Steam releases · Week 12, 2018

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

WEEK 12 ’1819 Mar – 25 Mar 2018127 releasesMTWTFSS

week 12 of 2018 at a glance

In week 12 of 2018 (19 – 25 Mar 2018), 127 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Sword With Sauce (23,197 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (79 releases), it is 61 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	127
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	435
Free to play, of 120 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

57%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

34%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Sword With Sauce	2018-03-20	23,197
Simple Story - Alex	2018-03-22	6,647
Apex Construct	2018-03-20	5,775
Pizza Connection 3	2018-03-22	5,677
ASSAULT GUNNERS HD EDITION	2018-03-20	1,586
Nonogram - The Greatest Painter	2018-03-22	1,303
Exorder	2018-03-19	793
Legend of Himari	2018-03-19	712
Traum	2018-03-19	707
International Space Station Tour VR	2018-03-22	477