Steam releases · Week 52, 2018

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

WEEK 52 ’1824 Dec – 30 Dec 201891 releasesMTWTFSS

week 52 of 2018 at a glance

In week 52 of 2018 (24 – 30 Dec 2018), 91 games released on Steam, and 8 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Heartbound (26,209 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (87 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	91
With a playable demo	8
Median followers, top 20 by demand	326
Free to play, of 89 with a known price	20 %
Same window a year earlier	87 (+5 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

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.

Game	Release	Followers
Heartbound	2018-12-24	26,209
Miracle Snack Shop	2018-12-25	6,524
SpedV	2018-12-26	1,723
connect - Virtual Home (3D or VR)	2018-12-25	1,082
东方驾考模拟器\|Chinese Driving License Test	2018-12-28	445
Darkness and Flame: The Dark Side f2p	2018-12-26	364
My Desktop Alive	2018-12-26	326
Snood	2018-12-25	250
東方苦粗芸物語 Touhou KSG Story	2018-12-28	142
Allied Nations	2018-12-24	124