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Steam updates shipped Oct 4 – Oct 10, 2026, ranked by how average concurrent players in the 7 days after each compare with the 7 days before. Only games that averaged at least 100 players in the week before. This is correlation, not cause: a sale, a streamer, a festival or a rival's launch in the same week moves players too.
Oct 8, 2026 · Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen out now!
5,097 → 37.3K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +14% · reviews 37/day → 159/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Update | Maintenance Completed
204 → 464 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −24% · reviews 0.0/day → 0.0/day
1 more build that week
Oct 9, 2026 · Build 25834994
135 → 294 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −1% · reviews 0.3/day → 0.0/day
1 more build that week
Oct 9, 2026 · Early Access Season #11
3,462 → 7,508 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −28% · reviews 56/day → 338/day
2 more builds that week
Oct 6, 2026 · Patch 0.7.5.1
136 → 272 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −49% · reviews 2.6/day → 3.0/day
3 more builds that week
Oct 5, 2026 · v1.33 Update: Conquest Beta
174 → 343 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +26% · reviews 1.5/day → 3.1/day
1 more build that week
Oct 8, 2026 · Ver7.6.0
129 → 222 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −7% · reviews 0.0/day → 0.3/day
Oct 6, 2026 · Build 25623791
238 → 393 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −26% · reviews 0.8/day → 1.6/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Version 2.2 Known Issues (Updated on October 8 14:00 UTC)
2,235 → 3,624 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −25% · reviews 5.5/day → 5.3/day
Oct 5, 2026 · Founder's Access Has Begun!
6,543 → 9,831 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +5% · reviews 4.5/day → 25/day
2 more builds that week
Oct 10, 2026 · v4.19.0 Release Notes
213 → 318 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that 0% · reviews 0.5/day → 6.1/day
Oct 9, 2026 · 💥 Mortis goes MYTHIC! ✨ Legendary Loot, Spellforged Weapons, and more!
120 → 176 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −11% · reviews 0.8/day → 1.0/day
Oct 6, 2026 · [IMPORTANT] Upcoming Maintenance on October 6th
1,247 → 1,801 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −7% · reviews 0.4/day → 1.4/day
Oct 6, 2026 · 10/6 Server maintenance announcement
679 → 979 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −19% · reviews 1.1/day → 1.4/day
Oct 5, 2026 · Build 25598392
305 → 420 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −7% · reviews 1.5/day → 2.1/day
Oct 7, 2026 · Patch 19.0
4,421 → 6,012 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −8% · reviews 9.9/day → 12/day
1 more build that week
Oct 10, 2026 · Bee and Animal Spirit Update
146 → 197 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −10% · reviews 0.2/day → 0.9/day
Oct 8, 2026 · UPDATE v.261008-01
823 → 1,077 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −14% · reviews 13/day → 13/day
Oct 6, 2026 · Update 15.9 | Pacific Front, Black Friday, & Halloween Treats!
11.1K → 14.5K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −7% · reviews 11/day → 19/day
Oct 9, 2026 · Sill Friends series integration is here!
157 → 202 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −1% · reviews 0.9/day → 2.5/day
Oct 8, 2026 · v0.87.0: Position system, Weather system, Gameplay balancing
713 → 871 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −17% · reviews 12/day → 20/day
1 more build that week
Oct 8, 2026 · New Driver Booster 14 Is Here!
707 → 818 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +3% · reviews 2.3/day → 4.1/day
Oct 9, 2026 · Build 25830802
577 → 667 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −5% · reviews 0.3/day → 1.0/day
Oct 10, 2026 · Build 25842627
632 → 727 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −4% · reviews 2.0/day → 4.5/day
Oct 6, 2026 · Overwatch Reign of Talon - Season 5: A Grim Doctrine Now Live!
67.6K → 77.7K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +3% · reviews 141/day → 206/day
Oct 5, 2026 · Release 0.107.7822
1,625 → 775 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −63% · reviews 27/day → 18/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Notice: Game Update (Patch 1.4.0)
2,228 → 1,263 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −56% · reviews 165/day → 92/day
Oct 7, 2026 · Patch 1.1.1 – Performance Improvements
128 → 85 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −33% · reviews 11/day → 6.9/day
An update is a new public build on Steam, dated by Steam's own build time (PICS — the source SteamDB reads). A patch usually comes as a burst, so a build within 7 days of the one before it is counted as part of that update (“more builds that week”), not measured again. We see the build a game is on when we ask; a build that came and went between two asks is not in this list. A build counts only if we were already watching the game a full 7 days before it and saw it within 2 days of shipping — otherwise “no earlier build” would only mean we had not looked yet — so a game new to our build tracking has no updates for its first week.
