Steam releases · Week 44, 2016

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

WEEK 44 ’1631 Oct – 6 Nov 2016104 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2016 at a glance

In week 44 of 2016 (31 Oct – 6 Nov 2016), 104 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Owlboy (42,880 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (61 releases), it is 70 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	104
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	941
Free to play, of 102 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

21%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

40%

——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

24%

——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
Owlboy	2016-11-01	42,880
Digimon Masters Online	2016-11-03	36,077
EmergeNYC	2016-11-03	19,105
Dungeon Rats	2016-11-04	5,714
Political Animals	2016-11-02	2,882
Zombie Playground™	2016-10-31	2,484
VRMark	2016-11-03	1,865
Anime Studio Simulator	2016-11-02	1,020
Trimmer Tycoon	2016-11-04	941
3dSunshine	2016-11-01	776