Steam releases · Week 51, 2018

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

WEEK 51 ’18Dec 17 – Dec 23, 2018175 releasesMTWTFSS

week 51 of 2018 at a glance

In week 51 of 2018 (Dec 17 – 23, 2018), 175 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Miscreated (195,362 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (160 releases), it is 9 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	175
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,086
Free to play, of 159 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	160 (+9 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Miscreated	2018-12-18	195,362
ATLAS	2018-12-22	157,269
Bloons TD 6	2018-12-17	102,719
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game	2018-12-19	67,880
Hunt and Snare	2018-12-17	14,468
Sky Noon	2018-12-18	4,066
Penkura	2018-12-19	3,315
Heathen - The sons of the law	2018-12-18	2,855
Nippon Marathon	2018-12-17	2,768
sweet pool	2018-12-19	2,615

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

132

100%

——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.