Steam releases · Week 41, 2016

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

WEEK 41 ’1610 Oct – 16 Oct 201688 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2016 at a glance

In week 41 of 2016 (10 – 16 Oct 2016), 88 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Thumper (17,576 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (59 releases), it is 49 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	88
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	966
Free to play, of 82 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	59 (+49 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Thumper	2016-10-10	17,576
Blameless	2016-10-13	12,144
Predynastic Egypt	2016-10-10	12,053
Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition	2016-10-14	7,294
Stay Close	2016-10-14	6,312
Major\Minor	2016-10-11	4,633
Red Comrades 2: For the Great Justice. Reloaded	2016-10-14	1,639
Eventide 2: The Sorcerers Mirror	2016-10-13	1,133
Razortron 2000	2016-10-12	966
INVASION!	2016-10-12	656

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

23%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

66%

——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.