Steam releases · October 2012

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

Oct 20121 Oct – 31 Oct 201247 releases

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October 2012 at a glance

In October 2012 (1 – 31 Oct 2012), 47 games released on Steam, and 12 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Euro Truck Simulator 2 (1,400,717 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (34 releases), it is 38 % busier. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Same window a year earlier
Releases	47
With a playable demo	12
Median followers, top 20 by demand	3,285
Free to play, of 42 with a known price	2 %

Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Majorpublisher median 5,000+ reviews

——too few

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

——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

93%

——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 October 2012

weeks

Game	Release	Followers
Euro Truck Simulator 2	2012-10-12	1,400,717
Dishonored	2012-10-08	96,289
Primal Carnage	2012-10-29	34,605
Deadlight	2012-10-25	17,144
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken	2012-10-15	15,540
Fairy Bloom Freesia	2012-10-17	4,894
Viking: Battle for Asgard	2012-10-17	4,536
Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign	2012-10-17	3,573
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams	2012-10-22	3,285
Dwarfs - F2P	2012-10-18	2,091