Steam releases · October 2018

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

Oct 20181 Oct – 31 Oct 2018633 releases

Sep 2018 Now Nov 2018

October 2018 at a glance

In October 2018 (1 – 31 Oct 2018), 633 games released on Steam, and 44 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is RimWorld (652,054 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (674 releases), it is 6 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	633
With a playable demo	44
Median followers, top 20 by demand	24,455
Free to play, of 598 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

21%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

132

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

452

75%

——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.

inside October 2018

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
RimWorld	2018-10-17	652,054
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey	2018-10-05	347,653
SOULCALIBUR VI	2018-10-18	76,131
Farm Together	2018-10-11	75,241
Call of Cthulhu®	2018-10-29	74,173
Project Hospital	2018-10-30	70,730
WARRIORS OROCHI 4	2018-10-15	44,711
Do Not Feed the Monkeys	2018-10-23	43,076
Mashinky	2018-10-06	35,075
Kingdom Rush Origins - Tower Defense	2018-10-17	29,086