Steam releases · Week 44, 2009

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

WEEK 44 ’0926 Oct – 1 Nov 200912 releasesMTWTFSS

week 44 of 2009 at a glance

In week 44 of 2009 (26 Oct – 1 Nov 2009), 12 games released on Steam, and 5 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Torchlight (12,962 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (3 releases), it is 300 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	12
With a playable demo	5
Median followers, top 20 by demand	928
Free to play, of 12 with a known price	8 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

34%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

48%

——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
Torchlight	2009-10-27	12,962
SpellForce 2 - Anniversary Edition	2009-10-29	3,546
Secret Files: Tunguska	2009-10-29	1,348
Rush for Berlin Gold	2009-10-29	958
Hammerfight	2009-10-28	928
Painkiller: Resurrection	2009-10-27	812
Secret Files 2: Puritas Cordis	2009-10-29	693
Cricket Revolution	2009-10-28	267
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack: Chapter 4 - The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood	2009-10-30	36
The Stronghold Collection	2009-10-27	—