Steam releases · Week 45, 2018

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

WEEK 45 ’185 Nov – 11 Nov 2018164 releasesMTWTFSS

week 45 of 2018 at a glance

In week 45 of 2018 (5 – 11 Nov 2018), 164 games released on Steam, and 14 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Thief Simulator (125,392 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (132 releases), it is 24 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	164
With a playable demo	14
Median followers, top 20 by demand	797
Free to play, of 157 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

52%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

125

39%

——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
Thief Simulator	2018-11-09	125,392
One Hour One Life	2018-11-08	29,778
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry	2018-11-07	8,107
TSIOQUE	2018-11-07	6,534
Hentai Girl Hime	2018-11-06	5,701
Vilmonic	2018-11-05	3,099
Angel, Devil, Elf and Me!	2018-11-07	1,518
Marvelous Designer 8 for Steam	2018-11-06	1,295
Wallpaper Builder	2018-11-09	1,136
ColorTool	2018-11-06	1,064