Steam releases · February 2016

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

Feb 20161 Feb – 29 Feb 2016228 releases

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February 2016 at a glance

In February 2016 (1 – 29 Feb 2016), 228 games released on Steam, and 22 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Stardew Valley (1,114,055 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (209 releases), it is 9 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	228
With a playable demo	22
Median followers, top 20 by demand	29,105
Free to play, of 218 with a known price	8 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

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

153

95%

——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 February 2016

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Stardew Valley	2016-02-26	1,114,055
Rise of the Tomb Raider™	2016-02-09	403,318
Grim Dawn	2016-02-25	287,127
Far Cry® Primal	2016-02-29	215,883
SUPERHOT	2016-02-25	134,375
Street Fighter V	2016-02-15	122,378
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc	2016-02-18	77,850
NEKOPARA Vol. 2	2016-02-19	51,821
Z1 Battle Royale: Test Server	2016-02-24	37,586
Lucy -The Eternity She Wished For-	2016-02-28	32,808