Steam releases · Week 1, 2018

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

WEEK 1 ’181 Jan – 7 Jan 201880 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2018 at a glance

In week 1 of 2018 (1 – 7 Jan 2018), 80 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Real Pool 3D - Poolians (10,910 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (59 releases), it is 36 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	80
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	641
Free to play, of 79 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	59 (+36 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Real Pool 3D - Poolians	2018-01-04	10,910
DashPanel	2018-01-05	3,263
Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory	2018-01-05	1,959
Sprout	2018-01-05	1,817
Ironbound	2018-01-04	1,761
BASIC8	2018-01-02	1,265
LINCH	2018-01-02	641
High School Simulator	2018-01-03	609
The Warrior Of Treasures	2018-01-03	518
Marius	2018-01-05	320

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Micropublisher median under 50

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Self-publishedno external publisher

96%

——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.