Steam releases · Week 31, 2018

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

WEEK 31 ’1830 Jul – 5 Aug 2018144 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2018 at a glance

In week 31 of 2018 (30 Jul – 5 Aug 2018), 144 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Chasm (18,915 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (149 releases), it is 3 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	144
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,487
Free to play, of 137 with a known price	10 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

65%

——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

26%

——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
Chasm	2018-07-30	18,915
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR Edition	2018-07-31	5,185
SaGa SCARLET GRACE: AMBITIONS™	2018-08-01	3,225
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat	2018-08-01	2,995
东方试闻广纪 ~ Perfect Memento of Touhou Question	2018-08-02	2,908
Forsaken Remastered	2018-07-31	2,630
Return.	2018-08-03	2,487
MilMo	2018-08-02	1,761
The Navigator	2018-08-03	609
Waterside Chirping 水畔空蝉	2018-08-01	403