Steam releases · Week 32, 2018

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

WEEK 32 ’186 Aug – 12 Aug 2018137 releasesMTWTFSS

week 32 of 2018 at a glance

In week 32 of 2018 (6 – 12 Aug 2018), 137 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Monster Hunter: World (911,029 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (134 releases), it is 2 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	137
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	617
Free to play, of 127 with a known price	14 %

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

101

98%

——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
Monster Hunter: World	2018-08-08	911,029
Dead Cells	2018-08-06	409,518
Squad 44	2018-08-09	163,104
We Happy Few	2018-08-10	160,945
Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass	2018-08-07	2,330
KOPICS	2018-08-10	740
NetHack: Legacy	2018-08-10	721
Bad Pad	2018-08-08	660
The Impure	2018-08-07	617
The Oni Sellsword	2018-08-07	478