Steam releases · Week 31, 2017

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

WEEK 31 ’1731 Jul – 6 Aug 2017149 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2017 at a glance

In week 31 of 2017 (31 Jul – 6 Aug 2017), 149 games released on Steam, and 18 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Long Dark (506,984 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (81 releases), it is 84 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	149
With a playable demo	18
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,941
Free to play, of 139 with a known price	13 %

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

107

95%

——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
The Long Dark	2017-08-01	506,984
Secret World Legends	2017-07-31	47,570
VTOL VR	2017-08-03	39,693
Grimoire : Heralds of the Winged Exemplar (V2)	2017-08-04	5,098
Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition	2017-08-02	5,027
Strategy & Tactics: Dark Ages	2017-08-04	5,024
Aztez	2017-08-01	3,722
MINDNIGHT	2017-08-04	3,441
The Monster Inside	2017-08-01	2,396
Supreme Ruler The Great War	2017-08-01	2,326