Steam releases · April 2017

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

Apr 20171 Apr – 30 Apr 2017379 releases

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April 2017 at a glance

In April 2017 (1 – 30 Apr 2017), 379 games released on Steam, and 24 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Little Nightmares (201,592 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (439 releases), it is 14 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	379
With a playable demo	24
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,429
Free to play, of 362 with a known price	12 %

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

18%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

12%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

260

57%

——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 April 2017

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Little Nightmares	2017-04-27	201,592
What Remains of Edith Finch	2017-04-24	112,099
Forts	2017-04-19	82,138
Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition	2017-04-11	35,673
Everything	2017-04-21	31,974
White Noise 2	2017-04-07	30,289
Yooka-Laylee	2017-04-11	26,922
The Sexy Brutale	2017-04-11	19,918
LEGO® City Undercover	2017-04-04	17,741
ONRAID	2017-04-18	16,629