Steam releases · Week 40, 2024

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

WEEK 40 ’2430 Sep – 6 Oct 2024332 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2024 at a glance

In week 40 of 2024 (30 Sep – 6 Oct 2024), 332 games released on Steam, and 60 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Throne and Liberty (155,543 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (256 releases), it is 30 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	332
With a playable demo	60
Median followers, top 20 by demand	15,307
Free to play, of 319 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

49%

——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

251

39%

——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
Throne and Liberty	2024-10-01	155,543
Diplomacy is Not an Option	2024-10-04	94,158
The Killing Antidote	2024-10-05	69,596
Gunsmith Simulator	2024-10-04	41,387
Until Dawn™	2024-10-04	40,306
Dread Dawn	2024-09-30	40,185
SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured Daydream	2024-10-03	33,066
Zoochosis	2024-09-30	27,001
The Last Plague: Blight	2024-10-03	23,914
Rogue Waters	2024-09-30	15,781