Steam releases · Q4 2005

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

Q4 20051 Oct – 31 Dec 20054 releasesOND

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Q4 2005 at a glance

In Q4 2005 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2005), 4 games released on Steam, and 2 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Darwinia (2,041 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 100 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	4
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	666
Same window a year earlier	2 (+100 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 4 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Darwinia	2005-12-01	2,041
Rag Doll Kung Fu	2005-10-12	666
Gothic II: Gold Edition

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

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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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