Steam releases · Week 43, 2024

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

WEEK 43 ’2421 Oct – 27 Oct 2024571 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2024 at a glance

In week 43 of 2024 (21 – 27 Oct 2024), 571 games released on Steam, and 179 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is ZERO Sievert (88,996 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (307 releases), it is 86 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	571
With a playable demo	179
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,802
Free to play, of 553 with a known price	11 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

30%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

15%

——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

448

51%

——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
ZERO Sievert	2024-10-23	88,996
Windblown	2024-10-24	68,699
Age of History 3	2024-10-23	42,159
Rivals of Aether II	2024-10-23	25,669
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven	2024-10-24	25,370
Orebound	2024-10-24	17,005
The World of Kungfu: Dragon and Eagle	2024-10-23	13,488
The Axis Unseen	2024-10-22	13,451
STRAFTAT	2024-10-24	13,222
AWAKEN - Astral Blade	2024-10-22	10,882