Steam releases · Week 42, 2017

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

WEEK 42 ’1716 Oct – 22 Oct 2017175 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2017 at a glance

In week 42 of 2017 (16 – 22 Oct 2017), 175 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Brawlhalla (207,301 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (112 releases), it is 56 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	175
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	639
Free to play, of 164 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

91%

——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

128

——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
Brawlhalla	2017-10-17	207,301
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™	2017-10-16	114,649
Hide and Shriek	2017-10-19	16,095
SAS: Zombie Assault 4	2017-10-16	15,725
Romance of the Three Kingdoms IX with Power Up Kit	2017-10-17	3,448
Uncharted Waters II	2017-10-17	1,936
Urban Rivals	2017-10-18	1,450
Google Spotlight Stories: Pearl	2017-10-19	1,303
Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition	2017-10-20	1,058
Scrap	2017-10-18	795