Steam releases · Week 17, 2017

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

WEEK 17 ’1724 Apr – 30 Apr 201793 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2017 at a glance

In week 17 of 2017 (24 – 30 Apr 2017), 93 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Little Nightmares (201,592 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (80 releases), it is 16 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	93
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,550
Free to play, of 86 with a known price	8 %

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

29%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

57%

——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
Little Nightmares	2017-04-27	201,592
What Remains of Edith Finch	2017-04-24	112,099
Catan Universe	2017-04-25	13,699
I Expect You To Die	2017-04-25	8,991
Hearthlands	2017-04-28	7,634
Scanner Sombre	2017-04-26	7,427
Just Ignore Them	2017-04-28	4,570
The Eden of Grisaia	2017-04-28	3,647
Slice, Dice & Rice	2017-04-27	3,550
Nephise Begins	2017-04-24	2,723