Steam releases · Week 40, 2018

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

WEEK 40 ’181 Oct – 7 Oct 2018136 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2018 at a glance

In week 40 of 2018 (1 – 7 Oct 2018), 136 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Assassin's Creed® Odyssey (347,653 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (130 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	136
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	487
Free to play, of 131 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

97%

——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

——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
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey	2018-10-05	347,653
Mashinky	2018-10-06	35,075
CityBattle \| Virtual Earth	2018-10-02	10,004
FaceFun	2018-10-03	2,442
Pixel FX Designer	2018-10-01	2,345
The Life of One Dog	2018-10-03	842
Laplace：拉普拉斯的神子	2018-10-02	726
1943 Berlin Blitz	2018-10-03	658
3D Earth Time Lapse PC Live Wallpaper	2018-10-05	635
Crimson Gray: Dusk and Dawn	2018-10-05	609