Steam releases · Week 20, 2018

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

WEEK 20 ’1814 May – 20 May 2018169 releasesMTWTFSS

week 20 of 2018 at a glance

In week 20 of 2018 (14 – 20 May 2018), 169 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is House Flipper (274,684 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (94 releases), it is 80 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	169
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	348
Free to play, of 161 with a known price	10 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

28%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

133

71%

——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
House Flipper	2018-05-17	274,684
Albion Online	2018-05-16	106,928
FAR: Lone Sails	2018-05-17	58,823
The friends of Ringo Ishikawa	2018-05-17	21,850
Stormbound	2018-05-15	1,954
Fairune Collection	2018-05-16	791
1943 Deadly Desert	2018-05-15	746
Destined	2018-05-19	425
7 Days in Dream 光尘	2018-05-14	414
Towards The Pantheon	2018-05-16	367