Steam releases · Q4 2014

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

Q4 20141 Oct – 31 Dec 2014433 releasesOND

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Q4 2014 at a glance

In Q4 2014 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2014), 433 games released on Steam, and 39 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (464,187 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (409 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	433
With a playable demo	39
Median followers, top 20 by demand	90,036
Free to play, of 386 with a known price	7 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

10%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

104

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

230

85%

——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 Q4 2014

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth	2014-11-04	464,187
This War of Mine	2014-11-14	402,739
Far Cry® 4	2014-11-17	283,176
Assassin's Creed® Unity	2014-11-11	213,778
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	2014-10-13	203,876
Geometry Dash	2014-12-22	192,309
The Talos Principle	2014-12-11	177,037
Depth	2014-11-03	143,443
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™	2014-10-23	137,423
Rising World	2014-12-03	109,835