Steam releases · Q4 2016

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

Q4 20161 Oct – 31 Dec 20161,316 releasesOND

Q3 2016 Now Q1 2017

Q4 2016 at a glance

In Q4 2016 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2016), 1,316 games released on Steam, and 123 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI (818,379 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,181 releases), it is 11 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,316
With a playable demo	123
Median followers, top 20 by demand	96,258
Free to play, of 1,256 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

27%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

31%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

292

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

893

33%

——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 Q4 2016

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	2016-10-20	818,379
Killing Floor 2	2016-11-18	607,121
Watch_Dogs® 2	2016-11-28	358,908
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2	2016-10-27	202,412
World of Tanks Blitz	2016-11-09	188,022
Steep™	2016-12-02	140,409
Planet Explorers	2016-11-08	116,440
Tyranny	2016-11-10	107,826
Subsistence	2016-10-25	106,428
ICEY	2016-11-17	104,320