Steam releases · July 2009

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

Jul 20091 Jul – 31 Jul 200955 releases

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July 2009 at a glance

In July 2009 (1 – 31 Jul 2009), 55 games released on Steam, and 11 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (15,577 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (32 releases), it is 72 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	55
With a playable demo	11
Median followers, top 20 by demand	774
Free to play, of 49 with a known price	2 %
Same window a year earlier	32 (+72 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood	2009-07-02	15,577
Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™	2009-07-08	4,754
Street Fighter® IV	2009-07-07	3,295
King's Quest™ Collection	2009-07-23	2,702
Space Quest™ Collection	2009-07-23	2,301
STAR WARS™ Starfighter™	2009-07-08	2,024
Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold	2009-07-09	999
Armed and Dangerous®	2009-07-08	957
Warfare	2009-07-20	932
East India Company	2009-07-31	887

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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

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

59%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

35%

——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.

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