Steam releases · Week 3, 2016

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

WEEK 3 ’1618 Jan – 24 Jan 201661 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2016 at a glance

In week 3 of 2016 (18 – 24 Jan 2016), 61 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Darkest Dungeon® (388,197 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (35 releases), it is 74 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	61
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,795
Free to play, of 57 with a known price	12 %

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

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Darkest Dungeon®	2016-01-19	388,197
Evochron Legacy SE	2016-01-18	15,843
The Deadly Tower of Monsters	2016-01-19	11,227
Bit Blaster XL	2016-01-22	5,673
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human	2016-01-19	4,024
GameLooper	2016-01-21	3,087
Dinocide	2016-01-21	1,795
The Westport Independent	2016-01-21	1,392
Qasir al-Wasat: International Edition	2016-01-19	803
Crudelis	2016-01-20	624