Steam releases · May 2009

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

May 20091 May – 31 May 200922 releases

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May 2009 at a glance

In May 2009 (1 – 31 May 2009), 22 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Men of War™ (12,725 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (21 releases), it is 5 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	22
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,436
Free to play, of 18 with a known price	0 %
Same window a year earlier	21 (+5 %)

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

86%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

13%

——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 May 2009

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Men of War™	2009-05-06	12,725
Alien Shooter	2009-05-27	6,752
NecroVision	2009-05-20	2,755
Codename: Panzers - Cold War	2009-05-06	1,648
Restaurant Empire II	2009-05-27	1,436
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich	2009-05-29	916
Aztaka	2009-05-07	445
Death Track®: Resurrection	2009-05-06	337
Yosumin!™	2009-05-26	325
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition	2009-05-05	—