Steam releases · Week 18, 2024

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

WEEK 18 ’2429 Apr – 5 May 2024359 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2024 at a glance

In week 18 of 2024 (29 Apr – 5 May 2024), 359 games released on Steam, and 44 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Gray Zone Warfare (256,556 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (274 releases), it is 31 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	359
With a playable demo	44
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,672
Free to play, of 341 with a known price	23 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

296

95%

——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
Gray Zone Warfare	2024-04-30	256,556
FOUNDRY	2024-05-02	52,462
INDIKA	2024-05-02	28,558
My Island	2024-05-01	13,577
FRONT MISSION 2: Remake	2024-04-30	5,540
COLLEGE SEX FEST 2024	2024-05-02	4,497
Wife of My Boss	2024-05-04	4,048
Let Bions Be Bygones	2024-04-30	3,869
Creator of Another World	2024-04-30	2,736
Mini Settlers: Prologue	2024-04-30	2,709