Steam releases · Week 42, 2014

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

WEEK 42 ’1413 Oct – 19 Oct 201433 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2014 at a glance

In week 42 of 2014 (13 – 19 Oct 2014), 33 games released on Steam, and 3 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 (25 releases), it is 32 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	33
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,075
Free to play, of 29 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

30%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

22%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	2014-10-13	203,876
Killing Floor - Toy Master	2014-10-16	26,802
Ultimate General: Gettysburg	2014-10-16	20,485
Perpetuum	2014-10-17	11,130
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition	2014-10-15	7,075
Pox Nora	2014-10-15	5,546
Sigils of Elohim	2014-10-13	2,073
Dragonsphere	2014-10-17	512
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender	2014-10-17	396
The Evil Within	2014-10-13	—