Steam releases · Week 50, 2017

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

WEEK 50 ’17Dec 11 – Dec 17, 2017151 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2017 at a glance

In week 50 of 2017 (Dec 11 – 17, 2017), 151 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Gang Beasts (254,986 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (149 releases), it is 1 % 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	3,224
Free to play, of 141 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	149 (+1 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Gang Beasts	2017-12-12	254,986
Okami HD	2017-12-12	78,319
Stationeers	2017-12-12	68,107
Finding Paradise	2017-12-14	44,856
Gorogoa	2017-12-14	43,487
Grey Hack	2017-12-14	17,797
L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files	2017-12-15	9,608
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition	2017-12-14	5,819
Bit Heroes Quest	2017-12-13	5,656
March of Empires	2017-12-11	5,205

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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

14%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

109

80%

——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.