Steam releases · Week 1, 2017

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

WEEK 1 ’172 Jan – 8 Jan 201759 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2017 at a glance

In week 1 of 2017 (2 – 8 Jan 2017), 59 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is UNO (145,243 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (39 releases), it is 51 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	59
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	285
Free to play, of 58 with a known price	9 %
Same window a year earlier	39 (+51 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

96%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
UNO	2017-01-03	145,243
Artillerists	2017-01-02	482
Mesh Maker VR	2017-01-04	389
Kitten Squad	2017-01-04	285
Infinitum	2017-01-04	202
Nuclear Contingency	2017-01-02	181
Avenger Bird	2017-01-05	171
hack_me	2017-01-05	—
Pictopix	2017-01-05	—
Milkmaid of the Milky Way	2017-01-04	—