Rank 01Trending on Steam
- Momentum, not popularity
- Updated: 2026-10-11 23:50 UTC
- Games tracked: 13,397
Rising right now
Games out for more than 45 days whose review pace over the last 7 days is well above their own weekly average for the 3 weeks before. Where we have enough daily player counts, those count too.
- Rank 01
Rank 02Momentum
4,172 new reviews in 7 days, +826% vs its usual week (about 450)
+826% vs usual week
- 17,420 players online, +422% vs 1 to 4 weeks ago
- 89% positive this week
Rank 03Momentum
381 new reviews in 7 days, +642% vs its usual week (about 51)
+642% vs usual week
- 949 players online, +1016% vs 1 to 4 weeks ago
- 87% positive this week
Rank 04 
Kingdom Two Crowns
Momentum: 621 new reviews in 7 days, +603% vs its usual week (about 88)
+603% vs usual week
Rank 05 
Pony Island
Momentum: 53 new reviews in 7 days, +382% vs its usual week (about 11)
+382% vs usual week
Rank 06 
Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense
Momentum: 756 new reviews in 7 days, +98% vs its usual week (about 382)
+98% vs usual week
Rank 07 
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst
Momentum: 376 new reviews in 7 days, +376% vs its usual week (about 79)
+376% vs usual week
Rank 08 
Rank 09 
The Ascent
Momentum: 191 new reviews in 7 days, +451% vs its usual week (about 35)
+451% vs usual week
Rank 10 
Construction Simulator
Momentum: 348 new reviews in 7 days, +417% vs its usual week (about 67)
+417% vs usual week
Rank 11 
Neighbors: Suburban Warfare
Momentum: 324 new reviews in 7 days, +110% vs its usual week (about 155)
+110% vs usual week
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Risk of Rain 2
Momentum: 652 new reviews in 7 days, +193% vs its usual week (about 223)
+193% vs usual week
Rank 15 
ARC Raiders
Momentum: 1,967 new reviews in 7 days, +246% vs its usual week (about 569)
+246% vs usual week
Rank 16 
Dragon's Dogma 2
Momentum: 409 new reviews in 7 days, +133% vs its usual week (about 175)
+133% vs usual week
Rank 17 
The Talos Principle 2
Momentum: 95 new reviews in 7 days, +428% vs its usual week (about 18)
+428% vs usual week
Rank 18 
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense
Momentum: 111 new reviews in 7 days, +140% vs its usual week (about 46)
+140% vs usual week
Rank 19 
Tavern Keeper 🍻
Momentum: 53 new reviews in 7 days, +212% vs its usual week (about 17)
+212% vs usual week
Rank 20 
Amnesia™: Memories
Momentum: 65 new reviews in 7 days, +680% vs its usual week (about 8)
+680% vs usual week
Rank 21 
The Witness
Momentum: 99 new reviews in 7 days, +357% vs its usual week (about 22)
+357% vs usual week
Rank 22 
WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
Momentum: 152 new reviews in 7 days, +304% vs its usual week (about 38)
+304% vs usual week
Rank 23 
Shao Song I
Momentum: 81 new reviews in 7 days, +440% vs its usual week (about 15)
+440% vs usual week
Rank 24 
Road to Vostok
Momentum: 172 new reviews in 7 days, +166% vs its usual week (about 65)
+166% vs usual week
Rank 25 
Keep Her Safe
Momentum: 78 new reviews in 7 days, +420% vs its usual week (about 15)
+420% vs usual week
Rank 26 
Caribbean Legend
Momentum: 63 new reviews in 7 days, +510% vs its usual week (about 10)
+510% vs usual week
Rank 27 
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Momentum: 283 new reviews in 7 days, +197% vs its usual week (about 95)
+197% vs usual week
Rank 28 
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Jagged Alliance 3
Momentum: 111 new reviews in 7 days, +133% vs its usual week (about 48)
+133% vs usual week
Rank 30 
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense
Momentum: 54 new reviews in 7 days, +98% vs its usual week (about 27)
+98% vs usual week
Rank 31 
Dead as Disco
Momentum: 314 new reviews in 7 days, +165% vs its usual week (about 119)
+165% vs usual week
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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Momentum: 111 new reviews in 7 days, +270% vs its usual week (about 30)
+270% vs usual week
Rank 34 
Machinarium
Momentum: 107 new reviews in 7 days, +182% vs its usual week (about 38)
+182% vs usual week
Rank 35 
MONSTER HUNTER RISE
Momentum: 556 new reviews in 7 days, +170% vs its usual week (about 206)
+170% vs usual week
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Tempest Rising
Momentum: 97 new reviews in 7 days, +119% vs its usual week (about 44)
+119% vs usual week
Rank 40 
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Momentum: 119 new reviews in 7 days, +195% vs its usual week (about 40)
+195% vs usual week
Rank 42 
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Momentum: 1,221 new reviews in 7 days, +179% vs its usual week (about 438)
+179% vs usual week
Rank 43 
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Momentum: 745 new reviews in 7 days, +141% vs its usual week (about 309)
+141% vs usual week
Rank 44 
The Dark Queen of Mortholme
Momentum: 77 new reviews in 7 days, +212% vs its usual week (about 25)
+212% vs usual week
Rank 45 
Pax Autocratica
Momentum: 291 new reviews in 7 days, +102% vs its usual week (about 144)
+102% vs usual week
Rank 46 
To the Moon
Momentum: 157 new reviews in 7 days, +172% vs its usual week (about 58)
+172% vs usual week
Rank 47 
Princess Maker: Children of Revelation
Momentum: 126 new reviews in 7 days, +75% vs its usual week (about 72)
+75% vs usual week
Rank 48 
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LoveChoice
Momentum: 103 new reviews in 7 days, +176% vs its usual week (about 37)
+176% vs usual week
Rank 50 
New release breakouts
Games whose first Steam review arrived in the last 45 days. A launch has nothing to compare against yet, so these are ranked separately, by new reviews in the last 7 days.
