Steam releases · 1998

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

1998Jan 1 – Dec 31, 19981 releasesJFMAMJJASOND

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1998 at a glance

In 1998 (Jan 1 – Dec 31, 1998), 1 game released on Steam. The most anticipated is Half-Life (68,645 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 50 % quieter. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	1
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	68,645
Same window a year earlier	2 (-50 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 1 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Half-Life	1998-11-19	68,645

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Self-publishedno external publisher

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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.