and is described on its Steam page as "super cute cure simulation operation single machine masterpiece" (I think it's basically a city builder with mobile game RPG elements). Then, with 123 follows is Phantom Vice Auto, which Chris Livingston has already written about.
Cute Country (Image credit: 米学长工作室)
Looking further afield, Man Simulator has a modest 9 follows. It's a "comedy simulator" where you get to be a slobbish middle-aged man: there's law mowing, fishing, hammering, wood chopping, barbequing, beer drinking, and it promises "meme-style presentation and humor".
Man Simulator (Image credit: Garazh Studio)
And it wouldn't be a day on Steam, let alone GTA 6 launch day, without yet another first-person horror game. Flick is "a first-person body-cam horror game scientifically engineered to spike feelings of dread", which may help to alleviate our feelings of FOMO.
What else? Let's just list 'em shall we:
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- Lord of Undead
- Parry Survivor
- Cute Country
- Phantom Vice Auto
- Flick
- Moba Team Manager
- Astro Industry Wars
- The Creator: Live Together
- Dig! Dig! Dino!
- Iona's Island
- Blyte
- Boom Rush: Desert OPS
- Core Logistics
- Sokobomb
- 树人：中国班主任
- Veil Breach: Raven County
- Neo Light
- Man Simulator
- Desert Island Time
- Utopium
- Cats and Pillos
- Anomaly Corp.
- Dungeon Cooking
- Divine Move
- Maximum Security Boyfriend
- G.E.M. Grab & Exit
- Sweet KOL (extremely NSFW!)
- Black Market Space Station Shop Simulator
- Crowns & Tiles
- Space Tenacity
- Ship Shape Slam!!!
- Pavel Repin's #tacticalunderground (DLC)
Curiously, there are actually more games releasing on November 19 than the day before and after (six on the 18th and 12 on the 20th). The same is true the Thursday before (27) and the Thursday after (5).
Will major publishers release anything close to GTA 6? And I'm talking, through the entirety of November? So far, according to our list of upcoming 2026 PC games, not really, though Devolver keeps promising it will.
Top Steam games by revenue (August 4 - 11)
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| Rank | Game |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apex Legends |
| 2 | Counter-Strike 2 |
| 3 | Big Walk |
| 4 | Dota 2 |
| 5 | Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls |
| 6 | Cyberpunk 2077 |
| 7 | Iron Nest |
| 8 | Marvel Rivals |
| 9 | ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs |
| 10 | Palworld |
Soulslike extraction RPG Mistfall Hunter disappeared from the top 10 after debuting in at number 3 last week (it ranked 12th, so almost).
Another interesting fact gleaned from just outside the top 10 is that Gears of War: E-Day came in at number 11, which is—as far as I can tell—the highest its reached since Steam pre-orders started on June 7. By contrast, Forza Horizon 6 hit number 4 on the revenue charts during the week pre-orders commenced.
I don't mean to seem like I'm ragging on Microsoft—I'm happy to do so for more important reasons—but Halo: Campaign Evolved has dropped pretty severely, coming in at 69 after enjoying 5th place last week. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, by contrast, is dropping much more slowly.
It's neat to see Big Walk rank so highly, and it was overall a big week for niche Steam indies: Iron Nest is a heavy turret simulator and ReStory is about fixing old electronics.
Last week's Steam deep cuts
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Steam review of the week
"EA didn't finish the game so I'm not finishing this revi"
Phantom, on the new Madden game, which is copping an absolute flogging by Steam users.
