Steam releases · Q3 2009

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

Q3 20091 Jul – 30 Sep 2009121 releasesJAS

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Q3 2009 at a glance

In Q3 2009 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2009), 121 games released on Steam, and 23 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ (40,489 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (75 releases), it is 61 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	121
With a playable demo	23
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,460
Free to play, of 106 with a known price	2 %

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

27%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

53%

——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 Q3 2009

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™	2009-09-05	40,489
Hearts of Iron III	2009-08-07	18,000
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood	2009-07-02	15,577
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®	2009-08-27	11,588
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
Death to Spies: Moment of Truth	2009-08-07	1,869