Steam releases · Week 38, 2016

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

WEEK 38 ’1619 Sep – 25 Sep 201691 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2016 at a glance

In week 38 of 2016 (19 – 25 Sep 2016), 91 games released on Steam, and 7 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day (17,675 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (74 releases), it is 23 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	91
With a playable demo	7
Median followers, top 20 by demand	760
Free to play, of 80 with a known price	5 %

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

12%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

82%

——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
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day	2016-09-22	17,675
Pankapu	2016-09-21	5,084
RutonyChat	2016-09-19	3,542
Dog Sled Saga	2016-09-22	3,277
BalanCity	2016-09-21	1,582
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle	2016-09-22	760
Agenda	2016-09-21	727
Fall of Civilization	2016-09-19	575
Diorama Battle of NINJA　虚拟3D世界忍者之战	2016-09-19	303
A dead world's dream	2016-09-20	102