Steam releases · Q4 2017

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

Q4 20171 Oct – 31 Dec 20171,852 releasesOND

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Q4 2017 at a glance

In Q4 2017 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2017), 1,852 games released on Steam, and 110 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (3,491,632 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,757 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,852
With a playable demo	110
Median followers, top 20 by demand	124,197
Free to play, of 1,775 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

92%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

353

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,365

——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 Q4 2017

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS	2017-12-21	3,491,632
World of Warships	2017-11-15	524,604
Battlerite	2017-11-08	470,174
Assassin's Creed® Origins	2017-10-26	348,136
Gang Beasts	2017-12-12	255,575
Brawlhalla	2017-10-17	207,301
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy	2017-12-06	185,478
Doki Doki Literature Club!	2017-10-06	172,025
SCP: Secret Laboratory	2017-12-29	151,197
Nioh: Complete Edition	2017-11-07	149,495