Steam releases · Week 29, 2009

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

WEEK 29 ’0913 Jul – 19 Jul 200918 releasesMTWTFSS

week 29 of 2009 at a glance

In week 29 of 2009 (13 – 19 Jul 2009), 18 games released on Steam, and 6 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Nancy Drew®: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek (445 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (5 releases), it is 260 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	18
With a playable demo	6
Median followers, top 20 by demand	183
Free to play, of 16 with a known price	0 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Micropublisher median under 50

34%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

66%

——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.

Game	Release	Followers
Nancy Drew®: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek	2009-07-17	445
Nancy Drew®: The Phantom of Venice	2009-07-17	352
Nancy Drew®: The Haunting of Castle Malloy	2009-07-17	342
LUXOR: Mah Jong	2009-07-13	183
Cake Mania Collection	2009-07-17	10
Cake Mania Collection	2009-07-17	7
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition	2009-07-15	—
Sniper Elite	2009-07-16	—
Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull	2009-07-17	—
Nancy Drew®: The Creature of Kapu Cave	2009-07-17	—