Steam releases · Week 34, 2024

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

WEEK 34 ’2419 Aug – 25 Aug 2024291 releasesMTWTFSS

week 34 of 2024 at a glance

In week 34 of 2024 (19 – 25 Aug 2024), 291 games released on Steam, and 59 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Black Myth: Wukong (1,469,972 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (249 releases), it is 17 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	291
With a playable demo	59
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,140
Free to play, of 279 with a known price	20 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——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

226

96%

——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
Black Myth: Wukong	2024-08-19	1,469,972
Predecessor	2024-08-20	69,735
Aeons Echo	2024-08-22	31,622
Terminus: Zombie Survivors	2024-08-19	22,255
Skull and Bones	2024-08-22	18,651
Tunnel Escape	2024-08-22	7,248
Dustborn	2024-08-20	6,919
Lord of Rigel	2024-08-25	5,449
Dreamlike Love with Seira	2024-08-23	4,794
HAREM！RANCH LIFE	2024-08-23	4,583