Steam releases · April 2018

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

Apr 20181 Apr – 30 Apr 2018634 releases

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April 2018 at a glance

In April 2018 (1 – 30 Apr 2018), 634 games released on Steam, and 32 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Frostpunk (384,803 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (703 releases), it is 10 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	634
With a playable demo	32
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,958
Free to play, of 604 with a known price	15 %
Same window a year earlier	703 (-10 %)

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

124

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

472

87%

——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 April 2018

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Frostpunk	2018-04-24	384,803
Lobotomy Corporation \| Monster Management Simulation	2018-04-09	143,723
For The King	2018-04-19	138,418
BATTLETECH	2018-04-24	121,965
Call to Arms	2018-04-27	98,988
KovaaK's	2018-04-03	42,101
Monster Prom	2018-04-27	35,373
War Robots	2018-04-04	32,748
Tower of Time	2018-04-12	27,059
Amorous	2018-04-13	16,502