Steam releases · December 2008

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

Dec 20081 Dec – 31 Dec 200818 releases

Nov 2008 Now Jan 2009

December 2008 at a glance

In December 2008 (1 – 31 Dec 2008), 18 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack (6,905 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (17 releases), it is 6 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	18
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,019
Free to play, of 14 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

89%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——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 December 2008

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack	2008-12-19	6,905
Europa Universalis: Rome - Gold Edition	2008-12-18	1,352
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Season 1	2008-12-18	1,143
Crazy Machines	2008-12-12	1,019
Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife	2008-12-15	234
Crazy Machines 1.5	2008-12-12	38
Crazy Machines 1.5	2008-12-12	36
SPORE™	2008-12-19	—
Mass Effect (2007)	2008-12-19	—
Need for Speed Undercover	2008-12-19	—