Steam releases · March 2009

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

Mar 20091 Mar – 31 Mar 200921 releases

Feb 2009 Now Apr 2009

March 2009 at a glance

In March 2009 (1 – 31 Mar 2009), 21 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition (56,092 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (18 releases), it is 17 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	21
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,288
Free to play, of 17 with a known price	6 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

93%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——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.

inside March 2009

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition	2009-03-04	56,092
Dark Sector	2009-03-24	7,966
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death	2009-03-26	3,590
Grand Ages: Rome	2009-03-20	3,288
Watchmen: The End is Nigh	2009-03-04	3,062
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures	2009-03-23	1,921
The Graveyard	2009-03-09	692
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box	2009-03-12	—
Unreal Tournament 3	2009-03-05	—
Penumbra Overture	2009-03-06	—