Steam releases · Q3 2016

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

Q3 20161 Jul – 30 Sep 20161,181 releasesJAS

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Q3 2016 at a glance

In Q3 2016 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2016), 1,181 games released on Steam, and 100 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 (930 releases), it is 27 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,181
With a playable demo	100
Median followers, top 20 by demand	45,543
Free to play, of 1,115 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

11%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

296

11%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

772

73%

——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 Q3 2016

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
No Man's Sky	2016-08-12	880,991
Human Fall Flat	2016-07-22	586,340
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
Poly Bridge	2016-07-12	85,938
Riders of Icarus	2016-07-06	51,360
TOXIKK™	2016-09-10	48,671
Fernbus Simulator	2016-08-25	48,053
Obduction	2016-08-24	47,266