Steam releases · February 2009

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

Feb 20091 Feb – 28 Feb 200918 releases

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February 2009 at a glance

In February 2009 (1 – 28 Feb 2009), 18 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (13,851 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (13 releases), it is 38 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	18
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	839
Free to play, of 16 with a known price	13 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

31%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

11%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

56%

——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 February 2009

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin	2009-02-12	13,851
Tom Clancy's EndWar™	2009-02-25	5,207
Driver® Parallel Lines	2009-02-13	3,927
Hospital Tycoon	2009-02-13	1,277
Eschalon: Book I	2009-02-10	1,232
Spectromancer	2009-02-11	839
Maelstrom: The Battle for Earth Begins	2009-02-13	606
Ceville	2009-02-27	592
Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!™	2009-02-23	396
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix	2009-02-24	372