Steam releases · May 2006

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

May 20061 May – 31 May 20064 releases

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May 2006 at a glance

In May 2006 (1 – 31 May 2006), 4 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Half-Life Deathmatch: Source (7,333 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	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,331
Same window a year earlier	2 (+100 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 4 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source	2006-05-01	7,333
SiN Episodes: Emergence	2006-05-10	3,331
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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

15%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

85%

——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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