Steam releases · Week 43, 2006

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

WEEK 43 ’0623 Oct – 29 Oct 20069 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2006 at a glance

In week 43 of 2006 (23 – 29 Oct 2006), 9 games released on Steam, and 2 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 (1 releases), it is 800 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	9
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	846
Same window a year earlier	1 (+800 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 9 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic	2006-10-25	18,267
Fleet Command	2006-10-26	1,385
688(I) Hunter/Killer	2006-10-26	846
Sub Command	2006-10-26	759
Shattered Union	2006-10-25	121
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete	2006-10-25	—
Sid Meier's Civilization® IV	2006-10-25	—
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic	2006-10-25	—
Sid Meier's Civilization® IV	2006-10-25	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

95%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——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.