Steam releases · September 2018

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

Sep 20181 Sep – 30 Sep 2018674 releases

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September 2018 at a glance

In September 2018 (1 – 30 Sep 2018), 674 games released on Steam, and 73 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (257,742 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (636 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	674
With a playable demo	73
Median followers, top 20 by demand	16,939
Free to play, of 619 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

123

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

503

78%

——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 September 2018

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition	2018-09-14	257,742
Chinese Parents	2018-09-28	90,890
Life is Strange 2	2018-09-26	87,237
CrossCode	2018-09-20	78,472
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing	2018-09-13	39,777
LET IT DIE	2018-09-26	32,361
Maitetsu:Pure Station	2018-09-21	23,919
Megaquarium	2018-09-13	23,641
Witch Hunt	2018-09-03	22,242
Cube Escape: Paradox	2018-09-20	21,795