Steam releases · Week 40, 2016

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

WEEK 40 ’163 Oct – 9 Oct 201678 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2016 at a glance

In week 40 of 2016 (3 – 9 Oct 2016), 78 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is BUTCHER (6,856 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (41 releases), it is 90 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	78
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	490
Free to play, of 73 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	41 (+90 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
BUTCHER	2016-10-05	6,856
KUBOOM	2016-10-07	6,185
Scrap Garden - The Day Before	2016-10-07	5,309
Syndrome	2016-10-06	3,427
Disturbed	2016-10-03	2,929
The Body VR: Journey Inside a Cell	2016-10-03	2,711

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

25%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

67%

——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.