Steam releases · Week 1, 2024

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

WEEK 1 ’241 Jan – 7 Jan 2024242 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2024 at a glance

In week 1 of 2024 (1 – 7 Jan 2024), 242 games released on Steam, and 21 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Winter Memories (52,358 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (188 releases), it is 29 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	242
With a playable demo	21
Median followers, top 20 by demand	800
Free to play, of 231 with a known price	16 %
Same window a year earlier	188 (+29 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Winter Memories	2024-01-05	52,358
Summoners War	2024-01-07	14,932
Shipwrecked 64	2024-01-01	4,373
The Night is Grey	2024-01-05	3,050
Cartel Simulator	2024-01-06	2,909
Mothers and Daughters	2024-01-02	2,371
ASTRAL TALE-星界神話	2024-01-07	1,700
Cyber Avenger	2024-01-04	1,376
Sensual Adventures - Episode 9	2024-01-02	1,265
Tools Up! Ultimate Edition	2024-01-05	1,201

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

206

93%

——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.