Steam releases · Q1 2017

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

Q1 20171 Jan – 31 Mar 20171,183 releasesJFM

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Q1 2017 at a glance

In Q1 2017 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2017), 1,183 games released on Steam, and 92 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 (1,316 releases), it is 10 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,183
With a playable demo	92
Median followers, top 20 by demand	86,006
Free to play, of 1,129 with a known price	12 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

28%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

288

13%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

794

55%

——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 Q1 2017

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
theHunter: Call of the Wild™	2017-02-16	609,238
NieR:Automata™	2017-03-17	521,954
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon® Wildlands	2017-03-06	443,732
FOR HONOR™	2017-02-13	295,249
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard	2017-01-23	237,069
UNO	2017-01-03	145,243
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