Steam releases · Week 50, 2024

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

WEEK 50 ’249 Dec – 15 Dec 2024492 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2024 at a glance

In week 50 of 2024 (9 – 15 Dec 2024), 492 games released on Steam, and 98 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is MiSide (143,497 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (291 releases), it is 69 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	492
With a playable demo	98
Median followers, top 20 by demand	22,291
Free to play, of 476 with a known price	15 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

11%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

17%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

378

60%

——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
MiSide	2024-12-10	143,497
Planet Centauri	2024-12-12	56,342
THE KING OF FIGHTERS XV	2024-12-12	53,761
Fast Food Simulator	2024-12-10	37,740
Astrometica	2024-12-10	32,834
VOIN	2024-12-10	30,212
SimRail - The Railway Simulator	2024-12-13	28,705
The NOexistenceN of you AND me	2024-12-15	27,088
Desert Stalker	2024-12-13	26,686
Wild Woods	2024-12-09	25,326