Steam releases · May 2017

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

May 20171 May – 31 May 2017405 releases

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May 2017 at a glance

In May 2017 (1 – 31 May 2017), 405 games released on Steam, and 32 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Elder Scrolls® Online (492,179 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (379 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	405
With a playable demo	32
Median followers, top 20 by demand	11,507
Free to play, of 375 with a known price	9 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

27%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

275

69%

——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 May 2017

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
The Elder Scrolls® Online	2017-05-22	492,179
Black Desert	2017-05-24	200,306
Ravenfield	2017-05-18	125,716
NEKOPARA Vol. 3	2017-05-25	53,035
Star Trek™: Bridge Crew	2017-05-30	32,087
SUPERHOT VR	2017-05-25	27,449
Block'hood	2017-05-10	25,860
Caveblazers	2017-05-24	16,609
DEEP SPACE WAIFU	2017-05-31	14,731
First Strike	2017-05-30	12,163