Steam releases · Week 49, 2014

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

WEEK 49 ’141 Dec – 7 Dec 201439 releasesMTWTFSS

week 49 of 2014 at a glance

In week 49 of 2014 (1 – 7 Dec 2014), 39 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Rising World (109,835 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (29 releases), it is 34 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	39
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,538
Free to play, of 36 with a known price	6 %
Same window a year earlier	29 (+34 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Rising World	2014-12-03	109,835
The Crew™	2014-12-02	90,036
The Old City: Leviathan	2014-12-03	6,455
RTS Creator	2014-12-01	1,538
Potatoman Seeks the Troof	2014-12-03	943
ULTRAWORLD EXODUS	2014-12-04	440

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

90%

——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.