Steam releases · Q1 2018

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

Q1 20181 Jan – 31 Mar 20181,807 releasesJFM

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Q1 2018 at a glance

In Q1 2018 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2018), 1,807 games released on Steam, and 106 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Rust (1,336,914 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,852 releases), it is 2 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,807
With a playable demo	106
Median followers, top 20 by demand	95,536
Free to play, of 1,733 with a known price	13 %

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

356

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,328

90%

——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 Q1 2018

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Rust	2018-02-08	1,336,914
Subnautica	2018-01-23	647,612
Z1 Battle Royale	2018-02-28	504,676
Far Cry® 5	2018-03-26	412,698
Northgard: Definitive Edition	2018-03-07	328,866
Warhammer: Vermintide 2	2018-03-08	255,619
DRAGON BALL FighterZ	2018-01-26	214,757
Eco	2018-02-06	190,242
Surviving Mars	2018-03-15	147,662
Celeste	2018-01-25	115,186