Steam releases · Week 33, 2024

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

WEEK 33 ’2412 Aug – 18 Aug 2024351 releasesMTWTFSS

week 33 of 2024 at a glance

In week 33 of 2024 (12 – 18 Aug 2024), 351 games released on Steam, and 37 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Crime Scene Cleaner (82,934 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (262 releases), it is 34 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	351
With a playable demo	37
Median followers, top 20 by demand	8,856
Free to play, of 338 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

16%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

25%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

275

49%

——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
Crime Scene Cleaner	2024-08-14	82,934
Sins of a Solar Empire II	2024-08-15	70,756
Dawn of Defiance	2024-08-15	33,763
Nova Drift	2024-08-12	24,838
Intravenous 2	2024-08-15	23,508
Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻	2024-08-13	17,173
Odd Realm	2024-08-16	14,298
Arco	2024-08-15	12,410
Gourdlets	2024-08-15	11,487
Tales & Tactics	2024-08-15	9,625