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Rank 03Momentum: 5,824 new reviews in 7 days, 13 days after its first review
5,824 reviews, 7 days
- 16,384 players online, −50% vs 1 to 4 weeks ago
- 87% positive this week
Rank 04 
Gears of War: E-Day
Momentum: 4,839 new reviews in 7 days, 10 days after its first review
4,839 reviews, 7 days
Rank 05 
Dressmaker
Momentum: 3,548 new reviews in 7 days, 20 days after its first review
3,548 reviews, 7 days
Rank 06 
STAR WARS: Galactic Racer™
Momentum: 3,106 new reviews in 7 days, 5 days after its first review
3,106 reviews, 7 days
Rank 07 
CONTROL Resonant
Momentum: 2,583 new reviews in 7 days, 17 days after its first review
2,583 reviews, 7 days
Rank 08 
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
Momentum: 2,513 new reviews in 7 days, 3 days after its first review
2,513 reviews, 7 days
Rank 09 
Minecraft Dungeons II
Momentum: 2,136 new reviews in 7 days, 12 days after its first review
2,136 reviews, 7 days
Rank 10 
Rank 11 
Transport Fever 3
Momentum: 1,696 new reviews in 7 days, 12 days after its first review
1,696 reviews, 7 days
Rank 12 
EA SPORTS FC™ 27
Momentum: 1,643 new reviews in 7 days, 24 days after its first review
1,643 reviews, 7 days
Rank 13 
Graveyard Keeper 2
Momentum: 1,443 new reviews in 7 days, 19 days after its first review
1,443 reviews, 7 days
Rank 14 
Rank 15 
Order of the Sinking Star
Momentum: 1,140 new reviews in 7 days, 3 days after its first review
1,140 reviews, 7 days
Rank 16 
Deskrawl: Idle ARPG
Momentum: 1,043 new reviews in 7 days, 13 days after its first review
1,043 reviews, 7 days
Review bombOnly 44% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 68%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
Rank 17 
Nivalis Nights
Momentum: 996 new reviews in 7 days, 12 days after its first review
996 reviews, 7 days
Rank 18 
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Onimusha: Way of the Sword
Momentum: 810 new reviews in 7 days, 37 days after its first review
810 reviews, 7 days
Review-bombed this week
Games whose reviews piled up this week, but mostly negative: the positive share fell sharply against the previous 3 weeks. Listed by review volume, kept out of Rising because this is a complaint wave, not growth in fans.
Rank 01 
Dark and Darker
Momentum: 1,139 new reviews in 7 days, +834% vs its usual week (about 122)
+834% vs usual week
Review bombOnly 9% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 61%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
Rank 02 
MapleStory
Momentum: 167 new reviews in 7 days, +526% vs its usual week (about 27)
+526% vs usual week
Review bombOnly 34% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 39%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
Rank 03 
RuneScape ®
Momentum: 122 new reviews in 7 days, +242% vs its usual week (about 36)
+242% vs usual week
Review bombOnly 25% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 65%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
Rank 04 
Neon Abyss 2
Momentum: 70 new reviews in 7 days, +250% vs its usual week (about 20)
+250% vs usual week
Review bombOnly 66% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 90%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
Rank 05 
Skullgirls 2nd Encore
Momentum: 64 new reviews in 7 days, +336% vs its usual week (about 15)
+336% vs usual week
Review bombOnly 66% of this week's reviews are positive, down from 86%. This looks like a wave of complaints, not new fans.
About this list
Top-seller charts show the same giants every week. This page asks a different question: which games are picking up speed right now? Each game is compared with its own recent past, so a small game doubling its review pace ranks above a huge one holding steady.
How the ranking works
Every day we record how many new Steam reviews each tracked game received (all languages) and sample its number of players online at the same hour. We follow about 13,397 games: the most-reviewed titles on Steam plus recent releases.
A game's momentum compares its last 7 days of reviews with its average week over the 21 days before. Small numbers are damped on purpose: going from 2 to 10 reviews is +400% on paper but barely means anything, so a game needs at least 50 new reviews in the week to appear, and the score shrinks ratios built on tiny counts.
Launches get their own list, because a game that came out last week has no "before" to beat. If this week's reviews are much more negative than usual, we say so: a review bomb is momentum too, just not the kind you'd buy on.
Sales, free weekends, big patches and streamer hype all show up here. We don't try to guess the cause; the numbers under each game tell you what changed.
Player counts from before our own daily samples began come from SteamCharts.
Questions
What does trending mean here?
Faster growth than the game's own recent normal. A game with 50,000 reviews that gets the same 300 reviews a week as always is not trending. A game that usually gets 40 a week and just got 400 is.
How is this different from Steam's top sellers or most played?
Those charts rank by size, so they are dominated by the same big games. This list ranks by change, so smaller games that are taking off get a spot next to the giants.
How often is it updated?
Data is collected every hour, and each game is re-checked once a day. The review window moves forward a day at a time, so the list changes noticeably from one day to the next.
Why isn't a game I expected here?
Either it isn't growing faster than its own usual pace, it got fewer than 50 new reviews this week, or it isn't in the set we track (the most-reviewed Steam games and recent releases).