Steam Upcoming Games Radar — Hype & Release Tracker

What does Steam Upcoming Games Radar do?

One run returns upcoming Steam releases as clean, structured JSON, ranked by hype:

• 📈 Hype metrics per game: community follower count, follower growth per day since your last scan, and global wishlist rank (top-1000)
• 📅 Release info: parsed ISO release date, coming-soon flag, genres, price, developers & publishers
• 🇯🇵 Japanese support flag and demo availability — filter for exactly what you can play, stream or localize
• 🔎 Filters: release window (within_days), genres, minimum followers, Japanese-only
• 🤖 Built for AI agent workflows: use it from the Apify API, schedules, or as an MCP tool from Claude/Cursor

The killer feature is the diff. Run it on a schedule (daily/weekly) and each run compares followers against your previous snapshot — surfacing which games are blowing up right now, not just which are big. That's data you can't get from a one-off scrape.

Why use it?

You are...	Ask it...
A publisher scout / biz-dev	"Which unreleased games gained the most followers this week?" — find signing targets before your competitors read about them
A content planner (streamer, VTuber agency, media)	"What's releasing in the next 14 days, with Japanese support and a playable demo?"
A localization business	"Which highly-wishlisted games have NO Japanese support yet?" — instant prospect list
An AI agent	Scheduled scan → filter → post to Slack/Notion. JSON in, decisions out

Manual alternatives (SteamDB browsing, newsletters) are human-only — none of them give your agent machine-readable output.

Input

{
  "max_games": 100,
  "within_days": 30,
  "genres": ["RPG", "Action"],
  "min_followers": 500,
  "japanese_only": false,
  "sort_by": "followers_gain"
}

Output (one dataset item per game)

{
  "rank": 1,
  "appid": 1234567,
  "name": "Example Game",
  "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1234567/",
  "release_date": "2026-08-19",
  "release_date_raw": "19 Aug, 2026",
  "coming_soon": true,
  "genres": ["Action", "Indie"],
  "developers": ["Example Studio"],
  "publishers": ["Example Publisher"],
  "followers": 26146,
  "followers_gain": 1204,
  "followers_gain_per_day": 172.0,
  "wishlist_rank": 87,
  "japanese_supported": true,
  "demo_available": true,
  "is_free": false,
  "price_jpy": 2800,
  "header_image": "https://...",
  "short_description": "..."
}

Download as JSON, CSV or Excel. followers_gain is null on your first run (no snapshot yet) and populates from the second run onward — snapshots persist in your account automatically.

Pricing

Event	Price	When
Radar scan	$0.25 / run	Every run (up to 500 games, all metrics)
Watch diff	$0.10 / run	Only when growth-tracking (snapshot diff) was computed

A weekly watch of the entire upcoming catalog costs about $1.40/month. Platform usage is included.

Tips

• Results are ranked by hype, not just release date. The Actor scans a healthy slice of the upcoming catalog and returns the top max_games by your chosen sort_by, so even a small max_games surfaces the most anticipated upcoming titles — not just whatever releases first.
• Schedule it. The growth metrics only exist between runs — a daily or weekly schedule via Apify Schedules turns this from a snapshot into a monitoring system
• sort_by: "followers_gain" after the first run = "rising stars" view
• wishlist_rank is null for games outside the global top-1000 wishlist chart — that's expected
• Follower counts come from each game's Steam community hub; a small share of very small titles have no hub yet (followers: null)

FAQ & limitations

• Wishlist counts? Valve doesn't publish absolute wishlist numbers for other people's games. The radar gives you the global wishlist rank (top-1000) plus follower counts and growth, which are the industry-standard public proxies.
• Only Steam? Yes, v1 is Steam only.
• Roadmap: demo concurrent-player tracking (Next Fest mode), post-launch review-velocity tracker. Leave a review or an Issue to vote on what's next.

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日本語での説明

「これから出るSteamゲーム」をハイプ指標つきの構造化JSONで返すActorです。フォロワー数・前回スキャンからの増加速度・グローバルWLランキング（TOP1000）・日本語対応・デモ有無・発売日を1レコードにまとめます。

• 定期実行すると「いま急上昇中のゲーム」が検出できます（スナップショット差分）
• 「今後2週間・日本語対応・デモあり」のような配信企画向けフィルタ
• 「WL上位なのに日本語非対応」= ローカライズ営業リストの逆引きにも
• 料金: スキャン $0.25/回 ＋ 差分計算時のみ $0.10（毎週回しても月約$1.4）