Steam releases · Q1 2024

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

Q1 20241 Jan – 31 Mar 20243,944 releasesJFM

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Q1 2024 at a glance

In Q1 2024 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2024), 3,944 games released on Steam, and 566 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is HELLDIVERS™ 2 (539,184 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3,648 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	3,944
With a playable demo	566
Median followers, top 20 by demand	112,112
Free to play, of 3,765 with a known price	17 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

38%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

149

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

174

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

466

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

3,084

51%

——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 Q1 2024

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
HELLDIVERS™ 2	2024-02-08	539,184
Last Epoch	2024-02-21	228,755
The Outlast Trials	2024-03-05	226,557
Dragon's Dogma 2	2024-03-21	223,644
The Universim	2024-01-22	191,509
Granblue Fantasy: Relink	2024-01-31	168,573
Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition	2024-03-21	128,122
Persona 3 Reload	2024-02-01	117,711
TEKKEN 8	2024-01-25	115,445
Balatro	2024-02-20	115,075