Steam releases · Q1 2019

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

Q1 20191 Jan – 31 Mar 20191,697 releasesJFM

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Q1 2019 at a glance

In Q1 2019 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2019), 1,697 games released on Steam, and 125 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ASTRONEER (522,932 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,893 releases), it is 10 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,697
With a playable demo	125
Median followers, top 20 by demand	83,735
Free to play, of 1,618 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

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

339

19%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,242

59%

——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.

inside Q1 2019

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
ASTRONEER	2019-02-05	522,932
Space Engineers	2019-02-28	347,369
Devil May Cry 5	2019-03-07	324,955
Resident Evil 2	2019-01-24	324,360
Slay the Spire	2019-01-23	241,549
My Time at Portia	2019-01-15	183,948
Generation Zero®	2019-03-26	163,892
Tropico 6	2019-03-29	119,892
DiRT Rally 2.0	2019-02-25	116,805
Volcanoids	2019-01-29	94,850