Steam releases · Q2 2009

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

Q2 20091 Apr – 30 Jun 200975 releasesAMJ

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Q2 2009 at a glance

In Q2 2009 (1 Apr – 30 Jun 2009), 75 games released on Steam, and 25 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Prototype™ (73,576 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (52 releases), it is 44 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	75
With a playable demo	25
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,561
Free to play, of 63 with a known price	2 %
Same window a year earlier	52 (+44 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

20%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

60%

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

11%

——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 Q2 2009

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Prototype™	2009-06-10	73,576
Men of War™	2009-05-06	12,725
Alien Shooter	2009-05-27	6,752
X-Blades	2009-04-30	4,398
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down	2009-06-18	3,437
NecroVision	2009-05-20	2,755
Delta Force 1	2009-06-18	2,228
Delta Force — Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre	2009-06-18	2,170
Port Royale 2	2009-06-16	1,669
Codename: Panzers - Cold War	2009-05-06	1,648