Steam releases · Week 6, 2018

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

WEEK 6 ’185 Feb – 11 Feb 2018162 releasesMTWTFSS

week 6 of 2018 at a glance

In week 6 of 2018 (5 – 11 Feb 2018), 162 games released on Steam, and 10 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Rust (1,336,914 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (91 releases), it is 78 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	162
With a playable demo	10
Median followers, top 20 by demand	903
Free to play, of 153 with a known price	10 %
Same window a year earlier	91 (+78 %)

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

108

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
Rust	2018-02-08	1,336,914
Eco	2018-02-06	190,242
GUNS UP!	2018-02-05	12,919
OPUS: Rocket of Whispers	2018-02-07	9,054
Ancestors Legacy Free Peasant Edition	2018-02-06	5,241
Silent Descent	2018-02-06	1,444
Bartender VR Simulator	2018-02-09	1,177
Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards	2018-02-06	1,161
Card Crawl	2018-02-07	1,126
Robin	2018-02-08	1,054