Steam releases · Week 1, 2018

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

WEEK 1 ’1831 Dec 2018 – 6 Jan 2019101 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2018 at a glance

In week 1 of 2018 (31 Dec 2018 – 6 Jan 2019), 101 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is FrostRunner (3,174 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (80 releases), it is 26 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	101
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	480
Free to play, of 91 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	80 (+26 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
FrostRunner	2019-01-01	3,174
Hartacon Tactics	2019-01-01	1,339
La Rana	2019-01-01	854
Wormhole City	2018-12-31	700
Vixens From Outer Space	2019-01-06	700
03.04	2019-01-01	548
Seeker	2018-12-31	521
异霊皓月空华	2018-12-31	480
Let's Learn Japanese! Hiragana	2019-01-03	435
Bobs Track Builder Pro	2019-01-04	409

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Smallpublisher median 50–200

24%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

19%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

58%

——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.