Steam releases · Q1 2010

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

Q1 20101 Jan – 31 Mar 201055 releasesJFM

Q4 2009 Now Q2 2010

Q1 2010 at a glance

In Q1 2010 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2010), 55 games released on Steam, and 12 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition (45,157 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (92 releases), it is 40 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	55
With a playable demo	12
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,258
Free to play, of 46 with a known price	2 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

32%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

16%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

49%

——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.

inside Q1 2010

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition	2010-02-25	45,157
BioShock® 2	2010-02-09	32,510
Dragon Age™: Origins Awakening	2010-03-16	10,665
Silent Hunter 5®: Battle of the Atlantic	2010-03-03	7,028
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition	2010-02-11	2,456
Arsenal of Democracy: A Hearts of Iron Game	2010-02-23	1,661
UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold	2010-02-17	1,424
Dark Void™	2010-01-19	1,258
Secret of the Magic Crystals	2010-02-03	1,226
Hotel Giant 2	2010-01-27	1,076