Steam releases · Week 38, 2009

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

WEEK 38 ’0914 Sep – 20 Sep 200914 releasesMTWTFSS

week 38 of 2009 at a glance

In week 38 of 2009 (14 – 20 Sep 2009), 14 games released on Steam, and 4 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is MDK 2 (1,283 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (6 releases), it is 133 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	14
With a playable demo	4
Median followers, top 20 by demand	500
Free to play, of 13 with a known price	0 %
Same window a year earlier	6 (+133 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
MDK 2	2009-09-17	1,283
Twin Sector	2009-09-16	500
Resident Evil 5	2009-09-15	—
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™	2009-09-16	—
Red Faction Guerrilla Steam Edition	2009-09-15	—
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™	2009-09-16	—
Zuma's Revenge!	2009-09-15	—
STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)	2009-09-16	—
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II	2009-09-16	—
Majesty 2	2009-09-17	—

Popular Upcoming, wishlist rank and demand score are defined in Help.

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

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

81%

——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.