Steam releases · Q2 2008

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

Q2 20081 Apr – 30 Jun 200849 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2008 at a glance

In Q2 2008 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2008), 49 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific (3,438 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (30 releases), it is 63 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	49
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	232
Free to play, of 37 with a known price	3 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

79%

——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

15%

——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 Q2 2008

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific	2008-06-13	3,438
Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions	2008-06-13	2,175
Sam & Max 201: Ice Station Santa	2008-05-16	888
Jack Keane	2008-06-27	554
Bone: Out From Boneville	2008-06-17	403
Luxor	2008-06-10	403
Luxor 3	2008-06-10	376
Bone: The Great Cow Race	2008-06-17	301
7 Wonders II	2008-06-10	278
Everyday Shooter	2008-05-08	249