Steam releases · Week 4, 2018

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

WEEK 4 ’1822 Jan – 28 Jan 2018136 releasesMTWTFSS

week 4 of 2018 at a glance

In week 4 of 2018 (22 – 28 Jan 2018), 136 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Subnautica (647,612 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (75 releases), it is 81 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	136
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	390
Free to play, of 131 with a known price	13 %

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Subnautica	2018-01-23	647,612
DRAGON BALL FighterZ	2018-01-26	214,757
Celeste	2018-01-25	115,186
Iconoclasts	2018-01-23	23,511
cyubeVR	2018-01-26	9,632
Aimtastic	2018-01-28	8,754
Zwei: The Arges Adventure	2018-01-24	6,114
Rapid Tap	2018-01-22	390
Season's Beatings	2018-01-23	300
SUMETRICK	2018-01-26	265