Steam releases · Week 17, 2024

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

WEEK 17 ’24Apr 22 – Apr 28, 2024354 releasesMTWTFSS

week 17 of 2024 at a glance

In week 17 of 2024 (Apr 22 – 28, 2024), 354 games released on Steam, and 42 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Manor Lords (566,956 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (344 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	354
With a playable demo	42
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,369
Free to play, of 303 with a known price	18 %
Same window a year earlier	344 (+3 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Manor Lords	2024-04-26	566,956
Bellwright	2024-04-23	190,276
Dead Island 2	2024-04-22	64,550
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty	2024-04-22	61,708
Another Crab's Treasure	2024-04-25	46,129
Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes	2024-04-23	32,186
SAND LAND	2024-04-25	29,591
FOREWARNED	2024-04-25	24,385
POOLS	2024-04-26	17,385
Banana	2024-04-23	17,115

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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

278

56%

——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.