Steam releases · Week 21, 2017

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

WEEK 21 ’1722 May – 28 May 201788 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2017 at a glance

In week 21 of 2017 (22 – 28 May 2017), 88 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Elder Scrolls® Online (492,179 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (63 releases), it is 40 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	88
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,277
Free to play, of 80 with a known price	6 %
Same window a year earlier	63 (+40 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
The Elder Scrolls® Online	2017-05-22	492,179
Black Desert	2017-05-24	200,306
NEKOPARA Vol. 3	2017-05-25	53,035
SUPERHOT VR	2017-05-25	27,449
Caveblazers	2017-05-24	16,609
Skillshot City	2017-05-23	10,215
Confess My Love	2017-05-27	9,277
MidBoss	2017-05-25	3,634
UBERMOSH Vol.5	2017-05-25	875
Nancy Drew®: Treasure in the Royal Tower	2017-05-22	370

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

30%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

69%

——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.