Steam releases · Week 31, 2016

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

WEEK 31 ’161 Aug – 7 Aug 201681 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2016 at a glance

In week 31 of 2016 (1 – 7 Aug 2016), 81 games released on Steam, and 12 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ABZU (86,341 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (44 releases), it is 84 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	81
With a playable demo	12
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,718
Free to play, of 73 with a known price	10 %
Same window a year earlier	44 (+84 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

19%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

60%

——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
ABZU	2016-08-02	86,341
MANDAGON	2016-08-03	12,563
Might and Magic: Heroes VII – Trial by Fire	2016-08-04	8,036
Mansions of Madness	2016-08-01	7,780
Little King's Story	2016-08-05	2,793
System Crash	2016-08-01	1,967
You Have 10 Seconds	2016-08-02	1,718
Office lovers	2016-08-07	593
ChessBase 13 Pro	2016-08-04	326
Framed Wings	2016-08-06	292