Steam releases · Week 50, 2016

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

WEEK 50 ’16Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2016149 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2016 at a glance

In week 50 of 2016 (Dec 12 – 18, 2016), 149 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Space Hulk: Deathwing (70,645 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (51 releases), it is 192 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	149
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,912
Free to play, of 146 with a known price	11 %
Same window a year earlier	51 (+192 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Space Hulk: Deathwing	2016-12-14	70,645
Sally Face - Episode One	2016-12-14	57,918
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2	2016-12-14	33,111
Pharaoh + Cleopatra	2016-12-15	11,300
Prominence Poker	2016-12-12	7,966
Zeus + Poseidon	2016-12-15	7,683
Street Warriors Online	2016-12-16	6,652
A-Train PC Classic	2016-12-13	2,933
Operation: New Earth	2016-12-14	2,800
Alone in the Dark 1	2016-12-13	1,942

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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

102

90%

——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.