Steam releases · Q3 2006

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

Q3 20061 Jul – 30 Sep 200631 releasesJAS

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Q3 2006 at a glance

In Q3 2006 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2006), 31 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Uplink (8,164 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (7 releases), it is 343 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	31
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	671
Free to play, of 26 with a known price	0 %
Same window a year earlier	7 (+343 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

38%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

61%

——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 Q3 2006

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Uplink	2006-08-23	8,164
DEFCON	2006-09-29	5,681
Disciples II: Rise of the Elves	2006-07-06	2,413
Chuzzle Deluxe	2006-08-30	1,348
BloodRayne 2 (Legacy)	2006-09-14	1,296
BloodRayne (Legacy)	2006-09-14	1,232
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe	2006-08-30	1,087
Xpand Rally	2006-08-24	1,019
Bejeweled Deluxe	2006-08-30	715
Heavy Weapon Deluxe	2006-08-30	671