Steam releases · March 2017

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

Mar 20171 Mar – 31 Mar 2017439 releases

Feb 2017 Now Apr 2017

March 2017 at a glance

In March 2017 (1 – 31 Mar 2017), 439 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is NieR:Automata™ (521,954 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (411 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	439
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	17,194
Free to play, of 418 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

69%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

102

14%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

301

——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 March 2017

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
NieR:Automata™	2017-03-17	521,954
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands	2017-03-06	443,732
LEGO® Worlds	2017-03-07	134,285
Rain World	2017-03-28	116,440
Fallout Shelter	2017-03-29	111,459
X-Plane 11	2017-03-30	101,214
Battle Brothers	2017-03-24	86,006
Last Man Standing	2017-03-29	81,544
Kona	2017-03-17	43,118
ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3	2017-03-06	37,828