Steam releases · Week 49, 2018

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

WEEK 49 ’183 Dec – 9 Dec 2018143 releasesMTWTFSS

week 49 of 2018 at a glance

In week 49 of 2018 (3 – 9 Dec 2018), 143 games released on Steam, and 12 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Kenshi (305,620 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (150 releases), it is 5 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	143
With a playable demo	12
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,897
Free to play, of 134 with a known price	13 %

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

85%

——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
Kenshi	2018-12-06	305,620
War of Rights	2018-12-03	77,935
Evil Bank Manager	2018-12-07	33,503
Tourist Bus Simulator	2018-12-06	16,739
Project Warlock	2018-12-06	14,702
Survived By	2018-12-05	9,828
DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition	2018-12-05	8,238
Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX	2018-12-03	7,997
Hentai Girl Linda	2018-12-07	5,975
Atelier Meruru ~The Apprentice of Arland~ DX	2018-12-03	5,239