Steam releases · Week 3, 2018

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

WEEK 3 ’18Jan 15 – Jan 21, 2018119 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2018 at a glance

In week 3 of 2018 (Jan 15 – 21, 2018), 119 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Genital Jousting (28,177 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (95 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	119
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	817
Free to play, of 116 with a known price	10 %
Same window a year earlier	95 (+25 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Genital Jousting	2018-01-18	28,177
Full Metal Furies	2018-01-17	17,147
Mouse (Sneaking)	2018-01-16	4,845
The Endless Journey	2018-01-18	3,588
Ascendant Hearts	2018-01-18	3,358
Beavers Be Dammed	2018-01-16	3,247
The Crooked Man	2018-01-16	2,888
Transports	2018-01-18	2,632
Play With Me: Escape Room	2018-01-17	1,633
Shooty Fruity	2018-01-18	1,281

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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

96%

——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.