Steam releases · Week 43, 2009

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

WEEK 43 ’09Oct 19 – Oct 25, 20095 releasesMTWTFSS

week 43 of 2009 at a glance

In week 43 of 2009 (Oct 19 – 25, 2009), 5 games released on Steam, and 2 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is AI War: Fleet Command (). Compared with the same window a year earlier (6 releases), it is 17 % quieter. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	5
With a playable demo	2
Same window a year earlier	6 (-17 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 5 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
AI War: Fleet Command	2009-10-21	—
Tropico 3	2009-10-20	—
Everyday Genius: SquareLogic	2009-10-21	—
Metal Drift	2009-10-22	—
Elven Legacy: Ranger	2009-10-20	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

49%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

47%

——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.