Steam releases · February 2017

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

Feb 20171 Feb – 28 Feb 2017411 releases

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February 2017 at a glance

In February 2017 (1 – 28 Feb 2017), 411 games released on Steam, and 23 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is theHunter: Call of the Wild™ (609,238 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (333 releases), it is 23 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	411
With a playable demo	23
Median followers, top 20 by demand	14,572
Free to play, of 393 with a known price	14 %

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

103

11%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

270

80%

——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.

inside February 2017

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
theHunter: Call of the Wild™	2017-02-16	609,238
FOR HONOR™	2017-02-13	295,249
Night in the Woods	2017-02-21	65,926
911 Operator	2017-02-24	50,791
BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk	2017-02-21	43,839
We Were Here	2017-02-03	39,722
Phoning Home	2017-02-07	23,797
Syrian Warfare	2017-02-21	19,985
BRAIN / OUT	2017-02-24	18,217
Nights of Azure	2017-02-07	16,042