Steam releases · Week 21, 2018

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

WEEK 21 ’1821 May – 27 May 2018116 releasesMTWTFSS

week 21 of 2018 at a glance

In week 21 of 2018 (21 – 27 May 2018), 116 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (15,326 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (88 releases), it is 32 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	116
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	707
Free to play, of 113 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	88 (+32 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon	2018-05-24	15,326
Gunsmith	2018-05-25	13,438
Warstone TD	2018-05-23	7,805
Wrecked	2018-05-21	3,224
RetroMaze	2018-05-21	931
Acro FS	2018-05-23	739
Scalak	2018-05-22	707
Caffeine	2018-05-25	558
Strangers of the Power 2	2018-05-21	511
CCCP CALLS!	2018-05-22	378

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

89%

——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

——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.