Steam releases · Week 42, 2017

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

WEEK 42 ’17Oct 16 – Oct 22, 2017175 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2017 at a glance

In week 42 of 2017 (Oct 16 – 22, 2017), 175 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Brawlhalla (206,181 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (112 releases), it is 56 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	175
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,394
Free to play, of 160 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	112 (+56 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Brawlhalla	2017-10-17	206,181
ELEX	2017-10-17	147,357
South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™	2017-10-16	113,929
Bomber Crew	2017-10-19	44,313
King Exit	2017-10-19	19,238
Hide and Shriek	2017-10-19	16,071
SAS: Zombie Assault 4	2017-10-16	15,656
Cogmind	2017-10-16	12,682
The Jackbox Party Pack 4	2017-10-18	8,218
The Talos Principle VR	2017-10-17	7,131

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

92%

——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

129

——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.