Steam releases · Q4 2006

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

Q4 20061 Oct – 31 Dec 200631 releasesOND

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Q4 2006 at a glance

In Q4 2006 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2006), 31 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition (38,222 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (31 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	31
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	759
Free to play, of 27 with a known price	7 %
Same window a year earlier	31 (0 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

12%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

79%

——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 Q4 2006

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition	2006-11-15	38,222
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
Eets	2006-12-20	1,163
688(I) Hunter/Killer	2006-10-26	846
Sub Command	2006-10-26	759
Geneforge 4: Rebellion	2006-11-01	340
Vegas: Make It Big™	2006-12-21	308