Steam releases · Week 38, 2017

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

WEEK 38 ’1718 Sep – 24 Sep 2017151 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2017 at a glance

In week 38 of 2017 (18 – 24 Sep 2017), 151 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Spacelords (21,346 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (91 releases), it is 66 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	151
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	727
Free to play, of 143 with a known price	11 %
Same window a year earlier	91 (+66 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Spacelords	2017-09-22	21,346
ATOMEGA	2017-09-19	12,756
NosTale - Anime MMORPG	2017-09-18	12,511
The LEGO® NINJAGO® Movie Video Game	2017-09-22	11,884
Figment	2017-09-22	9,705
openCanvas 7	2017-09-20	7,444
Super Hydorah	2017-09-20	2,037
Eternal Lore	2017-09-19	853
Octopus Bar	2017-09-22	729
Keyboard Killers	2017-09-21	727

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

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

41%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

102

36%

——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.