Steam releases · Week 44, 2024

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

WEEK 44 ’2428 Oct – 3 Nov 2024516 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2024 at a glance

In week 44 of 2024 (28 Oct – 3 Nov 2024), 516 games released on Steam, and 127 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Red Dead Redemption (105,513 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (343 releases), it is 50 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	516
With a playable demo	127
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,410
Free to play, of 498 with a known price	16 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

34%

——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

407

54%

——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
Red Dead Redemption	2024-10-29	105,513
Elin	2024-11-01	71,385
Magicraft	2024-11-01	38,616
Car For Sale Simulator	2024-11-01	36,968
Homicipher	2024-11-01	28,151
DON'T SCREAM	2024-10-28	24,156
Corruption Town	2024-11-01	12,313
Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse	2024-10-29	10,658
NIMRODS	2024-10-28	10,452
Heretical	2024-10-30	8,750