Steam releases · Week 31, 2024

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

WEEK 31 ’24Jul 29 – Aug 4, 2024499 releasesMTWTFSS

week 31 of 2024 at a glance

In week 31 of 2024 (Jul 29 – Aug 4, 2024), 499 games released on Steam, and 66 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is UBOAT (133,994 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (289 releases), it is 73 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	499
With a playable demo	66
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,330
Free to play, of 448 with a known price	21 %
Same window a year earlier	289 (+73 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
UBOAT	2024-08-02	133,994
Sword of Convallaria	2024-07-31	23,184
Thank Goodness You're Here!	2024-08-01	21,956
Minds Beneath Us	2024-07-31	20,816
DEVIATOR	2024-08-01	16,085
Morimens	2024-08-01	12,305
OPPAI Succubus Academy Sucky and Busty, Demonic and Lusty!	2024-07-31	10,526
Smack Studio	2024-07-31	7,441
KitHack Model Club	2024-08-01	6,909
Ogu and the Secret Forest	2024-07-29	6,527

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

17%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

430

79%

——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.