Steam releases · Week 1, 2014

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

WEEK 1 ’1429 Dec 2014 – 4 Jan 201513 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2014 at a glance

In week 1 of 2014 (29 Dec 2014 – 4 Jan 2015), 13 games released on Steam, and 2 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Shadows of War (568 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (5 releases), it is 160 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	13
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	521
Free to play, of 12 with a known price	8 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

17%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

82%

——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
Shadows of War	2015-01-02	568
Pilot Brothers 2	2014-12-31	521
WolfWars	2015-01-02	266
NEKOPARA Vol. 1	2014-12-29	—
Dimmdrive :: Gaming Ramdrive @ 10,000+ MB/s	2015-01-01	—
Xsyon - Prelude	2014-12-29	—
Crunch Time!	2014-12-31	—
Catmouth Island	2014-12-31	—
Vintage Year	2015-01-02	—
Star Nomad	2014-12-29	—