Steam releases · Q3 2014

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

Q3 20141 Jul – 30 Sep 2014409 releasesJAS

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Q3 2014 at a glance

In Q3 2014 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2014), 409 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is METRO 2033 Redux (127,518 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (474 releases), it is 14 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	409
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	18,630
Free to play, of 380 with a known price	7 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

32%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

107

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

224

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 Q3 2014

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
METRO 2033 Redux	2014-08-25	127,518
METRO Last Light Redux	2014-08-25	88,168
Stronghold Crusader 2	2014-09-22	77,403
Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition	2014-09-23	61,030
Rodina	2014-07-28	46,136
Elsword	2014-07-02	40,565
WAKFU	2014-09-18	32,474
The Expendabros	2014-08-05	31,654
The Room	2014-07-28	27,502
Murder Miners	2014-07-25	26,776