Steam releases · Week 33, 2017

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

WEEK 33 ’1714 Aug – 20 Aug 2017129 releasesMTWTFSS

week 33 of 2017 at a glance

In week 33 of 2017 (14 – 20 Aug 2017), 129 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Darkwood (98,168 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (80 releases), it is 61 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	129
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	352
Free to play, of 125 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

31%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

24%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

25%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

19%

——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
Darkwood	2017-08-17	98,168
Tree of Life	2017-08-17	61,462
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth	2017-08-15	37,807
Nidhogg 2	2017-08-15	11,300
Gravity Sketch	2017-08-15	3,549
StellarHub	2017-08-16	2,991
Head Goal: Soccer Online	2017-08-18	1,473
Eliosi's Hunt	2017-08-15	1,037
MermaidVR Video Player	2017-08-15	537
Strangers of the Power	2017-08-17	426