Steam releases · Week 17, 2024

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

WEEK 17 ’2422 Apr – 28 Apr 2024311 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2024 at a glance

In week 17 of 2024 (22 – 28 Apr 2024), 311 games released on Steam, and 43 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Manor Lords (570,141 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (315 releases), it is 1 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	311
With a playable demo	43
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,972
Free to play, of 303 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

35%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

227

48%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Manor Lords	2024-04-26	570,141
Bellwright	2024-04-23	191,374
Dead Island 2	2024-04-22	65,101
Another Crab's Treasure	2024-04-25	46,307
FOREWARNED	2024-04-25	24,440
POOLS	2024-04-26	17,556
Banana	2024-04-23	17,247
Knightly Passions	2024-04-26	15,433
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok	2024-04-26	14,050
Contractors Showdown : ExfilZone	2024-04-25	10,158