Steam releases · January 2008

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

Jan 20081 Jan – 31 Jan 200811 releases

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January 2008 at a glance

In January 2008 (1 – 31 Jan 2008), 11 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (17,952 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3 releases), it is 267 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	11
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	2,492
Same window a year earlier	3 (+267 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

19%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

79%

——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 January 2008

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	2008-01-04	17,952
Manhunt	2008-01-04	14,166
PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords	2008-01-29	2,492
18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul	2008-01-29	2,011
Culpa Innata	2008-01-18	698
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	2008-01-04	—
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City	2008-01-04	—
Grand Theft Auto III	2008-01-04	—
Midnight Club 2	2008-01-04	—
Prison Tycoon 3™: Lockdown	2008-01-29	—