Steam releases · Q4 2011

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

Q4 20111 Oct – 31 Dec 201168 releasesOND

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Q4 2011 at a glance

In Q4 2011 (1 Oct – 31 Dec 2011), 68 games released on Steam, and 13 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is PAYDAY™ The Heist (143,291 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (76 releases), it is 11 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	68
With a playable demo	13
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,289
Free to play, of 64 with a known price	9 %
Same window a year earlier	76 (-11 %)

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

19%

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

59%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——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 Q4 2011

months

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
PAYDAY™ The Heist	2011-10-20	143,291
DC Universe™ Online	2011-11-02	61,907
APB Reloaded	2011-12-06	57,762
L.A. Noire	2011-11-08	56,413
RAGE	2011-10-03	49,432
Assassin's Creed® Revelations	2011-11-29	48,002
Fable - The Lost Chapters	2011-12-19	31,580
Anno 2070™	2011-11-17	24,687
EverQuest II	2011-12-07	11,815
Might & Magic: Heroes VI	2011-10-13	10,577