Steam releases · Week 52, 2016

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

WEEK 52 ’16Dec 26, 2016 – Jan 1, 201741 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2016 at a glance

In week 52 of 2016 (Dec 26, 2016 – Jan 1, 2017), 41 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Tattletail (9,909 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (7 releases), it is 486 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	41
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	292
Free to play, of 40 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	7 (+486 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Tattletail	2016-12-28	9,909
HoCWar	2016-12-29	1,423
Control Craft 3	2016-12-30	863
Primal Carnage: Onslaught	2016-12-29	474
Blind Love	2016-12-28	367
Operation Hardcore	2016-12-28	292
Spooky Night	2016-12-31	275
Mistwood Heroes	2016-12-30	218
panGEMic	2016-12-28	217
Acro Storm	2016-12-28	106

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Smallpublisher median 50–200

86%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

——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.