Steam releases · Q2 2014

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

Q2 20141 Apr – 30 Jun 2014474 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2014 at a glance

In Q2 2014 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2014), 474 games released on Steam, and 31 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is BattleBlock Theater® (144,117 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (277 releases), it is 71 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	474
With a playable demo	31
Median followers, top 20 by demand	20,341
Free to play, of 440 with a known price	6 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

29%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

123

11%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

217

43%

——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 Q2 2014

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
BattleBlock Theater®	2014-05-15	144,117
Wolfenstein: The New Order	2014-05-19	115,911
Sniper Elite 3	2014-06-27	111,569
Watch_Dogs™	2014-05-26	107,845
theHunter Classic	2014-06-03	93,986
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove	2014-06-26	62,348
Child of Light	2014-04-29	49,840
100% Orange Juice	2014-05-16	34,974
Krita	2014-06-10	28,166
Final Fantasy III (3D Remake)	2014-05-27	21,666