Steam releases · Q3 2011

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

Q3 20111 Jul – 30 Sep 201176 releasesJAS

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Q3 2011 at a glance

In Q3 2011 (1 Jul – 30 Sep 2011), 76 games released on Steam, and 23 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is The Binding of Isaac (67,004 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (73 releases), it is 4 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	76
With a playable demo	23
Median followers, top 20 by demand	1,632
Free to play, of 70 with a known price	1 %
Same window a year earlier	73 (+4 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

37%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Smallpublisher median 50–200

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

13%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

48%

——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 2011

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
The Binding of Isaac	2011-09-28	67,004
Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered	2011-08-08	11,498
Supreme Commander	2011-09-28	10,795
ARMA: Gold Edition	2011-07-13	7,034
From Dust	2011-08-17	5,792
Cthulhu Saves the World	2011-07-13	3,629
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover	2011-07-19	3,373
Avadon: The Black Fortress	2011-08-17	2,916
Sengoku	2011-09-15	2,736
Puzzle Pirates	2011-08-31	2,314