Steam releases · Week 4, 2018

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

WEEK 4 ’18Jan 22 – Jan 28, 2018135 releasesMTWTFSS

week 4 of 2018 at a glance

In week 4 of 2018 (Jan 22 – 28, 2018), 135 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Subnautica (645,869 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (75 releases), it is 80 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	135
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,147
Free to play, of 129 with a known price	12 %
Same window a year earlier	75 (+80 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Subnautica	2018-01-23	645,869
DRAGON BALL FighterZ	2018-01-26	214,158
Celeste	2018-01-25	114,574
Railway Empire	2018-01-26	70,351
The Red Strings Club	2018-01-22	30,975
Iconoclasts	2018-01-23	23,484
Monobeno	2018-01-26	9,483
Aimtastic	2018-01-28	8,763
TSUKUMOHIME	2018-01-24	2,606
Grisaia Phantom Trigger Vol.4	2018-01-25	1,863

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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

87%

——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.