Steam releases · Q3 2024

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

Q3 20241 Jul – 30 Sep 20244,567 releasesJAS

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Q3 2024 at a glance

In Q3 2024 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2024), 4,567 games released on Steam, and 726 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Black Myth: Wukong (1,469,972 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (4,243 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	4,567
With a playable demo	726
Median followers, top 20 by demand	124,872
Free to play, of 4,386 with a known price	20 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

56%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

158

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

192

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

557

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

3,581

30%

——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 Q3 2024

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Black Myth: Wukong	2024-08-19	1,469,972
7 Days to Die	2024-07-25	545,558
Satisfactory	2024-09-10	418,904
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2	2024-09-09	378,525
Once Human	2024-07-09	304,722
Tiny Glade	2024-09-23	191,270
Frostpunk 2	2024-09-20	181,658
Core Keeper	2024-08-27	178,203
UBOAT	2024-08-02	134,231
God of War Ragnarök	2024-09-19	129,751