Steam releases · Q3 2010

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

Q3 20101 Jul – 30 Sep 201078 releasesJAS

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Q3 2010 at a glance

In Q3 2010 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2010), 78 games released on Steam, and 16 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Victoria II (34,941 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (81 releases), it is 4 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	78
With a playable demo	16
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,047
Free to play, of 59 with a known price	3 %
Same window a year earlier	81 (-4 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

80%

——too few

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

13%

——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 Q3 2010

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Victoria II	2010-08-30	34,941
Dead Rising® 2	2010-09-27	22,443
Moonbase Alpha	2010-07-06	21,227
The Guild II Renaissance	2010-07-28	14,699
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days	2010-08-17	9,151
VVVVVV	2010-09-07	7,948
Riven (1997)	2010-08-04	3,548
Making History II: The War of the World	2010-08-27	2,976
Lost Horizon	2010-09-24	1,435
Rig n Roll	2010-07-09	1,132