Steam releases · Week 28, 2024

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

WEEK 28 ’248 Jul – 14 Jul 2024302 releasesMTWTFSS

week 28 of 2024 at a glance

In week 28 of 2024 (8 – 14 Jul 2024), 302 games released on Steam, and 45 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Once Human (304,722 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (241 releases), it is 25 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	302
With a playable demo	45
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,996
Free to play, of 283 with a known price	24 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

92%

——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

252

——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
Once Human	2024-07-09	304,722
KAKU: Ancient Seal	2024-07-11	54,674
Illusion Carnival	2024-07-11	12,404
Immortal Family	2024-07-11	7,384
Hamster Playground	2024-07-11	6,792
Battle Grounds III	2024-07-14	4,871
Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife	2024-07-11	4,813
Nevergrind Online	2024-07-11	3,781
Descending The Woods	2024-07-12	3,575
Super Dark Deception	2024-07-12	3,533