Steam releases · Week 20, 2017

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

WEEK 20 ’1715 May – 21 May 201794 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2017 at a glance

In week 20 of 2017 (15 – 21 May 2017), 94 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Ravenfield (125,716 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (67 releases), it is 40 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	94
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	769
Free to play, of 90 with a known price	10 %

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

12%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

77%

——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
Ravenfield	2017-05-18	125,716
Old Man's Journey	2017-05-17	11,507
Empathy: Path of Whispers	2017-05-16	2,734
EVIL POSSESSION	2017-05-16	1,112
EMPORIUM	2017-05-17	1,104
Cyberhunt	2017-05-19	888
Rabbit Story	2017-05-16	769
Machine Hunt	2017-05-15	449
The Frost	2017-05-16	421
You Are God	2017-05-19	384