Steam releases · Q2 2024

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

Q2 20241 Apr – 30 Jun 20244,243 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2024 at a glance

In Q2 2024 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2024), 4,243 games released on Steam, and 645 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Manor Lords (570,141 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3,944 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	4,243
With a playable demo	645
Median followers, top 20 by demand	172,389
Free to play, of 4,057 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

10%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

15%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

191

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

192

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

541

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

3,246

61%

——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 Q2 2024

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Manor Lords	2024-04-26	570,141
Bodycam	2024-06-07	369,163
V Rising	2024-05-08	307,146
The First Descendant	2024-06-30	264,968
Gray Zone Warfare	2024-04-30	256,556
No Rest for the Wicked	2024-04-18	223,056
Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT	2024-05-16	219,913
Dark and Darker	2024-06-07	218,793
Bellwright	2024-04-23	191,374
The Planet Crafter	2024-04-10	184,269