Steam releases · Q4 2010

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

Q4 20101 Oct – 31 Dec 201080 releasesOND

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Q4 2010 at a glance

In Q4 2010 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2010), 80 games released on Steam, and 17 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is EVE Online (94,682 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (78 releases), it is 3 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	80
With a playable demo	17
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,528
Free to play, of 57 with a known price	5 %
Same window a year earlier	78 (+3 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

42%

——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

40%

——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 Q4 2010

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
EVE Online	2010-12-15	94,682
Call of Duty®: Black Ops	2010-11-09	87,026
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition	2010-10-26	40,763
Medal of Honor™	2010-10-12	25,567
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II	2010-10-26	15,637
Call of Duty®: Black Ops	2010-11-09	5,758
Age of Wonders Shadow Magic	2010-10-12	2,999
Farming Simulator 2011	2010-10-29	2,755
Patrician III	2010-11-18	2,605
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne	2010-10-12	1,596