Steam releases · Week 18, 2017

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

WEEK 18 ’171 May – 7 May 201783 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2017 at a glance

In week 18 of 2017 (1 – 7 May 2017), 83 games released on Steam, and 7 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Metal Waltz: Anime tank girls (10,051 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (64 releases), it is 30 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	83
With a playable demo	7
Median followers, top 20 by demand	420
Free to play, of 81 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

61%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

15%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

22%

——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
Metal Waltz: Anime tank girls	2017-05-02	10,051
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards	2017-05-05	5,318
Graviteam Tactics: Tunisia 1943	2017-05-01	4,235
Wars Across The World	2017-05-04	2,151
Chronicle of Innsmouth	2017-05-05	1,179
Awesome Metal Detecting	2017-05-01	864
Griptape Backbone	2017-05-05	730
Extreme-G 2	2017-05-02	603
Strata inStudio VR	2017-05-03	427
PD Howler 11	2017-05-05	420