Steam releases · Q1 2011

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

Q1 20111 Jan – 31 Mar 201152 releasesJFM

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Q1 2011 at a glance

In Q1 2011 (1 Jan – 31 Mar 2011), 52 games released on Steam, and 9 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood (55,567 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (80 releases), it is 35 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	52
With a playable demo	9
Median followers, top 20 by demand	769
Free to play, of 43 with a known price	2 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

16%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

14%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

41%

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

14%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

14%

——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 2011

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Assassin’s Creed® Brotherhood	2011-03-22	55,567
LEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™	2011-03-22	15,134
Shift 2 Unleashed	2011-03-29	9,973
Crazy Taxi	2011-03-04	5,063
Drakensang: The River of Time	2011-02-16	3,460
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition	2011-03-22	3,238
Atom Zombie Smasher	2011-03-14	2,253
Space Channel 5: Part 2	2011-03-04	1,957
Painkiller Redemption	2011-02-25	1,010
Theatre of War 3: Korea	2011-03-24	769