Steam releases · Week 42, 2016

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

WEEK 42 ’1617 Oct – 23 Oct 2016112 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2016 at a glance

In week 42 of 2016 (17 – 23 Oct 2016), 112 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI (818,379 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (72 releases), it is 56 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	112
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	929
Free to play, of 107 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

82%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

16%

——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
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	2016-10-20	818,379
Crush Crush	2016-10-18	38,648
Rusty Lake: Roots	2016-10-20	16,525
Sky Break	2016-10-21	15,621
Awkward Dimensions Redux	2016-10-21	7,336
Accounting (Legacy)	2016-10-18	3,638
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1	2016-10-19	3,372
Off-Peak	2016-10-21	2,812
Wild Romance	2016-10-19	2,465
RPG Maker VX	2016-10-20	1,806