Steam releases · Q4 2004

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

Q4 2004Oct 1 – Dec 31, 20043 releasesOND

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Q4 2004 at a glance

In Q4 2004 (Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2004), 3 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Half-Life 2 (106,062 followers). Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	3
With a playable demo	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	10,173
Same window a year earlier	0
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 3 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Half-Life 2	2004-11-16	106,062
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch	2004-11-01	10,173
Counter-Strike: Source	2004-11-01	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

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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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