Steam releases · Q1 2016

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

Q1 20161 Jan – 31 Mar 2016759 releasesJFM

Q4 2015 Now Q2 2016

Q1 2016 at a glance

In Q1 2016 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2016), 759 games released on Steam, and 59 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 (674 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	759
With a playable demo	59
Median followers, top 20 by demand	110,983
Free to play, of 715 with a known price	9 %

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

165

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

497

92%

——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 Q1 2016

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Stardew Valley	2016-02-26	1,114,055
Tom Clancy’s The Division™	2016-03-07	464,256
Rise of the Tomb Raider™	2016-02-09	403,318
Darkest Dungeon®	2016-01-19	388,197
Grim Dawn	2016-02-25	287,127
Far Cry® Primal	2016-02-29	215,883
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen	2016-01-15	200,916
SUPERHOT	2016-02-25	134,375
Ultimate Chicken Horse	2016-03-04	127,395
Street Fighter V	2016-02-15	122,378