Players are the average of our daily concurrent-player readings over whole weeks, so a weekend is on both sides. Only the reading nearest 15:00 UTC counts each day, and only if it was taken within 2 hours of it: Steam concurrency runs about 1.8x higher at its daily high than at its low, so an extra reading at another hour would move a side with nothing changing in the game. Each side needs readings on at least 4 of its 7 days. Reviews/day is the pace of Steam's review counter over the same two weeks. Reviews/day reads “—” where a side spans under three days or Steam’s review counter broke: a reading of 0 or one far below an earlier one, more than 50% of a game's lifetime reviews in a week (for a game over 60 days old), or more reviews a day than its concurrent players could write. We show a gap rather than a jump we cannot vouch for.
Baselines. “Week before that” is the same game one week earlier: a game already climbing 20% a week that climbs 20% after an update was climbing anyway. An update with a sale or a price cut (US store) anywhere from two weeks before to a week after is left out of both lists and counted above, because a sale moves players on its own. The typical change is the median over every measured update of the week not known to overlap a sale. An update on a game with no US price reading in that window — not sold in the US, or not priced by us in those three weeks; a free game has a price of zero and counts as no sale — could not be checked: it stays in the lists, marked “no US price to check for a sale”, is counted above, and is part of the typical change.
The list waits a week and a day after the last update it shows, so every “after” week is complete. Titles are the Steam announcement posted nearest each build, where one exists — close in time, not proven to be that build's notes. Adult titles are not listed. This is correlation, not cause: a sale, a streamer, a festival or a rival's launch in the same week moves players too. Open the game's Players tab for every update we have recorded for it.
1 more build that week
Oct 6, 2026 · v2.2.3 Patch Notes
1,203 → 810 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −39% · reviews 12/day → 7.6/day
1 more build that week
Oct 5, 2026 · Build 25733196
309 → 213 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +42% · reviews 0.0/day → 0.4/day
Oct 9, 2026 · Patch v1.0.21
181 → 127 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −40% · reviews 4.5/day → 3.1/day
Oct 10, 2026 · [Update] v0.4.29
287 → 212 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −40% · reviews 5.4/day → 5.0/day
Oct 9, 2026 · Build 25828794
89K → 67.1K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −30% · reviews 312/day → 246/day
2 more builds that week
Oct 5, 2026 · Build 25697969
166 → 127 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +5% · reviews 0.2/day → 0.7/day
Oct 6, 2026 · One Month until ExileCon 2026
33.2K → 25.6K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −27% · reviews 34/day → 31/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Lawn Mowing Simulator 2 | Patch Notes | 08/10/26
151 → 118 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −48% · reviews 3.1/day → 2.0/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Transport Fever 3 Receives First Stability Update
32.6K → 25.7K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that — · reviews 401/day → 158/day
Oct 7, 2026 · Update #13: Quest Journal, Drone Hub, Genetics & Steam Deck Improvements
421 → 336 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −30% · reviews 3.6/day → 4.6/day
1 more build that week
Oct 5, 2026 · Patch Ver. 1.04
8,774 → 7,137 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −27% · reviews 97/day → 78/day
Oct 6, 2026 · Bug Fixes update
399 → 326 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −20% · reviews 31/day → 27/day
Oct 8, 2026 · [10/08] Announcement on Disciplinary Actions Against Illegal Program Users
938 → 781 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +7% · reviews 2.4/day → 1.5/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Patch Notes: Ver. 5.0.4.4 / Ver. -1.91
246 → 205 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −14% · reviews 0.6/day → 2.1/day
Oct 8, 2026 · Update 4.15.0
3,550 → 2,967 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −27% · reviews 1.9/day → 0.7/day
1 more build that week
Oct 7, 2026 · Build 25761919
6,053 → 5,099 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +20% · reviews 17/day → 13/day
Oct 7, 2026 · [Update] Known Issue and Hotfix Notice
25.6K → 21.6K players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −29% · reviews 16/day → 21/day
Oct 6, 2026 · Patch Notes 1.1.0
2,564 → 2,207 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −32% · reviews 78/day → 61/day
Oct 5, 2026 · Build 25630749
305 → 264 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −11% · reviews 1.7/day → 1.0/day
1 more build that week
Oct 7, 2026 · Build 25774998
403 → 352 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +1% · reviews 0.0/day → 0.0/day
1 more build that week
Oct 5, 2026 · Halloween, Daily Challenges & Custom Games
121 → 106 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that +2% · reviews 0.6/day → 1.2/day
1 more build that week
Oct 6, 2026 · Update Notes for 6th October
1,545 → 1,360 players (7 + 7 days) · week before that −13% · reviews 6.3/day → 4.5/day