Steam releases · Week 1, 2024

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

WEEK 1 ’2430 Dec 2024 – 5 Jan 2025262 releasesMTWTFSS

week 1 of 2024 at a glance

In week 1 of 2024 (30 Dec 2024 – 5 Jan 2025), 262 games released on Steam, and 40 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Beyond Citadel (16,232 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (242 releases), it is 8 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	262
With a playable demo	40
Median followers, top 20 by demand	826
Free to play, of 257 with a known price	19 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

36%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

222

62%

——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
Beyond Citadel	2025-01-02	16,232
Amenti	2025-01-05	7,421
Sixtar Gate: STARTRAIL	2024-12-30	3,108
Incremental Epic Hero 2	2025-01-02	2,950
Subterror	2025-01-03	2,622
Puck	2025-01-04	2,467
vROVpilot: TITANIC	2024-12-31	1,789
My wife's cheating on me!	2025-01-03	1,666
My New Memories: The Beginning	2025-01-01	1,025
Future Breach 64	2025-01-04	854