Steam releases · Week 18, 2015

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

WEEK 18 ’15Apr 27 – May 3, 201565 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2015 at a glance

In week 18 of 2015 (Apr 27 – May 3, 2015), 65 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Kerbal Space Program (302,786 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (39 releases), it is 67 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	65
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,080
Free to play, of 60 with a known price	7 %
Same window a year earlier	39 (+67 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Kerbal Space Program	2015-04-27	302,786
Verdun	2015-04-28	166,643
Exanima	2015-04-29	96,681
State of Decay: YOSE	2015-04-27	73,323
Block N Load	2015-04-30	49,589
Order of Battle: World War II	2015-04-30	19,119
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows	2015-04-30	9,285
Space Colony: Steam Edition	2015-04-30	9,020
Sky Force Anniversary	2015-04-29	5,388
STAR WARS™ - X-Wing Alliance™	2015-04-28	3,788

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

74%

——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

15%

——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.