Steam releases · Week 37, 2018

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

WEEK 37 ’1810 Sep – 16 Sep 2018176 releasesMTWTFSS

week 37 of 2018 at a glance

In week 37 of 2018 (10 – 16 Sep 2018), 176 games released on Steam, and 30 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (257,742 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (171 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	176
With a playable demo	30
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,960
Free to play, of 148 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

129

91%

——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
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition	2018-09-14	257,742
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing	2018-09-13	39,777
Megaquarium	2018-09-13	23,641
ReCore: Definitive Edition	2018-09-14	15,534
Touhou Big Big Battle	2018-09-10	13,702
BLACK CLOVER: QUARTET KNIGHTS	2018-09-13	8,317
Shining Song Starnova	2018-09-13	4,681
fpsVR	2018-09-11	2,754
RUSH: A Disney • PIXAR Adventure	2018-09-14	2,668
HD Poker: Texas Hold'em	2018-09-14	1,976