Steam releases · Week 40, 2009

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

WEEK 40 ’0928 Sep – 4 Oct 20096 releasesMTWTFSS

week 40 of 2009 at a glance

In week 40 of 2009 (28 Sep – 4 Oct 2009), 6 games released on Steam, and 1 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold (1,460 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (6 releases), it is the same size. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	6
With a playable demo	1
Median followers, top 20 by demand	257
Same window a year earlier	6 (0 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 6 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Joint Operations: Combined Arms Gold	2009-09-29	1,460
Flora's Fruit Farm	2009-10-01	282
Midnight Mysteries	2009-09-28	257
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 3 - Lair of the Leviathan	2009-09-29	104
Risen	2009-10-02	—
DinerTown Tycoon	2009-09-30	—

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

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

90%

——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.