Steam releases · Week 42, 2024

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

WEEK 42 ’2414 Oct – 20 Oct 2024255 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2024 at a glance

In week 42 of 2024 (14 – 20 Oct 2024), 255 games released on Steam, and 26 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Drova - Forsaken Kin (57,257 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (343 releases), it is 26 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	255
With a playable demo	26
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,168
Free to play, of 245 with a known price	21 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

45%

——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

201

46%

——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
Drova - Forsaken Kin	2024-10-15	57,257
Assassin's Creed Mirage	2024-10-17	36,851
Nuclear Nightmare	2024-10-20	34,688
MechWarrior 5: Clans	2024-10-16	30,915
Citadelum	2024-10-17	18,011
Unknown 9: Awakening	2024-10-17	9,386
Glitchpunk	2024-10-16	5,483
Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake	2024-10-17	5,285
A Hero's Rest: An RPG Town Simulator	2024-10-18	5,200
Sniper Killer	2024-10-17	3,030