Steam releases · 1997

Who takes the attention in this window · releases grouped by the observed scale of their publisher

19971 Jan – 31 Dec 19972 releasesJFMAMJJASOND

1996Now 1998

1997 at a glance

In 1997 (1 Jan – 31 Dec 1997), 2 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is POSTAL (8,729 followers). Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	2
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,729
Same window a year earlier	0
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 2 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
POSTAL	1997-11-14	8,729
Carmageddon Max Pack	1997-06-30	—

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

94%

——too few

Class is the observed scale of a publisher’s portfolio: the median review count of what they released over the last 36 months. Budgets are invisible to us, so these are not the industry’s AAA and AA labels.Peak players is the highest concurrent count since release. “Kept at 5w” compares the fifth week against the first-week peak, counting only releases with at least 20 concurrent players.Concurrent players are observed from 2026-07-19 onward. Releases before that date have no player columns, and that is a gap in our watching, not a zero.

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