Steam releases · Q3 2018

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

Q3 20181 Jul – 30 Sep 20181,943 releasesJAS

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Q3 2018 at a glance

In Q3 2018 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2018), 1,943 games released on Steam, and 162 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Monster Hunter: World (911,029 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,860 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,943
With a playable demo	162
Median followers, top 20 by demand	72,862
Free to play, of 1,823 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

17%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

357

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,457

75%

——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 Q3 2018

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Monster Hunter: World	2018-08-08	911,029
Dead Cells	2018-08-06	409,518
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition	2018-09-14	257,742
Squad 44	2018-08-09	163,104
We Happy Few	2018-08-10	160,945
Graveyard Keeper	2018-08-15	141,205
Chinese Parents	2018-09-28	90,890
Mist Survival	2018-08-14	88,872
Life is Strange 2	2018-09-26	87,237
CrossCode	2018-09-20	78,472