Steam releases · Week 36, 2024

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

WEEK 36 ’242 Sep – 8 Sep 2024300 releasesMTWTFSS

week 36 of 2024 at a glance

In week 36 of 2024 (2 – 8 Sep 2024), 300 games released on Steam, and 44 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Age of Mythology: Retold (124,431 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (235 releases), it is 28 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	300
With a playable demo	44
Median followers, top 20 by demand	5,764
Free to play, of 285 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

62%

——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

235

24%

——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
Age of Mythology: Retold	2024-09-04	124,431
NBA 2K25	2024-09-03	54,552
Star Trucker	2024-09-03	43,965
Ale & Tale Tavern	2024-09-05	43,773
Starcom: Unknown Space	2024-09-02	32,420
The Casting of Frank Stone™	2024-09-03	22,619
QANGA	2024-09-02	16,218
Sumerian Six	2024-09-02	9,274
CATO: Buttered Cat	2024-09-05	8,826
California Escapades	2024-09-03	6,812