Steam releases · Week 17, 2018

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

WEEK 17 ’1823 Apr – 29 Apr 2018165 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2018 at a glance

In week 17 of 2018 (23 – 29 Apr 2018), 165 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Frostpunk (384,803 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (93 releases), it is 77 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	165
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,136
Free to play, of 159 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

27%

——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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

127

70%

——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
Frostpunk	2018-04-24	384,803
BATTLETECH	2018-04-24	121,965
Call to Arms	2018-04-27	98,988
Monster Prom	2018-04-27	35,373
Zero-K	2018-04-27	7,910
Rolling Line	2018-04-27	7,734
Bullet Witch	2018-04-25	4,707
Mini World: CREATA	2018-04-27	4,668
Adventure of a Lifetime	2018-04-26	3,252
Holyday City: Reloaded	2018-04-23	2,156