Steam releases · Week 5, 2016

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

WEEK 5 ’161 Feb – 7 Feb 201644 releasesMTWTFSS

week 5 of 2016 at a glance

In week 5 of 2016 (1 – 7 Feb 2016), 44 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Cobalt (6,414 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (48 releases), it is 8 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	44
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	336
Free to play, of 41 with a known price	7 %
Same window a year earlier	48 (-8 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

21%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

74%

——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
Cobalt	2016-02-02	6,414
Spellweaver	2016-02-01	4,568
3DF Zephyr Lite Steam Edition	2016-02-02	2,565
"BUTTS: The VR Experience"	2016-02-03	336
Horror in the Asylum	2016-02-01	277
Dead6hot	2016-02-01	267
Star Rogue	2016-02-01	184
American Truck Simulator	2016-02-02	—
XCOM® 2	2016-02-04	—
NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4	2016-02-04	—