Steam releases · Week 50, 2016

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

WEEK 50 ’1612 Dec – 18 Dec 2016151 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2016 at a glance

In week 50 of 2016 (12 – 18 Dec 2016), 151 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Prominence Poker (7,998 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (51 releases), it is 196 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	151
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	908
Free to play, of 147 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

101

91%

——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
Prominence Poker	2016-12-12	7,998
Shadows of Kurgansk	2016-12-15	7,448
Gods and Idols	2016-12-12	4,039
Operation: New Earth	2016-12-14	2,811
Rumble Fighter: Unleashed	2016-12-16	1,540
Volleyball Unbound - Pro Beach Volleyball	2016-12-16	1,214
Betrayal Collection	2016-12-15	1,040
Alone in the Dark 2	2016-12-13	930
Alone in the Dark 3	2016-12-13	908
Mobile Astro	2016-12-15	713