Steam releases · Q4 2024

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

Q4 20241 Oct – 31 Dec 20245,151 releasesOND

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Q4 2024 at a glance

In Q4 2024 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2024), 5,151 games released on Steam, and 1,038 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Path of Exile 2 (398,743 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (4,567 releases), it is 13 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	5,151
With a playable demo	1,038
Median followers, top 20 by demand	116,410
Free to play, of 4,984 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

32%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

168

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

236

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

654

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

4,014

62%

——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 Q4 2024

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Path of Exile 2	2024-12-06	398,743
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl	2024-11-20	382,739
Delta Force	2024-12-04	349,235
Marvel Rivals	2024-12-05	271,603
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO	2024-10-10	199,075
Throne and Liberty	2024-10-01	155,543
Farming Simulator 25	2024-11-12	145,145
MiSide	2024-12-10	143,497
SILENT HILL 2	2024-10-07	140,105
Starship Troopers: Extermination	2024-10-10	127,696