Steam releases · Week 42, 2011

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

WEEK 42 ’1117 Oct – 23 Oct 201110 releasesMTWTFSS

week 42 of 2011 at a glance

In week 42 of 2011 (17 – 23 Oct 2011), 10 games released on Steam, and 2 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 (2 releases), it is 400 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	10
With a playable demo	2
Median followers, top 20 by demand	661
Free to play, of 10 with a known price	0 %
Same window a year earlier	2 (+400 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
PAYDAY™ The Heist	2011-10-20	143,291
Before the Echo	2011-10-20	826
Worms Blast	2011-10-19	661
Smash Cars	2011-10-18	242
Lightfish	2011-10-19	237
Dungeon Defenders	2011-10-18	—
Worms	2011-10-19	—
Worms Crazy Golf	2011-10-19	—
Worms Pinball	2011-10-19	—
Alien Zombie Megadeath	2011-10-18	—

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Micropublisher median under 50

21%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

79%

——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.