Steam releases · December 2012

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

Dec 20121 Dec – 31 Dec 201223 releases

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December 2012 at a glance

In December 2012 (1 – 31 Dec 2012), 23 games released on Steam, and 3 of them shipped with a playable demo. The most anticipated is Far Cry 3 (151,872 followers). Compared with the same window a year earlier (36 releases), it is 36 % quieter. Data as of 2026-10-28.

window at a glance
Releases	23
With a playable demo	3
Median followers, top 20 by demand	6,587
Free to play, of 22 with a known price	14 %
Same window a year earlier	36 (-36 %)
Data as of	2026-10-28

most anticipated, top 10 by demand
Game	Release	Followers
Far Cry 3	2012-12-04	151,872
RPG Maker VX Ace	2012-12-10	28,095
Mabinogi	2012-12-06	13,145
Primordia	2012-12-05	12,275
EverQuest	2012-12-13	7,506
Dragon Nest	2012-12-18	6,587
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles	2012-12-05	1,298
Silo 2	2012-12-19	1,157
Karateka	2012-12-03	1,066
ACDSee 15	2012-12-11	285

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Mosaic ListPublishers

classreleasespeak playersmedianp90kept at 5w

Largepublisher median 1,000–5,000

68%

——too few

Midpublisher median 200–1,000

——too few

Micropublisher median under 50

21%

——too few

Self-publishedno external publisher

11%

——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.

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