Steam releases · Q1 2009

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

Q1 20091 Jan – 31 Mar 200952 releasesJFM

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Q1 2009 at a glance

In Q1 2009 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2009), 52 games released on Steam, and 19 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3 (58,285 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (55 releases), it is 5 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	52
With a playable demo	19
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,921
Free to play, of 45 with a known price	7 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

11%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

57%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

21%

——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 Q1 2009

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3	2009-01-08	58,285
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition	2009-03-04	56,092
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin	2009-02-12	13,851
Dark Sector	2009-03-24	7,966
Tom Clancy's EndWar™	2009-02-25	5,207
Driver® Parallel Lines	2009-02-13	3,927
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
Hearts of Iron 2 Complete	2009-01-23	2,974