Steam releases · Week 43, 2008

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

WEEK 43 ’08Oct 20 – Oct 26, 20086 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2008 at a glance

In week 43 of 2008 (Oct 20 – 26, 2008), 6 games released on Steam. The most anticipated is Bully: Scholarship Edition (51,650 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (1 releases), it is 500 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	6
With a playable demo	0
Median followers, top 20 by demand	420
Same window a year earlier	1 (+500 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 6 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Bully: Scholarship Edition	2008-10-21	51,650
Spectraball	2008-10-20	420
Far Cry® 2	2008-10-22	—
Space Trader: Merchant Marine	2008-10-23	—
Exodus from the Earth	2008-10-24	—
Galactic Bowling	2008-10-21	—

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

78%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

21%

——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.