Steam releases · Week 52, 2016

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

WEEK 52 ’1626 Dec 2016 – 1 Jan 201741 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2016 at a glance

In week 52 of 2016 (26 Dec 2016 – 1 Jan 2017), 41 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop (780 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (7 releases), it is 486 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	41
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	751
Free to play, of 41 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Smallpublisher median 50–200

90%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
VR Toolbox: 360 Desktop	2016-12-26	780
POLYWAR	2016-12-30	751
Tattletail	2016-12-28	—
Trick and Treat - Visual Novel	2016-12-30	—
Duke of Alpha Centauri	2016-12-28	—
Crypt of the Serpent King	2016-12-27	—
Control Craft 3	2016-12-30	—
Score a goal (Physical football)	2016-12-28	—
Polygon Attack	2016-12-27	—
HoCWar	2016-12-29	—