Steam releases · Week 42, 2008

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

WEEK 42 ’0813 Oct – 19 Oct 20083 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2008 at a glance

In week 42 of 2008 (13 – 19 Oct 2008), 3 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is World of Goo (). Compared with the same window a year earlier (2 releases), it is 50 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	3
With a playable demo	1
Same window a year earlier	2 (+50 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 3 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
World of Goo	2008-10-13	—
Peggle™ Nights	2008-10-15	—
X3: Terran Conflict	2008-10-16	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

47%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

53%

——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.