Steam releases · Q3 2010

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

Q3 2010Jul 1 – Sep 30, 201078 releasesJAS

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Q3 2010 at a glance

In Q3 2010 (Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2010), 78 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Victoria II (34,826 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (81 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-09-13.

window at a glance
Releases scheduled	78
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	7,942
Free to play, of 59 with a known price	3 %
Same window a year earlier	81 (-4 %)
Data as of	2026-09-13

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Victoria II	2010-08-30	34,826
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition	2010-07-20	33,430
Day of Defeat: Source	2010-07-12	27,236
Dead Rising® 2	2010-09-27	22,351
Moonbase Alpha	2010-07-06	21,236
The Guild II Renaissance	2010-07-28	14,656
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light	2010-09-28	10,652
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days	2010-08-17	9,027
VVVVVV	2010-09-07	7,942
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™	2010-07-07	6,585

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

92%

——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.

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