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Density

Shows how crowded every shipping window has been, and which announced weeks are already filling up. Use it to find quiet windows before committing to a date.

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Weekly release heatmap
Weeks mode: a row per year, a cell per week. Color is the percentile among all periods. The dashed violet line is today; violet outlines are announced future releases.
  • Days or Weeks — daily cells cover the recent two years; weekly cells go back to 1997.
  • Count or Calibre — Count colors cells by how many games shipped; Calibre weighs them by traction (reviews for the past, followers for announced games), so one heavyweight lights a cell up.
  • Hover a cell to see the period’s top-20 in the side panel; click to pin it. Each entry links to the game.
  • Mind the hatched area. Far-future cells only contain chart-toppers; emptiness there does not mean the window will stay free.