Steam releases · October 2024

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

Oct 20241 Oct – 31 Oct 20241,788 releases

Sep 2024 Now Nov 2024

October 2024 at a glance

In October 2024 (1 – 31 Oct 2024), 1,788 games released on Steam, and 392 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO (199,075 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,425 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,788
With a playable demo	392
Median followers, top 20 by demand	69,596
Free to play, of 1,725 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

23%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

20%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

207

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,393

48%

——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 October 2024

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO	2024-10-10	199,075
Throne and Liberty	2024-10-01	155,543
SILENT HILL 2	2024-10-07	140,105
Starship Troopers: Extermination	2024-10-10	127,696
Red Dead Redemption	2024-10-29	105,513
Metaphor: ReFantazio	2024-10-10	103,541
Diplomacy is Not an Option	2024-10-04	94,158
ZERO Sievert	2024-10-23	88,996
Thronefall	2024-10-11	87,451
Undisputed	2024-10-08	77,356