Steam releases · October 2009

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

Oct 20091 Oct – 31 Oct 200939 releases

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October 2009 at a glance

In October 2009 (1 – 31 Oct 2009), 39 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Machinarium (32,871 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (31 releases), it is 26 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	39
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	433
Free to play, of 36 with a known price	3 %
Same window a year earlier	31 (+26 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

34%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

61%

——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 October 2009

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Machinarium	2009-10-16	32,871
Torchlight	2009-10-27	12,962
SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition	2009-10-29	3,546
Secret Files: Tunguska	2009-10-29	1,348
Rush for Berlin Gold	2009-10-29	958
Hammerfight	2009-10-28	928
Painkiller: Resurrection	2009-10-27	812
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis	2009-10-29	693
Nancy Drew®: Curse of Blackmoor Manor	2009-10-10	560
Zombie Bowl-o-Rama	2009-10-15	486