Steam releases · Week 1, 2018

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

WEEK 1 ’18Dec 31, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019100 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2018 at a glance

In week 1 of 2018 (Dec 31, 2018 – Jan 6, 2019), 100 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Niplheim's Hunter - Branded Azel (9,430 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (80 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	100
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	334
Free to play, of 92 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	80 (+25 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Niplheim's Hunter - Branded Azel	2019-01-06	9,430
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]	2019-01-05	4,928
Flowers in Dark	2019-01-03	1,089
La Rana	2019-01-01	854
Wormhole City	2018-12-31	700
Vixens From Outer Space	2019-01-06	698
Undholm	2019-01-06	612
RepairBot	2019-01-05	511
Endless Universe 2 PC Live Wallpaper	2019-01-04	367
Fur the Game	2019-01-03	334

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Smallpublisher median 50–200

25%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

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.