Steam releases · April 2024

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

Apr 20241 Apr – 30 Apr 20241,327 releases

Mar 2024 Now May 2024

April 2024 at a glance

In April 2024 (1 – 30 Apr 2024), 1,327 games released on Steam, and 186 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Manor Lords (570,141 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1,351 releases), it is 2 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	1,327
With a playable demo	186
Median followers, top 20 by demand	59,489
Free to play, of 1,270 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

21%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

157

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

1,026

65%

——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 April 2024

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Manor Lords	2024-04-26	570,141
Gray Zone Warfare	2024-04-30	256,556
No Rest for the Wicked	2024-04-18	223,056
Bellwright	2024-04-23	191,374
The Planet Crafter	2024-04-10	184,269
Infection Free Zone	2024-04-11	172,389
Content Warning	2024-04-01	110,658
Sky: Children of the Light	2024-04-10	99,344
Buckshot Roulette	2024-04-04	84,220
Dead Island 2	2024-04-22	65,101