Steam releases · Week 39, 2014

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

WEEK 39 ’1422 Sep – 28 Sep 201430 releasesMTWTFSS

week 39 of 2014 at a glance

In week 39 of 2014 (22 – 28 Sep 2014), 30 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Stronghold Crusader 2 (77,403 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (18 releases), it is 67 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-29.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	30
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	61,030
Free to play, of 28 with a known price	4 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

21%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

71%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Stronghold Crusader 2	2014-09-22	77,403
Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition	2014-09-23	61,030
Sprite Lamp	2014-09-25	865
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter	2014-09-25	—
Starpoint Gemini 2	2014-09-26	—
DG2: Defense Grid 2	2014-09-23	—
Neverending Nightmares	2014-09-26	—
Beyond Gravity	2014-09-23	—
TransOcean: The Shipping Company	2014-09-23	—
Kraven Manor	2014-09-26	—