Steam releases · Week 42, 2016

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

WEEK 42 ’16Oct 17 – Oct 23, 2016112 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2016 at a glance

In week 42 of 2016 (Oct 17 – 23, 2016), 112 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI (816,209 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (72 releases), it is 56 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	112
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,145
Free to play, of 104 with a known price	17 %
Same window a year earlier	72 (+56 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI	2016-10-20	816,209
Crush Crush	2016-10-18	38,353
The Jackbox Party Pack 3	2016-10-17	17,772
Rusty Lake: Roots	2016-10-20	16,225
Crazy Machines 3	2016-10-18	12,919
Awkward Dimensions Redux	2016-10-21	7,337
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)	2016-10-20	4,150
Accounting (Legacy)	2016-10-18	3,636
Tales of Cosmos	2016-10-20	2,578
9th Dawn II	2016-10-17	2,553

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

98%

——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.