Steam releases · Q3 2019

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

Q3 20191 Jul – 30 Sep 20191,904 releasesJAS

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Q3 2019 at a glance

In Q3 2019 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2019), 1,904 games released on Steam, and 147 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Hunt: Showdown 1896 (510,574 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,837 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,904
With a playable demo	147
Median followers, top 20 by demand	73,382
Free to play, of 1,835 with a known price	15 %

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

347

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,408

80%

——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 Q3 2019

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Hunt: Showdown 1896	2019-08-27	510,574
Oxygen Not Included	2019-07-30	419,141
GreedFall	2019-09-09	163,239
People Playground	2019-07-23	104,446
Blasphemous	2019-09-10	101,925
Children of Morta	2019-09-03	100,775
Trailmakers	2019-09-18	85,574
Dead Frontier 2	2019-07-15	83,802
Gears 5	2019-09-09	79,027
The Long Drive	2019-09-25	77,313