Steam releases · Q1 2008

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

Q1 20081 Jan – 31 Mar 200830 releasesJFM

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Q1 2008 at a glance

In Q1 2008 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2008), 30 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (17,952 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (16 releases), it is 88 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	30
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,977
Free to play, of 19 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

11%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

28%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

56%

——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 Q1 2008

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne	2008-01-04	17,952
Manhunt	2008-01-04	14,166
Unreal Gold	2008-03-17	5,915
PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords	2008-01-29	2,492
18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul	2008-01-29	2,011
Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge	2008-03-12	1,977
Act of War: High Treason	2008-03-12	1,734
Conflict: Denied Ops	2008-02-08	1,038
Culpa Innata	2008-01-18	698
Tycoon City: New York	2008-03-12	590