Steam releases · Week 34, 2017

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

WEEK 34 ’1721 Aug – 27 Aug 2017114 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2017 at a glance

In week 34 of 2017 (21 – 27 Aug 2017), 114 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ARK: Survival Evolved (1,680,284 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (114 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	114
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	507
Free to play, of 107 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	114 (0 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
ARK: Survival Evolved	2017-08-27	1,680,284
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School	2017-08-22	19,891
Raging Loop	2017-08-23	17,690
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD	2017-08-25	11,476
NARUTO: Ultimate Ninja STORM	2017-08-25	7,909
Discord Bot Maker	2017-08-21	4,704
Aces High III	2017-08-23	2,142
Mothlight	2017-08-25	1,112
Polygoneer	2017-08-24	901
Legends Of Iona RPG (2007 arcade mod)	2017-08-22	507

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

81%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

17%

——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.