Steam releases · 2001

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

2001Jan 1 – Dec 31, 20014 releasesJFMAMJJASOND

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2001 at a glance

In 2001 (Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2001), 4 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is Gothic 1 (15,505 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 100 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	4
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	9,625
Same window a year earlier	2 (+100 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 4 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Gothic 1	2001-03-15	15,505
Half-Life: Blue Shift	2001-06-01	9,625
Deathmatch Classic	2001-06-01	3,078
Geneforge 1	2001-12-01	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

80%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

——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.

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