Steam releases · October 2006

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

Oct 20061 Oct – 31 Oct 200616 releases

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October 2006 at a glance

In October 2006 (1 – 31 Oct 2006), 16 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (18,267 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (5 releases), it is 220 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	16
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	846
Free to play, of 14 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

91%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——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.

inside October 2006

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic	2006-10-25	18,267
Psychonauts	2006-10-11	8,745
Fleet Command	2006-10-26	1,385
Space Empires V	2006-10-16	1,315
688(I) Hunter/Killer	2006-10-26	846
Sub Command	2006-10-26	759
Shattered Union	2006-10-25	121
Poker Superstars II	2006-10-05	79
Call of Duty® 2	2006-10-13	—
Call of Duty® (2003)	2006-10-13	—