Steam releases · Week 9, 2018

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

WEEK 9 ’1826 Feb – 4 Mar 2018173 releasesMTWTFSS

week 9 of 2018 at a glance

In week 9 of 2018 (26 Feb – 4 Mar 2018), 173 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Z1 Battle Royale (504,676 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (86 releases), it is 101 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	173
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,635
Free to play, of 167 with a known price	10 %

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

20%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

131

72%

——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
Z1 Battle Royale	2018-02-28	504,676
Into the Breach	2018-02-27	95,536
Gravel	2018-02-27	4,913
Meteor 60 Seconds!	2018-02-26	4,463
Panzer War : Definitive Edition	2018-02-28	4,224
Bombix	2018-03-02	3,101
Golden Dungeons	2018-03-03	2,243
My Little Farmies	2018-02-27	2,072
Full Ace Tennis Simulator	2018-02-28	1,970
Foxus	2018-02-27	1,638