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Most Wishlisted Upcoming Steam Games

Pre-launch demand for 50,000+ unreleased games, ranked by follower count with release dates, tags, and genres · Updated Oct 7, 2026

Live130.3KUpcoming47.7KGenres21Tags459Publishers75.1KDevelopers83.1KStats

Median followers

23

across every unreleased game

Launching in 30 days

1.4K

your launch-window competition

Titles with 10K+ followers

315

strong pre-launch signal

Most followed

712.3K

most-followed upcoming game

All 47,679 titles
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4

by Infinity Ward, Beenox, Digital Legends, Activision Shanghai, Raven Software, Treyarch, Sledgehammer Games, High Moon Studios

Followers

712.3K

Tags

Action, Shooter

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 14d

Last News

1d

Deadlock

by Valve

Followers

442K

Tags

MOBA, Third-Person Shooter

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

today

OKU

by Irox Games

Followers

370K

Tags

Word Game, Hand-drawn

Genre

Adventure

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

2mo

Light No Fire

by Hello Games

Followers

248.4K

Tags

Open World, Survival

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

1y 1mo

KARLSON

by Dani

Followers

162.8K

Tags

Parkour, First-Person

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win · Mac · Linux

Release

TBA

Last News

—

Blight: Survival

by Haenir Studio

Followers

159K

Tags

Medieval, Online Co-Op

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

1d

ARK 2

by Studio Wildcard, Grove Street Games

Followers

146.4K

Tags

Survival, Open World

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

9mo

Unrecord

by Drama Studios

Followers

138.9K

Tags

Realistic, FPS

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

9mo

PUBG: Black Budget

by PUBG Corporation

Followers

124.6K

Tags

Action, Extraction Shooter

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

5d

Paradise

by Ultra Games, Ultra Technologies

Followers

122.8K

Tags

Open World, Free to Play

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

1y 6mo

Chrono Odyssey

by Chrono Studio

Followers

117.4K

Tags

MMORPG, Action

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

15d

Witchbrook

by Chucklefish, Robotality

Followers

116.6K

Tags

Multiplayer, Online Co-Op

Genre

Indie

Platforms

Win

Release

in 2mo

Last News

26d

Rooted

by Headlight Studio

Followers

111.2K

Tags

Crafting, Open World

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 1y 2mo

Last News

8d

Falling Frontier

by Stutter Fox Studios

Followers

100.5K

Tags

Space, Strategy

Genre

Simulation

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

7mo

NAKWON: LAST PARADISE

by NEXON

Followers

96.2K

Tags

Zombies, Extraction Shooter

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

7d

Vindictus: Defying Fate

by NEXON

Followers

93.4K

Tags

Action, RPG

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 1y 2mo

Last News

4mo

Dear Passengers

by FLEXUS

Followers

93.3K

Tags

Online Co-Op, Co-op

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 2mo

Last News

4d

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn

by Owlcat Games

Followers

87.5K

Tags

Action, Sci-fi

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

3d

ILL

by Team Clout inc.

Followers

86.2K

Tags

Horror, Action

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 1y 2mo

Last News

1mo

The Bustling World

by FireWo Games

Followers

84K

Tags

Action RPG, Open World

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

1y 5mo

Chronicles: Medieval

by Raw Power Games

Followers

81K

Tags

Early Access, Medieval

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 1y 2mo

Last News

2d

Fourteen Years of Flames

by 烽火工作室

Followers

78.7K

Tags

FPS, Historical

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

—

Soulframe

by Digital Extremes

Followers

75.7K

Tags

Action, Adventure

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

TBA

Last News

today

Resident Evil Veronica

by CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

Followers

74.8K

Tags

Action, Survival Horror

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win

Release

in 1y 2mo

Last News

2d

The Last Night

by Odd Tales

Followers

73.8K

Tags

Pixel Graphics, 2.5D

Genre

Action

Platforms

Win · Mac

Release

TBA

Last News

4y 10mo

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Why Wishlists Predict Steam Sales

Wishlists are the closest thing to a demand forecast Steam gives you before launch. Launch-week sales track the list closely, and the list keeps working afterwards because Steam emails wishlisters at release and every time the game discounts. Steam keeps the real counts private, so we rank by community-group followers, the same public proxy the rest of the industry uses. Run the number through our Steam wishlist calculator to turn a follower count into a sales range.

Most Upcoming Games Launch to Nobody

There are over 50,000 unreleased games on Steam and the median one has fewer than fifty followers. Narrowing to the games actually launching in the next month does not improve that number, it lowers it, so imminent release is no guarantee of an audience. Only a few hundred titles have passed 10,000 followers. The games you see promoted are a rounding error against what ships, and a page that launches without an audience does not get one from the store. Sort by followers to see where demand concentrates, then look at what those games have in common.

Steam Wishlist FAQ

What is the difference between a Steam follow and a wishlist?
A wishlist tells Steam you intend to buy, and it triggers an email when the game launches or discounts. A follow just subscribes you to the game's updates. The practical difference for research is visibility: Valve publishes follower counts but keeps wishlist numbers private, so followers are the only public read on pre-launch demand.
What is the most wishlisted game on Steam?
Nobody can answer that exactly, because Steam never publishes wishlist counts. What is public is each game's follower count, and the leader among unreleased games carries several hundred thousand followers, far ahead of anything else. The top of the list turns over as big titles release and leave it, so treat the order as the best available reading of pre-launch demand rather than a literal wishlist ranking.
How do you check the most wishlisted games on Steam?
Steam does not publish wishlist counts, so there is no official list. Profitable uses each game's community-group follower count, the same public proxy SteamDB relies on, and rank every unreleased title by it. Sort this table by followers to see the full order rather than the handful Steam surfaces on its Popular Upcoming shelf.
Do wishlists predict Steam sales?
They are the best pre-launch signal available. Launch-week sales track wishlist counts closely, and the size of the list also drives visibility, since Steam notifies wishlisters at release and during sales. The catch is scale: of the 50,000-plus upcoming games on Steam, only a few hundred have crossed 10,000 followers, so most launches start with almost no audience.
What is the Steam follower to wishlist ratio?
Valve publishes neither number, so every ratio in circulation comes from developers who shared both after launch. Those postmortems cluster loosely around ten wishlists per follower, but the spread is wide enough that genre and marketing budget matter more than the multiplier does. Treat it as an order-of-magnitude check rather than a forecast, and calibrate against games similar to yours in the table above instead of applying one number across the board.

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