Steam releases · Week 41, 2018

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

WEEK 41 ’188 Oct – 14 Oct 2018129 releasesMTWTFSS

week 41 of 2018 at a glance

In week 41 of 2018 (8 – 14 Oct 2018), 129 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Farm Together (75,241 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (147 releases), it is 12 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	129
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,857
Free to play, of 120 with a known price	13 %

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

70%

——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
Farm Together	2018-10-11	75,241
Mark of the Ninja: Remastered	2018-10-09	20,301
Evenicle	2018-10-10	19,183
The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories	2018-10-11	10,308
Houdini Indie	2018-10-10	6,102
Helium Rain	2018-10-11	5,737
CINERIS SOMNIA	2018-10-09	4,903
SEPTEMBER 1999	2018-10-10	2,605
Live3D - Comic & Animation & VTuber Maker - Virtual Production	2018-10-12	1,857
Merchant	2018-10-08	1,550