Steam releases · Week 21, 2016

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

WEEK 21 ’1623 May – 29 May 201663 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2016 at a glance

In week 21 of 2016 (23 – 29 May 2016), 63 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Total War: WARHAMMER (322,576 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (76 releases), it is 17 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	63
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	774
Free to play, of 59 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	76 (-17 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Total War: WARHAMMER	2016-05-24	322,576
Power & Revolution	2016-05-26	7,875
Blind Trust	2016-05-27	4,717
BARRIER X	2016-05-27	2,333
Warriors' Wrath	2016-05-26	789
Eclipse --- Defending the motherland	2016-05-26	774
Don Bradman Cricket 17 Demo	2016-05-26	520
Soulcaster: Part I & II	2016-05-24	288
Genesis of Drones	2016-05-24	108
Farm Tribe	2016-05-27	103

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

30%

——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

64%

——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.