Steam releases · Week 50, 2018

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

WEEK 50 ’1810 Dec – 16 Dec 2018140 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2018 at a glance

In week 50 of 2018 (10 – 16 Dec 2018), 140 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DayZ (718,000 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (152 releases), it is 8 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	140
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,978
Free to play, of 133 with a known price	14 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

18%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

103

80%

——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
DayZ	2018-12-13	718,000
Insurgency: Sandstorm	2018-12-12	259,370
Kingdom Two Crowns	2018-12-11	100,847
Book of Demons	2018-12-13	40,200
Contractors	2018-12-14	14,887
BallisticNG	2018-12-14	9,624
Obenseuer	2018-12-11	8,413
Lucius III	2018-12-13	4,881
My 1/6 Lover	2018-12-12	3,837
Sam & Dan: Floaty Flatmates	2018-12-12	2,391