Steam releases · Week 3, 2024

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

WEEK 3 ’2415 Jan – 21 Jan 2024250 releasesMTWTFSS

week 3 of 2024 at a glance

In week 3 of 2024 (15 – 21 Jan 2024), 250 games released on Steam, and 31 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is New Cycle (69,276 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (229 releases), it is 9 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	250
With a playable demo	31
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,520
Free to play, of 235 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

10%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

11%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

189

72%

——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
New Cycle	2024-01-18	69,276
House Builder	2024-01-15	16,705
Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game	2024-01-21	16,431
Contain	2024-01-16	15,865
Rising Lords	2024-01-18	14,990
All Quiet in the Trenches	2024-01-17	12,256
Love challenge	2024-01-15	10,920
First Cut: Samurai Duel	2024-01-17	9,036
Arena Renovation	2024-01-19	7,437
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank	2024-01-18	6,918