Steam releases · Q3 2017

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

Q3 20171 Jul – 30 Sep 20171,757 releasesJAS

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Q3 2017 at a glance

In Q3 2017 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2017), 1,757 games released on Steam, and 126 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ARK: Survival Evolved (1,680,284 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,157 releases), it is 52 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,757
With a playable demo	126
Median followers, top 20 by demand	98,168
Free to play, of 1,655 with a known price	13 %

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

25%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

353

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,266

64%

——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 Q3 2017

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
ARK: Survival Evolved	2017-08-27	1,680,284
Unturned	2017-07-07	574,376
The Long Dark	2017-08-01	506,984
Total War: WARHAMMER II	2017-09-28	402,117
Cuphead	2017-09-29	365,992
Stick Fight: The Game	2017-09-28	152,549
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018	2017-07-28	141,240
Fishing Planet	2017-08-28	130,110
Life is Strange: Before the Storm	2017-08-31	113,774
Crossout Remastered	2017-07-26	109,887