Steam releases · Week 8, 2017

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

WEEK 8 ’1720 Feb – 26 Feb 2017111 releasesMTWTFSS

week 8 of 2017 at a glance

In week 8 of 2017 (20 – 26 Feb 2017), 111 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Night in the Woods (65,926 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (64 releases), it is 73 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	111
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,482
Free to play, of 108 with a known price	8 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

91%

——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
Night in the Woods	2017-02-21	65,926
911 Operator	2017-02-24	50,791
BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk	2017-02-21	43,839
Syrian Warfare	2017-02-21	19,985
BRAIN / OUT	2017-02-24	18,217
Dungeon Painter Studio	2017-02-26	13,413
Anarchy Online	2017-02-22	7,853
Unexplored	2017-02-22	4,532
Four Last Things	2017-02-23	3,633
Sakura Magical Girls	2017-02-23	2,714