Steam releases · Week 18, 2009

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

WEEK 18 ’0927 Apr – 3 May 20097 releasesMTWTFSS

week 18 of 2009 at a glance

In week 18 of 2009 (27 Apr – 3 May 2009), 7 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is X-Blades (4,398 followers). Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	7
With a playable demo	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,555
Same window a year earlier	0
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 7 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
X-Blades	2009-04-30	4,398
Helldorado	2009-04-30	1,555
Puzzle Kingdoms	2009-04-27	271
King's Bounty: The Legend	2009-05-01	—
Two Worlds Epic Edition	2009-04-30	—
Velvet Assassin	2009-05-01	—
Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch	2009-04-29	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

59%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

40%

——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.