Steam releases · Week 44, 2018

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

WEEK 44 ’1829 Oct – 4 Nov 2018166 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2018 at a glance

In week 44 of 2018 (29 Oct – 4 Nov 2018), 166 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Call of Cthulhu® (74,173 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (160 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	166
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,249
Free to play, of 156 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

22%

——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

117

71%

——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
Call of Cthulhu®	2018-10-29	74,173
Project Hospital	2018-10-30	70,730
The Witch's House MV	2018-10-30	14,949
Driver Booster for Steam	2018-11-01	9,941
THE QUIET MAN™	2018-11-01	9,541
Combat Arms: Reloaded	2018-10-31	8,441
Corpse Party: Book of Shadows	2018-10-29	4,903
At Home Alone	2018-11-01	4,656
Cheeky Chooks	2018-10-31	3,112
Zombie Builder Defense	2018-11-02	2,312