Steam releases · December 2016

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

Dec 20161 Dec – 31 Dec 2016455 releases

Nov 2016 Now Jan 2017

December 2016 at a glance

In December 2016 (1 – 31 Dec 2016), 455 games released on Steam, and 41 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Steep™ (140,409 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (423 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	455
With a playable demo	41
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,039
Free to play, of 440 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	423 (+8 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

16%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

106

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

306

58%

——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 December 2016

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Steep™	2016-12-02	140,409
OneShot	2016-12-08	77,851
Art of War: Red Tides	2016-12-22	60,394
Angels of Death	2016-12-19	28,179
Hunger Dungeon	2016-12-06	23,447
Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel	2016-12-08	10,682
Prominence Poker	2016-12-12	7,998
Shadows of Kurgansk	2016-12-15	7,448
Maize	2016-12-01	5,283
Eagle Flight	2016-12-20	4,911