Steam releases · October 2016

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

Oct 20161 Oct – 31 Oct 2016438 releases

Sep 2016 Now Nov 2016

October 2016 at a glance

In October 2016 (1 – 31 Oct 2016), 438 games released on Steam, and 44 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI (818,379 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (408 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	438
With a playable demo	44
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,027
Free to play, of 413 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

41%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

41%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

103

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

289

14%

——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.

inside October 2016

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	2016-10-20	818,379
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2	2016-10-27	202,412
Subsistence	2016-10-25	106,428
Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You	2016-10-27	40,693
Crush Crush	2016-10-18	38,648
Thumper	2016-10-10	17,576
Rusty Lake: Roots	2016-10-20	16,525
Sky Break	2016-10-21	15,621
Blameless	2016-10-13	12,144
Predynastic Egypt	2016-10-10	12,053