Steam releases · Week 29, 2017

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

WEEK 29 ’17Jul 17 – Jul 23, 2017141 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2017 at a glance

In week 29 of 2017 (Jul 17 – 23, 2017), 141 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Kingdoms and Castles (145,886 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (86 releases), it is 64 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	141
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	311
Free to play, of 128 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	86 (+64 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Kingdoms and Castles	2017-07-20	145,886
Dark and Light	2017-07-20	141,340
Dreamfall Chapters	2017-07-21	65,992
Gigantic	2017-07-19	42,900
Hand Simulator	2017-07-18	30,112
Just Cause™ 3: Multiplayer Mod	2017-07-20	12,645
Endless ATC	2017-07-19	1,289
Naev	2017-07-17	1,040
inVokeR	2017-07-20	824
Tell a Demon	2017-07-21	327

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

110

92%

——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.