Steam releases · Q2 2016

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

Q2 20161 Apr – 30 Jun 2016930 releasesAMJ

Q1 2016 Now Q3 2016

Q2 2016 at a glance

In Q2 2016 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2016), 930 games released on Steam, and 73 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dead by Daylight (1,739,838 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (759 releases), it is 23 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	930
With a playable demo	73
Median followers, top 20 by demand	30,816
Free to play, of 876 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

29%

——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

227

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

601

62%

——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 Q2 2016

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Dead by Daylight	2016-06-14	1,739,838
Don't Starve Together	2016-04-21	772,331
Stellaris	2016-05-09	556,687
Hearts of Iron IV	2016-06-06	502,314
Total War: WARHAMMER	2016-05-24	322,576
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition	2016-04-27	123,510
FINAL FANTASY X/X-2 HD Remaster	2016-05-12	107,419
Offworld Trading Company	2016-04-28	95,210
FINAL FANTASY IX	2016-04-14	80,015
SpeedRunners	2016-04-19	67,977