Steam releases · November 2018

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

Nov 20181 Nov – 30 Nov 2018683 releases

Oct 2018 Now Dec 2018

November 2018 at a glance

In November 2018 (1 – 30 Nov 2018), 683 games released on Steam, and 57 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Wallpaper Engine (1,539,933 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (633 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	683
With a playable demo	57
Median followers, top 20 by demand	12,821
Free to play, of 643 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

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

162

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

473

96%

——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 November 2018

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Wallpaper Engine	2018-11-16	1,539,933
Among Us	2018-11-16	349,306
X4: Foundations	2018-11-30	158,956
Artifact	2018-11-28	137,022
Thief Simulator	2018-11-09	125,392
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus	2018-11-15	49,438
Sunset Overdrive	2018-11-16	35,429
One Hour One Life	2018-11-08	29,778
Sword Art Online: Lost Song	2018-11-12	22,401
Eternal Card Game	2018-11-15	14,693