Steam releases · Week 43, 2018

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

WEEK 43 ’1822 Oct – 28 Oct 2018131 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2018 at a glance

In week 43 of 2018 (22 – 28 Oct 2018), 131 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Do Not Feed the Monkeys (43,076 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (140 releases), it is 6 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	131
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,960
Free to play, of 125 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

13%

——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

73%

——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
Do Not Feed the Monkeys	2018-10-23	43,076
Party Hard 2	2018-10-25	24,439
Disgaea 5 Complete	2018-10-22	23,775
The Colonists	2018-10-24	19,988
Touhou Genso Wanderer -Reloaded-	2018-10-25	19,493
Spiral Clicker	2018-10-24	4,359
Light Bearers	2018-10-23	3,116
Mojo 2: Mia	2018-10-26	2,851
Fap Queen	2018-10-26	2,092
Pocket Rogues	2018-10-25	2,026