Steam releases · Week 38, 2024

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

WEEK 38 ’24Sep 16 – Sep 22, 2024321 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2024 at a glance

In week 38 of 2024 (Sep 16 – 22, 2024), 321 games released on Steam, and 61 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Frostpunk 2 (181,283 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (301 releases), it is 7 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	321
With a playable demo	61
Median followers, top 20 by demand	4,114
Free to play, of 282 with a known price	17 %
Same window a year earlier	301 (+7 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Frostpunk 2	2024-09-20	181,283
God of War Ragnarök	2024-09-19	128,431
FINAL FANTASY XVI	2024-09-17	73,061
Enotria: The Last Song	2024-09-16	23,867
Train Sim World® 5	2024-09-17	19,656
Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars: Reforged	2024-09-19	9,352
Keylocker \| Turn Based Cyberpunk Action	2024-09-18	7,301
Lyndaria: Lust Adventure	2024-09-20	6,572
Wild Indigo Ranch	2024-09-18	5,952
Subside	2024-09-17	4,243

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

45%

——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

265

52%

——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.