Steam releases · Week 16, 2018

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

WEEK 16 ’1816 Apr – 22 Apr 2018150 releasesMTWTFSS

week 16 of 2018 at a glance

In week 16 of 2018 (16 – 22 Apr 2018), 150 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is For The King (138,418 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (105 releases), it is 43 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	150
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	967
Free to play, of 145 with a known price	15 %

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

45%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

110

44%

——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
For The King	2018-04-19	138,418
VR Benchmark Kanojo	2018-04-18	6,433
Ready Player One: OASIS beta	2018-04-16	5,095
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin	2018-04-19	3,228
Copy Kitty	2018-04-19	1,944
Zombie Derby	2018-04-20	1,704
War Brokers	2018-04-18	1,036
Kanova	2018-04-16	967
Space Pilgrim Academy: Year 2	2018-04-20	619
BARRAGE / 铁幕	2018-04-18	399