Steam releases · August 2016

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

Aug 20161 Aug – 31 Aug 2016418 releases

Jul 2016 Now Sep 2016

August 2016 at a glance

In August 2016 (1 – 31 Aug 2016), 418 games released on Steam, and 39 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is No Man's Sky (880,991 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (355 releases), it is 18 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	418
With a playable demo	39
Median followers, top 20 by demand	16,575
Free to play, of 397 with a known price	11 %

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

284

91%

——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 August 2016

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
No Man's Sky	2016-08-12	880,991
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	2016-08-23	144,245
Lost Castle / 失落城堡	2016-08-31	101,360
ABZU	2016-08-02	86,341
Fernbus Simulator	2016-08-25	48,053
Obduction	2016-08-24	47,266
Kingdom: New Lands	2016-08-09	45,543
The Turing Test	2016-08-30	31,404
Savage Resurrection	2016-08-18	22,869
Dungeon Fighter Online	2016-08-09	19,807