Steam releases · Week 51, 2024

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

WEEK 51 ’2416 Dec – 22 Dec 2024376 releasesMTWTFSS

week 51 of 2024 at a glance

In week 51 of 2024 (16 – 22 Dec 2024), 376 games released on Steam, and 55 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Aurelia (29,688 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (271 releases), it is 39 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	376
With a playable demo	55
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,271
Free to play, of 368 with a known price	18 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

29%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

21%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

12%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

298

30%

——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
Aurelia	2024-12-17	29,688
Royal Quest Online	2024-12-19	17,845
Night Shift Nurses	2024-12-16	15,196
Half-Demon Shinobi	2024-12-17	13,942
Ultimate General: American Revolution	2024-12-20	13,331
Taiwan Love Story⁵	2024-12-18	12,938
OHV	2024-12-18	12,200
Awaria	2024-12-16	9,691
Grimlord	2024-12-19	7,813
Office Life	2024-12-17	6,727