Steam releases · October 2014

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

Oct 20141 Oct – 31 Oct 2014163 releases

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October 2014 at a glance

In October 2014 (1 – 31 Oct 2014), 163 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (203,876 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (126 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	163
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,130
Free to play, of 141 with a known price	6 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

25%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

42%

——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.

inside October 2014

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	2014-10-13	203,876
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™	2014-10-23	137,423
Counter-Strike Nexon	2014-10-07	84,856
Styx: Master of Shadows	2014-10-07	81,494
Double Action: Boogaloo	2014-10-23	35,288
Killing Floor - Toy Master	2014-10-16	26,802
Ultimate General: Gettysburg	2014-10-16	20,485
Screencheat	2014-10-21	12,815
Perpetuum	2014-10-17	11,130
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game	2014-10-06	9,962