Steam releases · Week 21, 2016

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

WEEK 21 ’16May 23 – May 29, 201663 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2016 at a glance

In week 21 of 2016 (May 23 – 29, 2016), 63 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Total War: WARHAMMER (322,480 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (76 releases), it is 17 % quieter. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	63
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	641
Free to play, of 58 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	76 (-17 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Total War: WARHAMMER	2016-05-24	322,480
35MM	2016-05-27	32,775
Seduce Me 2: The Demon War	2016-05-23	3,468
Airport Madness 3D	2016-05-25	2,500
TWINKLE STAR SPRITES	2016-05-26	1,460
Surge	2016-05-24	757
Crazy Stone Deep Learning -The First Edition-	2016-05-25	641
Vairon's Wrath	2016-05-27	376
Grandpa's Table	2016-05-24	294
Zenodyne R	2016-05-29	292

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

97%

——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.