Steam releases · Week 48, 2018

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

WEEK 48 ’1826 Nov – 2 Dec 2018151 releasesMTWTFSS

week 48 of 2018 at a glance

In week 48 of 2018 (26 Nov – 2 Dec 2018), 151 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is X4: Foundations (158,956 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (157 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	151
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,635
Free to play, of 135 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

98%

——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
X4: Foundations	2018-11-30	158,956
Artifact	2018-11-28	137,022
Professional Fishing	2018-11-30	12,050
Superfighters Deluxe	2018-11-30	8,184
Project Eagle: A 3D Interactive Mars Base	2018-11-27	4,721
Ultimate Desktop Character Engine	2018-11-27	3,276
Movavi Video Suite 18 - Video Making Software - Edit, Convert, Capture Screen, and more	2018-12-02	2,857
Prime World: Defenders 2	2018-11-29	2,457
NAIRI: Tower of Shirin	2018-11-29	2,393
Escape Doodland	2018-11-30	1,844