Steam releases · Q3 2008

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

Q3 20081 Jul – 30 Sep 200843 releasesJAS

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Q3 2008 at a glance

In Q3 2008 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2008), 43 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Crysis (28,707 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (49 releases), it is 12 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	43
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,058
Free to play, of 40 with a known price	3 %
Same window a year earlier	49 (-12 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

36%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

45%

——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 Q3 2008

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Crysis	2008-09-17	28,707
Sacred Gold	2008-07-09	11,252
LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame	2008-09-29	9,189
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon®	2008-07-15	8,691
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector's Edition	2008-08-26	5,819
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition	2008-07-08	2,610
X-COM: Apocalypse	2008-09-04	2,129
Dracula: Origin	2008-08-07	1,302
Multiwinia	2008-09-19	1,058
Hinterland	2008-09-30	1,030