Steam releases · Week 38, 2017

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

WEEK 38 ’17Sep 18 – Sep 24, 2017151 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2017 at a glance

In week 38 of 2017 (Sep 18 – 24, 2017), 151 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Niche - a genetics survival game (43,290 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (90 releases), it is 68 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	151
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,669
Free to play, of 141 with a known price	11 %
Same window a year earlier	90 (+68 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Niche - a genetics survival game	2017-09-21	43,290
Heat Signature	2017-09-21	38,715
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite	2017-09-19	29,471
SteamWorld Dig 2	2017-09-22	21,292
ATOMEGA	2017-09-19	12,679
NosTale - Anime MMORPG	2017-09-18	12,443
The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game	2017-09-22	11,622
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope	2017-09-20	11,137
The Coma: Recut	2017-09-22	10,995
Fight'N Rage	2017-09-19	10,184

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

21%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

35%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

106

27%

——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.