Steam releases · Week 50, 2008

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

WEEK 50 ’08Dec 8 – Dec 14, 20086 releasesMTWTFSS

week 50 of 2008 at a glance

In week 50 of 2008 (Dec 8 – 14, 2008), 6 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Defense Grid: The Awakening (). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3 releases), it is 100 % busier. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	6
With a playable demo	1
Same window a year earlier	3 (+100 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 6 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Defense Grid: The Awakening	2008-12-08	—
Prince of Persia®	2008-12-10	—
Crazy Machines	2008-12-12	—
Crazy Machines 1.5	2008-12-12	—
Crazy Machines 1.5	2008-12-12	—
Crazy Machines 1.5	2008-12-12	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

30%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

65%

——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.