Steam releases · April 2016

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

Apr 20161 Apr – 30 Apr 2016344 releases

Mar 2016 Now May 2016

April 2016 at a glance

In April 2016 (1 – 30 Apr 2016), 344 games released on Steam, and 28 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Don't Starve Together (772,331 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (322 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	344
With a playable demo	28
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,416
Free to play, of 326 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——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

234

81%

——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 April 2016

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Don't Starve Together	2016-04-21	772,331
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition	2016-04-27	123,510
Offworld Trading Company	2016-04-28	95,210
FINAL FANTASY IX	2016-04-14	80,015
SpeedRunners	2016-04-19	67,977
The Lab	2016-04-05	26,748
Bloons TD Battles	2016-04-20	15,932
CHKN	2016-04-01	14,368
Windlands	2016-04-05	11,969
Tilt Brush	2016-04-05	11,795