Steam releases · Week 29, 2024

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

WEEK 29 ’2415 Jul – 21 Jul 2024428 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2024 at a glance

In week 29 of 2024 (15 – 21 Jul 2024), 428 games released on Steam, and 63 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Norland (111,845 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (298 releases), it is 44 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	428
With a playable demo	63
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,779
Free to play, of 408 with a known price	22 %
Same window a year earlier	298 (+44 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Norland	2024-07-18	111,845
Enlisted	2024-07-16	48,493
Nobody Wants to Die	2024-07-17	40,588
TerraScape	2024-07-17	22,460
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder	2024-07-16	19,379
Shawarma Legend	2024-07-19	14,103
Dark Hours: Prologue	2024-07-18	12,281
恋爱单选题	2024-07-18	10,210
Metal Slug: Awakening	2024-07-19	9,036
Supernatural	2024-07-15	8,390

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

49%

——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

334

33%

——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.