Steam releases · May 2018

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

May 20181 May – 31 May 2018672 releases

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May 2018 at a glance

In May 2018 (1 – 31 May 2018), 672 games released on Steam, and 41 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Paladins® (343,010 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (634 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	672
With a playable demo	41
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,326
Free to play, of 640 with a known price	13 %
Same window a year earlier	634 (+6 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Paladins®	2018-05-08	343,010
Conan Exiles Enhanced	2018-05-08	337,473
House Flipper	2018-05-17	274,684
Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	2018-05-08	125,562
Albion Online	2018-05-16	106,928
A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA	2018-05-02	99,688
FAR: Lone Sails	2018-05-17	58,823
Cultist Simulator	2018-05-31	45,255
MONMUSU	2018-05-11	23,397
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa	2018-05-17	21,850

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

34%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

116

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

511

49%

——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.

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